Baltic Hotel. 420 Effingham Road

This old Stones pub was built in 1830. It was damaged in the first air raid on Sheffield when a bomb dropped from a Zeppelin fell nearby. There is still a plaque in the wall of the nearby Baltic Works to commemorate this event.

Inside there was an inner sanctum, a room where you had to knock to gain admission. You knocked on the door, and a small window in the door opened. If your face fitted you were in. I never made it.

The pubwas demolished in the 1970s and became a secondhand car lot. The front steps are all that remain.

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