Ship Inn Policy on life as from
27th September
After careful thought - and with excitement - we have opened up our bar!!!!
We once again have tables inside, we are asking all our customers to please sanitise their hands on entry and wear masks until seated. We also ask that there are no more than 4 customers queuing inside for the bar....please appreciate the Ship is a small eighteenth century building.
Our understanding of the current situation is that it is up to all of us to be thoughtful and considerate of each other, please 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.
27th September
After careful thought - and with excitement - we have opened up our bar!!!!
We once again have tables inside, we are asking all our customers to please sanitise their hands on entry and wear masks until seated. We also ask that there are no more than 4 customers queuing inside for the bar....please appreciate the Ship is a small eighteenth century building.
Our understanding of the current situation is that it is up to all of us to be thoughtful and considerate of each other, please 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
