For almost four hundred years a public house in one form or another had stood in the corner of the market square. The Malt Shovel was the last and with it’s closure in 1971 it brought to and end an amazing piece of history.

Brewhouse and Kitchen Ltd was originally called Upper Richmond (No 26) Ltd when first incorporated in 2011 but the company quickly changed its name within a few months to the name we see now.The Lichfield B&K pub opened in 2016 after...

Formally a Wetherspoon Lloyds Number 1 bar, similar to normal pub just with music playing in the background. Wetherspoon renamed the pub The Gatehouse and continued to operate the location until 2016. Originally the location of National...

Lichfield’s first micropub. This small micropub open 2014 after the closure of the clothes shop Country Style, and serve beer from independent brewers.Older people may remember this little building as an electrical repair business...

With the exception of a coat of paint and a name change the outside of the building is relatively unchanged since the days of Millets.

By the time this photo was taken the Smithfield had been renamed to the Sozzled Sausage.  The pub closed in 2007 and was demolished in August 2008 for the Tesco redevelopment. To me it would always be the Smithfield, a place where Dave...