Three Fishes, Shrewsbury

I arrived here on a Friday afternoon and immediately realised that I had been here before around 20 years ago. It's an old pub near one of Shrewsbury's prominent churches. The old sign outside reveals that it was once a Whitbread house but according to What Pub is now owned by the Ei group. Inside it's a single Olde Worlde room with the bar on the left and initially a carpet then stone flagged floors. The bar has six hand pumps which had one unused, M&B Mild, Ludlow Best, Stonehouse Cambrian Gold, Taylor's Landlord and Salopian Golden Thread. Unfortunately I couldn't see the Salopian clip properly so read it as Shropshire Gold and went for the Landlord (£3.60) which was in good nick but I'm sure inferior to the Golden Thread. This is a pleasant enough old pub but I suspect that in the past it's been somewhat ruined by Whitbread.

This is a good looking half timbered 16th century building from the outside and an equally good looking pub from the inside with its low beamed ceiling, stone flagged floor and white washed beamed walls. Plenty of wooden seating around the single room and I think I counted six ale pumps on the bar with five beers on. These were Timothy Taylor Landlord, Cambrian Gold, Salopian Golden Thread, Ludlow Best and a decent Highgate M&B Mild. No TV’s , no obtrusive soundtrack, just a very good pub with a good ale selection.

An old half-timbered building but the bar has been refurbished up to a hotel lounge style. A good atmosphere though, with conversation leading, and a reasonable selection of ales including a mild (Highgate M&B) in good order.

First return here since a very bad experience being bustled out by locals at the bar, thankfully a much more pleasant visit. Lovely looking building on pretty street, it is a small place and therefore space is limited inside. Good choice of beers,

In a very attractive part of town,this is a particularly old building with many exposed timbers and the ceiling starts low and slopes down towards the loos at the rear of the bar room,so watch your head ! The interior is quite small,with fitted bench seating to the front,a real fireplace and a small back section with some leather sofas.There is a blue carpet to the front,and a stone floor around the bar with a good selection of pub grub described on a chalk board above the fireplace.However it's not food dominated and is a proper boozer. The 7 handpumps were offering on my trip Salopian Hop Twister (very decent),Stonehouse Station Bitter,Purity UBU,TT Landlord,Three Tuns Stout,Phoenix White Tornado and Millstone True Grit.A very decent selection. Described as the "first smoke free pub",this should always be included on any real ale tour of the town,and is worthy of a much longer stay. Charming.

Ancient timber and plaster jettied pub in the conservation area.Inside, a single room with nooks and crannies, as described above. Our visit was early lunchtime on an October Monday: a largely venerable clientele was gathered,discussing the death of an actress from Last of the Summer Wine. I fitted in well as Compo. We'd traveled from Kent, only to find the beer of the week had come up from Sussex-Burning Sky's epic and heavyweight Aurora..This was followed by an upstanding Stonehouse Station bitter.Unfortunately, no beers from Salopian were available,an omission compounded by other pubs during our week in the county. Grub was good, the welcome warm and jolly.I'd return.