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The Empress Pub

I just loved this building, I talked with the owner for about 30 minutes, and he was telling me all the history. He said the pub was called "The Empress" after a ship, but he thought it was more to do with Queen Victoria as In 1877, Benjamin Disraeli, Conservative Prime Minister, had Queen Victoria proclaimed her Empress of India.

 

However, I said look at the back of the building and the widows and the shape of it, I said it looks like the back of an old galleon ship. "Like below" and he wow I never looked at it that way before......

 

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Uploaded on April 1, 2024
Taken on March 24, 2024