Author Phil Penfold

The Commerical is another little pub that was once a nest of rooms all leading in and off each other, the snug, the select and so on.

The Nottingham is a noble successor to those famed Victorian pie shops, where the workers would get their daily sustenance with a pint or so of their choosing, and the conviviality seems to have seeped down the generations.

Phil Penfold pays a visit to The Ball in Crooks

The Three Cranes dates back almost certainly to the early 16th century, when there are records of it opening as a pub. Phil Penfold pays it a visit

Phil Penfold pays a visit to the Crown Inn, Sheffield

Whoever put pen to paper on the designs for the Three Tuns was hugely inventive. He turned out a Yorkshire version of New York’s celebrated Flatiron Building, in effect, a “wedge of Wensleydale”, triangular, with a point at one end and a flat back at the other

The Roebuck has stood for well over a century. It has weathered the Blitz on Sheffield, which flattened much of the core of the city on one fateful night in 1940.

The road that is Hallgate, in Doncaster (once the old A1), still has a number of rather beautiful Georgian and Regency buildings.

It’s a curious little place, half-tucked away with a snicket that heads toward the cathedral on one side, and a shopping precinct on t’other. In a fairly recent refurbishment, the interior has been given...

Once upon a time, it was a shop dedicated to cake decorating. Now, it is the latest addition to the celebration of real ales and ciders in these parts, and it is fair to say that the Arcade Alehouse has been garlanded with praise by those in the know