Aldridge:
When I were but a lad, this was the place to go for underage drinking, and it had a video jukebox, the essential think back in the mid-late 80s. Nowadays, it’s a pretty standard Sizzling Pub feedbag, which is why we dropped in, looking for lunch. I was driving 🙁
We ordered drinks and sat down, before it dawned upon us just how cold it was. The heating was shafted, so we drank up and left. Shame really, it looked OK, if unexceptional, the staff were pleasant.
Coventry:
A pretty ordinary suburban pub- a Sizzling family feedbag, but pleasant enough when you need to stop for a drink and a sit down. The only cask was Doom Bore, so Stella it was.
Wednesbury:
A big (inter-war?, maybe post WW2) pub, in many ways similar to The Church Tavern. Another Sizzling pub, another without cask ale, another good bit of outside space. I’ve been past this pub hundreds of time in a car or on a bus, having worked in Wednesbury when I was just a lad, and we tend to drink in the town once in a while.
It really wasn’t bad. The locals were friendly, the staff really pleasant, the food was OK, prices not bad at all (the food, particularly), and the 13 bus stops outside.