One sunny afternoon a few weeks ago, my girlfriend and I decided to be some of those people who only ever go to a pub when it’s sunny(as a barman of a decade’s standing, I’m allowed the odd busman’s holiday surely?) As I’d noticed this pub — which sits on the corner of Wolverhampton Road and Titford Road, backing onto a canal — had just been refurb’ed, we went down there. It looks like the refurbishment amounted to painting(most of) the outside because it still looks quite old in there. The toilets were clean but haven’t been updated since sometime well back in the last century and there was a hole in one of the windows. There’s nothing wrong with a traditional pub, but we found this one lacking charm and atmosphere and, whilst I’m in no way an advocate of inane and false customer service, the woman behind the bar definitely wasn’t pleased to see us. So we necked our drinks and quickly left for the Crosswells. Overall? Okay if you want to sit by the canal for a bit. But you’d do just as well getting a fishing rod, buying your own booze and going it alone.
