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Our Pubs
C2, the owners of Lancaster Brewery, operates four highly respected hotels and pubs.
The company bought Lancaster's Sun Hotel in 2003 as a ramshackle, tired "back-street boozer". During a three-year period the historical 17th Century venue was developed to include an entirely new bar area, 16 ensuite bedrooms and a beer garden. Once again the hotel gained local and national plaudits winning a multitude of awards and is currently short listed for UK Freehouse of the Year 2009. In May 2009 the bar was voted the seventh best bar in the UK by national trade magazine The Morning Advertiser. The hotel bedrooms are widely regarded as amongst the best in North Lancashire and the range of eight cask ales is unsurpassed in Lancaster.
C2 purchased the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel in Barrow-in-Furness in August 2006. This large, landmark Barrovian hotel had become a shadow of its former self following decades of under investment and C2 spent more than two years transforming the venue. The hotel now boasts 30 luxury ensuite rooms, a large contemporary function room, an intimate bistro restaurant and a large public cask ale bar. The hotel has returned to its pre-eminent position in Barrow and is widely regarded as the most stylish venue in the area.
The Palatine in Morecambe was bought in October 2008. During a fraught seven-week period the pub was totally transformed and is now a contemporary and very stylish cask ale bar offering an array of beers, wines, spirits and genuinely home-cooked food. Already voted CAMRA Lunesdale's Spring Pub of the Season 2009, the pub has become one of Morecambe's most popular bars.
The company's latest venture is The Mill at Ulverston in the town of the same name on the edge of Morecambe Bay. We acquired the pub (formerly Millers and before that a working Mill) in early August 2009 and had its grand opening on the 25th of September. The pub has been completely transformed to show off its working mill wheel, a new roof terrace, elegant restaurant and superb bar area.
