The Mill Bay Inn taken in 2004 from the terrace entrance.  To the left in the foreground of the picture is where the old The Metropol Hotel and restaurant used to be, now demolished.  This was a very large 3 or 4 storey hotel that had been shut and in a sorry state for a number of years.   We were fortunate to go in it when it was open in the late 80's in 'The Piano Bar' at the front of the Hotel - and in some Victorian pictures it can be seen as The Queens Hotel.

The Mill bay was the only Inn on the seafront at one time when Ventnor Bay was then called Mill Bay after the mill powered by the waters of the cascade was built on the present site of The Winter Gardens.  For a brief period in the 1800's The Mill Bay was called The Pier Inn after the newly completed pier and the name reverted back to The Mill Bay Inn in the early 1900's and then Ventnor lost it's pier in the early 90's.

The now privately owned house behind the Inn used to be a salt water bath house - one of many for which Ventnor was famous for in the Victorian era.