HOIST THE MAIN SAILS!!!!
From May 17th we are once again taking evening bookings
for tables inside the pub!!!
We are VERY much looking forward to the unfurling of the road map and we will continue to make our own judgments about how & when we open our doors & windows during the day to our customers, bearing in mind the size of the pub.
We take our responsibilities to our staff & customers very seriously & will work within those restraints to operate safely.
We have installed outside a knee operated hand wash basin, automatic hand sanitizer, operating a metre plus policy with every one's health and safety very much at the forefront of our planning.
We are regrettably unable to allow customers to use our loos, however, the public loos behind the pub are open with a stringent cleaning schedule by the council.
The car park at the top of the hill is open, the ticket machine taking coins only....unfortunately we are not able to help with change as we are card payment only now - sorry.
Card payment only...thank you....please be responsible & respect our neighbours, please dispose of all packaging in our bins & various recycling crates,
keep 2 metres apart & if we look busy please come back later....
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 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. 22 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. 22 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
