The Jolly Sailor, Macclesfield

Excellent side-street pub, with a mix of furniture and a very diverse selection of ephemera in the various seating areas around the servery located about halfway along one side. Pedigree, Bombardier, Wainwright and Bass (£3.60) available from four of the six handpumps.

Cracking small, quaint pub. Pleasant staff. Bass is well kept. Function room upstairs available.

Well described by BF below and nothing much has changed in the intervening 2 years. It's still an interesting and pleasant pub. The barmaid during our Sunday night visit was excellent. Served everyone in turn, quickly and efficiently and also had time for a friendly chat during her few quiet moments. We both liked this pub, the beer was in good nick and with the excellent service we decided to stay for a second round.

This place has been more than well described below. I'd call the antiques bric-a-brac but not tat as some of it did look quite expensive. There were a few in on my early Tuesday afternoon visit. The six hand pumps had Exeter Ferryman, London Pride, Bass, Everard's Tiger, Doom Bore and Castle Rock Harvest Pale. I went for the Ferryman which was a victim of the hot weather and completely rank. The landlady took one sip and threw it down the sink. At least they turned the clip here unlike with the Beartown Kodak Gold in the JDW over the road. It was replaced with the Tiger (£3.40) which was in good nick. This place is worth a look but there are better options in Macclesfield.