The Queens Head, Londonderry, Smethwick

Now a vets.

This is a detached 1930s estate pub, with patio area. The pub replaced on older pub, of the same name, on the same site, when the rural hamlet of Londonderry was lost under a wave of new housing in the 1930s. Note the head of Victoria on the exterior. It is a mock-Tudor pub, in red brick and moulded stone around the windows and doorways, with bay windows, coloured glass and an upper bow window. The interior was a single elbow shaped room, that i saw. This was in red and cream and is near partitioned off at one end, where there is a pool table area (with some heavy wood panel on the walls). The TV had general programmes on - but there is a facility for a pull down screen. There are no real pictures on the walls. Seating was red bench, with general tables. The service was fine and it was populated by a few locals. There was no music. Beer; no real ale, just the usual tap stuff with M&B MILD, which was fine enough. A tidy enough place, which sadly does not have a real ale on, for my taste.