Scarbrough Arms, Tickhill

Old stone built village inn still with three rooms all with separate shallow exterior porches. It is chiefly noteworthy for its unusual 1950s ‘Barrel Room’, from the time it belonged to the Wath brewers Whitworth, Son & Nephew. This very impressive little room (altered only by a 1980s cut-through to the tap room at the rear) has a concave-fronted oak counter, a 1950s brick fireplace, and ull-height ply-panelled walls. The fixed seating has 1950s style oak backing, baffles and more panelling at the base. There are six barrel tables with a lower ‘shelf’ like a dominoe table, two cushioned seats with low backs, and six barrel stools i.e. all the loose furniture in the room is made from casks. The bar back shelving is tucked away to the right of the servery and also looks to be from the 1950s. All this is said this is the work of George Milburn, tenant-licensee from 1953 to 1958, who also worked as a blacksmith at nearby Harworth Colliery.

At the rear the tap room has a bar counter that also looks a 1950s one and there are bar back shelving shared with the barrel bar. The room has been extended to the rear with some 1950s fixed seating, there is a modern fireplace at the rear but the ply panelling looks modern.

The front room, which has a separate entrance, is L-shaped with the carpeted larger part at the front with a 1950s bar counter front, a distinct 1950s bar back fitting, azed wood beams and more 1950s fixed seating. Sadly, the left hand wall has recently been stripped of some 1950s panelling and a c.1960 stone fireplace and replaced with a plain wall and modern fireplace. The smaller rear part of the room has a flagstone floor and another 1950s bar counter front. The doors to the ladies and gents toilets are also 1950s.