"In France it is normal to come across small country inns serving excellent food with the whole of the owner's family working in the establishment. Not so in England, where more properties are managed by large companies or owned by the brewery, possibly that is why we still tend to lack great excellence and individuality in the British countryside. However along came the Phillips family to prove the usual theories wrong."

Henry

Sylvia

David

Stuart

Henry Phillips used to keep poultry, but they didn't keep him. Nowadays, he likes brewing beer and making damson gin and intends to re-establish his old brewery selling Phillips Heritage Bitter. His wife Sylvia sounds a saner person, until you see the swings she has mysteriously installed in some of the hotel bedrooms. These are apparently very popular with guests, but if Henry describes his own wife as eccentric what does that make him?

Sylvia runs a herb garden you can smell from the mid-Atlantic and, as Henry murmurs crazily above the raucous bubbling of his damson gin distillery, she "keeps us both poor." However Sylvia claims it creates interest & wealth.

Though Henry describes himself as "unemployable", he's made a wonderful hotel at the Hundred House. Fortunately David and Stuart take after their mother, Sylvia, and are highly employable, both working in the hotel.

Stuart Phillips (younger son) trained at the Michelin rated properties of the Hotel du Goyen, France, and The Chester, Grosvenor and spent six years at Kensington Place, London. He aims to produce food which is "hearty but not heavy, never bland. Unfussed but using skills to lift and enhance the ingredients and make the customer smile."

David Phillips (elder son) was once the youngest brewer in the U.K. with the families own Phillips Brewing Company as featured in BBC Nationwide in 1980.

Now as the unsung hero of the Hundred House he has his fingers in many pies, staff recruitment and welfare, technical operations (ie fixing the boiler) and cellarage. He selects the traditional beers, milds and stouts many of which are sourced locally. He also selects the wines for the hotels' extensive wine list. Many of these are from the New World following David's sabbatical year working for the McWilliams Vineyard in S.E. Australia. Also he is busy preparing that warm "Hundred House Welcome" and looking after the needs of our guests.

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The Hundred House Hotel, Telford to Bridgnorth Road (A442), Norton,
Nr Telford, Shropshire, TF11 9EE, England
Local Rate Call: 0845 6446100
Telephone: 01952 730353 Fax: 01952 730355