Old Ship Inn, Hammersmith

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location:

Hammersmith

address:

25 Upper Mall, W6 9TD

phone:

0871 984 4580*
* calls cost 10p/minute, click here for more about 0871 numbers.

nearest stations:

Ravenscourt Park London Underground station
(510m) - zone 2

Stamford Brook London Underground station
(650m) - zone 2

Hammersmith London Underground station
(1.1Km) - zone 2

Turnham Green London Underground station
(1.1Km) - zones 2/3

how to find it:

From Ravenscourt Park: Exit the tube onto Dalling Road, turn right and walk down to King Street. Cross King Street and turn right, taking a left down Rivercourt Road. Rivercourt Road crosses the A4 and then your on to Upper Mall. Turn right and walk to the pub. From Hammersmith: head for Hammersmith Bridge, turn down onto the footpath and keep walking. You'll come to the pub after a 15 minute walk or so.

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nearby attraction(s):

Riverside Studios (870m)

picture of Old Ship Inn The Old Ship is a large pub on the north bank of the river, just down from Hammersmith bridge, with a handy, grassed, open space just to the side of it. You don't have to be Einstein to surmise that on a warm day in summer this area would prove to be very popular. And indeed it is, so much so that a warm bank holiday will find little available space for latecomers to park their picnics and grab a pint. There's an elevated terrace too, but you'll have to be a very early bird to nab a place there. Recently taken over by Young's, the Old Ship doesn't yet appear to have changed that much - only one pump with Young's bitter in operation and a decidedly un-Young's Erdinger present amongst the gas-propelled brigade. And the clientele are exactly the same as before. As you'd expect on a prime site like this, food is heavily promoted - something the owners seem to be doing rather a lot of nowadays - and it's family-friendly, got a function room and has WiFi if you just can't stop Twittering. The old Old Ship never really was our cup of tea (can you say that about a pub?) - the weekend hordes put paid to that - and in it's latest guise, we can't really see that opinion changing.