Update!!!! 21st May 2020
The Ship Inn is sailing into less troubled waters - hopefully we are being blown in the right direction...
...Our first tentative steps in the new normal....we will now open Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 11-3 for takeaway food & drink! Keep watching this space for updates re hours etc...
We will be serving our amazing crab sandwiches, award winning pies from Eyemouth, reliable toasties and our outstanding Ship Inn home brews (available to take away in 1 litre, 2.5 litre or 5 litre containers) ice creams, tea, coffee....
Hopefully menu and hours will expand as demand increases and we can unfurlough our lovely staff, please see our thoughts below on future of The Ship.....
We will be serving our amazing crab sandwiches, award winning pies from Eyemouth, reliable toasties and our outstanding Ship Inn home brews (available to take away in 1 litre, 2.5 litre or 5 litre containers) ice creams, tea, coffee....
Hopefully menu and hours will expand as demand increases and we can unfurlough our lovely staff, please see our thoughts below on future of The Ship.....
Card payment only...thank you....please be responsible and respectful of our neighbours,
keep 2 metres apart and if we look busy please come back later,
we only have space for little queue with 2 metres between!
We all have to try and make it work together! Thank you for your much needed support.
Best wishes from all at The Ship
Plans for the future of The Ship Inn ....
Our plans for the future when the lockdown restrictions ease:-
Our thinking at the moment is that we will not be able to open The Ship Inn in its old form for quite a few months,
however...do not despair! We will be selling our lovely beer and our lovely food from takeaway windows...served by our lovely staff!
We are extremely conscious of our responsibility to do this in a safe and secure way both for our customers and for ourselves. To this end we intend to serve food all day from 11a.m to 7.00pm, hopefully this will very much reduce numbers of customers queuing. Obviously the queue will be expected to observe social distance...anyone who finds this an irksome ask will politely be asked to leave! We will be using two windows....one for ordering and the other for collecting the order. This way we can regulate the flow of customers waiting. We will be serving our food in biodegradable disposable containers and our beer in plastic glasses....or bring your own glasses and we can sell you our beer in takeaway containers to pour into your own glass!
We are looking at the possibility of having a hand washing station at the front of the pub...but will of course have plenty of hand sanitizer around.
With your help, support and cooperation we can make this work! It will be different but it will work! watch this space for updates....timescales etc...!
Best wishes from us all at The Ship Tuesday 28th April 2020!!!!
Our thinking at the moment is that we will not be able to open The Ship Inn in its old form for quite a few months,
however...do not despair! We will be selling our lovely beer and our lovely food from takeaway windows...served by our lovely staff!
We are extremely conscious of our responsibility to do this in a safe and secure way both for our customers and for ourselves. To this end we intend to serve food all day from 11a.m to 7.00pm, hopefully this will very much reduce numbers of customers queuing. Obviously the queue will be expected to observe social distance...anyone who finds this an irksome ask will politely be asked to leave! We will be using two windows....one for ordering and the other for collecting the order. This way we can regulate the flow of customers waiting. We will be serving our food in biodegradable disposable containers and our beer in plastic glasses....or bring your own glasses and we can sell you our beer in takeaway containers to pour into your own glass!
We are looking at the possibility of having a hand washing station at the front of the pub...but will of course have plenty of hand sanitizer around.
With your help, support and cooperation we can make this work! It will be different but it will work! watch this space for updates....timescales etc...!
Best wishes from us all at The Ship Tuesday 28th April 2020!!!!
Our home page from long before the virus hit, but still just as relevant!!!
I first came to Low Newton and The Ship Inn in May 1999. I wanted to move away from Hertfordshire where I had lived for the last thirty years. I needed to earn a living and I had heard that there was a pub for sale in a village by the sea. I had done various jobs in my life and run my own business, but the one business I knew I didn’t want to run was a pub! However - I came, I saw and Low Newton conquered!!
Not for me the sensible option of coming up to stay for a week, to watch the pub in operation to see if I could cope with the whole business of running a pub, of meeting the locals and seeing if they would welcome this woman from the south. Oh no.
So six weeks later I arrived, complete with an enormous furniture van, three cats, two dogs and my youngest daughter Hannah who had just finished university and had decided to spend eighteen months with me running the pub.
The rest is, as they say, history. 21 years on the pub is still receiving the t.l.c it needs; I have learned to clean lines, order beer, call time - or not as case might be - pull pints and have good craic. I have totally renovated the upstairs and have a wonderful house to live in. Hannah is again running the pub with me, having taken time out to travel, teach, marry and have children: we have a growing reputation for local food, good coffee and live music and are self sufficient in well regarded real ale from our own micro brewery.
The sea and landscape continues to delight. To stand on the beach on a moonlight night and hear the seals calling from the rocks, to watch the path of the moon on the sea and see the fingers of Dunstanburgh castle stand black against the sky or to watch the sun rise over the sea on a glorious summer morning - these are the things that make Low Newton the very special and unique place it is. And make people return time and again.
Christine Forsyth
Not for me the sensible option of coming up to stay for a week, to watch the pub in operation to see if I could cope with the whole business of running a pub, of meeting the locals and seeing if they would welcome this woman from the south. Oh no.
So six weeks later I arrived, complete with an enormous furniture van, three cats, two dogs and my youngest daughter Hannah who had just finished university and had decided to spend eighteen months with me running the pub.
The rest is, as they say, history. 21 years on the pub is still receiving the t.l.c it needs; I have learned to clean lines, order beer, call time - or not as case might be - pull pints and have good craic. I have totally renovated the upstairs and have a wonderful house to live in. Hannah is again running the pub with me, having taken time out to travel, teach, marry and have children: we have a growing reputation for local food, good coffee and live music and are self sufficient in well regarded real ale from our own micro brewery.
The sea and landscape continues to delight. To stand on the beach on a moonlight night and hear the seals calling from the rocks, to watch the path of the moon on the sea and see the fingers of Dunstanburgh castle stand black against the sky or to watch the sun rise over the sea on a glorious summer morning - these are the things that make Low Newton the very special and unique place it is. And make people return time and again.
Christine Forsyth
