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The Kelham Island Tavern is an 1830s corner pub that owner-operators reopened as an independent real-ale house in 2002, and it has since become one of the most decorated pubs in the country — the first ever to win CAMRA's National Pub of the Year two years running, in 2008 and 2009, with a record run of Sheffield Pub of the Year titles behind it and a walled beer garden that seems to appear from nowhere. It is a free house in the fullest sense, choosing its dozen ales on merit alone, in a post-industrial quarter that has become the city's beer heartland. No theme, no tie, just very well-kept beer. One of the best pubs in England, by the drinkers' own reckoning.