● ●THE SIGN · CHANGED WHENEVER WE FEEL LIKE IT● ●
go on — drag the letters about. everyone does.
Uplands ·
Swansea ·
SA2

Noah's Yard

A bar. A café. An art gallery. A chess venue. A table-tennis arena.
Honestly, it depends what day you turn up.

the one with the rusty sign, opposite-ish the chip shop
What's On
Every Monday

Jazz Night

MONDAYS.
SINCE FOREVER.

Proper live jazz in the front room. Turn up early if you want a sofa, turn up late if you like standing near the fire looking mysterious.

no tickets. just come.
This week's kitchen

Pop-Up Food

A rotating cast of pop-up kitchens — tapas one week, Cuban the next. Who's cooking right now? Check the sign out front, or ask at the bar. It changes. That's the point.

currently: tapas (probably)
Deadly serious

Chess Club

We don't just have chess boards — we field an actual team in the West Wales Chess League. Come play. Beginners welcome, hustlers tolerated.

we take the chess more seriously than the decor
Find Your Jazz Name

Everyone Who Plays Here Needs One

Fill this in and receive your official jazz stage name. Same details, same name, every time — that's how destiny works.


stays on your phone. we never see it — we're a bar, not facebook.
Appearing this Monday · one night only
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Noah's Yard · Jazz Mondays · Uplands
The Stuff
🏓 Ping pong out the back (two tables) 🎱 Pool upstairs ♟ Chess everywhere 🔥 A real fire 🐕 Dogs welcome (obviously) 🎨 Art on every wall (one might be a Banksy. might.) 🍺 Gower ales on cask ☕ Decent coffee in daylight hours
The Sign Game

Beat The Sign, Win The Sign

Each week we put a phrase on the board — a headline, a quote, whatever's been annoying us. You rearrange its letters into the funniest reply you can manage.

Rarer letters score more. Use every letter for the FULL BOARD bonus. Top scores go to the judges — and the funniest wins a pint, and your words on the actual sign for a week.

One entry per human per week · closes Sunday midnight · judged on funniness by staff plus one guest judge (this week: the chess club captain) · 18+, there's a pint involved · winner's words go on the real sign, so keep it just about printable

Your reply — tap letters below to build it
The letters you've got
0 0 letters used ★ FULL BOARD +25
The Chess Corner

Warm Up Before You Face The League Team

We field an actual team in the West Wales Chess League. This is the Yard Bot — it plays like a regular. Choose how many it's had, and you're white, so you start.

Your move.
 

The Room Upstairs

A function room for birthdays, gigs, wakes, launches, club nights, and meetings that deserve better than a Zoom call. Reasonably priced — suspiciously so, according to reviews.

ask us about it before someone else books your date
Enquire about the room
Find Us

Where & When

38 Uplands Crescent, Uplands, Swansea SA2 0PG
01792 447360

Mon–Sunmidday-ish till midnight
the internet currently lists three different opening times for us. this page is the true one.

The Only Directions You Need

Head up to Uplands. Look for the rusty metal sign with the magnetic letters spelling something that made someone laugh on a Tuesday. That's us. If the letters spell something rude, that wasn't staff. Probably.

Map it