The 10 Best Pubs in Oldbury, Warwickshire

Fresh reviews:

Deep in the heart of post-industrial Langley Green, at the end of a High Street pretty much decimated by poor architectural planning and a nearby big-name supermarket sits the Crosswells Inn — one of two old-school looking pubs (the other is the nearby Model). Despite looking quite small when you first go…

Shaun H.

Crosswells Inn

Years of nightly bar-work mean that I’ve been unable to acquire an in-depth knowledge of the karaōke scene. I’ve seen an X-Factor reject belt out ‘Superstition’ and a drunken postie shouting his way through ‘Good Vibrations’. However what I’d never seen until that fateful Friday I stepped into the Perry Hill…

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Perry Hill Tavern

From the outside, this place looks pretty inviting and respectable. I think it’s the wooden decking out the front which gives it this air. The inside is a little dated but warm and clean enough. The small bar has no cask ale but is reasonably priced. I had a pint of horrible M&B Mild for £2.35 (M&B’s…

Shaun H.

Old Cross Public House

The Model is by far the brightest of the pubs in the Langley Green area of Oldbury. In fact with the exception of the Wetherspoons, it’s probably the brightest pub in all of Oldbury. I sat at the bar squinting for a while having become so accustomed to gloom and décor much much older than me. Not only is it…

Shaun H.

The Model

I’d walked past this pub a few times without ever having gone in. However, going by the regular site of chavs inside walking round a pool table talking animatedly on their mobile phones, I’d assumed it was a place best avoided.Anyway, the other afternoon, I went in and found myself pleasantly surprised. The…

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Bell Inn

You can’t see what this pub looks like inside because of the frosted windows, but once you lift the latch (yep, there’s a latch) on the door and walk in it’s all change and back to 1975! The Royal Oak, whilst friendly and clean just has that musty smell of old furniture that comes with a pub which has long…

Shaun H.

Royal Oak

One sunny afternoon a few weeks ago, my girlfriend and I decided to be some of those people who only ever go to a pub when it’s sunny (as a barman of a decade’s standing, I’m allowed the odd busman’s holiday surely?) As I’d noticed this pub — which sits on the corner of Wolverhampton Road and Titford Road…