Punters are flocking to a pub which is selling pints for as little as £2.30 - the average price 15 years ago - making it possibly Britain's cheapest boozer.<br /><br />The Waggon and Horses in Oldbury, West Mids., is selling ALL beers, ciders and ales for £2.90 and under to encourage customers to drink in traditional local pubs.<br /><br />Although other places have previously slashed the cost of one or two brands to lower - customers reckon nowhere can be beaten on price for their entire drinks selection.<br /><br />The old-fashioned Black Country boozer said it wanted to 'give back' to locals with bargain beer while many people struggle during the cost of living crisis.<br /><br />A pint of Stella will now set you back just £2.80, while Carling, Coors and John Smiths is £2.40 and a pint of Thatcher's Gold is £2.30.<br /><br />The average cost of a pint in the UK is now over £4 for the first time — at £4.30, compared to £2.30 in 2008, during the last recession.<br /><br />And a pint in London's West End can now top £9 while one in ten taverns sell at between £6-£6.99 and 40 per cent ask the average of £4.58.<br /><br />Leaseholder, Matthew Porter said: "I've had this pub for seven years, and it's a proper locals pub. It deserves to be busy every day.<br /><br />"There are multi-million pound companies either side of us who are putting their prices up, and we're putting ours down to say 'come and drink with us'.<br /><br />"In this day and age you have to think a bit outside of the box. We just looked at how low we could cut our prices while managing to survive.<br /><br />"As long as we pack the place out all day, every day, we should be able to pay the bills and people get cheap beer, so it keeps everyone happy.<br /><br />"It's hard for people at the minute, some are struggling and aren't going to go out and spend £40 on a Friday night anymore.<br /><br />"But if that suddenly turns into more like a £10 night, we're hoping people will be more inclined to come and have a drink with us. <br /><br />"We want to keep traditional pubs going. They are part of communities and are closing all over. I think the younger generations will forget how to socialise.<br /><br />"But in order to keep our prices low, we need people to show their support.<br /><br />"We are dropping the prices for everyone, but we need them to come in and show their support for the prices to stay low.<br /><br />"We just want to give something back."<br /><br />The small, traditional pub serves cob sandwiches daily and has four televisions that show live sports and events.<br /><br />Matthew added: "The architecture inside is phenomenal. There are old-fashioned tiled floors and ceilings and a real log fire.<br /><br />"The pub is small, but it makes up for that with its atmosphere."<br /><br />Pub customer George Scott, 67, of Oldbury, added: "It's a great little pub and I'll be back here a lot more now the prices are so low.<br /><br />"Credit to them. At the moment prices seem to be going up in every aspect of life so to see them come down somewhere is amazing.<br /><br />"I've heard of pubs slashing the price of one or two pints to lower than this but here they have slashed pretty much their entire selection, which is unheard of.<br /><br />"You get others doing £1 a pint for a certain amount of hours on one day a week - but to keep prices this low all of the time is brilliant.<br /><br />"It has got to be the cheapest pub in the country in terms of its whole selection."<br /><br />Geordie Gordon, 62, originally from Newcastle, now living in Oldbury, has been drinking in the Waggon and Horse for 15 years.<br /><br />He said: "Aye, I think it's great. I've just come back from Cardiff where I was paying £6 a pint and that was the cheapest.<br /><br />"So to come back here where the prices are so low, makes it much more affordable to go for a pint.<br /><br />"The prices are now similar to when I first started coming 15 years ago. It's a lovely little pub and everybody knows each other.<br /><br />"You get some new faces from time to time like away fans when the Baggies play and now we're seeing more thanks to the cheap prices."<br /><br />Another punter Michael Brennan, 50, of Great Bridge, added: "My drink is Stella which us usually pretty pricey so to get it for £2.80 is a bargain.<br /><br />"And £2.30 a Thatchers is crazy these days. But I'm chuffed this is my local and I hope it attracts more customers."<br /><br />The Waggon and Horses is open 10am-11pm Monday to Friday and 11.30am-11pm on Sundays.
