Coalbrookdale Inn

06/09/2026

🥩🧀 MEAT RAFFLE RESULTS — CHOLESTEROL HAS ENTERED THE CHAT 🧀🥩

Another Sunday night of perfectly normal adults booing, cheering and gambling over cuts of meat. Beautiful scenes. ❤️

🏆 Glyn is BACK to winning ways — form restored, crisis talks cancelled and the statue outside the pub is back under consideration.

🐶 Dexter the St Bernard won TWICE AGAIN. No opposable thumbs. No understanding of money. Still statistically better at the Meat Raffle than most of Coalbrookdale.

👩 Massive Karen got herself amongst the prizes — which is particularly impressive considering we don’t actually have a Massive Karen. We’ve only got Little Karen. Still, congratulations to whoever she is.

✨ Andy & Kim cleaned up this week with 3 wins — which, with Kim being of Dolly Dusters fame, you’d probably expect. Although it was Andy’s winning smile that provided the biggest distraction, causing passing aircraft to divert into Birmingham. ✈️😁

🐷 And somehow Ned won some T-bone pork chops! Sounds preposterous that a former council worker being rewarded for doing absolutely nothing.
Naturally, he was booed. 👏😂

Congratulations to all our other winners and heartfelt commiserations to the losers who went home with nothing but resentment and dangerously elevated meat-based ambition.

⚠️ NEXT SUNDAY GETS WORSE…

🧀 Community Cheese Board — 5pm
🥩 Meat Raffle — 7pm
🎟️ £1 a ticket | £5 a strip
🥩 Lovely cuts from Anthony’s of Wellington
📦 And, obviously… THE BOX.

Cheese followed by a meat raffle.

CHOLESTEROL… BRACE YOURSELF.

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

05/09/2026

🏆🍻 SHE CAME. SHE SAW. SHE CONQUERED. THEN SHE CLOCKED OUT. 🍻🏆

Very sad one at the Dale as young Tash worked her final shift last night.

She only joined us back in January, got thrown straight into the deep end and somehow managed not only to swim, but occasionally make the rest of us look vaguely organised.

A complete breath of fresh air, she helped steer us through some of the Dale’s busiest and most questionable evenings — the Battle of the Blackrapids, the night we slightly underestimated Coalbrookdale’s willingness to drink Piña Coladas like the tropics had personally relocated to Shropshire, and of course Porky and Buster, who between them have tested even the most liberal person’s definition of “acceptable pub behaviour”.

Tash took it all in her stride, kept smiling and somehow managed to survive the madness with most of her sanity still attached.

She’ll be massively missed, but we wish her nothing but the best for the future and every success in her next career.

And, with any luck, our paths won’t cross again in a professional capacity… because depending what she ends up doing, that could get awkward very quickly. 😂

Thanks for everything, Tash. You absolutely smashed it. ❤️🍻

🥩 AND WHILE WE’RE TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE LOSING THEIR MINDS…

A gentle reminder that the maddest 30 minutes of the week returns this Sunday at 7PM.

The MEAT RAFFLE.

Where otherwise respectable grown adults suddenly boo, cheer and experience genuine emotional trauma over bacon, sausages and assorted cuts of animal.

£1 a ticket / £5 a strip.
Lovely meat from Anthony’s of Wellington.
And naturally… THE BOX, sitting there waiting to destroy someone’s perfectly sensible decision-making.

It’s basically the Grand National, only with pork chops.

Sunday. 7PM. The Dale.

Normality remains unavailable. 🍺🥩

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

03/09/2026

🧀✨ THE RETURN OF THE COMMUNITY CHEESEBOARD ✨🧀

Sweet dreams are made of cheese… and who are we to dis-a-brie?

That’s right folks — the Community Cheeseboard is back at the Dale.

And yes, I know people talk a good game about these events. Everyone says they’ll bring something. Everyone says they’ll pop in. Everyone says “that sounds brilliant.”

Well, if you’re ever in doubt about whether Coalbrookdale actually commits to this sort of nonsense, have a look at the pictures from last year.

There was so much cheese left over it looked less like a pub event and more like Shropshire had lost control of its dairy reserves. We had enough Brie to insulate Enginuity and enough Cheddar to rebuild half of Ironbridge.

So naturally… we’re doing it again. 😂

Here’s the deal:

🥖 We supply the bread, butter & crackers.

🧀 You bring your favourite cheese to share.

😂 Cheesy jokes optional — although we Camembert to stop you.

Bring something posh. Bring something blue. Bring something so strong it clears the bar quicker than last orders.

Then, just when your arteries think the danger has passed…

🥩 MEAT RAFFLE FROM 7PM.

Because apparently meats and cheeses always pleases.

£1 a ticket / £5 a strip, lovely cuts from Anthony’s of Wellington, and of course THE BOX waiting patiently to turn a perfectly sensible meat win into a questionable life decision.

📅 Sunday 13th September
🕔 Community Cheeseboard from 5pm
🥩 Meat Raffle from 7pm
📍 The Coalbrookdale Inn

If last year taught us anything, it’s this:

you lot do not understand moderation when cheese is involved.

And frankly, we wouldn’t have it any other way.

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

03/09/2026

🍂🍻 SEPTEMBER AT THE DALE — COALBROOKDALE’S ANSWER TO GLASTONBURY, IF GLASTONBURY HAD MORE CHEDDAR AND A MEAT RAFFLE. 🍻🍂

Summer’s finished, the nights are drawing in and everyone in Ironbridge has started pretending they’re “having a quiet one.” Absolutely not. Up the hill at the Dale we’ve somehow booked a month involving cheese mountains, meat gambling, live music, darts and enough confidently wrong quiz answers to make the National Trust look organised.

🧀 SUNDAY 13TH — COMMUNITY CHEESE | 5PM
Last year this got completely out of hand. There was so much cheese left over we could’ve re-tiled Enginuity in mature cheddar. English Heritage nearly listed the Brie.

So obviously… we’re doing it again.

Bring a cheese. Share a cheese. Eat someone else’s cheese while maintaining eye contact.
Then at 7PM — THE MEAT RAFFLE.

Because meats and cheeses always pleases.

£1 a ticket / £5 a strip. Lovely cuts from Anthony’s of Wellington and, lurking in the background like a bad financial decision, THE BOX.

Glyn could win twice or nothing at all. Little Karen may vanish completely behind the cheeseboard. Dexter could once again win despite having no opposable thumbs, which remains a stronger raffle technique than most of Coalbrookdale.

🧠 QUIZ NIGHT — WEDNESDAY 16TH & 30TH | 8PM
£1 entry. No phones.
Two evenings of somebody shouting “I KNOW THIS!” followed immediately by an answer that would embarrass a Labrador.

Half the pot for the first line, half plus wine for the winners. Arguments about whether Istanbul is a country are complimentary.

🎯 DARTS — EVERY MONDAY FROM 8PM
Fancy joining the team? Come have a throw.
Hit the board regularly and you’re already showing frightening potential.

🎻 FOLK CLUB — THURSDAY 24TH | 8PM
Songs, instruments, good company and enough acoustic activity to frighten anyone wandering up from Ironbridge expecting a quiet pint.

🍔🎸 SATURDAY 26TH — BURGERS & BEATS
This one is basically September losing all adult supervision.

🍔 Burger Van — 5PM–9PM
🎤 Award Winning Rhi Moore — 6:30PM–8:30PM
🔥 THE WIND UP — FROM 8:30PM
Acoustic favourites followed by upbeat, rowdy rock covers taking us home properly.

🥩 AND THE MEAT RAFFLE — EVERY SUNDAY, 7PM.
Still the finest half-hour of organised meat-based instability this side of Wellington.

So get yourselves up the hill.

Cheese. Meat. Burgers. Folk. Darts. Music. Quiz-related domestic disputes.

September at the Dale. No one asked for calm.

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

01/09/2026

🧠🍺 QUIZ NIGHT — WEDNESDAY, 8PM! 🍺🧠

Right then… kids are back at school, summer’s over and normal service has resumed. Which means it’s time for the adults to prove that, despite decades of education and access to Google, we’ve retained absolutely nothing useful.

Back in the swing of things at The Dale this Wednesday from 8pm.

Usual house rules apply:

📝 £1 per person
📵 No phones — if a 12-year-old has gone back to school without one for six hours, you can manage a quiz.
🏁 First team to complete a line gets half the pot AND the enormous privilege of setting the next quiz. Be careful what you wish for.
🏆 Highest score takes the other half of the pot + a bottle of wine — ideal for celebrating victory or making the walk home considerably more complicated.

Expect obscure knowledge, confident shouting, internal team disputes and at least one person saying “I TOLD YOU IT WAS THAT” immediately after contributing absolutely nothing.

Wednesday. 8pm. The Dale.
Brains optional. Confidence wildly disproportionate to ability encouraged. 🍻🧠

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

31/08/2026

31/08/2026

☀️🍕🎧 END OF SUMMER… WELL, IT CERTAINLY TRIED. 🥩🥃

A massive thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday — whether you came for the pizza, the tunes, the Meat Raffle, or sensibly committed to all three. 👏🍻

At 5pm, “End of Summer” was looking less like an event name and more like an official weather warning. For a brief moment we genuinely thought Noah might arrive looking for somewhere to park the ark. 🌧️🛶

But the skies cleared, the beer flowed, the pizzas disappeared and DJ Ryan Entertainment absolutely delivered with the end-of-summer tunes and club classics. 🎧🔥

Then came the Meat Raffle… and once again, dignity was optional.

Congratulations to our winners and commiserations to everyone who handed over perfectly good money just to watch somebody else leave carrying their tea. 🥩

Little Karen had the chance at THE BOX… but bottled it and clung onto her meat. 😬

That left the door wide open for John and Robyn, who swooped in and walked away with a lovely bottle of Hennessy. 🥃🏆

Karen went home with meat.

John and Robyn went home with cognac.

History will decide who made the correct financial decision.

Keep your eyes peeled because the September events are coming very soon…

🧀 Feeling Cheesy, anyone? 👀

And finally, following last night’s festivities, we have just one outstanding matter…

🧥 HAS ANYONE SEEN JOFF OR HIS COAT? 😜

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

30/08/2026

☀️🍕 TONIGHT AT THE DALE — FROM 5PM! 🍕🎶

End of Summer Party kicks off from 5pm — pizza, tunes, pints and one last chance to give summer the send-off it probably it kinda deserves. 🍺🕺

🥩 AND YES… THE MEAT RAFFLE IS STILL ON AT 7PM.
Nothing — not DJs, pizza, weather nor basic human dignity — gets between The Dale and raffling off raw meat on a Sunday.

£1 a ticket | £5 a strip | Anthony’s of Wellington | THE BOX 📦

Party from 5. Meat-based gambling from 7.
What a time to be alive.

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

27/08/2026

☔🍕 END OF SUMMER PARTY — THIS SUNDAY! 🎧🍻

Apparently the weather forecast is suggesting a serious amount of rain.

Lovely. Very British. 🇬🇧

But come rain, biblical rain or weather normally requiring Noah and a risk assessment — IT’S HAPPENING. 😂

And there is one considerable advantage to putting a pub halfway up a massive hill: WE CAN’T FLOOD.

If the Severn reaches us, Telford has considerably bigger problems than whether Ryan’s remembered Freed From Desire.

So… THIS SUNDAY from 5pm:

🍕 The Pizza Post are back firing out proper pizzas
🎧 DJ Ryan / Spectrum Entertainment bringing the tunes and club classics
🍺 The Dale keeping the beer flowing
🕺 And judging by the pictures from last year, several perfectly respectable adults gradually losing all dignity as darkness falls.

Last year was an absolute belter — pizza flying out, pub rammed, lasers going, questionable dancing and people discovering that four pints apparently qualifies them as a professional backing dancer.

And we’re doing it all again.

🌧️ Raining? Pub.
🌧️ Still raining? Pizza.
🌧️ Absolutely hammering down? Another pint.
🌊 Ironbridge underwater? We’re on a hill.

It’s Bank Holiday Sunday. Summer might be clocking off, but The Dale certainly isn’t.

SUNDAY • FROM 5PM • PIZZA • DJ • BEER • BANTER

See you at the top of the hill. 🍕🍻🎧

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

25/08/2026

🎻🍕🎧 FROM FOLK CLUB TO FOLK OFF… IT’S A BIG WEEK AT THE DALE.

🪕 THURSDAY — FOLK CLUB — 8PM

The first rule of Folk Club: you DO NOT stop talking about Folk Club.

Live folk, 7 real ales and more strings than a Victorian corset.

Brad Pitt was unavailable, so we’ve replaced him with someone who actually knows what a mandolin is.

Musicians welcome. Singers welcome. Listeners welcome.
Tambourines will be assessed on a case-by-case basis.

Then Sunday we abandon centuries of musical tradition completely…

☀️🍕🎧 SUNDAY 30TH — END OF SUMMER PARTY

Pizza 5–9pm, with DJ Ryan from Spectrum Entertainment spinning the decks — and apparently we now mean that literally, because his turntables have become two Margheritas.

Expect summer tunes, club classics and Ryan attempting the world’s first seamless transition from Joe Dolce’s “Shaddap You Face” into something Ibiza would actually admit happened.

And at 7PM — THE MEAT RAFFLE. 🥩

Nothing screams summer club night quite like everyone throwing their hands in the air before the music stops and somebody shouts:

“NUMBER 47… BELLY PORK!”

It’s basically Ibiza Rocks, if Ibiza was halfway up a hill in Coalbrookdale and the VIP package included sausages.

🎻 THURSDAY 8PM — FOLK CLUB
🍕 SUNDAY 30TH — PIZZA 5–9PM
🎧 DJ RYAN — SUMMER & CLUB CLASSICS
🥩 MEAT RAFFLE — 7PM

From fiddles to pizza decks in 72 hours.

Nobody can accuse The Dale of having a sensible business plan.

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