Famous Ship Inn, Sandgate

The public bar is a rare example of how pubs were refitted just after WWII. Prior to 1948 the area of the public bar contained a bottle and jug in the area where there is a large table on the front right and two other small rooms including a tap room with casks on stillage where the present servery is situated - the pub had four small rooms and the off licence. The public bar has some full height panelling on the walls, an old plank ceiling, the lapped wood bar counter dates from the 1948, bar back of shelves (some of glass) on a mirrored back and with a small till drawer is also from the 1948 as is the fixed seating, curved brick fireplace and even the barrel tables and chairs. One wall has a mural of part of an Admiralty Chart of the Dover Straight.

A corridor connects the public bar to the small rear bar which was refurbished in 2013 and has old dado panelling now painted grey, the bar counter from 1948 also painted grey, bar back shelving from 1948, some fixed seating of similar date, but the 1948 tiled and wood surround fireplace has been replaced by a new wood burner. Note the casks of real ales and polyp ins of cider on an old stillage behind the bar. A private lounge, ladies toilet, small kitchen and outside gents were swept away in changes in 1985 to create new inside toilets, new cellar and a small rear deck. In 2009 a restaurant was added at the rear overlooking the sea.