But running an old British boozer is more difficult than buying a handsome building and filling it with good beer. There are staffing headaches, rising costs, and the constant question of how to make the numbers work – not to mention keeping regulars happy when your grand plans involve changing the place they have visited for years.
Daniel Chadwick discovered as much when he took over the Woolpack, a pub in the Cotswolds that, no matter who you ask – the National…

