The Stag will take over from the Red Lion while that is having a refurbishment, then the Stag will revert into a Pub/ function room for hire, ready for parties, weddings etc. The team have really gone to town with fixtures and fittings and it looks fantastic.
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00:00so we're here with the stag at the brewery market drayton and you are landlord i am yes what's your
00:07name boss my name's chris turner and i'm general manager of the stag and the red lion so chris
00:12the red lion just over the way there that's having a refurb so stag jumps into action it's
00:18just opened so that's going to be the pub here for the moment and then the plan is once the red
00:23line in a few months is all up and running this will be then become like a whole hireable event
00:28space is that right yeah bang on yeah cool well check us around kid let's go and have a look
00:32come this way to the smoke room
00:34come off the terrace
00:37proper nice sun trap this terrace in it it's really beautiful
00:42oh look at this mate here we go yeah so you've got a lovely smoke room here
00:46yeah there's a taxidermy old classic boards these are these are in true jewel style these are obviously
00:53old original flooring from somewhere that's been salvaged aren't they
00:56loads loads of repurposed materials the old bar was made out of barrels
01:00i just that's the biggest barrel i've ever seen
01:02it's great isn't it
01:04and we've got some lovely tables from repurposed barrels
01:07cool
01:08this is obviously from a grand old tree with a nice little pretty
01:13yeah it fits perfect doesn't it the shape of it curved in there
01:15and then a little bit of a
01:17homage to the overton and we've taken the fireplace
01:22what was the overton then so the overton was one of our jules pubs which has recently been sold
01:27okay yeah and this is a bit of a homage we have that fireplace here
01:30ah and you find yourself in the club room
01:33i like this yeah so yeah like a bit of a snuggie
01:38yeah quite a corner to come and have a check with your match
01:40i think what's nice about it there's no speakers in here so you know if you just want to go for a quiet
01:44part with a paper or yeah scroll of your phone there's plenty of nice corners to sit with a nice cold beer
01:49you're not going to be distracted by music yeah and it's just you know it's it's a lovely lovely
01:53quiet space which then brings you through to the opposite of that which is our games room
01:58i mean this is
02:00so great look at this
02:03got a lovely little dartboard
02:04cool go on let's see what you can do
02:06little dartboard
02:07should i get a triple 20
02:07no chance
02:09you know what that's not far off mate
02:12that is not bad is it
02:13that's not bad you know
02:14if i'd start an inch to the left then it'd be alright
02:16yeah we've got a skickles table
02:18love it
02:19we've got backgammon
02:20we've got chess drafts on here
02:22all the rules up there as well if you're not sure
02:24and if you lose you're buying the beers that's the rule
02:26which then brings us lovely into the uh what we call the link
02:30so this is where the old stag ended and the new club begins so all this here
02:36yeah so this so this was that was like you say that was the end of the old bit of the pub
02:39so is this it's just a whole new building or was it a warehouse building before or
02:43this was all built from scratch so they've had to really do the foundations of the ground
02:48and create this lovely space up top so you've got in here the shuffleboard table
02:53so yeah you that's it you kind of literally slide it and try and land it on a
02:57that's it yeah get on one two or three something you've um you're featured in your bricklayer's
03:01arms pub isn't it over in creed which has become popular very popular and i wanted to steal the
03:05idea so uh good man we got one look at these guys all the decoration little nods to old archive
03:13adverts the jewels all the old pubs are numbered here so on this sort of oh wow all these drawers
03:19there's the loos you've got the uh the code for each pub oh okay the corresponding number so if you look
03:24at uh i don't see which one's i know so ba 15 is britley's arms ah there you go guys so it's not
03:34just random everything's got a little little bit of meaning 35 is the crown wolf cw yeah so you go
03:40upstairs cool beautiful brewer's hall and obviously below here will be the the town museum so they've got
03:47their space for the for the grand fee of a pound a year rent and they paid up front as well
03:51that's yeah yeah so here's for us also where most of our diners will be um all of our big functions
03:59will be in here the tables are versatile so we can have long tables of 20 30 40 50. yeah we can strip
04:06tables out to create a dance floor space and we've got a lovely space to the back of the room for live
04:10music fantastic oh so that'll be the plan there'll be some live live stuff as well then yeah yeah we've
04:15been on Friday had a local artist Cameron Forrest came in yeah and he did a turn on his guitar oh awesome
04:21really well received by the team and customers as well so when um in a few months when the red
04:26lion's in full flow again this will be i guess you know you can be anything carny parties wedding
04:31dues can be anything this is going to be it's going to be it's going to be everything from christenings
04:38to life events big birthdays celebrations engagement parties we've already got two weddings booked in
04:44and i'm talking to somebody about a third wedding already no way and we've been open for four days so
04:48that's mad isn't it yeah it just goes to show that we can really mix and match to everyone's
04:52tastes and needs yeah so you're going to be when the red line's back open you'll be over there
04:58kind of doing your daily shift yeah but you're going to be in charge of this as well aren't they
05:02just doubling your workload here boss yeah exactly well you'll have to discuss that pay rise in the
05:10coming but it looks fantastic doesn't it yeah it really does and we're all really proud of how
05:16it's turned out yeah there's some lovely adverts and old pub signs and we've got loads of fun quirky
05:23posters on the wall there yeah yeah it's just a really nice space to be
05:30how you doing boss hello what's your name my name's steve woods uh i'm one of the brewers here at
05:35joel's steve you've been immortalized here you are in all your glory looks really good pretty
05:40proud of this one and they all look good i think there's about 10 of them but um yeah it looks
05:44amazing it's great isn't it so how did it work did they come and do a picture of you first or
05:48something no no this was actually taken i think it was in litchfield um when we did a beer launch yeah
05:54and yeah just got packed and uh they've turned it into an amazing kind of piece of art awesome up in
05:58the new uh the new stag and there's quite a few different members of staff isn't there that feature on
06:03these posters and builders and stuff and yeah there are yeah there's been quite it's quite a good
06:07reveal and see them all in all different types and stuff but yeah it's turned out really well
06:11really pleased with it cool nice one buddy