Alan Turtill, Owner-Manager

For the last 10 years, I've worked in London, latterly as operations manager at the famous Kensington Roof Gardens.  My career has been all about food, drink and making sure everyone has a good time.

I moved to Berkhamsted about a year ago and I've walked past The Old Mill so often, come in here for a drink and thought what a waste of a great property.  My aim is to turn it back into a pub that people can be proud to call their local.

I'm really proud to be working with Peach, they have given me the support and business back-up to get my first pub up and running.

Jordan Marr, Deputy Manager

Alan's co-host at The Old Mill is Jordan, a real live wire. He's been assistant and then deputy manager at another of Peach's highly successful pubs, The One Elm in Stratford-Upon-Avon, for the last couple of years and before that worked for Raymond Blanc at Le Petit Blanc in Oxford and Birmingham.

Charlie Barr, Head Chef

Charlie's our new head chef at The Old Mill. She reckons she became a chef by accident; her holiday waitressing job came to an abrupt end when the head chef commandeered her to work in the kitchen. She never looked back. She turned out to be a bit of a star at college, bagging five gold medals and chef of the year at the Birmingham College of Food, Tourism & Creative Studies. After qualifying, she dashed down to Cornwall and spent a fantastic year working at Rick Stein's seafood empire in Padstein, sorry, Padstow. A phase at The Cross at Kenilworth followed, then a move to Michelin-starred Simpsons in Edgbaston, before Charlie encountered Peach. Charlie’s into rustic French food in a big way and one day wants to run her own cookery school.

The Team,

We've recruited a great bunch of people in the kitchen, behind the bar and in the restaurant, but we're always looking for new talent. If you're interested, check out our vacancies