Lloyds In The Town.

Address	Hill's Lane. Shrewsbury
County	Shropshire
licencee	James Robert Pearson
Opening Hours	Mon Thurs 12.00-3.00 7.00 - 11.00 Fri Sat 12 - 12 Sunday 12.00 - 10.30
Real Ales	No
Offers	Reduced Prices on a wide range of beers draft and bottled House Wine at £5.45

Lloyds In the Town is a relatively new inn, opening in August 1985. Previous to this Richard Maddox & Co. who had a large departmental store in the centre of town had used the building as store. The building was taken over by Vincent Greenhous a local garage owner and he opened a subsidiary company there known as High Speed Tyres. He formed the company in 1935 and had branches at Shrewsbury, Hereford and Wrexham. The company specialised in the sale and repair of tyres. A re-treading plant was later installed at Shrewsbury.

The building lay empty for several years but was given a new lease of life after the new Victorian Arcade had been opened on the old Singleton & Cole's site between Mardol and Hill's Lane and the cottages on Hill's Lane had been refurbished.

There had been several public houses in the area but with the closure of the Green Dragon in the early 1970s it became a dry locality. An opportunity was seen and the old garage was transformed into a new inn called the Queen Victoria. The grand opening took place on the 22nd August 1985. The inn was a free house and the landlord and landlady of the new enterprise were Henri and Liz Quinn. Henry was very well known in the area as the manager of Park Lane the nightclub in Raven's Meadow. The couple then went on to own the Shrewsbury Arms. The inn was open at eight o'clock and for the first hour all drinks of spirits or beer were on sale at a penny a measure, but customers were warned that if they were not smartly dressed they might be refused admission. An advert for the inn recommended "The superbly relaxed atmosphere created by the luxurious carpets and seating, well complimented by the scattering of the old gas lamps and period paintings, thus creating the olde worlde atmosphere within this new modern concept." You could also enjoy a wide and varied menu, which included steaks, and traditional Victorian meals and you could step back in time and sample life as the Victorians did, with superb ales and a variety of good wines and spirits. The centrepiece of the new inn was the canopied fireplace with a painting of Queen Victoria in which the Monarch looked "clearly amused."