Yes that’s a coffin !
February 2024. Rotherham.
Mrs RM was about to get her early Valentine present with a visit to Rotherham’s top goth pub, after we completed our extensive town tour.
Next to the imperious Cutler’s, the Alma still lies bereft, awaiting investment from a Brunning & Pricey or Miller & Carter Steakhouse.
Look to the left of the office block, and admire those floodlights.
No, that’s not the football ground where Simon last saw one of the goals of the season;
A thing of beauty, just like the highlights of a deserted town centre.
The Three Cranes is the only pub that looks like it might have a shout at joining the Spoons, the two Chantry classics and the Bridge in the GBG.
Until Mrs RM noted it, I’d never really noticed that exterior of the Bridge alongside the Don.
where she scuttled in now to escape my photo.
It appears I haven’t been this Old Mill classic in since I started the blog, so I wasn’t expecting the “symphony in red” that greeted a beaming Mrs RM, arriving just after a group of ladies starting their Friday pub crawl.
She wasn’t totally sold on the new theming,
but there’s plenty to explore in this long narrow waterside boozer,
and a nice place to perch your pints.
Actually, the Bridge has been in and out of the Guide in the last decade, but the (very) trad Bitter and Blackjack kept up Rotherham’s beer standard for the day (cool, rich, NBSS 3.5), so someone must be drinking the cask.
You soundtrack is (and you could have guessed it) “Highway to Hell” and this tribute to satanic ritual;
The tribute to Arthur Wharton, the first black professional footballer (and also a pub landlord) on the garden wall is well done.
Worryingly, I think I’ve found a second South Yorkshire Hatter.
Does Will know ?
retiredmartin 
I’ve been thinking how I really ought to visit Sheffield one day for its pubs, but having read the last couple of posts I’m thinking “sod Sheffield, visit Rotherham first.” I’ve just finished reading Boak and Bailey’s 21st Century Pub and looking back at the theme pubs crazy they seem such a naff idea, so I find what they’ve done to the Bridge a bit baffling, but I’m sure it’s easy to put up with if it has fine beer.
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Definitely fine beer in all four (New York Tavern a scruffier version of the Cutlers across the road), and throw in 20 minutes in the Clifton Museum for your culture. There are pubs outside the centre, but they’re pretty much all suburban micros these days.
I think we’d have to visit the Bridge at 9pm on a Friday to see whether the theme has actually brought the young goths to the pub !
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If your moto is “one pump is plenty”, mine is “four pubs are plenty”
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Good motto, Rhys.
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