A Guided Tour..

 The journey continues..              Stage - 4/8

THE POOL ROOM

Here we are, at the far end of the pool room, standing near the patio doors - leading to the secluded courtyard. Although not an original part of the Inn, this room has been quite tastefully designed, and does not pretend to be a copy of any other part of the building. This room, with its opened apex ceiling, houses two pool tables, a jukebox and pin-ball machine. All of this is more of an annex, and shouldn't detract from the uniqueness of the rest of the Pub. This is - at the end of the day - a real and operational Pub, with real people (well maybe a few exceptions there!), and not a museum.

This room is the base, and practice area ('practice' being the operative word) of the Nellie's Pool Teams. The A-Team, for which I've been a member for some years, and now the last few years - Team Captain - has been exceptionally popular with most other teams in the 'Beverley Pool League'. This was mainly due to the fact that although most games were a close result, the other team usually won! However things have changed a little bit recently.

THE SECLUDED COURTYARD

As we stand with our back towards the Southwest corner of the courtyard, facing the patio doors of the Pool Room, you can clearly see that again there are a number of tables and benches - which make this area, weather permitting -an enjoyable area to relax amongst friends.

The entire area is walled in, with an entrance from the car park via a couple of steps - beyond the small wall on the right. On a quiet summers evening, the relaxing background chatter is only interrupted by the bells of St Mary's - which is only a couple of hundred yards away.

THE SMALL CORRIDOR OUTSIDE THE 'SLIDING DOOR ROOM'

Heading from the Pool Room door back into the pub, and heading in a straight line through the next doorway will take you back through The Scullery, then trough the next doorway - turning right into a small corridor section.

A small but interesting little area. In front we have the doorway leading into the main corridor, with the Bar to the right, and front door to the left.

To our immediate left is the 'Sliding Door Room' - more on that in a moment. On our right is a small wooden topped table, on a cast iron base, which has a horizontal-swivel top - which reveals a set of wooden rollers - ouch!

Just out of view, immediately to our right, is the Scullery entrance, and all around are old cupboards built into the walls.

It's worth mentioning that on the wall - immediately to our right - is a large, glass-fronted frame - enclosing a large selection of receipts and invoices of local business, dating back to the turn of the century. A further selection is on display in the corridor leading to the family room.

Myself and a number of friends now refer to this small room as 'The Office'. It's here we'll often assemble to put the world to rights.