Day-to-night: The Malthouse

In my late teenage years, this was definitely “the place to be” on a Friday and Saturday night for those of us living in the Ironbridge Gorge, probably due to its late-night disco in the upstairs function room.

It was built in 1854, and the large warehouse-type building to the left was indeed, probably a malt house, although the inn was originally called The Talbot (it was still identified as such on the 1925 Ordinance Survey map).

There was a bit of a scare in July 2023 when a freak fire, caused by water leaking into a fusebox, looked as if it may engulf the building. Fortunately the blaze was extinguished before it damaged the structure of the building, but smoke damage meant that it had to shut down for a period. It is now open again.