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The Sportsman pub on Benty Lane is hosting three events this month:
For more information, call the pub on 0114 268 8011.
The Plough on Sandygate Road is no longer open for business – but should reopen before the end of the month.
The pub is one of several leased and operated by Hawk Inns North Limited. Glenn Thorpe, Director, said: “Due to administrative errors in all our Premises Licences we have had to temporarily close all the pubs operating within the Sheffield Licensing District.
“This is not a particular problem specific to The Plough as all our pubs will reopen with Temporary Event Notices on the 28 of July for periods of four days at a time and then will be fully open again from 11 August.”
A sign in window of the pub (pictured below) states that an alcohol licence was re-applied for on 15 July 2011.
The former Hallamshire Hotel pub on Lydgate Lane has almost been flattened.
In its place four dwelling houses, two apartments and detached garage block are due to be built.
You can view photos of the part-demolished pub below.
Property development planning application
Posters have gone up in the Crosspool Tavern advertising their upcoming charity car wash in aid of Weston Park Hospital.
Pay £5 to get your car washed and get a free breakfast before 11am or free carvery 11am-12pm. It takes place on Saturday 2 July, from 9am-12pm.
The new edition of the Crosspool Clarion is going to press and will soon be falling on the doormats of all Crosspool households.
The latest issue includes:
Download Crosspool Clarion Summer 2011 (PDF, 1.5MB)
Some back issues of past editions of the Crosspool Clarion are also available to download.
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If you are a local business then you may wish to consider advertising in the Clarion. It is a great way to reach over local households. Contact Clarion editor Ian Hague for more information.
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On Saturday 30 July, three local tradesmen will embark upon the arduous task of completing a 100 mile non-stop walk around some of the region’s landmark beauty spots. The walk will encompass much of the Mayfield Valley, parts of the Peak District and Pennine Trail.
The purpose of the exercise is to raise funds for Weston Park Cancer Unit, with a target of £10,000.
Scott Graham, a local electrician and former British Tae Kwon Do champion will be joined by Andrew Fisher, a tree surgeon and Tom Faulkener, a builder to circumnavigate the route. It is expected to take the three men 30 hours.
The mammoth trek will begin at the Crosspool Tavern at midday. The route covers Ladybower, Strines, Midhope Reservoir, Dunford Bridge, Broomhead Reservoir, Dungworth, Rivelin Dam, Foxhouse and finishing back at the Crosspool Tavern.
Check points will be manned en route and members of the public are invited to join the walk from any one of the seven checkpoints. Scott suggests “the easiest stage will be on our return to the Tavern that is from the car park to the bar.”
The event is the brainchild of Scott, Andrew and Tom, as family members have, or are being treated at the Weston Park facility and they wish to pay tribute to the staffs’ professionalism.
It is envisaged the event will become an annual part of the Crosspool calendar, to raise funds for this worthwhile cause.
Donations should be made payable to Weston Park Cancer Charity with “100 mile walk” written on the reverse. Cheques may be sent directly to Weston Park or handed in at the Crosspool Tavern.
For further information and photographs of the team contact Scott Graham on 07970 597800 or joannegrahani@talktalk.net.
As well as the ever-popular carvery, Crosspool Tavern is now offering a breakfast deal.
For £2.99, you get a sausage, two rashers of bacon and then can help yourself to hash browns, mushrooms, tomatoes, baked beans plus fried and scrambled eggs. There is also a vegetarian option with Quorn sausages. Tea, coffee and toast is extra.
Breakfast is available from 8-11am Monday to Saturday and 9-11am on Sundays.
The Sportsman pub is hosting a beer tasting evening with Timothy Taylor brewery on Wednesday 11 May.
It kicks off at 8pm and there will be the opportunity to meet the brewer and taste a selection of ales from the Yorkshire brewery.
The Sportsman usually has at least six real ales on. The range currently includes Timothy Taylor’s Golden Best.
Did you ever used to visit The King’s Head pub in Crosspool before it was demolished?
On Saturday 14 May, Sarah Goodhead is organising a get together for anyone who used to be a regular at the pub.
Go along to the Crosspool Tavern on Saturday 14 May from 8pm to join in the reunion and meet old friends, share memories and have a laugh.
Sheffield Forum King’s Head reunion thread
A driver accidentally drove his new Mercedes into a Crosspool pub last week.
After enjoying a meal at The Sportsman on Thursday 3 February, the man left the premises at around 6pm to drive home in the car he’d collected earlier that day from the motor dealer.
Apparently being unacquainted with the layout of the vehicle, he inadvertently engaged forward drive, rather than reverse, and shot forward through the walled bay window, causing extensive damage to the front of the building .
Fortunately no one was sitting near the window at the time, and the driver walked away shaken but uninjured.
The bay window adjacent to the disabled parking spaces at the front of the pub is now boarded up on both the outside and inside.
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