The Ship Inn, Sheffield

Tomlinson's Anchor Brewery was destroyed in an air raid in 1940, this pub's wonderful tiled front celebrates the short existence of the brewery, although the company survived to become part of Bass Charrington. Sadly the interior does not match the outside, being a modern interpretation of traditional style with few internal walls left untouched. There are three distinct areas, a lounge style room with counter as you enter, another seating area to the left in faux Victorian style with a large juke box and a pool room at the back. Traditional pub furnishing of benches, Britannia tables and small wooden stools. Green stripy wallpaper with varying styles above the dado to differentiate the various rooms. There are a fair number of screens and machines and a lot of pictures of the HMS Sheffield sunk in the Falklands War. A modern bar counter takes up a corner and in addition to the usual suspects on keg taps, Carling, Stella, Guinness, Strongbow, Becks, there are three handpumps lurking at one end of the bar. These had Hardy and Hansons, Bumblebeer and Thornbridge Wild Swan in excellent nick when I was there. Very much a local's pub rather than a “don't miss when on the Valley of Beer crawl” but definitely worth having a pint in.