A Guided Tour..

 The journey continues..              Stage - 6/8

THE MAIN BAR AREA

Heading out of the 'Family Room', or 'Dart Room' as some of the staff still know it, and heading through the door opposite the main window, takes you into the Main Bar Area. During most days and evenings this is the one source of sale. However on certain occasions, or by private booking, a small bar is available for exclusive use along with the upstairs function room.

The main bar, where all food and drink is purchased, is off-limits to all children. Of course it is essential for the good of all patrons that children, dogs and ferrets are kept under supervision at all times.

The main bar itself was only installed with the take-over by the Samuel Smiths Brewery in 1976. Prior to this, sales where dispatched from a tables located in the same area. Glasses where hand-washed and hand dried with white cotton towels. 

Today the main bar area has a large water-sealed, extendable, 4-lamp gas chandelier and a smaller individual gas wall light opposite the bar above a small second fireplace, next to the wall clock. Incidentally, the short-cased wall clock in the corner, behind the entrance door is well known for chiming at unusual times, and the wrong amount of chimes!

The main bar's seating is primarily of the padded bench variety around the perimeter. Marble topped, iron tables are here also. Above each fireplace is a mirror. The main fireplace mirror is large and has quite an ornate wooden surround. At the top of the surround there has been a carving, only obvious by its absence. Rumor has it that during the Second World War, RAF pilots stationed at nearby RAF Leconfield, had one evening broken off the wooden eagles head at the top of the mirror, then throwing it on to the blazing fire beneath. The eagles head at that time was a bit too close to the oppositions symbolisms!