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1985 Handsworth riots

The riots were reportedly sparked by the arrest of a man near the Acapulco Cafe, Lozells and a police raid on the Villa Cross public house in the same area.

Abington Pigotts

The largest building on the high street is the village's one pub, The Pig and Abbott, an early-18th century inn which was known as the Darby and Joan from the early 19th century until the 1980s.

Barnet

High Barnet is home to an Odeon cinema, the Barnet Museum, the All Saints Art Centre, the traditional annual Barnet Fair, which was chartered in Medieval times, the Ravenscroft local park and Barnet recreational park, a now disused well that was frequented by, among others, Samuel Pepys, and many restaurants and public houses.

Carlo Gatti

In 1867, he acquired a public house in Villiers Street named "The Arches", under the arches of the elevated railway line leading to Charing Cross station.

Cat and Fiddle Inn

The Cat and Fiddle Inn is the second-highest inn or public house in England (the Tan Hill Inn being the highest).

Chinese Australian

After his arrival he spent some time farming before, in 1829 he became prominent as, the publican of The Lion in Parramatta.

Chunk Colbert

On January 7, 1874, Colbert and Allison entered the Clifton House, an Inn in Colfax County, New Mexico.

Crown Liquor Saloon

The Crown Liquor Saloon is a public house in Belfast, Northern Ireland, located in Great Victoria Street.

Diana Darvey

Their marriage ended in divorce a few years later, and Diana later ended up back in England where, at one point, she ran a pub in Bodicote, Oxfordshire.

Donna Ludlow

She works as a barmaid at The Queen Victoria public house and takes to anonymously ringing up the Samaritans, where Kathy volunteers, but Kathy starts to suspect the caller's identity.

Druid's Head Inn, Monmouth

The building served as a public house during most of its history, but for the last several decades has been the headquarters of the Monmouth Rugby Football Club.

Edale

Edale is best known to walkers as the start (or southern end) of the Pennine Way, and to less ambitious walkers as a good starting point for evening or day walks, accessible by public transport from Sheffield or Manchester and with two pubs supplying real ale and food.

Farmers Club

Its inaugural meeting on 9 December 1842 was held in a pub, the Hereford Arms, in King Street, Covent Garden.

Ffilharmonious Jug Band

The band first played at the old Coach and Horses Public House on the A-40 in East Wycombe (High Wycombe area) England in 1966.

Georgina Rylance

At the age of eighteen, Rylance was recruited by a model scout who met her in a pub on the Portobello Road, London, during the Notting Hill Carnival.

King William Ale House

The King William Ale House is an historic public house situated on King Street in Bristol, England.

Melling, Merseyside

Melling Rock contains a public house as well as St Thomas and the Holy Rood, a High Church and part of the Diocese of Liverpool.

Mop wedding

One explanation for the unique name of the Mops & Brooms public house in Well End, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire is that it commemorates mop and broomstick weddings which once took place there.

River Wylye

The Wylye valley is a picturesque valley dotted with small chocolate box villages composed of thatched cottages and stone-built pubs.

Sam Hurst

He was born in Marsden, in Yorkshire, England, but in 1857 moved to Stalybridge, where he took a job in the local iron foundry and worked as a bouncer at the White House public house.

Selham

Selham contains The Three Moles, one of the smallest pubs in Sussex along with the church of St James which is largely 11th century having never undergone any major rebuilding.

Shutford

From the collapse of the plush industry to the 1960s Shutford declined, losing its school, its public house, and for a time having no Vicar.

Steam clock

In 1859, the engineer and businessman John Inshaw took over the public house on the corner of Morville Street and Sherborne Street in Ladywood, Birmingham, UK.

Ted Ballard

He became manager of the Clarence public house in Hastings for a few years before becoming a franchising officer for Green Shield Stamps during the 1970s.

The Old Bull and Bush

The Old Bull and Bush is a Grade II listed public house near Hampstead Heath in London which gave its name to the music hall song "Down at the old Bull and Bush" sung by Florrie Forde.

Trowell

Conveniently close to the geographical centre of England, the village was found to be far from the a chocolate box idyll: there was no village green, and its three public houses had closed.

Victoria Arms, Marston

The Victoria Arms (known locally as the Vicky Arms) is a public house on the eastern bank of the River Cherwell at the end of Mill Lane close to Old Marston, northeast of Oxford, England.

Vigo, Kent

Its name comes from the public house situated on the main road, which commemorates the Battle of Vigo Bay, a sea battle during the War of the Spanish Succession.

Wick, West Sussex

An Alleyway or Twitten that passes by the site of the former True Blue public house, is known locally as 'Dark Alley' due to the black clinker surface laid down along its route.

William Withering

In July 2011 a J D Wetherspoon public house opened in Withering's birthplace, Wellington, and has been named after him.

Ysgol Gymraeg Pwll Coch

The name 'Pwll Coch' means 'red pool' in Welsh and refers to a pool in the River Ely and a hamlet which grew nearby, close to the modern Tŷ Pwll Coch public house.


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Bank Hall Action Group

The first meeting of the Bank Hall Action Group was held on 26 July 1995 at The De Trafford Arms public house in Croston.

Baylis Road

On the 16th of November 1802, Colonel Edward Marcus Despard and his co-conspirators were arrested at the Oakley Arms public house at 72 Oakley Street for their part in the Despard Plot.

Bear at Home

The Bear at Home is a 16th-century public house in the South Oxfordshire (England) village of North Moreton, near Wallingford.

Black Castle Public House

Black Castle Public House is a historic building in Junction Rd, Brislington, Bristol, England.

Bully's Acre, Dublin

In 1953 the arm ended up on display in the Hideout, a public house in Kilcullen, County Kildare, for many years.

Burley, Leeds

The Haddon Hall public house was used for filming in the Beiderbecke Tapes while Burley Park railway station is sometimes used as Hotton railway station in Yorkshire Television soap opera Emmerdale.

Carbrook, South Yorkshire

Carbrook borders the former industrial village of Tinsley and has preserved a few older buildings such as the Sheffield Bus Museum, historic Carbrook Hall public house, the stone-built Carbrook School and steelworks Tinsley Wire.

Craigmillar

One of the few retained buildings of significance is "The White House" former public house, an Art Deco listed building which was restored with gallery space inside in 2011.

Crown Hotel, Nantwich

As of 2009, the Crown is an eighteen-bedroom hotel and public house in the Best Western chain, with two AA stars.

Cutlers' Hall

Prior to 1638 the Cutlers met in rented accommodation with tradition saying that this was a public house on Fargate, although there is no documentary evidence to back this up.

Darranlas

The local public house in the area is the Napiers arms, named after General Charles James Napier.

Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle

The Betsey Wynne public house and restaurant in Swanbourne, Buckinghamshire, was built in 2006 by the Fremantle Trust run by Thomas Henry Fremantle and his father John Fremantle, 5th Baron Cottesloe.

Esh, County Durham

Furthermore good reviews from The Good Pub Guide reflect well on the village and the public house.

Foreglen

The village is a small linear settlement with a mix of public authority and private sector housing, and a number of local services and facilities including a local primary school, church, shop, post office, public house, and recreational facilities at O'Brien's GAC playing fields.

Great Tower Street

A public house called the Czar's Head used to stand at No. 48, so named because Peter the Great used to drink there when he was learning shipbuilding at Deptford.

Great Warford

The core area could be said to be the area encompassing the Stag’s Head public house, Warford Crescent and Warford Hall.

Gulval

Gulval has two football teams competing in the Trelawny League; two cricket teams competing in the Penwith area League; the Old Inn - a public house in Gulval Churchtown – was given to the Coldstream Guards Association in memory of Capt Michael Lempriere Bolitho and renamed “The Coldstreamer” (Capt Bolitho was killed in HMS Walney, a Royal Navy tug; her task was to crash through the boom at the entrance to Oran Harbour in Operation Torch on 8 November 1942).

Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton

Carlton Way, a road in north Cambridge that follows the path of the Roman Akeman Street, and the public house The Carlton Arms on the same road, are named after him.

Hollinwood, Greater Manchester

Prolific twentieth-century hangman Albert Pierrepoint owned a public house on Manchester Road named "Help the Poor Struggler".

Isel, Cumbria

Isel is a rural community, with a church, a manorial Hall and several farms ranging from dairy to poultry, but lacking basic local facilities having no shop, public house or post office.

James Caldwell Prestwich

Several of Prestwich's buildings survive including the Central Buildings on Bradshawgate which were built for the Leigh Friendly Co-operative Society, Leigh Technical School and Library on Railway Road, Leigh Town Hall, Leigh Infirmary and numerous shop, public house and business premises and houses in Pennington.

James Catnach

It consisted of the "Lion Inn", a disused public house and it’s grounds at Dancer’s Hill, South Mimms, near Barnet in Middlesex, leaving the business to his sister (now)Mrs.

John H. Stracey

There is a Public House in the Village of Briston, Norfolk called the John H Stracey in tribute to the boxer.

John King, Baron King of Wartnaby

The young John King was brought up in a small property attached to a public house in Dunsfold, Surrey.

Johnstown, Dublin

Ulster Bank, newsagency, travel agency, cafe, florist and An Post sub-post office, auctioneers, hardware shop, boutique, EBS Building Society branch, Paddy Power bookmakers, Eurospar supermarket, pharmacist, Xtra-vision video rental store, The Graduate (Public house)

Joseph Arch

Expecting fewer than thirty in the Stag's Head public house in Wellesbourne, Arch found on his arrival that there were over 2,000 agricultural labourers present to hear him speak, on a dark, wet, winter night, the labourers holding flickering lanterns on bean poles to illuminate the proceedings.

Kennington, Oxfordshire

The two exceptions are the new houses at the site of the former public house The Scholar Gypsy (named after the local poet, Matthew Arnold) and flats on the site of the former Kennington Service Station.

Lonsdale Belt

Hood, who died in 1992, had displayed the latter above the bar at the Bell public house in Tanworth-in-Arden of which he was the licensee.

Moodiesburn

There is also a public house (the Silver Larch), a Knights of Saint Columba social club and a coffee shop called The Coffee House.

Mounting block

At Walton-on-the-Hill in Lancashire the old church font was set up as a mounting stone outside the nearby public house.

Never Miss a Beat

The video shows the band performing in The Barge Pole Public House, based in Abbey Wood, South East London, with sporadic glimpses of people wearing masks occurring frequently throughout.

Plush, Dorset

Plush consists of a few thatched cottages, a public house, a Regency manor house and a small church dedicated to St John the Baptist; the church was designed in 1848 by Benjamin Ferrey, a Gothic Revival architect and close friend of Pugin.

Portsmouth Rugby Football Club

After the end of the hostilities Portsmouth was left with no ground, as Rat Lane had been taken over by the War Office, and found temporary accommodation at a pitch in Denmead with changing rooms being provided by the Fox and Hounds Public House.

Prospect of Whitby

In the comic book The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Mina Harker pauses in front of the public house and says it brings back memories.

Redhill Grange

The 'ock n Dough is the only public house in the community, owned by Greene King Breweries,.

Roger Frogley

He made his debut on 14 April 1928 at High Beach motorcycle speedway located inside of Epping Forest, England; the track was behind The King's Oak public house.

Royal Oak, North Yorkshire

The place itself is marked by a public house, also named The Royal Oak and a railway crossing on the Yorkshire Coast Line.

Seán Rafferty

He married Peggy Laing in 1947 and the next year moved with her to Iddesleigh, Devon, where he was landlord of the "Duke of York" public house.

Sir Arthur Pease, 1st Baronet

Pease eventually also became chairman of Middlesbrough Estate Ltd, North-Eastern Improved Dwellings Company, William Whitwell & Co, and the Durham & North Yorkshire Public House Trust, and a director of the North Eastern Railway Company/London and North Eastern Railway Company, Lloyds Bank, Horden Collieries Ltd, the Forth Bridge Railway Company, the National Benzole Company, and a number of others.

Sophia Gardens

As well as the Glamorgan County Cricket Ground, Sophia Gardens also contains the Sport Wales National Centre, Y Mochin Du public house, an exhibition area, a car park with coach parking facilities and also provides vehicular access, via Sophia Close, to the caravan and camping site in Pontcanna Fields.

Stag and Hounds Public House

The Stag and Hounds Public House is on Old Market Street, Old Market, Bristol.

Swear box

Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker played customers in a public house who keep swearing and are repeatedly told to put coins in a tin by a barmaid.

The George Inn

The George Inn, Southwark, a public house established in the medieval period

The Peterloo Group

The first meeting was held in May 1957 in a hired room above the Town Hall Hotel, a Victorian gothic public house in Tib Lane adjacent to Albert Square, - and close to St Peter's Square where in 1819 the infamous Peterloo Massacre had taken place, and from which the group took its name.

Twyford, Buckinghamshire

There is one public house, one general store and Post Office called Grange Stores, and a Chinese, Thai and English takeaway called Lucky Star.