The Queens Ground, Hillsborough, Sheffield

A popular and busy pub in a good looking stone building near the Hillsborough barracks. The bay windows have etched inscriptions: Billiard Room says one, and Smoke Room the other, but there is neither billiard table nor, thankfully, cigarette smoke inside. Any internal walls have long since been removed, but the large space is pleasantly furnished and the bar, a substantial one with a wooden elbow rail and a brass one for the feet, takes up most of the back wall. Behind it is an arch which features a handsome stained glass semi-circular panel advertising Wards Fine Malt Ales, though these too are not something that you will find here any more. The usual keg fonts are lined up: Carling, Stella, Guinness, Tetleys Smooth and John Smiths Crap. I had a half of Stones, which was tolerable, though so cold it took me half an hour to drink it. What a lovely pub this would be with half a dozen real ales on the bar!