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Watch: Inside the Wellington pub with a friendly welcome, family feeling and great beer

It's a town centre pub which has undergone changes both in terms of look and how it's been run by a woman who calls it home and her safe place.

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The pub can be many things to many people, from a place to meet friends, to organise and run events, to take a date, to have a cold drink and food or just to sit in and watch the world go by.

In the case of Philippa Davies and the Plough Inn on King Street in Wellington, it is a place which was a welcoming, warm and safe space and which has become her work, her love and her home.

The pub has been in the town since the 1760s and is a multi-roomed pub with various nooks and crannies, while the room at the rear has a pool table, plenty of seating and tables and a games machine.

Philippa Davies writes up the beer list, which is a mixture of staple beers and guests
Philippa Davies writes up the beer list, which is a mixture of staple beers and guests

It has undergone a significant renovation recently by owners Stonegate Pubs and was put under the stewardship of landlady Philippa Davies in August, marking the next step in an association with the pub which Ms Davies said started years ago as a customer.

She said: "I'd always drunk there and it was the only pub that I've ever really drunk in in Wellington as while I've visited a couple of others, I've always come back to this one.

"My ex-husband was in the military and this is a very military-influence pub, which kind of drew me in, as well as it being influenced by friends in the military and I started working there as a barmaid about two years ago.