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The Ship Inn, Sheffield
Sheffield
S3 8UL
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 7 of 10) see review guidelines
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Will Larter left this review about The Ship Inn
This is an oddly shaped building, with what I take to be the original cottage-style pub on the side street and the magnificent tiled frontage added like the cross-piece of a reversed capital-L. When the internal walls were removed, the corner of the old building was retained as a pillar which now partly blocks sight of and access to the three hand pumps. Otherwise the bar is quite an attractive one, and the internal decor, although typical unimaginative northern lounge style, is comfortable enough. The dreadful 80s music coming from the juke box is something else altogether.
Beers available on my recent visit - Kelham Island Pale Rider, Abbeydale Resurrection and Welbeck Abbey Red Feathers - were in good condition, if a little on the cold side, and confirmed what I had heard about the pub now being free of the Greene King tie. Definitely worth a visit if you're walking between the nearby Wellington and the Fat Cat or Kelham Island Tavern, but please note evening opening time is 7:30.
On 25th April 2012
- rating: 6
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Old Boots left this review about The Ship Inn
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.
On 1st March 2010
- no rating submitted
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