THE LONGEST SERVING LANDLADY IN THE LAND - The Griffin Inn Public House - Wales - UK

well hello everybody I'm Terry miles and I'm up here in North Wales I'm in a place called gresford which is just outside rexam now this is a kind of a part two of a previous pu piano Quest a PO piano Quest that I did about a year ago and um I've had several requests uh to come back and do a part two and this is where I met I don't know if you've seen the previous video but if you look back and uh put in the longest serving land lady in the UK and I'm talking about Jean Jean Williams now Jean has been here at this Pub since 1973 and as it turns out I did a little bit of research before I um did this it's her 51st uh anniversary so she was here in February 1973 and it is now obviously February 2024 so she's been here 51 years to the day okay so today is February the 14th it's Valentine's Day and we are back at the uh the Griffin in look it's called the Griffin in so I'm going to sort of do a bit of this this is your life you know a bit of an A and Andrews but I'm going to walk in and surprise Jean hopefully she's going to be there this this evening uh behind the bar and and as we all know Jean has um she's been pulling pints uh since she was 14 since she was 14 years old and uh when she moved here apparently according to my research a pint was 14 P of pint anyway it's 2024 Now 51 years later and uh I think the price has gone up considerably but considerably but let's go and see if the Griffin still has the piano and if Jean is there and if Jean is going to get up and sing and play and who knows we might do a duet follow me I'll have um I'll have a quick sneak peek through the window shall I oh I can see I can see Jean I can see Jan can't see the piano yet but I can see Jan oh let's go and have a look I tell you what it's very cold this [Applause] some make sure I'm looking all right in the mirror look that's it he got a mirror just before you uh just as you walk in the look it's that great okay think I should knock no the door's open this time ah hello je it's Cherry how you doing you come from where did you come from well well I was on holiday here anyway for the half term I was in snowdonia Ni um in in well a place called Blinder FIA and I thought we were sort of we're sort of passing wer we not that far away not that far away only sort of an hour D I thought I thought I'd call in and see you go thank you and um and have a drink of course yeah and um and see you still got the piano yeah still here I can see there lovely to see you nice nice and warm in here that G I was going to ask have you got any as cider as I have oh look at that that's one of the ciders we oh well there you go all right made my day I'll have a quick drink and then we'll have a tune on the old Joanna [Music] woohoo ni nice [Music] hey a [Applause] [Music] good oh oh oh je fantastic should we play one together yes come on then so do you know you are my sunshine yes I think I can manage it's such a smooth talk isn't it on Valentine's Day as well think I can manage that one Terry what key is best for you usual you started you started you started [Music] J [Music] you [Music] [Laughter] [Applause] give us another one another one what would you [Music] like [Music] to [Music] [Applause] Donny boy boy be a nice do you want to play it [Applause] sorry no yes [Music] this was when she celebrated uh 40 years in the pub 40 years but she's now 60 [Music] years one of [Music] Dad this is her dad when she when she first moved into the p with her dad [Music] Church oh this [Music] of sh Let It Shine It Shine Let it shine let it sh you [Music] person [Music] to the [Music] yellow [Music] [Applause] over nice isn't itely the last yeah we did that nice is it should we do it again it's a popular one it's a [Music] nice [Music] s [Music] Japanese how I car [Applause] what else else any request oh that's a good one oh [Music] just the Shadows follow me and the night will set me free and I know how lonely life can be [Music] [Applause] like that's a great very nice Perry was that perow Fant [Music] do do do do do do [Music] [Applause] [Music] all [Music] together [Music] [Applause] [Music] do do do do do do do do [Music] that's [Music] [Applause] yeah that was New York New York New York York New York New York i' to get K [Music] meeing to I want to be [Music] aake up I can make it there I'll make it is to [Music] Youk York [Applause] want to do one what we [Music] doing give me your answer soon of crazy over the love of you it won't be a styish marriage I can't [Music] afford SE give me [Music] your heart over the love of you it won't be a styish marriage I can't AFF [Music] a upon [Music] oh and G tell us a bit about the Piana how long have you had this Piana um I've had it about 75 years 75 years so you've had this piano for 7 75 years W that's great so so so where did I was a local piano I from Rex it came from a lady from K girly got a photograph here oh I see okay are we allow to show it oh yeah cool so this is the lady that the lady that so she wants my dad bought his so your dad bought the piano off this lady here she had one son and he didn't say to the piano so she sold it it was business as usual today Mrs Mrs GTR jours wow that's great she had a shopping k early for many years don't know exactly how many and she was celebrating her 90th birthday herself yeah so I was I'm from kir I was going to have a wall here with all pictures of K never got round to doing it so this is the lady that made this all happen yes G Jones yeah good old G Jones K North that's great that you got that and I tell you what does sound amazing the piano Lely it looks incredible and it's a local piano isn't it a local piano from what from here in re just side re cran McDonald there you go look there progress for you isn't it there's a McDonald's there where used to make the piano say so tell us about your background s what where have you learned and how you you come about mus you're obviously very talented so where do you come I'm from B you look like a rock star thank you yeah tra best you know well I come from Birmingham originally right and uh you know music has always been in the family really so um my grandfather he used to actually play for the silent movie what in the cinema yeah in the C W mat in the evening show yeah but when the what they call the the toris came in they called them the Tories so when they had obviously speaking on film and all that um he kind of put him at the job and but you know that's why it's so wonderful to see a place like this you know this is a rare this is this is a little with the a good old Joanna in the corner where you we sit around the piano there's no electric needed even if there was a power cut we could still still play the piano few candles and you know we could p a pine and pull a pine so you know so yeah it's great that and you know all credit to je for um for making this you know making this making this [Music] happen should we do a should we do a boogie boogie yeah go for it boie that's your trademark isn't it been boie woie [Music] okay [Music] want [Music] just [Music] at [Music] w [Music] yeah [Music] fantastic brilliant absolutely you can come again I tell you what you know yeah it could be almost time for another drink yeah definitely drink all around I say well thank you je thank you for for actually making this all happen and um I hope you don't mind I'm going to upload it onto my YouTube absolutely yeah go for it and uh brilliant I hope no one Minds getting you know being seeing on no there's n none of us are vain in here well would you know about you though thank you great what about last one it's semi favorite Piano Man oh Go piano man wow I don't know it all I'm not singing them sing [Music] tonight and you got new feel all right thank you je thank you je for making this all happen tonight it's Valentine's night it and it's February the 14th and Jean you've got us feeling all [Applause] [Music] right [Applause] you got do the one time all fa J oh you you caught me out there is the one the um s um never finish [Music] I was worried I had to sing a [Music] Jan [Music] keep [Music] brother [Music] well ladies and gentlemen after I've play the pup can I always sort of um give a mark for the piano and I do it by by doing this ladies and gentlemen I think I'm going to give this piano a whopping big yay and also followed by a [Applause] be right fantastic can I do a quick picture of youan sit down I just want to do a picture of can I just play a absolutely [Music] s [Music] and I've [Applause] that was beautiful very much thanks so much for coming well what can I say what a great evening you see you never know do you you call this we completely by surprise and Jean's here there's a crowd here there's beer there's cider and there's a piano what more can we say you what more do you want I mean what talking anybody you couldn't have any more than that absolutely I'm happy I tell you what I've got a bit of a thirst on well then we've had a lovely evening we've come here we've met J met the Locs and Andrew Hill and nice to see you Terry thanks for coming down well thank you for coming enjo it's been a great been a great evening say Cheerio to the piano one more time yeah the famous Rex and piano re so anyway so it's been a year since we did the last video so it's almost a year later and happy 51st anniversary thanks so much everyone thank you say goodbye to Alis byee you bye lovely to meet you all bye bye bye come back byee take care byee see you see you byee wellow what a great evening that was it was a it was a success wasn't it we're we're going to go we're going to um I think I'm going to Hitch a lift hitch in a ride you know back to Blinder forag on the on on the A5 you know come on now let's try let let's go [Music] right [Music] down [Music] down I

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Length: 38min 43sec (2323 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 16 2024