The Waggon and Horses sells pints for just £2.30 (Image: SWNS)
Punters are flocking to a West Midlands that is selling pints at just £2.30 – the average price in 2008.
The Waggon and Horses in Oldbury, the West Midlands, sells pints at a bargain price in a bid to encourage locals back into venues during the crisis.
The old-fashioned Black Country boozer sells all beers, ciders and ales for £2.90 or less making it one of the UK’s cheapest pubs.
A pint of Stella will set you back just £2.80, while pints of Carling, Coors and John Smiths are £2.40 and a pint of Thatcher’s Gold is £2.30.
The bargain boozer has a sign advertising their cheap drinks that reads: “Cheap Prices, All Day Everyday”.
The boozer is one of the UK’s cheapest pubs (Image: SWNS)
The average cost of a pint in the UK is now more than £4.50 for the first time — compared to £2.30 in 2008, during the last recession.
Meanwhile in London the average price of a pint is between £5.59 and £6.75, a pint in the West End can now top £9 while one in ten bars sell at between £6-£6.99.
Leaseholder of the Waggon and Horses, Matthew Porter, said the pub thought “a bit outside the box” at how they could cut their prices and still manage to survive to help traditional local pubs survive.
He said: “I’ve had this pub for seven years, and it’s a proper local pub. It deserves to be busy every day.
“There are multi-million pound companies either side of us who are putting their prices up, and we’re putting ours down to say ‘come and drink with us’.
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“We should be able to pay the bills and people get cheap beer, so it keeps everyone happy. It’s hard for people at the minute, some are struggling and aren’t going to go out and spend £40 on a Friday night anymore.
“But if that suddenly turns into more like a £10 night, we’re hoping people will be more inclined to come and have a drink with us. We want to keep traditional pubs going. They are part of communities and are closing all over. I think the younger generations will forget how to socialise.”
George Scott, 67, a regular punter said: “It’s a great little pub and I’ll be back here a lot more now the prices are so low.
“It has got to be the cheapest pub in the country in terms of its whole selection.”