http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/news.ma/article/84835

apparently The Sun at Leintwardine, a famous classic unspoilt pub has
not only been saved from the risk of closure, change of use, etc, but
the consortium involved in buying it includes the chap behind the
excellent Hobson's Brewery.

Best of luck to them,
cheers
MikeMcG

In article 
, 
MikeMcG  writes
>http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/news.ma/article/84835
>
>apparently The Sun at Leintwardine, a famous classic unspoilt pub has
>not only been saved from the risk of closure, change of use, etc, but
>the consortium involved in buying it includes the chap behind the
>excellent Hobson's Brewery.
>
Best news I have heard for months.

Roy.
-- 
Roy Bailey
West Berkshire.

Roy Bailey  wrote:

> In article 
> , 
> MikeMcG  writes
> >http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/news.ma/article/84835
> >
> >apparently The Sun at Leintwardine, a famous classic unspoilt pub has
> >not only been saved from the risk of closure, change of use, etc, but
> >the consortium involved in buying it includes the chap behind the
> >excellent Hobson's Brewery.
> >
> Best news I have heard for months.
> 
> Roy.

Another link -
<http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/10/22/future-of-rare-parlour-pub-sec
ured/> includes a rather dark video of a bloke playing a steel guitar in
the pub a year or so ago.
-- 
Rob - Shropshire
So many cats,
So few recipes...

"Rob"  wrote in message news:1j823xf.14fgsm91t2nzh2N%robraitxxxxx@yahoo.co.uk...
> Roy Bailey  wrote:
>> In article
>> ,
>> MikeMcG  writes
>> >http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/news.ma/article/84835
>> >apparently The Sun at Leintwardine, a famous classic unspoilt pub has
>> >not only been saved from the risk of closure, change of use, etc, but
>> >the consortium involved in buying it includes the chap behind the
>> >excellent Hobson's Brewery.
>> Best news I have heard for months. Roy.
> Another link -
> <http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/10/22/future-of-rare-parlour-pub-sec
> ured/> includes a rather dark video of a bloke playing a steel guitar in
> the pub a year or so ago.
> Rob - Shropshire

This takes me back 25+ years to when my wife and I decided to visit the Sun
one afternoon when we were in the area.
We had seen the pub as no1 in a booklet on the most unspoiled pubs in Britain.
We were the only customers in the pub at the time.
Flossie served us the beer from casks in her larder (That's what it looked like!).
She then sat with us in the lounge & thoroughly quizzed us on what we were up to.
PS Has anyone still got a copy of that booklet?
-- 
Dave Croft
Warrington

On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:57:40 +0100, Dave  Croft  
 wrote:

> "Rob"  wrote in message  
> news:1j823xf.14fgsm91t2nzh2N%robraitxxxxx@yahoo.co.uk...
>> Roy Bailey  wrote:
>>> In article
>>> ,
>>> MikeMcG  writes
>>> >http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/news.ma/article/84835
>>> >apparently The Sun at Leintwardine, a famous classic unspoilt pub has
>>> >not only been saved from the risk of closure, change of use, etc, but
>>> >the consortium involved in buying it includes the chap behind the
>>> >excellent Hobson's Brewery.
>>> Best news I have heard for months. Roy.
>> Another link -
>> <http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/10/22/future-of-rare-parlour-pub-sec
>> ured/> includes a rather dark video of a bloke playing a steel guitar in
>> the pub a year or so ago.
>> Rob - Shropshire
>
> This takes me back 25+ years to when my wife and I decided to visit the  
> Sun
> one afternoon when we were in the area.
> We had seen the pub as no1 in a booklet on the most unspoiled pubs in  
> Britain.
> We were the only customers in the pub at the time.
> Flossie served us the beer from casks in her larder (That's what it  
> looked like!).
> She then sat with us in the lounge & thoroughly quizzed us on what we  
> were up to.
> PS Has anyone still got a copy of that booklet?

I just saw a single sheet on the wall (in the Sun)

years ago I FWSE'd for "Classic Basic unspoilt pubs"
http://www.btinternet.com/~stannett/worth-a-visit/old_pubs.htm

here's an archive of this very group
http://www.mombu.com/cuisine/cuisine/t-britains-most-unaltered-pubs-2971105.html



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"Esra Sdrawkcab"  wrote in message news:op.u2am40erhswpfo@dell3100...
> On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:57:40 +0100, Dave  Croft   wrote:
>> "Rob"  wrote in message  news:1j823xf.14fgsm91t2nzh2N%robraitxxxxx@yahoo.co.uk...
>>> Roy Bailey  wrote:
Big Snip
>> PS Has anyone still got a copy of that booklet?
> I just saw a single sheet on the wall (in the Sun)
> years ago I FWSE'd for "Classic Basic unspoilt pubs"
> http://www.btinternet.com/~stannett/worth-a-visit/old_pubs.htm
> here's an archive of this very group
> http://www.mombu.com/cuisine/cuisine/t-britains-most-unaltered-pubs-2971105.html
Thanks for the Information.  The 5th edition is below.
Classic basic unspoilt pubs 5th Edition 1997

                           *
Derbyshire              Elton                   THE DUKE OF YORK
East Riding of Yorks    Skerne                  THE EAGLE
East Sussex             Herstmonceaux           THE WELCOME STRANGER
Gloucestershire         Cheltenham              THE BATH TAVERN
Gwynedd                 Bethesda                THE DOUGLAS ARMS #
Kent                    Snargate                THE RED LION
Oxfordshire             Steventon               THE NORTH STAR
    "                   Stoke Talmage           THE RED LION
Powys                   Hay-on-Wye              THE THREE TUNS
Walsall (?)             Bloxwich                THE TURF TAVERN

                                * *
Herefordshire           Kington                 THE OLDE TAVERN
Leicestershire          Medbourne               THE HORSE & TRUMPET
Oxfordshire             Stoke Lyne              THE PEYTON ARMS

                                * * *
Carmarthenshire         Llandovery              THE RED LION
Gloucestershire         Ampney St. Peter        THE RED LION
Northumberland          Netherton               THE STAR
Pembrokeshire           Pontfaen                THE DYFFRYN ARMS

                                * * * *
Devon                   Luppitt                 THE LUPPITT INN
Kent                    Cowden Pound            THE QUEEN'S ARMS
Shropshire              Halfway House           THE SEVEN STARS

                                * * * * *
Hereford & Worcester    Leintwardine            THE SUN INN

It also gave me a superb Obituary for Flossie at
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/5580597/Flossie-Lane.html

Thank you for the great links to find these & the memories they have brought back.
-- 
Dave Croft
Warrington
http://www.oldengine.org/members/croft/
http://community.webshots.com/user/crftdv

In that mombu archive (also available via Google Groups, I would
think?) is a message from  "christopher excell" -

> The final edition was the eleventh, dated 2004. The pubs listed were Red
> Lion at Llandovery, Three Tuns at Hay-on-Wye, Cider House at Defford, all
> one star, the two star offerings were Duke of York at Elton, and Turf Tavern
> at Bloxwich. Three Stars were given to Red Lion at Ampney St Peter, Queen's
>Arms at Cowden Pound, Star at Netherton, atd Dyffryn Arms at Pontfaen. The
> four stars were Luppitt Inn at Luppitt, Sun at Leintwardine, and Seven Stars
> at Halfway House. There were no pubs that he deemed worthy of five stars.
> Of the above listings I believe the Seven Stars has closed, and Three Tuns
> has suffered fire damage and may still be closed.

& a link from me to an article on the same subject in 'Pints
West' (Bristol CAMRA mag - which I very much like)
http://www.camrabristol.org.uk/pw69.pdf    (page 31)

The list plays a prominent role in "The Longest Crawl" - an excellent
book by Ian Marchant.
(the curious tale of Sam Smith's gets good mention too - allegedly
they own the Isle of Jura!)

Ian M's website has some more info about the Unspoilt Pubs list -
http://www.ianmarchant.com/unspoiltpubs.htm

I picked up a copy in the late 1990s in a pub somewhere in SE London,
that also had a bundle of SPBW leaflets too - I can't remember the
pub, sorry (drink may have been involved).

I finally got to one of the pubs that some think should be added to
the list - The Three Stags' Heads, (Wardlow Mires, Derbyshire) a few
weeks back & I'd certainly add it to my own version of this list.
(only opens weekends)

I've always enjoyed visiting another pub on the list - Tinky's/ Turf
Tavern, Bloxwich, nr Walsall.

I've also heard good things about a Robinson's pub, The Harrington
Arms, Gawsworth, (Bosley/Macc way).

cheers,
MikeMcG

"MikeMcG"  wrote in message 
news:7b84f844-fff2-492f-b788-951ba0f605ca@g23g2000vbr.googlegroups.com...
>
> I've also heard good things about a Robinson's pub, The Harrington
> Arms, Gawsworth, (Bosley/Macc way).


The Harrington Arms remains an excellent pub with most of its original 
layout intact but it has been brought into the modern world and thus 
wouldn't qualify for a list of totally unspoilt pubs. It has won a local 
CAMRA Pub of the Year award in the last couple of years.

Peter

On 23 Oct, 20:37, robraitxx...@yahoo.co.uk (Rob) wrote:
> Roy Bailey  wrote:
> > In article
> > ,
> > MikeMcG  writes
> > >http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/news.ma/article/84835
>
> > >apparently The Sun at Leintwardine, a famous classic unspoilt pub has
> > >not only been saved from the risk of closure, change of use, etc, but
> > >the consortium involved in buying it includes the chap behind the
> > >excellent Hobson's Brewery.
>
> > Best news I have heard for months.
>
> > Roy.
>
> Another link -
> <http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/10/22/future-of-rare-parlour-pub-sec
> ured/> includes a rather dark video of a bloke playing a steel guitar in
> the pub a year or so ago.
> --
> Rob - Shropshire
> So many cats,
> So few recipes...

Bit of an odd video for the Shrops Star to have up - not really very
related to the pub.

There's a more relevant video up on Youtube -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG1MRRdqBUE
includes amateur footage inside the pub on a busy day & a regional BBC
news piece about the campaign to save the pub.
cheers
MikeMcG

On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:05:09 +0100, MikeMcG   
wrote:

> In that mombu archive (also available via Google Groups, I would
> think?) is a message from  "christopher excell" -
>
>> The final edition was the eleventh, dated 2004. The pubs listed were Red
>> Lion at Llandovery, Three Tuns at Hay-on-Wye, Cider House at Defford,  
>> all
>> one star, the two star offerings were Duke of York at Elton, and Turf  
>> Tavern
>> at Bloxwich. Three Stars were given to Red Lion at Ampney St Peter,  
>> Queen's
>> Arms at Cowden Pound, Star at Netherton, atd Dyffryn Arms at Pontfaen.  
>> The
>> four stars were Luppitt Inn at Luppitt, Sun at Leintwardine, and Seven  
>> Stars
>> at Halfway House. There were no pubs that he deemed worthy of five  
>> stars.
>> Of the above listings I believe the Seven Stars has closed, and Three  
>> Tuns
>> has suffered fire damage and may still be closed.
>

I've heard that the Three Tuns has reopened, but is no longer unspoilt -  
heck the place hadn't had any maintenance in Lucy's lifetime! Ah yes -  
it's a fancy restaurant now.
http://www.three-tuns.com/

The Cider House is closed, I think I heard due to illness of one of the  
owners? it's uncertain if the other partner will carry on.


There have been a few that JWC (AFAIK) missed, but they're also gone -  
Cupid's Hill Tavern, nr Grosmont, Gwent, and the Hop Pole, Risbury  
(Bert's) outside Leominster.

The Plough in Upper Chapel (Powys) has been painted outside, so may not be  
so plain inside now.

Here's some other old pubs

http://www.englishpubgallery.co.uk/ResPubtypes.asp?find=calendar2

>
> The list plays a prominent role in "The Longest Crawl" - an excellent
> book by Ian Marchant.
> (the curious tale of Sam Smith's gets good mention too - allegedly
> they own the Isle of Jura!)
>
> Ian M's website has some more info about the Unspoilt Pubs list -
> http://www.ianmarchant.com/unspoiltpubs.htm
>
> I picked up a copy in the late 1990s in a pub somewhere in SE London,
> that also had a bundle of SPBW leaflets too - I can't remember the
> pub, sorry (drink may have been involved).
>
> I finally got to one of the pubs that some think should be added to
> the list - The Three Stags' Heads, (Wardlow Mires, Derbyshire) a few
> weeks back & I'd certainly add it to my own version of this list.
> (only opens weekends)

>
> I've always enjoyed visiting another pub on the list - Tinky's/ Turf
> Tavern, Bloxwich, nr Walsall.
>
> I've also heard good things about a Robinson's pub, The Harrington
> Arms, Gawsworth, (Bosley/Macc way).
>
> cheers,
> MikeMcG


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There is a thead about the pub on the CAMRA forums...
http://forum.camra.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=534



Brett

On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:53:03 -0000, Brett...  
 wrote:

> There is a thead about the pub on the CAMRA forums...
> http://forum.camra.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=534
>
>
>
> Brett
>
>
Splendid:

http://www.savethesun.org.uk/home/home.asp

(sorry if I repeat the url)

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