The Coppice, Birmingham

Basic estate pub retaining its twin-bar layout, with the public bar at the front being home to the pool table and dartboard. Seating in this room is mostly limited to the peripheral padded benches, but there is a larger lounge further back with a reasonable number of tables and there is also a plain beer garden to the rear. A very disused handpump on each counter, and with limited keg offerings it had to be a quick John Smith's (£3.40) before moving on. However, I would note that the landlady was welcoming, which is not something you can always say about strangers wandering into places like this.