Pub history

The John Masefield

John Masefield, Poet Laureate, attributed his love of poetry to his time in New Ferry as a young man. At 13, he was sent to a naval training ship. He spent several years aboard HMS Conway, listening to tales about the sea and so felt compelled to become a writer and storyteller himself, with his poems about the sea being well known. Sea Fever famously opens with the lines ‘I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky; And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by’.