Pub/Cafe Gallery and the odd hotel!

[NewcastleFalcon]

Here is "The Den from Pubsgalore....marked as closed

https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/49471/

Regards Neil

[Dormouse]

I was once asked what my favourite pub in Leven was and I said The Dreel in Ainster. That pretty much sums up bars in and around Leven, in my opinion.

[bobins]

The publicity stunt!

https://whatpub.com/pubs/HIP/690/old-th ... talybridge

About the Pub

Comfortable open plan lounge bar on two levels. A revival of the longest pub name in the country for Stalybridge (the original pub with this name was on Astley Street, and this pub was previously named the Stalybridge Tavern). The pub with the longest name is now a few doors away from the pub with the shortest name - the 'Q'. Live music features at weekends.

2021 view
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.48450 ... 384!8i8192

Regards Neil

Disappointing they've not got a swinging sign with their pub's name on it

[Dormouse]

Here is "The Den from Pubsgalore....marked as closed

https://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/49471/

Regards Neil

It has opened and closed, opened and closed and is currently being refurbed after being open this summer past.

[Dormouse]

This article about Duxford Pubs and Alehouses is on the BBC News Website today.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-c ... e-64192338

[myglaren]

Saw this earlier, a pub but I forgot to change the title and can't remember where it is.

The Blackfriar

Google says The Blackfriar, Billingsgate Market/Spitalfields.

[NewcastleFalcon]

This little resource the Lost Pubs Project, has helped track down The Butcher's Arms in Toft Lincolnshire.

https://www.closedpubs.co.uk/lincolnshi ... sarms.html

Here it was! Its residential now but Maurice (MoMag) today gave it a mention on the AA Village Signs thread.
viewtopic.php?p=748866#p748866

The Toft sign was, until recently, on a private house that had been a pub, it must have closed in the 50’s. I started drinking in about 62-63 (aged 15-16) and it was closed before then. Pubs are almost a thing of the past now!

Geograph Stamped Image
The old village public house at Toft dates back to the early 19th century and was once known as the Butcher’s Arms when the landlord was also a butcher although now closed and converted for use as a private residence.

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Odd Pub Names, and a pub in one of the 70 vilages which still have an AA Village Sign, th the last visit of streetview cameras on the wall of Rose Cottage just down from the Pub on the opposite side of the road. Our AA Village Signs thread refers... viewtopic.php?p=748951#p748951

The Blind Fiddler at Anstey.
http://theblindfiddler.co.uk/

There is a link on the geograph site to the story of the Fiddler...and also here

https://www.hertsmemories.org.uk/conten ... er-anstey

"The Blind Fiddler", Anstey

© Copyright Lorraine and Keith Bowdler and
licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

..and if you ever find yourself in Ireland, You can enjoy a Guinness, and prop your bike up against the wall and take a picture of the old AA direction sign to boot.

Geograph Stamped image

Neil

[mickthemaverick]

I came across a pub with an unusual name on the way home from Benenden this morning. The pub name is more familiar to most of us as a parliamentary procedure I'm sure!!

Own work

[Gibbo2286]

Hundreds is an old area type, here we have The Hundred of St Briavels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Briavels_Hundred

[NewcastleFalcon]

..and todays Pub of the Day is this, but why

Geograph Stamped Image

Are you sitting comfortably ...

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

..and todays Pub of the Day is this, but why



Are you sitting comfortably ...

Right I will have to assume you are sitting comfortably...then I'll begin...
Today, if you click on Browser on Geograph without any selections, Geograph throws up a page of images.
First one up was the very interesting Pub with the very interesting shape called "The Crown" as per the picture.
The very definition of Pub of the Day and a worthy selection already.

Now lets see what the accompanying text for the image was.

The Crown by N Chadwick For TQ1875, taken 2023-02-18
A few years ago I read a book by Mark Mason "Walking the lines" in which he walked the route of the London Underground lines, overground. I will repeat this visiting all 272 stations (some more than once). My route tries to follow the line of the railway as closely as possible, using footpaths and roads, deviations are made to make the walk more "interesting".

See other images of Walking the lines

Now that ticks my own interesting box and an added bonus to the Selection of the Crown. You cant beat a bit of an odd pointless but interesting quest, and congratulations to our N Chadwick for dreaming it up.

Yes and the "See other images of "Walking the lines" link on the geograph page reveals this

1,434 Images in the quest.
https://www.geograph.org.uk/browser/#!/ ... e+lines%22

If this was the old days and he had to go to the chemist to get the film developed it would have cost him a fortune

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

What are the chances of that happening...Pub of the Day...the Crown Lower Mortlake Road Richmond, has this image first up on its Facebook page.

Number noticers unliklely co-incidence

and unrelated earlier today on the Energy Matters Thread

Number noticers moment

Neil

[CitroJim]

The Crown and Sceptre near Water End in Hertfordshire, between Leighton Buzzard and Hemel Hempstead, where Mick and I went for lunch today... Rain meant we sat inside...

Very, very highly recommended. Great food and very friendly