English Pubs
Tuesday April 17, 2007
Occasionally I come across some really great beer articles on other About guide sites. For example Ferne Arfin, About's guide to the UK, has some great English pub reviews that you should check out. She's updating this list all of the time so be sure to check back!
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PUB LOCALS STAR IN COMEDY VIDEO – WATCH HERE
Date : 06.07.07
Ecstatic regulars are so happy their pub has reopened they have made a video telling the story.
The comedy caper recaptures the moment The Sneyd Arms, in Keele, reopens following a three-week closure and change of landlords last Christmas.
Set to Benny Hill-style music, farmer Carl Rogers runs around the village shouting “the pub has reopened”.
He visits Keele Bellringers at St John The Baptist Church, who frantically tie up their ropes to head to the pub; interrupts workers with chainsaws at Keele Christmas Tree Farm to get them to down tools; and then speaks to farmers at milking time.
Once in the pub, Carl’s shouts of “the pub’s open” are met with cheers and applause as landlord Sandra Gates serves the drinks.
The two-and-a-half minute film has had more than 110 hits on website You Tube since Tuesday. A special screening is planned at the pub. It was made by Staffordshire-based Flashgun Films, who are also pub regulars.
Customer Bob Beattie stars on the film explaining the significance of the pub to village life. Bob, who has lived and worked around Keele since the 1960s, describes The Sneyd Arms as the quintessential English pub with the “history of the village in its walls”.
He said: “When the pub closed it was a bit of a catastrophe. There are only two places that are functional in the village, one is the church and the other the pub.
“All the people in the film are real people from the village and all I did was lend a hand. It was all a bit of fun and others were doing it so I thought I would join in.”
Carl Hussey, who is known as Carl Rogers in the film, helped make the epic.
And the Keele graduate has previously worked with Sandra at The Sneyd Arms during his student days.
Carl, aged 30, of Clayton, said: “I have done a few bits and pieces for Flashgun Films. Sandra saw one of them and asked if we could make a nice little promo video.”
Sandra and her partner Darren Casey returned to the pub earlier this year after seeing it had closed at Christmas. They had run the pub between 1997 and 2003 but moving to The Orange Tree at Trent Vale.
Sandra, aged 43, added: “It’s great for the community to see the characters of the village. I think it’s fantastic. It’s so funny. The pub is the heart and soul of the village. It’s a big part of the community.”
VIDEO: Watch the comedy video by clicking Here
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