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The Mulberry Tavern on Arundel Gate / Norfolk Street


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The Mulberry Tavern is a pub on Arundel Gate / Mulberry Street

From Images of England Central Sheffield - Martin Olive

Photo of Mulberry Street from Norfolk Street.

Mulberry Tavern survived in its eighteenth-century form until mid-1970's when it was rehoused in a new concrete block.

The building with the chimney, was a warehouse, it was taken over by the Wesleyans in 1757 and served as their Sheffield headquarters until the Norfolk Street Chapel was completed in 1780, then it was re-let as a warehouse. It was leased about 1895 by John Walsh and pulled down to make room for his store.

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Still open but no longer uses the Mulberry St entrance, entry is now via Arundel Gate. It used both entrances when it re-opened as the Mulberry in 2014. Mulberry branding was still in situ on Mulberry St in August 2018.

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Around 2011-2012 it was Affinity/Cabaret for a bit.

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Mulberry Street from Norfolk Street showing side view of No.36 The Sheffield Club and Mulberry Tavern. January 1964.s18175.jpg.89dc72e4c846c799a373b2e4e01baf8a.jpgs18175

Mulberry Tavern, No. 2 Mulberry Street. March 1973.s21669.jpg.bc922aa1eb24d92fed7decaa24c0a185.jpgs21669

Mulberry Tavern, No. 2 Mulberry Street, 8th March 1973.

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Interior of Mulberry Tavern, No. 2 Mulberry Street. 8th March 1973.

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Ordnance Survey Map 1890, sheet no. Yorkshire No. 294.8.16. Mulberry Tavern edge of the map right. 

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In "Sheffield Public Houses" by Michael Liversidge, he recounts that the area around where the Mulberry Tavern stands was proclaimed by James I, that it must have Mulberry trees planted on it, to increase the supply of silk as overseas trade from the normal supplier had ceased. 

He also recounts the tale of a traveller who fell to his death from an upstairs window.

The tale is also told without naming the Tavern in "Reminiscences, it's Streets and its People." extracts from articles and letters from The Sheffield and Rotherham Independent 1872/3, edited by Robert Eadon Leader 1875.

Page 73.

"Twiss: When we were talking about the Old Churchyard, mention was made of the "alabaster" stone, or "t'alli," as it used to be called, and this part of High Street reminds me of its history. There was, hereabouts, an Inn, to which one night an unknown traveller came. The bedroom allotted to him had, besides the door communicating with the landing, an unused door which had formerly opened upon the yard behind, but at a considerable elevation above it. The traveller arose during the night and sought to leave his room, but he got to the wrong door, forced it open, stepped out, and falling to the ground was killed. All attempts to ascertain his name or to communicate with his friends failed; but he had a considerable sum of money in his possession, so a handsome tombstone was erected over his nameless grave — which unwritten tombstone you may see to this day near the chancel door. The top marble slab has, as you all know, been broken. It is a part of my story to add that the fracture was done in an attempt to rifle the tomb of the treasures that were popularly believed to have been buried with the unknown stranger."

 

Closed Pubs. 

https://www.closedpubs.co.uk/yorkshire/sheffield_s1_mulberrytavern.html

 

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Mulberry Tavern, No. 2 Mulberry Street looking towards Norfolk Street. 1999.t04014.jpg.d97e815005bd419c21fec99a4c05c5c1.jpgt04014  Photographer: Mike *****

 

Inn sign for the Mulberry Tavern public house, No.2 Mulberry Street. 

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Mulberry Tavern, from Arundel Gate (No. 2 Mulberry Street) 4th October 1984.

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Mulberry Bar & Venue. 

https://sheffielder.net/2020/02/08/mulberry-bar-venue/

Sheffield music fans devastated by the closure of the Mulberry bar & Venue. 17th July 2021.

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/sheffield-music-fans-devastated-closure-21068335

https://www.barrelandstone.co.uk/pub/mulberry-bar-venue-sheffield/

 

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It was the Mulberry Street entrance we used in the early sixties when it was a real pub, I do remember their pork sandwiches were brilliant.

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