Our neighbours have huge PIRATE SHIP PUB in their garden with cannons & skeletons – now they want to make it even bigger
A PIRATE-mad couple with a swashbuckler-themed pub in their back garden say they want to make it even bigger.
Nautical-mad couple Paul and Zoe Bradshaw have splashed out close to £20,000 on their buccaneer obsession.
And the husband and wife’s eccentric bar – a converted shed named The Ship Inn – has a waiting list of 100 souls desperate to sample the range of 25 rums it has to offer.
Despite the unusual aesthetic, neighbours also love the couple’s unique home in Doncaster, South Yorkshire.
Plasterer Paul, 52, and Zoe, 41, who have a five-year-old son Jax wed last year at the Brixham Pirates Festival.
Paul dressed as Jack Sparrow from Disney’s ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ and Zoe had a custom-made pirate dress with a black and red corset with matching roses, and a black and red wig with a pirate hat – her pirate name is Lady Rumballs.
Together their costumes cost £10,000.
Paul told The Sun: “We are going down to the Brixham Pirates Festival again this year to celebrate our first wedding anniversary on 4 May.
“We gave loads of friends all around the country who are equally pirate crazy and love the whole dressing up and drinking rum thing.
“Around 30 guests came to stay here last weekend and our bar was full. We were drinking until the early hours and then the guests all crashed in our house.
“The bar is so popular we have a waiting list of 100 wanting to visit.
“As pirates, rum is our drink of choice. We get through hundreds go bottles of rum a year.”
The Ship Inn interior boasts 25 types of rum – some of which is very rare – and pub cold cabinets for cans.
Festooned about the place is treasure, skeletons, cutlasses, pewter tankards, netting, Jolly Roger flags, ornate chairs identical to those sat in by Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
The helm from the sailing ship Northumbrian Maid, built in 1843, and salvaged from the wreckage of the ship which sunk in 1865, also hangs on a wall – it cost Paul £550.
“We’ve ploughed some money into this bar,” he said.
There is also a scale model of Nelson’s flagship Victory.
Musician Paul has even made a “rum guitar” which is a working acoustic instrument that can carry two litres of rum inside it.
“Perfect for festivals,” joked Zoe.
“We are thinking of extending the bar, but it will cut down in outdoor sunshine space in the garden.”
We are thinking of extending the bar, but it will cut down in outdoor sunshine space in the garden.
Zoe Bradshaw
A sound system pipes sea shanties and pirate music into the back-yard boozer, which is also complete with air conditioning.
Outside the couple fly skull and crossbones flags all around the garden and quarterdeck complete with smoking cannon.
“I used to dress as Jack Sparrow, but now I do Jack Sparrow’s dad, Teague, played by Keith Richards,” said Paul.
“The amount I spend on my costumes is quite high. Jack Sparrow costa round £9,000 and I am up to about £5,000 with my Teague outfit at the moment.
“Even our lad Jax gets dressed up as a little Jack Sparrow.”
Next door neighbour Alan Burns, a 91-year-old retired coal miner, loves the pirate-themed bar.
“We’ve been here 40 years and we think our pirate neighbours are great,” said Alan.
“I’ve had a look around the bar and it is an amazing job.”
Another neighbour said: “Paul and Zoe certainly brighten up the street and it is amazing to see all the pirates turning up when they host a party.”
This comes as one woman said her life has been “completely ruined” by her millionaire neighbour’s “glass monstrosity” Grand-Designs style home.
The woman said: “It is just the most beautiful peaceful place on earth.
Trolls call me ‘crazy’ for making my home look ‘fire-damaged and mouldy’ – but I don’t care, I love my ‘bizarre’ pad
A SAVVY DIY fan has confidently clapped back at those who criticise their ‘fire-damaged and mouldy’ home.
Just hours after sharing a super simple and free DIY painting hack, the content creator has now given a close-up look inside their unique home.
But the jaw-dropping pad has left people totally divided – whilst many thought it was ‘bizarre’, some described it as ‘cool’.
Posting on social media, the content creator, who has 35,100 followers on TikTok and posts under the username ‘Jewell Home’, gave viewers a close-up look inside their hallway.
And there’s no plain white walls in sight. Instead, this DIY fan, who lives in Cardiff, claimed “anything goes” when it comes to interior design.
In this DIY enthusiast’s home, you’ll find an intentionally rusty-looking radiator and black paint splattered over the walls.
There’s also a moss display in the corner of the ceiling, with a dark paint shadow around it.
As soon as guests walk into the home, which has been given a glow up with black accessories, they’ll see a unique colour washing style of painting on the walls, whereby multiple layers of different coloured paints have been used to create a smoky, patchy effect.
As a result of this user’s quirky home, which has a distressed and aged look, the DIY fan revealed the common thing people often say.
The influencer claimed people regularly and rudely remark: “You’re crazy for making your house look fire-damaged and mouldy.”
But to this, the DIY lover clapped back and said: “God forbid I express myself.”
The TikTok clip, which was posted under the username @jewellhome, has clearly left many open-mouthed, as it has quickly amassed 519,200 views.
“Absolute heaven, we were so looking forward to spending the end of our days there. It has been our dream for 30 years.”
But she now fears her retirement will turn into “complete hell” after the owner won approval to tear down his £2.2 million detached house nearby and turn it into a modern glass fronted home similar to ones in millionaire’s paradise Sandbanks across the water.
The woman said: “It is absolutely heartbreaking. We bought the house three decades ago and always planned to retire there.”
Other neighbours are also concerned it will bring “Sandbanks to Studland”.
Elsewhere, homeowners are complaining about a neighbour’s “bizarre” mosaic house they say looks “juvenile”.
Locals are mounting protests against the eye-catching mural covering a building in well-to-do Chiswick in west London.
The colourful landmark in leafy Chiswick is believed to be lived in by a group of artists progressively transforming it over the past 20 years.
Carrie Reichardt, 56, owns the property and previously said the artwork was there to tell “a story of her life”.