Hop & Barleycorn, Bilston

Marked as closed.

They had London Pride, Timothy Taylor Landlord and Young's Bitter on when I dropped in on Wednesday lunchtime. The TTL was OK. This is a very gloomy place with little or no natural light getting in, not helped by the canopy outside, obviously for the benefit of smokers. There was a large flat screen TV in one of the corners, but it was switched off. Fairly cold as well, with whatever heating there was being unable to offset a bitterly cold February day. It was bare-boarded throughout, which always seems to make a pub seem colder than one that is carpeted. In my opinion it’s not one of the better Nicholson’s pubs. In short, a pretty nondescript pub with nothing special about it – other than being very handy for Charing Cross Station, and being better than the Boadicea. I can't see any reason to make a special effort to return though.

closed and half boarded up, chaps [Admin edit: Marked as closed 24/2/10]