Love your Local: The Rose & Crown in Ludlow.

Shropshire Star

The Rose & Crown in Ludlow is a charming , historic, atmospheric pub with lots of little nooks and cosy corners. The log fire was in full effect too, its that time of the week it's : Love your Local.

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00:00So we're here in Ludlow at the fantastic Rose and Crown Jewels pub and Ben you're part of the team?

00:05Yes, so my wife Jess is the landlady who runs the business.

00:09Cool, for people who haven't been here, describe the pub, it's full of historical features.

00:14So it started, the records go back to the 1100s as a coaching inn and then

00:23it was transformed into the Rose and Crown pub dating 1300s.

00:29Jewels bought it back in 2016, renovated, keeping all the features of the pub as natural as possible.

00:40Well I've just learned that that old back wall in the pub there,

00:43that was actually part of a monastery?

00:45Yes, yeah part of the monastery that was in Ludlow dating 1100s.

00:49So does that date it older than the castle?

00:51It does indeed, yeah.

00:51That's crazy isn't it really?

00:53I'm sure it comes with all its old quirks, you know keeping on top of a building at this age.

00:58But just describe it then, so it's a lot of wood, wood panelling, that warmth of wood as they say?

01:05Yes, so the mouse bar which is on the right as you walk in is

01:10made out of reclaimed pieces of wood from Robert Thomas the Mouseman.

01:15Who's Robert Thomas? That rings a bell, Robert Thomas the Mouseman.

01:17He used to carve mice or animals into his work to identify it as his own.

01:23Was he a Ludlow man then?

01:25He was North Shropshire I believe.

01:27Okay yeah, so it's got its historical and yeah.

01:33Jewels are good at that aren't they?

01:34They find these amazing kind of quirky little features and kind of you know salvage them

01:39and then repurpose them.

01:40So Jewels, when they take on a new venue for the estate, they like to reuse materials rather than buying new.

01:50It's a very eco-friendly model.

01:52And what's going down well in terms of what you're serving up on the bar at the minute?

01:57So the core range, the Slumbering Monk, Pale Ale and Blonde.

02:02Slumbering Monk is our best seller of those, of the Jewels range.

02:06And is it, what do they call it, a wet pub? Is it big on the food as well?

02:10Wet and dry, so we do a lot of food and then we do a lot of wet sales as well.

02:16Cool and do you have events here at all?

02:17Yes, so we tend to have music every weekend.

02:20Since opening in December 23, we've had music on every weekend since opening.

02:26What's, what's, we talk, like guitars?

02:29So we do a range of things, tend to be more towards the guitar, pub rock.

02:35Yeah.

02:35But we had had a few electronic music events.

02:38Okay, that's cool.

02:39It's gone down quite well with the crowd.

02:41Yeah, yeah.

02:41We've had varied ages of people that come to the venue.

02:45And I'm guessing it's a mix of regulars, locals and tourists, is that how it works?

02:49Yes, yeah, regulars, tourists and locals.

02:51Yeah.

02:52Is any ghost stories or anything?

02:54So our cellar man, Sarge, reliably informs us there's a ghost that lives in the cellar.

02:59Yeah.

03:00He's dated back to the 1200s.

03:02Yeah.

03:02So he's had a good chat with him.

03:04That's good stuff, I love a, I love a good old guy story.

03:08A few, back in 2017, the restaurant was mysteriously condimented, shall we say.

03:15Yeah.

03:15And there was no explanation for it.

03:17The cameras didn't show anything.

03:18No way.

03:19So, do, do, do.

03:22Cheers, Ben.

03:23Well, thank you for letting us have a look round and good luck in future business at the pub.

03:26Cheers, buddy.

03:27Thank you very much.

03:27Cheers.

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