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New Inn, Telford
Blists Hill
Postal town: Telford
TF7 5DU
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Will Larter left this review about New Inn
This pub is only accessible if you have paid an entrance fee to the museum: in the region of £25!
On 6th November 2017
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about New Inn
Traditional corner pub, rebuilt in the Blists Hill Victorian Town museum. Period (circa 1900) furniture and decor in both the Bar and Tap Room, and also in the smaller back room housing the piano. One modern feature is the rear patio beer garden. Banks's Mild and Bitter (£3.50), plus Archer Amber as a guest, available from a pair of handpumps on both bar counters.
On 12th April 2015
- rating: 7
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Ale Monster left this review about New Inn
This is an unusual one as it is part of the Blists Hill Victorian living museum! The building is a genuine example of a Victorian era pub as it was originally situated on the corner of Green Lane and Hospital Street in the Birchills area of Walsall but was taken down brick by brick between 1981-82 and rebuilt on the corner of the main high street of the museum. The classic interior has three rooms, a public bar, a tap room (lounge) and a smoke room (snug). The small public bar is in the front left corner of the building and has a small dark wood counter in the back right corner, bare wood floor, fixed wood settles along the left and front walls either side of the street corner entrance. In the back left wall is a door which leads to the small smoke room, this has a quarry tiled floor, a lovely Victorian cast iron fire place with patterned tile surround in the back wall, a piano against the front wall and a serving hatch in the right wall from the bar in the tap room. Down the full length of the right hand side of the building is the tap room, this has a second entrance from the street with a tiny off sales counter, a dark wood bar counter in the middle of the left wall, a medieval style moulded stone fire place with cast grate in the middle of the right wall opposite the counter, fixed wood settles and a bare wood floor. There is a door at the back left of the tap room which provides further access to the smoke room and another door in the back wall that leads out to a cobbled glass roofed veranda which has a second piano and an outside toilet block. Beyond this is a large enclosed and cobbled court yard with traditional cast iron garden furniture and an occupied chicken run at the far end away from the building. All of the ground floor windows on the two street sides of the pub are beautifully etched.
Regular ales are Marston Pedigree, Banks’s Bitter and Mild. I only had time for a Mild as we had to get round the whole museum which is spread out and pretty big. The Mild was good enough if nothing special. It’s a little disappointing to see modern pump clips which I think detracts slightly from the otherwise authentic traditional décor.
A fantastic working man’s street corner pub with loads of character. In the smoke room there were two middle aged men in Victorian working class costumes who were singing old English music hall songs and playing the piano, they were encouraging any visitors to join in to create a magnificent atmosphere which could be heard as you walked up the high street towards the pub. If this isn’t your kind of thing and you prefer a quiet drink then be assured that they only perform at certain times of the day. It should be pointed out that entrance to the museum costs around £15 for an adult before you can visit this pub, so technically a pint could cost you over £18 if you were just visiting to tick this pub off a list!
On 1st February 2013
- rating: 8
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Oggwyn Great left this review about New Inn
Pub is well described in the previous reviews , its a decent place for a quick pint or two while exploring the muesuem , there were four handpulls(two in the bar , two in the taproom) on my visit with Banks Mild , Bitter , Marstons Pedigree and Thatchers Cider , the Mild was fine if very pricey at £3.30 a pint , Gin was also available by the pint !! but only if you work there .
A reminder of how pubs used to be
On 22nd August 2012
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Soup Dragon left this review about New Inn
First thing to say is that this place is actually in Blist Hill museum, so you need to pay an entrance fee to the site then access is free. It is, i think, the last pub i need to do in Walsall! That is that the pub once stood on the corner of Green Lane and Hospital St in Walsall. The pub is a detached corner pub, with a Banks's sign, which it does still sell and has a rear patio area. In cream, with a peach coloured paintwork around the windows and door, it has a scored effect to look like ashlar blocks and nice etched and sash windows. It has a restaurant area upstairs.
The interior has three rooms served from a central bar. The corner entrance takes you into the small bar room. It is in red (including ceiling) and wood panel, with wood floor. It has a couple of prints and bits of ephemera and 'fake' posters. The smoke room has a piano and a nice fireplace with mirrors and prints. It is in red and cream with red tile floor. The side entrance takes you into the tap room. It is in a french mustard colour (including ceiling) with wood panel and with a wood floor. There is a nice stone fireplace and there are several Victorian prints and mirrors. The service was fine and the clientele were of course a mix of museum visitors. The was no TV (amazing that) and the music was supplied by the museum actors.
Beer; a couple of handpulls selling Banks's Bitter and MILD - the MILD was decent enough but somewhat expensive, as it is a gimmick place.
Well, you have to do it once you have paid your entrance fee and i certainly didn't regret it. A lot of fun listening to the blokes on the old joanna, playing some hits of the 1910s (not a yo, or a ho to be heard) - funny, they had been in the mission hall earler playing hymns. Take it for the fun it is and you will leave with a smile.
On 18th March 2012
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Old Boots left this review about New Inn
The pub is actually within the Blists Hill Victorian Town Museum but this review was recently unearthed in an inevitably dusty archive.....
"It was without not a little trepidation that your humble and respectable correspondent entered the “New Inn” in the village of Blists Hill, a locale of unsightly mines, iron works and similar manifestations of despoiling industry although its additions to the nation's economy make it a necessary evil. As respectable people may conclude public houses in this district are of a largely base nature and one may expect to see all manner of depravity enacted hereabouts. The premises stand on a corner of the main street of the village and Canal Street, it is a white painted building artificed to resemble stucco and is in the ownership of Messers Banks of Wolverhampton. The interior comprises a lowly public bar and a tap room with a more respectable parlour at the rear which also provides service as an impromptu “music hall”. The public bar and tap room are furnished in modern but frugal style with solid cast iron tables and rightous benches, un-upholstered so as not to provide undue comfort to any wastrels who may wish to lanquish upon the premises overly long rather than to continue with gainful employment. There are prints of a sentimental nature upon the walls and I was heartened to see a portrait of our dear late Queen hanging in pride of place over the mantlepiece, a reminder perhaps to the clientele of higher ideals. The establishment provides Bitter and Mild ales from the proprietors as well as cordials, fruit juices and sadly a number of spirits, which of course are a curse on the lives of the lower orders, honest wholesome English ale should be sufficent to slake the thirst of the working man. A price of sevenpence halfpenny (£2.90) for a pint of mediocre ale seemed rather high for the locality. The customers appeared to be on the whole respectable people and not those one may expect to find brought before the local Police Court. I do regret to report that in addition to “ladies” in the Tap Room, I witnessed young children in the parlour , none drinking strong liquor may God be pleased, but singing aloud to vulgar popular songs such as Daisy Daisy, and My Old Man Said Follow the Van, although perhaps such ditties may not endanger the moral well being of young children unlike those sung by Miss Marie Lloyd upon the stages of the metropolis. The establishment is a purveyor of “potato crisps”. "
On 4th July 2010
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