A PIRATE-mad couple with a swashbuckler-themed pub in their back garden say they want to make it even bigger.
Nautical-mad couple have splashed out close to £20,000 on their obsession.
And the husband and wife's eccentric bar – a converted shed named The Ship Inn – has a waiting list of 100 souls desperate to sample the range of 25 rums it has to offer.
Despite the unusual aesthetic, neighbours also love the couple’s unique home in , .
Plasterer Paul, 52, and Zoe, 41, who have a five-year-old son Jax wed last year at the Brixham Pirates Festival.
Paul dressed as Jack Sparrow from ‘’ and Zoe had a custom-made pirate dress with a black and red corset with matching roses, and a black and red wig with a pirate hat – her pirate name is Lady Rumballs.
Together their costumes cost £10,000.
Paul told : “We are going down to the Brixham Pirates Festival again this year to celebrate our first wedding anniversary on 4 May.
“We gave loads of friends all around the country who are equally pirate crazy and love the whole dressing up and drinking rum thing.
“Around 30 guests came to stay here last weekend and our bar was full. We were drinking until the early hours and then the guests all crashed in our .
“The bar is so popular we have a waiting list of 100 wanting to visit.
“As pirates, rum is our drink of choice. We get through hundreds go bottles of rum a year.”;
The Ship Inn interior boasts 25 types of rum – some of which is very rare – and pub cold cabinets for cans.
Festooned about the place is treasure, skeletons, cutlasses, pewter tankards, netting, Jolly Roger flags, ornate chairs identical to those sat in by Captain Jack in the .
The helm from the sailing ship Northumbrian Maid, built in 1843, and salvaged from the wreckage of the ship which sunk in 1865, also hangs on a wall – it cost Paul £550.
“We’ve ploughed some money into this bar,”; he said.
There is also a scale model of flagship .
Musician Paul has even made a “rum guitar” which is a working acoustic instrument that can carry two litres of rum inside it.
“Perfect for festivals,”; joked Zoe.
“We are thinking of extending the bar, but it will cut down in outdoor sunshine space in the .”;
We are thinking of extending the bar, but it will cut down in outdoor sunshine space in the garden.
Zoe BradshawThe Ship Inn co-owner
A sound system pipes sea shanties and pirate music into the back-yard boozer, which is also complete with .
Outside the couple fly skull and crossbones flags all around the garden and quarterdeck complete with smoking cannon.
“I used to dress as Jack Sparrow, but now I do Jack Sparrow’s dad, Teague, played by Keith Richards,”; said Paul.
“The amount I spend on my costumes is quite high. Jack Sparrow costa round £9,000 and I am up to about £5,000 with my Teague outfit at the moment.
“Even our lad Jax gets dressed up as a little Jack Sparrow.”;
Next door neighbour Alan Burns, a 91-year-old retired coal miner, loves the bar.
“We’ve been here 40 years and we think our pirate neighbours are great,”; said Alan.
“I’ve had a look around the bar and it is an amazing job.”;
Another neighbour said: “Paul and Zoe certainly brighten up the street and it is amazing to see all the pirates turning up when they host a party.”;
This comes as one woman said her life has been “completely ruined” by her millionaire neighbour's
The woman said: “It is just the most beautiful peaceful place on .
“Absolute heaven, we were so looking forward to spending the end of our days there. It has been our dream for 30 years.”;
But she now fears her retirement will turn into “complete hell”; after the owner won approval to tear down his £2.2 million nearby and turn it into a modern glass fronted home similar to ones in across the water.
The woman said: “It is absolutely heartbreaking. We bought the house three decades ago and always planned to retire there.”
Other are also concerned it will bring “Sandbanks to Studland”;.
Elsewhere, homeowners are complaining about
Locals are mounting protests against the eye-catching mural covering a building in well-to-do Chiswick in west .
The colourful landmark in leafy Chiswick is believed to be lived in by a group of artists progressively transforming it over the past 20 years.
and previously said the artwork was there to tell “a story of her life”.
