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I regularly drive past the very much extended and modernised building which used to be The Pretty Lady at Ranks `Green. In 1969 I was a college student in Chelmsford and three friends and I used to spend much of our time searching out remote pubs where we could escape the drudgery of college work. We found the Pretty Lady by chance, whilst looking for another pub nearby, The Compasses. Inside the Pretty lady was just like a 1930s house, complete with heavy polished furniture and a sofa. Beer was ordered with the landlady who then disappeared from the public room and shortly returned with a tray of beers. The beer was either Ridleys or Grays, I think Ridleys from Felsted. And was not pumped or gassed in any way. We were all 18 and could legally drink alcohol but we were never challenged although two of us looked pretty young.

Richard Chaplin (October 2015)

Reading the first review brought it back to me, like sitting in someone’s front room! Flat beer, straight out of the wood. I used to visit the pub in the early seventies when I was courting a girl who lived nearby, haven’t thought about the place for many years but am still married to the girl!

Robert Collins (February 2018)

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