The TwoBrewers

The Two Brewers occupies 34 High Street, Olney, a building that began as two separate properties: a smaller pub known as the Queen's Head, and a larger building housing the town's Mechanics Institute and Conservative Club until the early 1950s, when the two were combined into a single pub. Landlords Bob and Ida Ford ran the pub through the 1950s and 1960s; Jack Dreuce succeeded them on their retirement in the 1970s and remained landlord into the 1990s. An archway that once let horse-drawn fire engines pass between the original two entrances now forms part of the bar area, and the building still carries scars from a German bomb blast on 28 October 1940. CAMRA lists the pub as a genuine free house, serving regularly changing cask ales including beers from local breweries, alongside a snug lounge bar, a dining bar and a walled garden to the rear.