Review

You can't visit Beverley without a trip back in time to the White Horse Inn. The building predates 1666 and has been run as a coaching inn since then. Locally known as Nellies after the daughter of Francis Collinson who purchased the pub from the church in 1927, she took over from her father and managed the pub right up until 1976 when it was sold to Sam Smiths Brewery.

Although Sam's stupid draconian rules have maintained the pub as basically a living museum it does make it much less of a pleasant place to visit if you dare to even acknowledge you own a mobile phone, it's ok to pay with one though it would seem. Which can make it very hard to take photos, these are banned as well, so please excuse the candid shots, it's the best I could manage.

That aside though the pub is a stunning maze of corridors and rooms with heavily worn tiles, wonky floors and historic features, including original gas lit lanterns and old fireplaces. It's a cosy world away from the 21st Century and with the largest range of Sam's beers we've ever seen in one of their pubs.

It goes without saying the prices are the lowest you can get for the core beers but the Wheat beer I had was a normal pub price. There was also a large pool room to the back in a more modern section of the building, I was quite surprised they allowed some actual fun.

I do feel that the history of the pub could be maintained without CCTV in each room checking that you're not breaking any of the long list of rules, it's not like there was any signal in there anyway, and as such I can't award a full score for Nellies, although I would definitely pop in again for the unique ambience.