SHEFFIELD's Pub Interiors of Historic Interest Edited by DAVE PICKERSGILL CAMRA Pub Heritage Group 2021 Fourth Edition SHEFFIELD'S REAL HERITAGE PUBS SHEFFIELD's Pub Interiors of Historic Interest Edited by Dave Pickersgill Produced and published by the Sheffield and Acknowledgements: District Branch of CAMRA (Campaign for Real • Paul Ainsworth, Bradfield Brewery, Geoff Ale) and the CAMRA National Pub Heritage Brandwood, Camerons Brewery, CAMRA Group Pub Heritage Group, Emily Cole (Historic sheffield.camra.org.uk England), Andrew Davison, Julie pubheritage.camra.org.uk Fotheringham, Dave Gamston, Geoff Green, [email protected] Russell Hague, Hawthorn Leisure, Historic England, Horbury Group, Ben Jones, Dermot Editor: Dave Pickersgill Kennedy, Tim Knebel, Will Larter, Lloyds Design: Andy Shaw Banking Group Archives, Kate Major, Series design: Dale Tomlinson Dominic Nelson, Chris Pampling, Claire Cover Picture: The Corridor at the Fat Cat, Pearson, Ranmoor Archives, Royal Victoria Kelham Island (© Michael Slaughter LRPS) Hotel, Andy Shaw, Pauline Shaw, Sheffield Back Cover Picture: The tiled servery at the Bath and District CAMRA, Sheffield Archives, Hotel, City Centre (© Michael Slaughter LRPS) Richard Short, Michael Slaughter LPRS, Conor Smith, Elaine Smith, John Stocks, Photo credits: Adam Swithenbank (AS), Beer Jamie Thompson, Wendy Woodhouse Engine (BE), Bradfield brewery (BB), Geoff • Sheffield Archives for permission to use Brandwood (GB), Camerons Brewery (CB), Julie photographs of plans stored in their archives Fotheringham (JF), Russell Hague (RH), Hawthorn Leisure (HL), Lloyds Banking Group First published 2017 Archives (LB), Kate Major (KM), Dave Second Edition 2018 Pickersgill (DP), Ranmoor Archives (RA), Royal Third Edition 2019 Victoria Hotel (RVH), Pauline Shaw (PS), Fourth Edition 2021 Michael Slaughter LRPS (MS) Printer: 221 Creative, 1 Wallace Road, Sheffield, S3 7AR 221print.com 1 SHEFFIELD'S REAL HERITAGE PUBS Contents Covid-19 and this guide. Introduction Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, pubs in Sheffield were closed from 20th March 2020. The evolution of Sheffield’s pubs 3 Some continued to function as off-licences. CAMRA and Pub Heritage 4 Reopening (table service) occurred, over three th th Using this guide 6 months later, from 4 July onwards. From 24 October, when South Yorkshire entered Tier 3, Pub Listings there were restricted hours and detailed 1 Sheffield: City Centre 7-34 regulations: only pubs which served ‘substantial meals’ could open. 2 Sheffield: East 35-44 All pubs closed again when the second 3 Sheffield: North 45-70 lockdown took place from 5th November until early December. South Yorkshire then 4 Sheffield: South 71-77 continued in the enhanced Tier 3 with 5 Sheffield: West 78-87 takeaway service available from a small number of pubs. January 2021 brought the 6 Local Closed Heritage Pubs 88-96 third lockdown and, unlike supermarkets, 7 Local Breweries and Pub Companies 97-104 pubs were prevented from selling alcoholic drinks in sealed containers. 12th April saw the Appendices return of table service in pub gardens with 17th 1 Inventory Selection Criteria 106 May seeing internal table service. th 2 Pubs included in this listing 107-108 19 July brought ‘freedom day,’ when some pubs opened with unrestricted service, while others 3 Glossary 109-111 continued with table service and other protocols. In addition, some had restricted 4 References and further reading 112 opening due to a lack of experienced staff. In addition, others were temporarily closed due to Covid-related issues: positive tests among staff and longer-term management issues. The long closures and restrictions have had the inevitable effect of causing some pubs to close, both temporarily and permanently. At the time of writing, it is impossible to accurately forecast the long-term impact. 2 SHEFFIELD'S REAL HERITAGE PUBS Introduction The evolution of Sheffield's pubs relatively restrained for its time. The same might The development of pubs in Sheffield is closely be said of Gilmours refurbishment of the White linked to the process of industrialisation. The Lion, London Road. heavy sweaty steel industry of Sheffield meant big Sheffield became most characterised by its large thirsts and helped ensure a ready market for the numbers of relatively small-scale houses, many of products of the area's various brewers and the mid C19th. origin but now with much altered development of Sheffield as a major centre of floors, often with added plate glass shop fronts large-scale brewing. The oldest large Sheffield and much use made of tiling and glazed brick (the brewery was in fact entirely rebuilt as early as better to withstand the city's industrial grime). 1780 by Thomas Rawson. He was, not only, the first commercial brewer outside the capital to Turning to the brew London-style porter but he was also an early interwar pioneer of the tied house system, leading by period, Ind example and virtually forcing local rivals to follow Coope's 1931 suit. remodelling of the Bath Hotel By the late C19th, three quarters of Sheffield's is a very pubs were brewery owned and a small number of important companies were beginning to dominate: Thomas survival. As for Berry (Moorhead Brewery), Duncan Gilmour [Bath Hotel servery with tiled front MS] the main (Ladysbridge), Thomas Marrian (Burton Weir), Sheffield Rawsons (Pond Street), William Stones brewers, little of consequence remains of their (Cannon), Tennants (Exchange) and Truswells work from that period, which makes the woeful (Eyre Street). The Burton brewer Ind Coope also loss in 2009 of Gilmours Pheasant Inn (1926) all had a small but significant foothold in Sheffield the more regrettable. while other Sheffield brewers, like S.H.Wards and Hope and Anchor, remained steady players This period saw the construction of 39 large into much of the C20th. ‘improved pubs’ in Sheffield1. These projects were usually undertaken by local breweries. As Perhaps as a result of their early ownership of part of these developments, August 1936 saw one substantial tied estates, the Sheffield brewers had of few local referendums regarding licenced less reason to compete directly for custom and premises. Tenants on each of the nine largest of this, possibly allied with the fact that here (as the new council housing estates which were elsewhere in replacing inner-city slums were asked by Yorkshire) Sheffield City Council (SCC) if they were ‘in pubs were favour of licensed premises being provided on the generally let to estates.’ 2 tenants, might help explain Turnout was low. There seemed to be a view on the relative the smaller estates that as licensed premises were absence of any relatively close, there was no point in voting. Of truly grand late the 34,204 electorate, only 7,275 voted (21.3%). [Grapes corridor MS] Victorian and Woodthorpe had a 61% turnout, the next highest Edwardian city was 26% (Arbourthorne) with five estates having houses from a turnout of less than 20%. In favour were Sheffield. The Arbourthorne, Manor, Shiregreen, Woodthorpe décor and scale and Wybourn with High Wincobank, Longley of Rawsons and Norwood, Stubbin and Brushes and best surviving Wisewood voting against. pub of this period, the 1 Gutzke,D.W.(2006), Pubs and Progressives: Reinventing the Public House in England 1896-1960. DeKalb. Illinois p.204/5 [White Lion front bar MS] Grapes, is 2 Daily Independent 2nd.April 1936 3 SHEFFIELD'S REAL HERITAGE PUBS In 1938, SCC approved the granting of leases to Preservation Group was set up, which evolved brewery companies for the building of relatively into today’s Pub Heritage Group. The first step large public houses on six municipal estates: was to identify the most intact interiors surviving Arbourthorne, Manor, Parson Cross, Shiregreen, across the country’s (then) 65,000 pubs. This Woodthorpe and Wybourn, each on 99-year massive task involved following up thousands of leases. Parson Cross was not involved in the 1936 leads, developing criteria for inclusion, recording ballot. what was found (both in words and photos) and The total building cost was given as £55,000. The creating a list – the National Inventory of Historic Sheffield breweries concerned were: Carter, Pub Interiors (NI). Milner and Bird Ltd., Duncan Gilmour and Co. Ltd., William Stones Ltd., Tennant Bros. Ltd., This focuses firstly on interiors which remain Truswells Brewery Co.Ltd. and S.H.Ward and largely unaltered since before the second world Co.Ltd. Construction, the responsibility of the war, though intact early post-war pubs are also brewery companies, commenced later in the year. included (but are extremely rare). Secondly, the NI covers pubs with specific features or rooms of Post-war, Sheffield's pub heritage seems to have suffered more than most from the modernising national significance (e.g. an intact snug in an carnage of the post-1960s era. Large numbers of otherwise altered pub or examples of especially its pubs fell into the hands of Bass and Whitbread superb tiling or flamboyant bar backs.) while John Smiths strengthened their hold before themselves being taken over by Courage. Swathes Work on the CAMRA of refurbishment were inflicted on a wide scale National Inventory and even the local companies that survived a little (NI) began in 1992 longer, like S.H.Wards, succumbed with no less with the first ‘public’ vigour to the same fashions. version (179 pubs) released in 1997. The last thirty years has seen some reversing of Since then, it has this trend, as following the 1989 beer orders, been continually most pubs are now not directly owned by a brewery. A number of old buildings - banks, refined and updated cinemas, industrial buildings, public toilets, as new candidates residential buildings and shops - have also been were discovered and converted into pubs: the architecture is saved and existing entries lost positive use is made of the building. or re-evaluated.