Boozing in Broomhill
1st January 2000

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Broomhill is one of the singularly greatest suburbs of sheffield. It's the people.

They come in the following categories.
1. Sheffield University Students ( the posh students, as apposed to the Sheffield Hallam University Students, who are mostly less rich, often never having a car while a student! )
2. Graduated Students. Sheffield is full Of Thousands of post graduate students who have settled here after finishing their degree. Many of them are originally from small towns, and enjoy the cosmopolitics of the big smoke that is Sheffield.
3. University Lecturers and Professors. Often barking mad, and often " ill kempt "
4. Poets and Musicians, both unemployed, and poorly employed, ( both kinds! )
5. The Working Classes.
6. Unemployed, often lazy or even alcoholic university graduates.
7. Unemployed graduate drop outs.

     The main street through broomhill is called Fulwood Road at the south west end, and Whitham Road at the north east end. All the pubs are either on the main road or on roads adjacent to it. There are many differing shops, including - craft shops, supermarkets, two fish and chip shops, several other restraunts and takeaways, off licence & wine shop, Richer sounds ( Hi - Fi ), charity clothes shops, electrical goods shops, hairdressers, greetings card shops, Bank, The record collector ( new & second hand C.d's and vinyl ), a book shop, and all sorts of other stuff!
     The main shopping area is only about half a mile in length, and all the shops appear to be doing well. In the summer, the place is throbbing with mostly people in their 20's, and the pubs are always busy.

The Five Pubs Are As Follows :-
 
Pub Name
P
J
O
F
R/F
Since
The Broomhill Tavern
484 Glossop Road
N
Y
Y
N
1/1
1849
The Fox & Duck
227 Fulwood Road
N
  
Y
  
1/1
  
The Fitzooth & Firkin
Formerly The Nottingham House
164 Whitham Road
  
Y
Y
  
1/1
  
The South Sea
3 Spooner Road
Y
Y
    
2/1
  
O'Neils
Formerly The York Hotel
247 Fulwood Road
N
          

Key To Pub Table

P
 Is there a pool table, and how many ?
J
 Is there a Juke Box ?
O
 Can you drink outside ?
F
 Is there a table football ?
R/F
 How many seperate rooms are there / Public floors ?
Since
 When was the pub built ( Approximately )

The Broomhill Tavern is the oldest pub in Broomhill.

The Fox And Duck was extended into an adjacent shop a few years ago, and last year ( 1999 ), they removed the kitchen facilities altogether, to enlarge the inside even further. They now provide crockery and condiments for customers to eat fast food, which they can purchase locally, from at least seven establishments.
The beer garden around the back is private and cosy, and excellent in the summer. This is the busiest pub in Broomhill. Friday and Saturday nights are always standing room only.

The York has been extended into an adjacent shop, a few years ago, and as O'Neils it is now a typical false Irish theme bar. The beer on offer is quite good, but the false shuttering, bare floors and crap on the walls and windows have made the place have LESS character than before. Recently refurbished, the floorservers now take your order at your table and bring it to your seat. The Snook has been extended and the gents toilets have been replaced.

The South Sea looks like an unfinished estate pub with a flat roof, and is very large. It looks like they are going to finish the roof and the first floor, when they have finished building the rest of the flats.
The Present building is built on or adjacent to the origional South Sea Pub, that was there at the turn of the last century  ( 1900 )
The South Sea is now a scream pub and the Pubby pleasentness it once had, with it's soft furnishings and Def Leppard/ Steve Clarke momentos, have long gone and it is now a nasty barn, looking as bad on the inside as it does on the outside.

Broomhill is well served by taxis, as it is on the main arterial route to Lodge Moor /Fulwood /Crosspool /Ranmoor /Crookes, so you never have any trouble getting one home. And there are lots of busses passing through. The numbers 2 and 59 are circulars which link Crookes, Broomhill, Abbeydale Road, and Woodseats. There are plenty of busses that go directly to town, the 60, 51 and 52 which you can stop off at the anglican cathedral, on church street.

Latest News
There have been attempts recently to get a further pub opened in Broomhill, and so far they have been refused permission.
However a car sales site in under consideration.
 

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