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The Malt & Hops was situated on Lichfield Road and became the Island Bar upon closure. Known as The Dirty Duck up to the 1970s.

From The Good Pub Guide 1983:

Cheap food here includes pizza and at lunchtime home-made steak pie or a Spanish chicken dish with rice (filled rolls or French bread may be available in the evenings too). There is also a good range of real ale, including McKewan's, Marston's Pedigree and Mild and Sam Smith, well kept on handpump. Juke box and a fruit machine. The pub rambles round a central servery, up and down steps, with mainly simple wooden chairs and wooden tables on the patterned red carpet, swirly plasterwork, and beams and timbering of varying degrees of structural necessity; some tables are out on a terrace overlooking the traffic.  At lunchtime it's popular with local business people, and in the evenings crowds of young people make it cheerful and lively.

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