At the sign of the badger
Following on from Ray's post a few days ago flic.kr/p/2jyS7Pu this is a Hall & Woodhouse pub that is pretty much on home turf. Their well regarded Badger beers such as Tangle Foot are brewed at Blandford Forum, Dorset.
The name "The Martyrs Inn" commemorates the six agricultural labourers who, in the face of declining wages, were convicted of trying to create a trade union, The Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers in 1834. Their punishment was transportation to Australia. Perhaps less well known is the fact that after mass protests they were pardoned in 1836 and returned to England in the following years.
The pub itself was built in 1921 to replace a former dilapidated pub that was knocked down in the First World War to allow tanks to pass through Tolpuddle village!
At the sign of the badger
Following on from Ray's post a few days ago flic.kr/p/2jyS7Pu this is a Hall & Woodhouse pub that is pretty much on home turf. Their well regarded Badger beers such as Tangle Foot are brewed at Blandford Forum, Dorset.
The name "The Martyrs Inn" commemorates the six agricultural labourers who, in the face of declining wages, were convicted of trying to create a trade union, The Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers in 1834. Their punishment was transportation to Australia. Perhaps less well known is the fact that after mass protests they were pardoned in 1836 and returned to England in the following years.
The pub itself was built in 1921 to replace a former dilapidated pub that was knocked down in the First World War to allow tanks to pass through Tolpuddle village!