Old parlour pub becomes a TV star
Saturday 1st January 2011, 11:30AM GMT.
One of the UK’s oldest parlour pubs near the Shropshire border will be on TV tomorrow as part of the BBC series Oz and Hugh Raise the Bar.
The Sun Inn at Leintwardine, near Ludlow, plays host to actor Hugh Dennis and wine expert Oz Clarke in an episode which sees the two inducted as honorary mayors of the pub and tucking into a squirrel casserole supper.
The four-part series follows Dennis, star of Outnumbered, and Clarke on a whistlestop tour of the UK as they try to track down the best in independent drinks.
The Sun Inn was run by reputedly Britain’s oldest landlady, Flossie Lane, for 74 years until her death, aged 94, in June 2009. In her later years Flossie had villagers helping run the pub for her, with punters paying for their drinks by putting coins into a row of jam jars.
Every year a squirrel casserole is prepared for the pub’s “mayor”, a title bestowed by pub regulars each year, and former mayors. The current mayor is Mike Rix but the 18 former mayors include Flossie, current landlord Gary Seymour and Hobson the Dog.
Gary Seymour said: “We have a chain of office and as an ex-mayor you have to put a token on the chain, Oz Clarke sent us one of his old bottle openers which we’ve added to the chain, but Hugh Dennis didn’t send us anything.”
The show will be screened on BBC2 at 8pm.
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