A city once awash with industry and ale – a myriad of pubs slaking the thirst of the thirsty steel workers.
A liquid equilibrium flowing and flowering for over a century.
The Lower Don Valley once home to a wealth of boozers, tells a different tale today.
A fall in production produced a proportionate reduction in consumption.
The clatter of clogs on cobbles, metal on metal is but a distant memory, along with the sound of pints pulled and hastily glugged.
The architecture of ale still prevails – now purveying pleasures and delights of a different stripe, whatever takes your fancy, as long as it’s not too fancy.
And doesn’t involve taking a drink.
The Gower Arms – 47 Gower Street Burngreave Sheffield S4 7JW
I drink down there – top pubs methinks. They are old fashioned pubs with some real characters. Will be there Friday night in the Staff first, Royal Oak, Gower, Grapes and back to the Staff till I drop.
Blade Bloke 2007
From top pub to closed corner supermarket in two shakes of a monkey’s tale.
The Norfolk Arms Hotel – 195/199 Carlisle Street Sheffield S4 7LJ
From a Gilmour’s tap, Tetley tavern to a temple of trendy funk.
Club Xes is a nightclub in Sheffield described as a vibrant and thrilling, and full of Sheffield’s young and trendy crowd. The DJs are renowned for providing the newest funkiest records.
Premises Type – This place does not serve real ale.
Premises Description – Gay nightclub.
The Corner Pin – 231-233 Carlisle Street East Sheffield S4 7QN
First licensed to sell beer in 1840. One of 26 public houses serving the steel industry along a three- quarter mile stretch of Carlisle Street. It is said to have a ghost who likes to turn the lights on in the middle of the night and footfalls can be heard.
The Corner Pin was the last of the Steelmakers pubs in Sheffield and was one of my favourite places to visit for a real good pint! I would come over from Melbourne once or twice a year, still do, and meet up with Chris Payling and many others still left over from the days of Sheffield Steel, but now all gone.
They even took away your window frames, along with your dignity once a pale green shadow of yourself, stripped back to brick.
Stop dreaming of a foaming pint right now – you’re an office.
Not a pub.
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who remembers the beer garden at the alexander pub on carlisle street sheffield
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Norfolk arms that is were I met my first wife Margaret broad bent on a darts night great pub
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i used to live on thornton road. i knew the BRoadbents . my name is Clare Walker nee Hinchliffe
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I live in Louisiana in the United States and I actually own the sign on the last pub mentioned, The Corner Pin! I saw it in an Antique shop and I just had to have it. Strange to know that a part of Sheffield history lives on in Louisiana.
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That’s amazing Colleen, so near and yet so far – hope that you enjoy your sign for many years to come.
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I wrote a book – Love, Hate and Armour-Plated Handbags. Its a true story about growing up in Pitsmoor . Its being adapted for a BBC screen play and The Corner Pin features in it extensively x Loved that place growing up – you are lucky to have the sign – I really wanted to own it myself xx
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Does anybody remember the golden Ball and the New Inn in Sheffield? When they were being run in the 60s by a husband and wife team with four daughters and the young son.
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