September 2025. Crookes.
Two ticks on the Sheffield half-pint marathon, a clever device to get you out of the house in a quiet September visiting pubs. As if I need an excuse.
Crookes is a decently pubbed village for middle-class Sheffield, and Two Sheds is a pleasant bar-cum-bottle shop that would be a permanent fixture in practically any other town in the UK.
Just a few tables with a view on to the cunningly named “Crookes”,
some local craft from Abbeydale and an interloper from Hull someone thought “sensational”,
and a soundtrack of Aqualung and the Zeps.
Good to see Zeppelin are touring again.
I mention the music because it was great, and because over the road at the Punchbowl we were subjected to Mumford and Sons.
Yes, True North really are the Mumford and Sons of the pub world.
retiredmartin 
Are “the Mumford and Sons of the pub world” related to Geoff Mumford of the Burton Bridge Brewery ?
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Mumford and Sons are more likely connected to the Donnington Brewery, so dreary is their output.
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The landlord isn’t Arthur Jackson by any chance is he?
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Thank you. I would have made a similar response otherwise. 😉
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You know you’re not as old as your readers when you don’t get the Monty Python references.
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“As if I need an excuse.”
(slow golf clap)
“Just a few tables with a view on to the cunningly named “Crookes”,”
Do you mean the piercing studio or the Punch Bowl across the street (as in, crooks).
Oh wait, it’s on Crookes Road. Heh.
“and an interloper from Hull someone thought “sensational”,”
I’m a bit off today. First I mucked up the Crookes thingy and for above test I assumed you were born in Hull, then realised you were saying the BEER from a micro in Hull was sensational. (sheesh)
“and a soundtrack of Aqualung and the Zeps.”
A duet?
“Good to see Zeppelin are touring again.”
Blimey. Talk about Old Lives Matter.
“and because over the road at the Punchbowl we were subjected to Mumford and Sons.”
I have no idea who they are; and, from the sounds of it, don’t want to!
“Yes, True North really are the Mumford and Sons of the pub world.”
Ok, I had to look them up after that. They’re – gasp – folk rolk, and half the age of Zep!
Cheers
PS – you forgot to mention that in the Two Sheds, above the taps, they have a picture of both Tom Selleck and Rutger Hauer.
(Tom as Magnum P.I. is a classic, but Rutger’s 42-word monologue (‘tears in rain’) in the original Blade Runner is even more classic!)
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