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Burntwood, Revisits, Staffordshire

Revisit: The Uxbridge Arms

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Chasetown, Burntwood, Staffs.

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A revisit to a pub I already liked a lot, but it has now been taken over by Black Country Ales, extensively refurbished, and re-opened just a couple of days ago.

It’s lovely. The outside has been smartened up, the inside is fresh, clean, and firly bright, but still traditional. There’s the standard arrangement for Black Country pubs: TV screens displaying the huge choice of ales, cobs on offer, traditional decor.

Outside there’s a decent smoking shelter if that’s your thing, and a nice beer garden.

Beer was in excellent form, too. With the other 3 nice pubs nearby, there’s quite the making of a good pub crawl here.

Burntwood, Closed, Revisits, Staffordshire

[CLOSED] Revisit: Sankey’s Tap House

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It’s been 4 years sine we went here, and it’s changed a little.

The layout has changed a bit, it’s been decorated and refurbished. There’s two toilets now, not just a single one. The proprietor has settled in to the place and now seems entirely at ease: our first visit was very early on and he was getting to grips with it.

What hasn’t changed is that said proprietor is really friendly, the beer is still fantastic, the music is still present but not too loud.

It has continued table service after the lifting of Covid restrictions, and I feel this suits it well: the benefit of not having crowds around the bar.

Basically, it was great in 2017, and it’s even better now 🙂

Pelsall, Walsall

Revisit: The Queens Hotel

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Revisit of a revisit. The pub’s changed a little, and there’s new people running it.

This visit was early doors on a Thursday, and once again followed by a trip the Co-op for beer and a curry in the nearby restaurant. It’s been opened out a bit more, I think, and there was a pleasant vibe of after-work drinkers. It’s a big old pub, this, and it wasn’t as dark as previous visits, which was nice.

Only cask ale was Hobgoblin, so Stella it was. pleasant, friendly staff and locals, decent wine too. Music on, but not intrusively loud.