Coalbrookdale Inn

14/06/2026

12/06/2026

🥩🎟️ MEAT RAFFLE SUNDAY 🎟️🥩

📅 Sunday 14th June
⏰ 7pm

The finest Sunday night tradition this side of the Iron Bridge returns.

Every week brave men and women part with their hard-earned pounds in pursuit of glorious meaty prizes, only to immediately abandon all common sense and gamble them on the mystery box.

Why?

Because hope is a powerful thing.

Will somebody take home a beautiful joint for Sunday dinner?

Will somebody walk away with enough bacon to cause concern from their GP?

Will somebody ignore all sensible advice and risk everything on the mystery box?

Of course they will.

It's practically the law at this point.

Last time we learned that perfectly sensible decisions are not particularly welcome at The Dale.

This Sunday could be your turn to become a local legend... or the proud owner of something completely unexpected.

🥩 Quality prizes supplied by Anthony's of Wellington
🎟️ Tickets on sale throughout the day
⏰ Draw starts 7pm sharp

Whether you're feeling lucky, hungry or simply fancy watching your neighbours make increasingly questionable decisions, we've got you covered.

See you Sunday.

And remember...

Fortune favours the bold.

The mystery box favours absolutely nobody.

Real flavour. Real people. Right here at the Dale.

11/06/2026

🌴☀️ COALBROOKDALE INDIES ☀️🌴

📅 Saturday 20th June
⏰ From 7pm

For one night only, we're swapping Coalbrookdale for the Coalbrookdale Indies.

Now admittedly, the nearest thing we've got to a Caribbean coastline is the River Severn, and the weather forecast still contains the words "chance of drizzle", but we're not letting reality get in the way of a good party.

🎧 DJ Ryan from Spectrum Entertainment returns with a night of:

🎵 Ska
🎵 Reggae
🎵 Dancehall
🎵 Caribbean Classics

Expect sunshine vibes, good food, tropical drinks and dancing ranging from surprisingly impressive to immediate medical concern.

🌴 FREE CARIBBEAN BUFFET 🌴

🍗 Jerk Chicken
🍖 Curry Goat
🍚 Rice & Peas
🌽 Corn Fritters
🥭 Mango Salsa
🍍 Pineapple Slaw

🍹 Tropical Drink Specials All Night

Will somebody turn up in a Hawaiian shirt?

Definitely.

Will somebody insist they know all the words to every Bob Marley song?

Almost certainly.

Will somebody claim they've "still got the moves" before providing overwhelming evidence to the contrary?

Without question.

Whether you're a reggae legend, a ska enthusiast, or simply here for a plate full of curry goat and a cold drink, we've got you covered.

So leave the passports at home, bring your dancing shoes and join us for a summer party right here in the heart of the Gorge.

The Caribbean may be 4,000 miles away...

But on the 20th June, we're giving it a decent go.

📍 The Coalbrookdale Inn
⏰ From 7pm
🎧 DJ Ryan
🍗 FREE Caribbean Buffet
🍹 Tropical Drink Specials

Real flavour. Real people. Right here at the Dale.

09/06/2026

The issues that the hospitality industry face is not alone, they are felt from every customer facing business. I am also not a person that would normally share others posts without due consideration, but the point about best nights and wake’s resonated with me so here it is

Right.
Apparently, pubs are “too expensive.” 😬🥵💰

I hear it every day. 🤯

Usually from someone clutching a £6 artisan coffee, scrolling TikTok on a £1,200 phone, while explaining how £6 for a pint is daylight robbery. 💎

But sure. The pub is the problem. 👌

Let me explain this slowly…

You’re not paying £6 for “beer”! 🍺

You’re paying for an experience, for a community, for…

💸 The heating being on before you arrive.
💸 The lights staying on after you leave.
💸 The loos being scrubbed (you’re welcome).
💸 The glasses being washed.
💸 The staff being paid.
💸 The licences. The insurance. The rates. The tax.
💸 The little bite the card machine takes every single time you tap.
💸 And the fact that when the cellar floods at 11pm on a Tuesday… it’s me in wellies.

You’re not just buying a drink. 🍷

You’re renting a space to exist in public without being moved on. To socialise. To make friends. To feel welcome. To belong. ❤️

Go and sit in the middle of ASDA for three hours debating VAR and see how long that lasts. Try getting banter from a self-checkout. 😅

Pubs aren’t competing with supermarket booze. 🛒

We’re competing with the idea that community should be free. 🏘️❤️

And here’s the bit I find fascinating…

The same people who mourn “the death of the British pub” are the ones who treat us like overpriced off-licences. 🍾

We don’t sell beer. 🍺

We sell:
👉 First dates that turned into marriages.
👉 Wakes where the real stories came out.
👉 “Ok, just one” that became the best night of the year.
👉 Somewhere to decompress when the world’s had enough of you and you’ve had enough of the world.

We sell a place to not be alone. 🫂

If you want cheap: stay on your sofa with a four-pack of lukewarm cans 🛋️🥵🍻

But PLEASE don’t confuse low cost with value! 🤷‍♂️

Anyway, I’ll be over here - overcharging for heating, chairs, and human interaction. 🔥🪑🤗

Tag a mate who needs to stop being a tight-arse and buy a round! You know the one. 😂👇

08/06/2026

🧠🍻 QUIZ NIGHT AT THE DALE 🍻🧠

📅 Wednesday 10th June
⏰ 8pm
💷 £1 Entry

It's that time again.

Once every fortnight, some of the finest minds from Coalbrookdale, Ironbridge, Jackfield and beyond gather together to prove beyond all reasonable doubt that knowing the answer and writing the answer are often two very different things.

Some arrive believing they're the next Mastermind.

Most leave wondering how they managed to get a multiple-choice question wrong after successfully narrowing it down to all four options.

Expect:

✔ Questions you'll know
✔ Questions you'll nearly know
✔ Questions that will cause more debate than parking in Ironbridge on a sunny bank holiday

Will somebody confidently overrule the only person at the table who actually knows the answer?

Almost certainly.

Will there be accusations that the quiz is fixed?

As reliable as roadworks around the Gorge.

Will somebody spend ten minutes arguing their case only to discover they've written the answer on the wrong line?

History suggests yes.

No phones.
No cheating.
No asking the team on the next table.
No pretending your trip to Benthall Hall in 1997 makes you an expert on every history question.

Bring your brightest friends, your luckiest guessers and that one teammate whose entire strategy is saying:

"I don't know... but it might be B."

📍 The Coalbrookdale Inn
📅 Wednesday 10th June
⏰ 8pm

Brains optional.

Banter guaranteed.

Real flavour. Real people. Right here at the Dale.

06/06/2026

🥩⚽ SUNDAY AT THE DALE ⚽🥩

This Sunday promises to be a big one.

6pm we'll be drawing the World Cup Sweepstake.

7pm we'll be drawing the Meat Raffle.

World Cup

48 teams. £5 a team. Maximum 2 teams per person.

But here's the twist...

Once you've drawn your team, it'll be sealed inside an envelope with your name on it.

You won't know who you've got. Nobody will.

Not until the World Cup Final on 19th July when the envelopes are opened and we discover who's won.

Think of it like Schrödinger's Cat.

Until the envelope is opened, you're simultaneously holding Brazil, England, France and a nation you've never heard of that sounds like a discount kitchen appliance.

🏆 Winner - £100
🥈 Runner Up - £40

All while raising £100 for Hope House Children's Hospice.

Then at...

🥩 MEAT RAFFLE
⏰ 7pm

The weekly event where perfectly sensible people win perfectly sensible meat prizes and then immediately risk them all on the mystery box.

Will somebody walk away with a glorious joint of beef?

Will somebody gamble it all away?

Will Glyn win again?

Scientists remain unable to explain it.

📍 The Coalbrookdale Inn
⚽ Sweepstake Draw - 6pm
🥩 Meat Raffle - 7pm

One evening.

Two draws.

An entire pub full of people who are technically winning and losing the World Cup at the same time.

Real flavour. Real people. Right here at the Dale.

05/06/2026

⚽🏆 WORLD CUP SWEEPSTAKE DRAW 🏆⚽

Think you’ve spotted the next world champions?

Or are you about to spend £5 discovering you’ve been handed a team nobody can find on a map?

Either way…

JOIN THE DRAW!
£5 PER TEAM
MAX 2 TEAMS EACH

📅 THIS SUNDAY
⏰ Draw starts at 6pm
📍 The Coalbrookdale Inn

🌍 48 Teams Available
🎟 £5 Per Team
⚠ Maximum 2 Teams Per Person

💰 £100 Winner
🥈 £40 Runner-Up

More importantly…

❤️ £100 from the sweepstake will be donated to Hope House Children’s Hospice, helping support seriously ill children and their families across Shropshire and the surrounding area.

Will you draw one of the favourites?

Will you get a complete outsider and suddenly become their biggest supporter on earth?

Will somebody claim they’ve been “following Uzbekistan’s development for years”?

Almost certainly.

Get yourselves down, grab a pint, support a fantastic cause, and see where fate sends you.

Real flavour. Real people. Right here at the Dale.

05/06/2026

🍻🌞JUNE AT THE DALE 🍻🌞
Well... somehow we're already six months into the year.
Amazing how quickly time flies when you're baking award-worthy pies, making phenomenal curries, raising money for charity through darts marathons and conker competitions, enjoying fantastic live music from the likes of Baxter, Minor Glance and Two Rivers Deep... or watching a grown man dressed like Bette Midler discover that riding a pretend bull in the car park was, in hindsight, a terrible idea.

Yet here we are. June has arrived.

⚽ WORLD CUP FEVER IS COMING ⚽
The World Cup is now just days away and we'll be showing every England game right here at The Dale.

Now some people may ask...
"Why watch football in a tiny pub?"

Simple. Because what we lack in size we more than make up for in atmosphere.

If the Women's World Cup taught us anything, it's that forty people celebrating in The Dale sounds remarkably similar to seventy thousand people celebrating at Wembley.

We'll also be showing plenty of the other matches too.

Just don't expect us to open at 2am so Dave can watch Paraguay play the USA while claiming he's got money on it.

🏆 KEY DATES
📅 Opening Ceremony – 11th June
England vs Croatia – Wednesday 17th June – 9pm
England vs Ghana – Tuesday 23rd June – 9pm
England vs Uruguay – Saturday 27th June – 10pm

Will England bring football home?
Will they break our hearts?
Will somebody explain exactly what's wrong with the manager after fourteen pints and half a packet of pork scratchings?

History suggests yes.

🌳 COMMUNITY OPEN GARDENS WEEKEND 🌳
Saturday & Sunday – 1pm to 4pm
Organised by the Coke Hearth Improvement Group and based from the Coalbrookdale Community Centre.

Collect your map, enjoy a samosa lunch, tea, coffee and cake, browse local stalls and explore some beautiful gardens around the village.
A brilliant free community event helping make our corner of the Gorge even better.

🎉 CARIBBEAN NIGHT 🎉
Saturday 20th June – From 7pm
(Working titles currently include Coalibbeandale, Coalbrookdale Indies and several others currently being reviewed by a panel of sober adults.)

DJ Ryan from Spectrum Entertainment returns with Caribbean and Dancehall vibes.

🌴 FREE Caribbean buffet🍗 Jerk Chicken 🍖 Curry Goat🍚 Rice & Peas 🌽 Corn Fritters 🥭 Mango Salsa 🍍 Pineapple Slaw

And behind the bar we'll have a few tropical specials to help you pretend you're in Barbados rather than looking out of a window at Telford.

🧠 QUIZ NIGHTS

Wednesday 10th June – 8pm / 24th June – 8pm
First ones hosted by Ryan. Which means the questions could be brilliant. Or completely unhinged. Nobody knows. Not even Ryan.

🎻 FOLK CLUB

Thursday 26th June – 8pm. Bring an instrument. Bring a song. Or just come and enjoy an evening where complete strangers somehow become best friends before last orders.

🏅 THE COALBROOKDALE GAMES

Saturday 28th June. A day of fun, silliness, questionable athleticism and live music. Come and spectate. Or simply prop up the bar and provide unsolicited tactical advice from a safe distance. James Bond-themed fancy dress is entirely optional.
Though let's be honest, some of you already look like Bond villains.

Whether you're backing the favourites, supporting the underdogs or just there for the beer, there'll be plenty of entertainment throughout the day.

🥩 MEAT RAFFLE
Every Sunday – 7pm. Will Glyn win again?
Will somebody swap a perfectly good joint of beef for the mystery box? Will the mystery box contain something magnificent or something utterly ridiculous?

There is only one way to find out.

So whether you're here for football, folk music, quizzes, Caribbean food, community events, meat raffles or simply a decent pint with good company, we've got you covered.
Here's to a fantastic June.

See you at the bar. 🍻

Real flavour. Real people. Right here at the Dale

01/06/2026

🍻 WELL… THAT’S MAY WRAPPED UP THEN 🍻

And somehow another month has disappeared into the beautiful chaos that is life at The Dale.

Firstly… Saturday night.
What an absolutely ridiculous evening that turned out to be.

Massive thanks to the phenomenal who had the place bouncing all night long, got the crowd singing, dancing and drinking like the Wild West had arrived in Ironbridge.

Special thanks to Graham for the allegedly excellent chilli. I say “allegedly” because it vanished quicker than dignity on a mechanical bull. I genuinely didn’t even see a bowl.

Huge thanks as well to everyone who came down to support the night, battled through the card machine gremlins caused by what can only be described as Victorian pub IT infrastructure, and fully embraced the chaos.

In hindsight… handing out water pistols may not have been our strongest operational decision.
At one point it looked less like a country & western night and more like a low-budget remake of The Good, The Bad & The Slightly Damp.

And of course… thoughts remain with Porky, now officially renamed “Pulled Pork,” following what medical experts are calling “an overcommitment to the rodeo lifestyle.” Massive thanks to the bull provider for bringing the blue lights along for his now legendary Blue Plums Incident™.

The rest of the week has been equally glorious.

🧠 Quiz Night saw victory for The Double D’s, proving once again that confidence and shouting loudly remains a viable tactical approach. God help us all, Ryan now hosts the next quiz on Wednesday 10th June at 8pm. There’s still time to notify the authorities.

🎻 Folk Night on Thursday brought cracking tunes, warm weather and the traditional folk club experience of somebody producing an instrument from a bag and immediately becoming everyone’s best friend.

🥩 Sunday’s Meat Raffle once again saw Glyn somehow win a lovely topside joint… although reports suggest he may or may not actually remember winning it. Either way, the meat made it home and honestly that’s all that matters.

But genuinely — thank you all.

Everyone who comes through the doors, supports the events, drinks the beer, buys raffle tickets, laughs at the nonsense and helps keep this little pub buzzing — you’re what makes the place special.

May was absolute carnage.
Exactly how we like it.

Now onto June… and trust me, we’re nowhere near done yet. 🍻

Real flavour. Real people. Right here at the Dale.