Pub/Cafe Gallery and the odd hotel!

[NewcastleFalcon]

T is for Turkey

and what a discovery for those who take a joy in odd place names,

Only in Yorkshire, a place named Goose Eye and a Pub called the Turkey Inn.

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

The Turkey in Enfield used to be an away venue for our darts team but it is long gone now and replaced by flats:

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And a trip to Gerrards Cross on Easter Monday would often find me in The Ugly Duckling:

BFTW

[NewcastleFalcon]

W is for Warbler

Well there is a pretty new place called the Warbler on the Wharf at Milton Keynes owned by that Hertfordshire outfit McMullens.

Some very inaccurate "Warbler" on the signage

https://www.mcmullens.co.uk/warbleronthewharf

regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

I think the London pub The George and Vulcher may be the best we can do for the 'V' :

BFTW

[NewcastleFalcon]

Totally agree Mick
V is for Vulture

The George and Vulture Hoxton

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

If it isn't a pub sign it ought to be, and we'd have an X bird pub!!!

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[mickthemaverick]

Definitely getting contrived here but it sort of works!!

BFTW

[NewcastleFalcon]

X is for PheoniX

Yes X is one of those letters where a bit of manufacturing has to go on.

Pleased to visit the Pheonix Inn at Stanhope on a nostalgia trip. Weardale was a bit of a journey from proper North West Durham. You used to have to get a bus to Durham, then one to Crook, and then on the Weardale Motor Services Coach to Stanhope to go fishing on a couple of miles of the Wear from Stanhope to Eastgate. Which establishment issued the permits for fishing...none other than the Pheonix Inn. I remember it as the Pheonix Hotel and it has had some name changes but I see it is a Listed Building now under the name Pheonix Inn

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/ ... ry/1278082

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Y is for Yaffle

If you know your Bagpuss you will know that Yaffle is a name for the Green Woodpecker. There was a pub in New Milton called The Oak and Yaffle and what a gorgeous bit of sign art this is by Peter J Oldreive

Sign Artist: Peter J Oldreive by Ray Scarfe, on Flickr

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

Simply because we are having a get together there on 5th January (everyone is welcome) as discussed here I am going to claim that the bird connection involves a certain female muppet and the letter requirement is met in the name The LaZy Pig in the Pantry:

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[myglaren]

One of the Avian pigs Mick?

[NewcastleFalcon]

Z is for RaZorbill

Completion of the task for me with a rough Video featuring Razorbill (Folk Band big in Tenby at the Manorbier Castle Inn)

Castle Inn Manorbier, Pembrokeshire

REgards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

There is some great artwork in pub signs and yesterday I discovered Peter J. Oldreive a sign artist whose work adorns and enhances many pubs and inns across the Country. I love his colour and style self-evident in the artwork for the Oak and Yaffle ( viewtopic.php?p=740082#p740082) which prompted me to discover more of his work.

There is an excellent selection here to browse through
https://www.flickr.com/groups/1205618@N21/pool/

and yes, jumping out from that page, one of my favourite pub names, and the icing on the cake superb sign artwork by none other than Peter J. Oldreive. This one is or was in Portsmouth, the most well known to me is at Birdlip Gloucestershire and there are currently 4 pubs of that name across the country.

Air Balloon, Mile End, taken Jan 1998, Sign Artist: PJ Oldreive by Pompey Ray, on Flickr

Regards Neil

[bobins]

You're going to have to be quick for The Air Balloon at Birdlip as its last day of trading is this New Year's eve, then it's going to be flattened for road improvements.

[NewcastleFalcon]

Yes it starts with driving past a new housing development at Blyth with a road called "Albatross Road". How ridiculous....when was the last Albatross seen in Blyth?.......A cormorant flies past as we are having our coffee overlooking the river. Why wasn't the road named Cormorant road? Much more appropriate.

As far as namings go the Cormorant gets a raw deal. How many pubs are named the White Swan, or Black Swan, The Pheasant, The Blackbird etc but is there one pub called "The Cormorant" I doubt it.

Now having discovered "pubsgalore" and the sign artist Peter J Oldreive I discover there is indeed a pub called the Cormorant, and it does have a sign by Mr Oldreive... 181 Castle Street Portchester Hampshire to be precise.

The Cormorant pub sign Portchester Hampshire UK by David Seall, on Flickr

Regards Neil