Ship Inn Policy on life after
July 19th!!!
After very careful thought we have decided to continue our daytime service largely outside, as before we will be serving our beer and food through our windows!
We will have a limited number of tables inside, these will be table service only. We will be asking all our indoor customers to please sanitise their hands on entry and also to wear masks until seated.
We have decided on this course of action as we feel it is the safest option for both our customers and our staff. The Ship is a very small 18th century building and cannot cope safely at the moment with large numbers of people. We will reopen our loo – but will ask that you access it from the rear of the building rather than coming through the pub, again this is to prevent queues of people forming inside. While we prefer card payments, we will also accept cash.
Throughout the pandemic our staff have consistently worked hard, with good humour (and will continue to do so) in sometimes challenging circumstances to make your experience of visiting The Ship a happy one.
Our understanding of the current situation is that it is up to all of us to be thoughtful and considerate of each other, we ask that you respect our decisions on how we are moving forward. We hope you understand and appreciate that we have put a lot of thought into operating The Ship in the safest way possible for staff and customers.
July 19th!!!
After very careful thought we have decided to continue our daytime service largely outside, as before we will be serving our beer and food through our windows!
We will have a limited number of tables inside, these will be table service only. We will be asking all our indoor customers to please sanitise their hands on entry and also to wear masks until seated.
We have decided on this course of action as we feel it is the safest option for both our customers and our staff. The Ship is a very small 18th century building and cannot cope safely at the moment with large numbers of people. We will reopen our loo – but will ask that you access it from the rear of the building rather than coming through the pub, again this is to prevent queues of people forming inside. While we prefer card payments, we will also accept cash.
Throughout the pandemic our staff have consistently worked hard, with good humour (and will continue to do so) in sometimes challenging circumstances to make your experience of visiting The Ship a happy one.
Our understanding of the current situation is that it is up to all of us to be thoughtful and considerate of each other, we ask that you respect our decisions on how we are moving forward. We hope you understand and appreciate that we have put a lot of thought into operating The Ship in the safest way possible for staff and customers.
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
