New Road Inn, Blackpool

1930s pub of brick originally with 5 small rooms and off-sales. It still retains three distinctive areas / rooms and is a rare example of a pub with an Art Deco interior. The two entrance porches have terrazzo floors – doors in the left one have ‘1’ and ‘2’ on them. The right hand door leads to the main bar now with a wood laminate floor and modern tiles near the counter. It retains a fine 1930s curved bar counter but it had mosaic mirrors along the frontage which have been removed or obscured recently. The bar-back Art Deco frame remains but painted white and has much modernization – lower shelves look old as does the mirror on the wall to the right of the servery. Bench seating on two walls looks original beneath the modern upholstery and there are some bell pushes. The main room looks like it formerly had a corridor between front door and bar counter (presumably an off-sales) with rooms either side - all now opened up into one largish room.

At the rear left almost behind the servery the opened-up area has more original fixed seating with bell pushes. There is a separate pool room on the left (originally two rooms) with modern seating, two Art Deco mirrors added in 2000, and a niche but fireplaces have been replaced. The Gents' toilets: has a marvellous pair of original art deco urinals: 'ACI Stonite Ware'. Lots of Art Deco door surrounds, pelmets etc. survive.