Queen Bess, Scunthorpe
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The Queen Bess is a grade-II-listed (historic) public house in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. It opened in 1959 and is one of the few remaining examples of postwar pubs that have not been altered, closed down or demolished.
The pub is on Derwent Road, in the southeast of the town, close to the British Steel Corporation Scunthorpe Steelworks.[1]
History
Designed by local architects Wilburn and Son, the pub was built by the Samuel Smith Old Brewery—who remain the owners—and opened on 18 December 1959. It was named after a similarly titled blast furnace at the nearby Appleby-Frodingham steelworks, which had opened in 1950 and was at that point part of the biggest steelworks in Britain.[1] The sign outside the pub features a picture of Queen Elizabeth I on one side, and a picture of a blast furnace on the other. It quickly became a focal point of the local area.[2]
