The Yew Tree, Birmingham

Sizeable pub with some modest Tudorbethan features both inside and on the main and side façades. Fairly basic two-part bar at the front, with a rear function room and signage in the car park indicating a separate lounge somewhere at the back. Basic furniture and limited decor, with the pool table by the entrance and two sports TVs being the only things to catch the eye. There are also a few wooden benches out front, optimistically placed for those enamoured by the passing traffic or the industrial estate beyond the River Tame floodwalls. Two very disused handpumps, so it had to be the Worthington Smoothflow (£3.20).