The Bell & Talbot, Bridgnorth

A nice, friendly little pub off the main drag. It is essentially split into 2 rooms and a small beer garden to the rear. Real ales available with the usual suspects (for Bridgnorth) being Wye Valley.

Although not one of Camra's heritage pubs, this is a fine old pub with an interesting if not historic interior. There are two rooms, one to the left in the front of the pub, the other to the right on entering and at the rear. The latter has live football on TV - I went in to photograph the hand pumps which are in here rather than in the front room - and a few locals at the time of our early afternoon visit, while the other was almost empty. The bar counter is made of barrel staves. This was only our third pub of the day and I was trying to take it easy after having two halves instead of one at the Railway Tavern, so I had a half of Bathams Bitter. It was so good that I drank it in a trice and had another. Date of visit: 19th October 2019

The Bell & Talbot is a nice looking bare brick built pub that is just off the town centre. Once inside there is an L shaped room with the bar to the front and facing inwards,the room is carpeted,there is bench seating and small stools for seating,the TV was showing BBC final score. There is a smaller separate room to the left. There were four real ales on the bar,i had a drink of Wye Valley HPA which was a very nice drink to end our Bridgnorth crawl on,the other real ales were Bathams Bitter,Salopian Oracle and Hobsons Stout. We both thought this was a very pleasant pub to end our pub crawl in. I think we missed out on four pubs which is a shame. Pub visited 29/4/2017