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Southwood, Calgary

The community has three gasoline filling stations (with attached convenience stores), a Tim Hortons, Humpty's restaurant, several fast food outlets, two liquor stores, a Bentley's Pub, a branch of the Bank of Montreal, two dental offices, a Box brand grocery store, Planet Organic Market, Fabricland (Fabric and sewing supplies), Southwood Automotive car repair, a car wash and a dog wash.


Aswarby and Swarby

The Tally Ho Inn is the only pub/restaurant in the county of Lincolnshire to be listed in the Egon Ronay Guide 2006 that particularly commends the policy of sourcing produce locally.

Ayot Greenway

It continues through Sherrards Wood to the Red Lion pub on the Great North Road.

Bouth

The village's pub, the White Hart, was shown in the short-lived ITV sitcom Not with a Bang.

Coaley

Coaley has many amenities, including a 300 year old pub, the Fox and Hounds, the Coaley C of E Primary School, a church, a village hall, and a community shop, set up in recent years using the former reception classroom of the school.

Davy Byrne's pub

Davy Byrne's pub is situated at 21 Duke Street, Dublin 2, and was made famous in James Joyce's novel Ulysses.

Dickens Hill

Two of the most successful and popular characters in the history of EastEnders have been pub landlords Den and Angie Watts, played by Leslie Grantham and Anita Dobson.

Django Haskins

He moved north to study literature at Yale before relocating to Hangzhou, China, where he taught English and continued his musical adventure, playing songs he had written to audiences at the local pub who often could not understand a word of what he was playing, gaining him a larger insight to the finer points of song writing.

Doddinghurst

The village's amenities include a pair of closely linked schools (Doddinghurst Infant School and Doddinghurst CofE Junior School), All Saints Church dating back to the 13th century, the Willow pub (formerly the Moat) and a village hall.

Dominion House

Today it still holds to its old fashioned English pub style, covering its walls are antique knickknacks and traditional pub pictures.

Drinking and Driving Wrecks Lives

With a soundtrack of the Mungo Jerry song "In the Summertime" (one of the lines of which is "Have a drink, have a drive..."), a group of friends are drinking in the beer garden of a pub on a warm summer's evening.

Emo, County Laois

The village pub, named The New Inn (now called "The Gate House"), dates from the village’s foundation as does the Gothic Catholic Church which contains the tomb of Aline, the Lady Portarlington, with its recumbent effigy by Joseph Boehm.

Fairlie, North Ayrshire

These include the "Village Inn" (a pub and restaurant), a petrol station, a deli, a Chinese takeaway and a small gift and flower shop.

Frank Skinner

His father, who was born in West Cornforth, County Durham, played for Spennymoor United before the Second World War, and met his mother in a local pub after Spennymoor had played West Bromwich Albion in an FA Cup game in 1937.

Gem Archer

"We went to the pub and I couldn't stand not knowing if I was a part of the band. After less than half a pint of Guinness I said, 'What does Liam say?' And Noel said, 'It's my fucking band. I'll have who I want.'"

GI Partners

With $6 billion of capital under management, GI Partners owns assets ranging from chains of pubs and specialist care homes for children in Britain to nursing homes and wineries in California.

Graigwen

Graigwen is served by one pub - the Tŷ Mawr Hotel in Pantygraigwen, (which was used in the BBC Wales soap, Belonging), one club - the Pontypridd District Club, a garage and two news agents/grocery stores one of which previously served as Graigwen Post Office.

Haskell Free Library and Opera House

La Cure, a village divided between Switzerland and France; one hotel is bisected by the boundary, as are at least two residences and a pub.

Jeong Jun-ha

"Alcohol CEO" is also his nickname on this programme, a nickname he gained since he operates a Garaoke-pub in Gangnam-gu, Seoul called "Mong" (몽, 夢, means "Dream" in Korean).

Joseph Hansom

Hansom was born at 114 Micklegate, York (now the Brigantes pub) to a Roman Catholic family and baptised as Josephus Aloysius Handsom(e).

Killaloe, County Clare

Brendan Grace is an Irish Comedian who also has a house and a pub called Brendan Graces in Killaloe.

Lčovice

There is a kiosk in lower Lčovice which is a pub, where you can sit outside next to the Volynka and is perfect after a long walk (or a refreshing drink after cycling on the 1233 cycle route).

Matt Oakley

Oakley has always had a passion for wines and in 1999, met sommelier Barry Skarin, who has worked as Head Sommelier for Marco Pierre White and Michael Caines, in a pub.

Meir KA F.C.

Originally formed as the Sunday league team of the King's Arms pub in the Meir district, the club was later based in the neighbouring area of Meir Heath.

Ocean Falls, British Columbia

The school was closed for only three days; several teachers went to Bella Bella to obtain school desks and classes were held throughout the community, from the community centre to the Royal Canadian Legion branch pub (grade 12 students) to part of the Martin Inn, a 600 bed hotel.

Pendlebury railway station

It was located on Bolton Road (A666), opposite St. Augustine's Church and the former (appropriately named) Station Hotel pub which is nowadays the Isis Italian restaurant.

Plutonium borides

PuB2 is formed at 800 °C and has a similar structure to most other metal diborides.

Rhosllannerchrugog

This event was immortalised in the poem and song "The Cross Foxes" by Harri Webb, remembering the night when In Rhosllannerchrugog we drank the pub dry.

River Effra

After the Paxton Pub opposite the end of Gipsy Hill it captures water from Hamilton Road, forms the back garden line of Croxted road and joins the other branch at the South Circular where it now forms the sewers of Croxted Road, Dulwich Road, Dalberg Road, Effra Road, Electric Lane, Brixton Road, Harleyford street/road separated by the Kennington Oval.

Ronny Coutteure

He was the proprietor of the "pub-theatre" La ferme des hirondelles (Swallow Farm) in Fretin in northern France and he wrote and directed an opera, Les Contes d'un buveur de bière (Tales of a beer drinker) as well as teaching "biérologie" ("beer-ology").

Rooty

The name is taken from Basement Jaxx's regular club event held at a small pub in Brixton.

Rose Elinor Dougall

Dougall joined The Pipettes in 2003 after being introduced to the initial line-up by Monster Bobby at The Basketmakers pub in Brighton.

Sean's Bar

It claims to be the oldest pub in Ireland, dating back to 900, and received a certificate in 2004 from Guinness World Records repeating the claim.

Show of Strength Theatre Company

They have produced over 60 plays and established several new performance venues including the Showboat pub (Horfield), the Hen and Chicken pub (Bedminster), Quakers Friars (Broadmead), the Tobacco Factory (Southville) and Paintworks (Arnos Vale).

Splitting maul

It is also known as a beetle; there is a well known pub on the River Thames at Moulsford called the Beetle and Wedge.

Staxton

Other businesses in the village consist of the Hare and Hounds pub, which is over 200 years old built to serve passing horse drawn coaches and still receives trade from passing motorists on the A64, a butchers, a garage, a Fish and Chip Restaurant and Takeaway and Shell petrol station situated just outside the village as Staxton Services.

Tebworth

Colin Edwynn, actor who has appeared in Coronation Street, and Heartbeat, currently lives in and operates "The Queens Head" pub

The Bishops

The band formed in 2002 when twins Mike and Pete Bishop met drummer Chris Mcconville while working at the 'The Kings Head', a pub close to the local YMCA in Barbican where they were living at the time.

The Border Blasters

The group started in 1976 playing their first gig at Gruene Hall, and played consistently in and around Austin, Texas at popular venues such as the Armadillo World Headquarters, The Split Rail, The Broken Spoke, The Skyline Club, Saxon Pub, including a two-year standing show at Raven's Garage on Sixth Street (Austin, Texas).

The Complete Compleat Enchanter

1989, US, Baen Books ISBN 0-671-69809-5, Pub date March 1989, Paperback as The Complete Compleat Enchanter with a preface by David Drake

The Crown, Bristol

Since the closure of the Eclipse in July 2006 the Crown now rivals the Hatchet as an Alternative pub, which is popular with goths, punks, rockers, metalheads and emos.

The Fortune of War Public House

British pop band Pet Shop Boys refer to the pub in their song "The resurrectionist" from their 2006 single I'm with stupid.

The Rovers

Rovers Return Inn, a fictional pub on the British television soap opera Coronation Street.

The Trout Inn

The pub features in Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited and in Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse series, which was written and filmed in and around Oxford.

Tower Hill, West Midlands

The only pub, The Towers, boasts a sign carved by William Bloye.

Trocadero, Birmingham

The Trocadero, 17 Temple Street, Birmingham, England, currently a pub, is a dazzling demonstration of the use of coloured glazed tile and terracotta in the post-Victorian era of architecture.

Tyrrelstown

Other local amenities include two national schools (one under the patronage of Educate Together and a second under the patronage of the Catholic Church ), a creche, a Lidl supermarket, a Superquinn supermarket, a newsagent, a pub, an off-licence, a restaurant, several fast food outlets, a pharmacy, two medical centres, a dental practice, a solicitor's office, a coffee shop, and a hairdresser and barber shop.

Vale Special

The Vale Motor Company was set up in 1931 by Pownoll Pellew (later 9th Viscount Exmouth) as a 'gentleman's hobby' in a rented workshop behind the Warrington pub in Maida Vale.

Whorlton, County Durham

Situated near the River Tees and to the east of Barnard Castle, Whorlton has a pub called the 'Bridge Inn' due to the 19th century suspension bridge situated just outside the village.

Ystrad Aeron

One pub, the Vale of Aeron, was reportedly a favourite watering hole of Dylan Thomas when he lived in nearby Talsarn in the 1940s.


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