Residents and visitors have been popping into The Five Bells to enjoy its quirky speedboat feature.

The Five Bells on Salt Lane reopened last month after being bought by TV personality Max Halley, who announced he would put a speedboat in the garden.

The speedboat was the exact speedboat from the set of the TV show Bullseye, which he put in the pub garden for drinkers to sit in.

Max regularly appears as the 'sandwich expert' on the Channel 4 food programme Sunday Brunch.

About his first month in business, Max said: "‘I have had nothing but a hoot at the Five Bells since the day it opened!

"Long live Salisbury, long live the proper boozer, long live all our customers and LONG LIVE THAT BLOODY SPEEDBOAT."

He first announced his plans on a Sunday Brunch episode in September.

Read more: Sunday Brunch chef Max Halley to take over Salisbury pub

Live on-air, he said: "This is the biggest news in my life at the moment - I have bought a boozer in Salisbury and I'm going to put a speedboat in the garden.

"We're going to have it in the garden and let people have a pint sitting in the speedboat in the pub garden."

He said the pub will continue to be called The Five Bells, adding: "It is sacrilege to change a pub's name".

Max is the resident sandwich and condiment expert on Sunday Brunch, and he has appeared as a guest chef on ITV's This Morning.

He opened Max's Sandwich Shop in Stroud Green, a restaurant dedicated to sandwiches, in 2014.

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