Duke of York, Lichfield

Lovely old pub with some nice features, homely, relaxed and good beer

A nice Joules pub claiming to be the oldest in Lichfield. It is very olde world with beams and wooden benches inside. Multi roomed with two bars. Beer garden to the rear. Usual Joules ales with Joule's Calcutta 1757 pale on. A good pub.

The building was covered with scaffolding at the time of my recent visit with some football mates from Luton, but inside the pub was still very presentable and we enjoyed our brief stay here. There are five hand pumps in the front room and another four in the back bar, all with Joules beers on as far as I could make out. The room we were in was too big to be an original room for a building of this age, I would say, but whatever work has been done to it has aimed at preserving the feel of the place and been successful. I had the excellent Joules Pale, and would happily have had another but for the necessity of lending support to our team at Tamworth within the hour, so we just had to content ourselves with planning another visit some time soon.