Corner Pin, Doncaster

Occupying a street corner position convenient for the station is The Corner Pin, a small traditional locals pub. Fine etched windows indicating Smoke Room and Tap Room tell us that this was formerly a two bar pub and, although it’s now been knocked through to create one room, each part of the pub has retained its distinct characteristics and identity. The Smoke Room part of the pub is carpeted, well appointed and comfortable and features some stone walls, ceiling beams and a trophy cabinet. The Tap Room area is more basic, bare boarded and has a dartboard down the far end. Etched windows denoting Whitworths Fine Ales indicate former ownership, but it’s now a free house with, seemingly, a good reputation locally for real ale. The pub is listed in the CAMRA 2011 Good Beer Guide and was proudly advertising that the local CAMRA Pub of the Year award would be presented to the pub on 21 April. A large advertisement in the local CAMRA branch magazine – Donny Drinker- tells us that this pub is under the same management as The Railway, which is close by and which, for some unaccountable reason, I forgot to call in on. Beers on were York Terrier - £ 2.70p – and two Ossett Brewery beers. This is another pub that I’d be more than happy to revisit

Hi Everyone Just to let all you real ale fans know, we have been selected for the Good Beer Guide 2012 and have also won CAMRA pub of the year 2011. Presentation at the corner pin on Thurs 21st April. We have also taken over The Railway Hotel near the train station at Doncaster and are currently serving 2 rotating Gueat ales and John smiths hand pump ( function room available). Both the corner pin and railway are on twitter and the CAMRA website for up dated beers.Thank you all from Dave and Ruth x

Hi All My name is Ruth and My husband is Dave. We have the Corner Pin pub at Doncaster. Thankyou all for the kind messages about our pub. We do pride ourselves on a good pint, a clean pub and a friendly atmosphere. This is just to let all real ale fans know that we have a beer festival coming up in February. The dates are Thursday 24th to Saturday 26th. 12 noon till 11pm. There will be 2 bars, one inside with 4 ales on and one outside in the beer garden with 6 real ales on.( built by Dave him self) The ales are being selected and provided by Great Heck Brewery so we will not know which they are until the week before. Bar snacks, pie and peas available all day and proceeds will go to Kidscan Charity. ( We do a cracking chip buttie!)Hope to see you all at the festival. x

Small pub in the country, live music on the weekends, family owned.

Always 4 Guest Real Ales available at this popular pub. # CAMRA Doncaster Pub of the Season Spring 2010 #

A taditional local's corner pub with patterned windows and a fairly straight forward, functional but cosy enough interior. The décor has a dated 70's feel to it but doesn't lack anything for it (the piped Elton John's Greatest Hits probably aided my perception). To the left of the bar is a lounge bar with stone walls and fake beams, brewery mirror and trophy cabinet (they run successful darts, domino and football teams). The other side of the pub is a bit more basic and has a darts area at one end. A good selection of beers included Copper Dragon Golden Pippen, Batemans XB, Saltaire Texas Brown and the less interesting John Smiths. Prices were very reasonable, the customer base friendly and the pub was doing good trade despite being very late on a wet Tuesday evening which says something about its reputation among the local pubs, the rest of which were barely inhabited.. Very much a no thrills and nothing fancy sort of place but worthy of a visit, especially since I read somewhere that its future is in some doubt. I hope not.