I pull pints in Britain’s WETTEST pub – punters have lost shoes when it floods but it doesn’t put them off
PUNTERS at "Britain's WETTEST pub" have lost SHOES in floodwater that engulfs the boozer several times a year - but it's never put them off.
Staff are well-equipped to handle the several inches of water that pour into The Ship Inn when heavy rain falls .
And customers don't let a bit of water dampen their fun, with pictures showing huge groups casually chowing down as water engulfs their feet.
In fact, punters often view dining in the water as a "badge of honour", staff at the pub in Mevagissey, Cornwall, say.
Their positive attitude could come in handy this week, as Met Office forecasters expect two inches of rain to fall in just three hours in an "incredible deluge".
Bar worker Hellyn Jack told The Sun: "It’s now a badge of honour to say that you ate or drank in The Ship while it was flooded.
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"We’ve just tried to make the pub as easy to work in if there is a flood - we’ve even got our wellies so that we can walk around in the flood water.
"Diners don’t seem to mind too much about the water as it makes eating here something different.
"We even had one woman who lost her shoe in the flood earlier this year and she had to come back when the water subsided to retrieve it.
"We specialise in our fresh seafood which comes straight from the nearby harbourside - we haven’t yet seen any fish in the floodwater but you never know . . .”
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At the end of May, heavy rainfall combined with a spring tide meant floodwater had nowhere to go.
It bubbled up through the pub’s drains leaving customers and staff wading through the boozer.
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Local Jules Ibson, from Mevagissey, said: "It’s just a risk you take when you come into The Ship and it’s raining outside.
"But we’re all used to it now and you just carry on eating and drinking.
"It’s easy at the bar because the stools are high, but if you’re eating it’s a matter of putting your feet up and carrying on."
Not everyone is quite as positive.
One ex landlord quit after The Ship flooded 12 times in 12 weeks.
In 2012 the pub's former landlord told the BBC: "We've been very unlucky.
"I can't trade like this. Financially I don't think I could last the winter. The last thing I want to do is lose all my money.
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He continued: "It's now flooded 12 times. We've had five or six really bad ones.
"I've had enough. It's hard trading in the winter in Cornwall. It's hard to build a reputation for a pub when this is happening so often."
