Travel review website TripAdvisor conducted a survey of local and visiting patrons of the Wetherspoons pub chain, ranking them based on their value for money and food, with some securing higher ratings than others. The results of the survey revealed the top five (and bottom one) highest rated Wetherspoons in East Lancashire. Darwen’s Old Chapel pub had the highest ranking of 3.5 based on 418 reviews, with the building having originally opened in March 1866 as a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel before being converted into a supermarket and ultimately refurbished into the pub chain in 2014. The Boot Inn came in second place with the same rating based on 169 reviews and replaced an earlier building of the same name that had stood on the same site since 1911. The Wallace Hartley, named after the Colne-born bandmaster on the ill-fated Titanic, came in third place with 153 ratings. The Commercial Hotel in Accrington ranked fourth with its landmark corner building having been a hotel and bar for almost 100 years. The Postal Order in Blackburn came in last place in the East Lancashire region despite a 54% rate of ‘very good’ or ‘excellent’ ratings, probably due to tables not being cleared quickly according to a reviewer.