Timber frames old school traditional pub with about a warm a welcome as you can get. And i keep getting told 'the food here is really good'. Its the Crown in Claverley where you may even find the Vicar behind the bar.
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00:00 "Like you're at a funeral, you will."
00:02 Interesting drink here called Hell.
00:04 "Yes, of course."
00:06 Who's drinking it? The vicar?
00:08 [Laughs]
00:10 "Yay!" How you doing sir?
00:12 "Alright." You're the vicar of just over the road?
00:14 All Saints? "Yeah, all Saints here, yeah."
00:16 So you pop in for a pint of Hell and a
00:18 [Laughs]
00:20 What's your name Adam?
00:22 "Lynne." Lynne. Hello Lynne.
00:24 So it's a cracker. If people haven't
00:26 been to this pub before, what's so special
00:28 about this pub? Go on.
00:30 "It's just very friendly, very open.
00:32 Everybody chats to you.
00:34 You can have a
00:36 good time without
00:38 well,
00:40 just relaxing."
00:42 Yeah, and the food's
00:44 pretty good, so are you as well. "Food's pretty good, yeah.
00:46 It's good home cooking.
00:48 Chips are the best. They're fantastic."
00:50 Yeah. "Cos I'm home made."
00:52 They are. "They're home made." Home cooked,
00:54 home made. "Well come on then landlord,
00:56 let's come and say hello to you. How you doing, sir?"
00:58 "Hello there, how are you? Alright?" "I'm good, yeah. What's your name, boss?"
01:00 "It's Ken. Ken Lavender." "Ken.
01:02 And your better half is in the kitchen
01:04 rustling, rustling." "Yeah, that's Mary."
01:06 "Oh, that's where the Wi-Fi code comes in."
01:08 "Yes, that's a Wi-Fi code, yes.
01:10 Because she is frightening you. I mean, no, she's not really.
01:12 [Laughs]
01:14 And the vicar did our menu and all
01:16 his infinite wisdom, he puts Ken the camel
01:18 in there. "Ken the camel."
01:20 "Cos he says I've always got the hump." "Oh,
01:22 I see." [Laughs]
01:24 "So, seven years in July." "Yeah?"
01:26 "Yep." "And where are you from
01:28 originally?" "Neverton, Dudley." "Oh, so you're
01:30 a Black Country man?" "Yeah, I'm a Black Country man."
01:32 "Cool. We're kind of on the border
01:34 here, aren't we? Black Country shop sheets.
01:36 What, do you get a bit of both then, coming in or?"
01:38 "Yeah, we get the brummies in, like, you know, like
01:40 the vicar and that, but we have to accept him like that."
01:42 "Is he a brummie?" "He's a brummie."
01:44 "Right, we'll edit him out then." [Laughs]
01:46 [Laughs]
01:48 "So, what
01:50 would you say is special about your pub?
01:52 We've just had a chat with the vicar there. What would
01:54 you say?" "It's the atmosphere
01:56 in here. It's just down to earth. It's
01:58 a proper pub, as we call it." "Yeah."
02:00 "And everybody talks to each
02:02 other. You can walk in the pub, never been in
02:04 your life. People talk to you."
02:06 "Yeah." "It really is good for that."
02:08 "A lot of these pubs,
02:10 they have these makeovers, don't they, by the
02:12 big breweries, and they look kind of,
02:14 they look very nice, but very boringly
02:16 nice, don't they? You've got lots
02:18 of interesting little knick-knacks on that here."
02:20 "I used to come in here 40 years ago,
02:22 when the steward kept it,
02:24 and this hasn't
02:26 changed since then." "Yeah, yeah."
02:28 "It's exactly the same. Apart from the fireplace,
02:30 that used to be the fireplace, but it's that
02:32 one now. That one fell apart,
02:34 so..." [Laughs]
02:36 "No, it hasn't changed.
02:38 I'm glad it hasn't." "Cool.
02:40 And any particular dish on the
02:42 menu, if someone was to come in? Obviously, we've heard
02:44 the chips are pretty special."
02:46 "Yeah." "What would you recommend?
02:48 It's what anybody
02:50 fancies, because I mean,
02:52 I like steak and
02:54 everything, but I don't have steak
02:56 every day, so you won't let me have that."
02:58 [Laughs] "Oh, thank you."
03:00 "What's the drink of favour, then?"
03:02 "In cask, HPA
03:04 is your big one round here."
03:06 "Yeah." "I do their other
03:08 one, Buttyback, and the Redhill is a
03:10 darker one. Lagers,
03:12 unfortunately, is Carlin,
03:14 but Helly's my biggest.
03:16 It's
03:18 the one that we love." "I've not seen it
03:20 before, but there's not many of them about,
03:22 is there?" "In Upton, it's quite
03:24 heavy, and in
03:26 Bridge North, there used to be one.
03:28 It's not allowed to be called AB
03:30 Cania, because
03:32 the guy that actually owns the company,
03:34 because it's a Bavarian brewery,
03:36 he originates from
03:38 Wolverhampton.
03:40 He lives in LA now,
03:42 and his wife comes from a little village you've probably
03:44 never heard of, a place called Claverley."
03:46 "Yeah?" "Yes, so he's
03:48 from here, and I've had that for six
03:50 and a half years, and
03:52 even he's not allowed to call it ABK
03:54 when he comes in, because
03:56 a pint of ABK, what the vicar drink,
03:58 doesn't sound the same as a pint of Hell."
04:00 "So it's a pint of Hell.
04:02 Fantastic." "And we also have,
04:04 I have a strict rule on dogs in the
04:06 pub. As long
04:08 as the dogs
04:10 keep their owners under control, I've got
04:12 no qualms whatsoever."
04:14 "But sometimes you've had to chuck the owners out and leave the dogs
04:16 to sit on." "The owners have to go, the dogs can stay, that's
04:18 correct." "Well there are some dogs
04:20 that are much better well-behaved these days, isn't there?"
04:22 "That's true, that's true." "Yeah, yeah."
04:24 "Still long enough?"
04:26 "No, yes darling,
04:28 no."
04:30 "Mary, you have to put up with this. I mean, isn't this
04:32 like, you know, harassment in the
04:34 workplace?" "Mary, we're quite gonna be sick."
04:36 "You want the
04:38 bookies?" "Yeah." "Yeah, I'll click."
04:40 "Yeah, I'll have a go."
04:42 "Don't push your luck."
04:44 "Come on, come on Vick, we're a bit of romance.
04:46 I thought you'd be all for that." "Oh yeah, yeah,
04:48 of course I forgot about that."
04:50 "It's that pint of Hell,
04:52 it's having its effects." "No, he
04:54 don't want us to get married, you see, because we already
04:56 have. You don't get nothing out of it."
04:58 "You don't get nothing out of it."
05:00 "You just don't get any pay for every
05:02 read-on."
05:04 "So Mary,
05:06 what's it like working with Ken?"
05:08 "Pain."
05:10 "So is it, as it were
05:12 then, so Ken, is this your domain
05:14 behind the bar, generally speaking?"
05:16 "Well, we both of us, because we do have our
05:18 between. I don't do the kitchen, she does the kitchen, I don't
05:20 do the kitchen." "Yeah, yeah. Well, I've been
05:22 hearing your chips are much loved.
05:24 Is that right?" "Very true."
05:26 "Yeah, proper home-cooked chips, aren't they?"
05:28 "Yeah." "And, um, what else,
05:30 what we were saying to Ken, like, what else
05:32 would, is kind of, you know, some of your favourite
05:34 dishes, you would say?"
05:36 "Sunday roast, because I quite well."
05:38 "Yeah, yeah." "Braised
05:40 steak." "Yeah, Ken said he likes
05:42 his steaks, yeah, yeah." "Liver and
05:44 onion." "Yeah."
05:46 "And, uh, what's special about this pub, I think
05:48 we're getting a gist of it on the video already,
05:50 it's the people, it's the atmosphere, yeah?"
05:52 "Yeah."
05:54 "Just a nice pub, everybody's friendly
05:56 in here." "Yeah, yeah." "And everybody
05:58 takes a pee out of one another's cup."
06:00 "Yeah, yeah, yeah."
06:02 "Totally, yeah, yeah."
06:04 "It's a nice little place."
06:06 "So what I'm getting from this pub, it's
06:08 warmth, it's friendliness, that's what it's all
06:10 about, and that's how pubs used to be, isn't it?"
06:12 "Yes." "And, um, I find
06:14 these, some of these modern
06:16 pubs, they're lacking a little bit of that."
06:18 "Yeah, Vicky's gone to her door."
06:20 [Laughing]
06:48 "Is that how he earns his keep here?"
06:50 [Laughing]
06:52 "So, Ken, you were saying, Vicky, he does
06:54 a bit for you, sometimes, he helps
06:56 out behind the bar and stuff, we've seen him helping out
06:58 just, and, um,
07:00 you pay him in kindness to the
07:02 church, is that how it works?" "Yes, that's it,
07:04 he doesn't get a wage himself, he
07:06 goes straight directly to the church."
07:08 "Yeah." "As a church donation." "Fantastic
07:10 stuff. So, everyone's
07:12 welcome down here at the Crown?" "Oh, yes,
07:14 definitely, we've had a shout over there."
07:16 "We're all lucky." "Yeah."
07:18 "And we're lucky, really, because, I mean,
07:20 I've been a licensee 44 years,
07:22 and we've had people following us." "So, you get
07:24 the customers even come down and help decorate
07:26 the pub, is that right, when there's special stuff going on?"
07:28 "That's right, Chris, Deb,
07:30 Sean, Wendy,
07:32 Jim and Siri, Ria." "John and
07:34 Lal." "John and Lal, they'll all come in,
07:36 they'll all decorate the pub." "Well done,
07:38 well, all the best to you guys,
07:40 get yourselves down here, people, thank you guys."
07:42 "Thank you, cheers."