Could It Be Last Orders for This Rare Parlour Pub? ; the Sun Inn, in Leintwardine On the Shropshire-Herefordshire Border, Is Listed by Camra's Good Beer Guide As 'a Pub of Outstanding National Interest'. Now the Regulars of This Rare Parlour Pub Are Holding Their Breath After the Death of Its 94-Yearold Owner, the Legendary Flossie Lane, Means This Bastion of Old England Is Now Up for Auction. Marsya Lennox Reports

Birmingham Post (August 07, 2009)

Author: Marsya Lennox

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Time stopped years ago in one old corner of an ancient village in Shropshire-Herefordshire border country.

The Sun Inn on Rosemary Lane is one of Britain's very last parlour pubs, a living link with a nearly forgotten past.

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Could It Be Last Orders for This Rare Parlour Pub? ; the Sun Inn, in Leintwardine On the Shropshire-Herefordshire Border, Is Listed by Camra's Good Beer Guide As 'a Pub of Outstanding National Interest'. Now the Regulars of This Rare Parlour Pub Are Holding Their Breath After the Death of Its 94-Yearold Owner, the Legendary Flossie Lane, Means This Bastion of Old England Is Now Up for Auction. Marsya Lennox Reports

Beer is served in jugs from barrels on the kitchen floor and enjoyed at trestle tables in front of an open fire, a scene rooted in historic England.

The listed property, essentially a large 18th century cottage built in local stone, is being offered for sale next month at auctio...

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