A Knaresborough pub is preparing to welcome back customers after it closed for eight months to do a major £160,000 refurbishment.
The Worlds End Pub closed for the work in December 2020. After a few bumps in the road, the pub will open to customers for the first time in months today.
When the customers return they will find that the venue has effectively doubled its seating offering.
Some of the most noticeable changes are outside. The pub has created a completely new outdoor seating area where the old conservatory and toilets used to be.
Indoors there is also plenty to see. The bar has been extended with a new overhang from the set of the Simon Pegg and Nick Frost film which is also called The Worlds End.
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The main seating area indoors has also had a big refresh. It is now much bigger with a stone floor, big traditional beams and bi-fold doors which lead outside.
Simon Colgan told the Stray Ferret ahead of the opening:
“Since we moved here in 2006 I knew it could be so much bigger, so much brighter and so much more Knaresborough.
“It was important that we didn’t just give it a lick of paint. We needed to erase all the bad things and create a lot more space with an extra 120 seats.
“I am absolutely over the moon. We could only dream at the beginning but people have come in and added their own ideas.
“We didn’t want to polish all of the character out of it. The pub is still quirky and olde worlde but hoepfully on a much better level now.”
With an extra 120 seats at the pub, it means that the pub has employed 30 new staff.
More pictures from The Worlds End:
The overhang from the set of the film The Worlds End.
The new seating area inside.
The new seating area outside.
The Worlds End has quite a view over the River Nidd.
