Love your Local visits The Crown Inn at Clunton, a lovely cosy pub complete with log burner, stone walls and quirky features.
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00:00Hello guys, how you doing? Not too bad, thanks, how are you? Good, thank you Matty. So we're at the Crown Inn in Clunton, and how far are we from Shrewsbury here and Craven Arms?
00:12Craven Arms is about 6 miles, and Shrewsbury I think about 20-ish. Got ya. And describe your pub, I mean it's basically, it's full of history and character isn't it this place?
00:25It's gorgeous, very very cosy with that big wood burner. So what's special about your pub then? Go on. The food. That's your gig isn't it?
00:34Yeah the food debate, we do a real house, change them all the time. We kind of do a mixture of food, we do restaurant food on the weekends, we do bar menus, fish and chip nights, all those sort of things really.
00:52So that's, you're in the kitchen aren't you, really, you're doing all the cooking and that, and you're kind of front of house serving the punters their tipples.
00:59I indeed. So you were saying, every barrel you'll change it for something else, so there's always something interesting and different going on.
01:06Definitely, and we've got a Scottish beer on just now, the next one is a Wye Valley beer, the one after that's a Salopian, so local and further afield as well.
01:18Fantastic, and there's some interesting little features in the pub, not least just above the bar here, this artwork, where's that come from, what's the story with that?
01:25One of the local residents, very famous artist, and he done some pencil drawings of the views that you get from either hill, either side of the pub.
01:38So, 30 years old, they've been cleaned a couple of times, and yeah, it's lovely to have them up at the bar.
01:46It's great that isn't it, nice little tribute to him, he's passed away recently hasn't he? He has.
01:51But he's left his mark. Was he coming in expecting free beers for the last 30 years, is that how it works?
01:58Noel, do you know what, Noel was such a lovely chap, and like you were saying, the history, the villagers that make the pub what it is, and our regular clientele that come from further afield as well.
02:13Yeah, so, because you know, we're kind of out in rural Shropshire, it's not like you've got 20,000 people on your doorstep, you know, so where do you pull your customers from?
02:23You were saying there's a few Airbnbs and holiday lets nearby? Yeah, and some little cabins down by the river.
02:30And then you've got a good supply of regular locals? We do indeed.
02:35But people will find you won't they, if you're a nice good pub and you're good at what you're doing, people like myself like to discover you and keep coming back for more.
02:45So you've had a few issues over the years with floods, so how long have you guys been here?
02:51Six years now. Six years, how many floods have you had in six years? Nine.
02:56That's crazy, I mean that's just, you know, that's a lot to contend with isn't it?
03:01It does, it's ranging from a few inches to, I think the most we've had is just under two foot of water in the pub.
03:09Yeah, so all your carpets have had to come up again from this last one just recently.
03:14So how do you, I mean, does that get you down or do you just find you kind of roll with it now?
03:19After nine floods is it like a well oiled machine, right carpets up.
03:23Well the first couple were pretty bad weren't they? Yeah.
03:28Till we stayed, till we got used to them, they just sort of come in and it goes out and we clean up.
03:36Clean up, yeah, a bit of hard graft for a day or two and then back, yeah, yeah.
03:40So what's your favourite tipple on the bar then?
03:43I like real ale, I do. Yeah, yeah.
03:47One of my favourites is HPA. Okay, yeah.
03:50And what about yourself?
03:53I don't drink too much real ale because I work all the time. Yeah.
03:59I love trying all the different ones. Yeah, yeah.
04:02That's it, it is. This Scottish one, that's a little nod to yourself isn't it, with that lovely accident.
04:08Well the Stuart Brewing Company, fantastic, and we do, we look out for ales that won't have seen the Conn Valley.
04:15Yeah, yeah. Well thank you ever so much for inviting the Shropshire down, Stardown guys.
04:20It looks fantastic, it's so lovely and snuggie with that wood burner going.
04:24And we wish you all the best for the future. Thank you very much, thank you.