The Royal Oak

13/06/2026

09/06/2026

### Customer Notice ###

Unfortunately we will be shut tomorrow - Wednesday 10th June, due to ongoing works to the toilet floors. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

08/06/2026

35p for a Freddo!!!

🍺 PUBS ARE SO EXPENSIVE: PART 3 🍫

Ok, let’s look at this again in the only way that EVERYONE understands the economy…

⏳ Minimum wage in 2005 was £5.05 and a Freddo was 10p.
🤩 One hour of work got you 50 Freddos!

Now fast forward to June 2026…

⏳ Minimum wage is £12.71 and a Freddo is 35p.
😢 One hour of work will now only get you 36 of them!

That's a 152% rise in pay but a 250% rise in the cost of delicious frog shaped chocolate bars! 📈

If wages had kept pace with the price of Freddos, the minimum wage would now be £17.68 an hour! 💸

By comparison:

⏳ Minimum wage in 2005 would get you two pints of beer per hour
⏳ Now, in June 2026, it will get you about 2.5 pints!

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: pubs are not expensive. 📣

The cost of living is horrific. The external pressures on all of our finances right now are soul-destroying. We get it. Everyone is fu***ng skint. Everyone is struggling! 😰

But stop blaming pubs.

We are not being “greedy”.

Most landlords are earning less than ever - personally I earn less than £6ph for the hours I work, and I know a lot of publicans earning even less! 😔

We are effectively subsidising you being able to have a pint!

Because if I charged what I needed to, to earn a decent wage myself, I’d be selling beer at £12 a pint right now! 💸😢

TELL ME YOUR THOUGHTS BELOW!👇👇👇
Because I’m, somehow, still getting the “but, they ARE expensive because…” comments! 🙄

07/06/2026

A great Saturday night as always with Wasted. Well done guys.

05/06/2026

A great couple of months lined up for you all.

03/06/2026

We would like to thank everyone for getting involved with this yearly event that just gets better every year.
A huge thank you to our neighbours for your patience and understanding and appreciating why we do these events. We were so surprised with the generosity of some of you that came in to give donations as you loved the free music while sitting in your gardens.
Well done Gavin for organising and to every single band that played so brilliantly in that heat. 👏

31/05/2026

JVL Band thank you for a great evening. We got so much lovely feedback and we personally thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.

30/05/2026

Let’s play a little game 😁 Where’s Wally? 😂😂

30/05/2026

A fantastic quiz night last night hosted by Tony. A very close battle this month but 2 dogs named Dave came out top again. Well done to you all.