Shrewsbury, Shropshire:
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This is a hotel, but scrapes in as it’s on the CAMRA Heritage Pubs site, not for the bar we drank in, but for
the Oak Bar, situated just inside the hotel on the left hand side
friendly staff. The inside is best described as “faded grandeur”: it’s lovely, stunning even, but really needs a sympathetic, light-touch restoration to bring it up to scratch as a hotel, as evidenced by Tripadvisor reviews. No cask ale, but we were drinking water anyway: the only time we managed to purchase sparkling water on our trip.
Shrewsbury, Shropshire:
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This was one of our favourite pubs of the trip. It didn’t have the full-on timewarp of Loggerheads, but it was nice and traditional inside. The beer choice was exemplary: Proper Job, Landlord, HPA and another. The barmaid was lovely, and judging by her t-shirt (Slipknot) may have influenced the music (rock, loud enough but not too loud). If only we employed more pub staff with decent music taste.
Good view of the street outside, nice-looking beer garden too.
Shrewsbury, Shropshire:
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This is a lovely CAMRA heritage pub, with a layout pretty much unchanged since before WW2, and still echoing a layout earlier than that. Multi-roomed, including one off-limits to women before 1975. Great beer, pleasant landlord, entertaining locals. An essential visit in Shrewsbury.
Shrewsbury, Shropshire:
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Traditional pub in the cobbled backstreets. Nice staff, decent beer (Banks’s IIRC), and pleasant lunch sat outside in the sunshine. A little bit pubco-identikit inside, so I’m told (I stayed outside), but lovely from the outside. It’s a hotel too: you can stay here.
Shrewsbury, Shropshire:
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It’s a ‘spoons. A very big spoons, right by the river, but a ‘spoons nonetheless. We dropped in for breakfast at a fraction of the cost of our hotel. Pleasant staff, no surprises.
In Ur Pubz, Drinkin Ur Beerz