Shiip Model Light

Well, there's tacky and then there's genuinely ... bad ...

H'mm, I think they had one of those over the first class staircase on the Titanic...

It's the same in the UK though. Almost  every pub called 'The Ship', 'The Anchor', 'The Lord Nelson', (etc. ad nauseum) will have a crappy 1970s model ship over the fire place- usually a cartoonlike depiction of a 'galleon'.

That reminds me of one time I visited a pub on the Yorkshire coast where the publican was obviously very in to model ships. There was a 1/48 scale 18th century whaling vessel in a glass case over the fireplace- Proper museum quality, and one for which a good amount of original research must have taken place- whaling ships of this period are not well documented! All this, and several structural timbers in the pub were recycled 18th century ships timbers, so the effect was superb.

Will

Ohh I'd like to see that place. The closest I've been to an proper English Pub was in San Fransico, CA.  There was a Pub that was brough over from England.  Proper 7' cielings and the basemane wherer the beer was kept.  Lyon's Pub jusy outside of the Lombard Gate of The Presidio.  Back in June of 2005 we met some friends there for lunch while on conferance.

unfortunately, it's actually quite hard to find a 'proper English pub' in England now

Will

Big Jake

Ohh I'd like to see that place. The closest I've been to an proper English Pub was in San Fransico, CA.  There was a Pub that was brough over from England.  Proper 7' cielings and the basemane wherer the beer was kept.  Lyon's Pub jusy outside of the Lombard Gate of The Presidio.  Back in June of 2005 we met some friends there for lunch while on conferance.

 

 

I was in a restaurant in Monterey CA called The Sardine Factory, good place, last August.

They have a very large and reasonably well made model of the Victory, all wood, over the fireplace.

I thought that is was called LIverpool Lils also but I did a search and it came up as Lyon's.  I thought I was losing my marbles