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There is no shortage of pleasant drinking establishments in Harpenden. To visit them all in one day would indeed be a `staggering feat (feet ?)`.
A bright and sunny yet very muddy cross country walk out to the Royal Standard of England (& back again via a slightly diffetent equally muddy route), total distance about 14.3km
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Royal Standard of England, Englands oldest freehouse:
In Roman Britain, Rome encouraged the Saxon ex-legionaries to settle here in the Chilterns Catuvellauni Kingdom. Families were granted land on which to build and remnants of Iron Age hill forts can be seen near Gerrards Cross and West Wycombe. The Romans started a brick and tile kiln industry in this area, which lasted for around 1400 years. Roman power had ended by 410AD and many more settlers came from Northern Europe - mostly German tribes, Angles, Jutes and Saxons. Taking a walk in the footpaths across the road towards Lude Farm you will see remains of tiles in the soil from an old Roman brick kiln. The heavily wooded Chilterns became an area of resistance by Romano-Celtic Britons tribes that were pushed off their lands by these new settlers. The Saxons were huge ale drinkers coming from lands rich in barley. King Alfred of Wessex had a deer park here and the West Saxons brewed ale here on this site because they had a good supply of water from the old Romano-British well in the garden. The Saxon alewife (the brewer was nearly always a woman) would put a green bush up on a pole to let the locals know the ale was ready. The Brewster’s cottage became the alehouse because it was used as the meeting house for cottagers and tile-makers in the hamlet, who farmed and worked communally by sharing the open fields and woods. Here they could resolve any disputes, barter and make a toast to the goddess of barley. To drink water until 1900’s was to risk your life. Beer was the safest drink -We think it still is!
England consisted of a mix of Anglo-Saxons and Celtic Britons over the next five centuries who eventually united when faced with the threat of Viking invaders. In 1009 and 1010 the last Viking raids took place, they arrived by their longboats along the river Thames at Hedsor Wharf. Here, there was an old Saxon palisade fort where the old Roman bridge crossed the Thames on the Camlet Way. Our Saxon alehouse survived the raids of the Dark Ages because of its secluded location just out of reach of the Thames. The alehouse kept its independence as a Freehouse and avoided being incorporated in the large Lude Estate across the road from the pub, which then belonged to the old Wessex family - the Godwines. Earl Harold Godwine became King Harold II who fell at the Battle of Hastings. The first Royal Standard of England banner was a gold dragon – the same symbol was used as the war banner of the royal house of Wessex. The Norman Conquest was a military expedition without settlers, so life for the alehouse did not change from 1066 (Despite the fact that the Norman rulers thought the Anglo-Saxons drank too much ale!). The alehouse was one of the few places that people could be free of the burden of their new feudal rulers.
Nobby, Darling Downs, Queensland.
Extract from the Hotels internet History Page.
Rudd’s Pub was built in 1893 and was originally called the “Davenporter” Hotel. The name was changed to Rudd’s Pub in the 1980’s in recognition of the author Steele Rudd.
The hotel itself is unique and still retains the character and charm of a hotel from a bygone era. The walls tell a photographic story of days gone by and memorabilia covers the walls and ceilings. Farming implements from long ago, tools that your grandfather may have used, bottles, kitchen utensils, books and many other interesting items too numerous to mention. Tourists have likened it to eating in a museum.
Steele Rudd (real name Arthur Hoey Davis) lived in Nobby for a period of time and folklore says he used to sit in front of the fireplace in our heritage room and pen some of his Dad and Dave” stories.
Nobby is also the home of Sister Elizabeth Kenny who pioneered the treatment of infantile paralysis (polio). The hotel has a wall devoted to her wonderful work and she is buried in the Nobby Cemetery.
You can find detailed histories of Steele Rudd, his Dad and Dave characters and Sister Kenny on the internet of course.
The village sign of Brancaster, Norfolk stands on the south-west corner of the main crossroads, opposite Holme View. There was a Roman settlement here named Branodunum . The Saxon Shore fort at Brancaster, and accompanying area (much of which was destroyed during the construction of a locally opposed housing development in the 1970s) is not visible now, and remains mainly untouched. The garrison at Brancaster was made up of cavalry from Dalmatia . Native Roman centurions and officers were rarely posted to such remote places unless deemed necessary for disciplinary reasons.
Numerous theories exist as to what the Roman presence would have made or exploited in the area, in particular, the natural harbour that the fort would have been very close to at that time. Theories have connected it with amber although a more likely cargo would have been grain and oysters .
Admiral Horatio Nelson (born at nearby Burnham Thorpe) is said to have learnt to sail, as a young child, in the gentle creeks and channels near to Brancaster.
The ghost of his nurse is said to haunt the remaining village pub, "The Ship".
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"Often described as Scotland’s most haunted pub, part of The Banshee Labyrinth is located in some of the city’s underground vaults. It is also rumoured to be occupied by a banshee! The story goes that a group of workmen once heard a blood-curdling scream coming from the depths of the pub and a few hours later one of the men found out that a member of his family had died. There are also reports of drinks flying off tables and smashing into walls." [ inlingua-edinburgh.co.uk ]
The Scarlet Ibis Pub serves the local logging community at Holberg on northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
The King & Castle pub located in the station buildings at Kidderminster Town station, SVR.
1st November 2018
The Shipperies pub is located on Durning Road in Kensington,Liverpool.
It was built to accommodate visitors to the International Exhibition of Navigation, Travelling, Commerce and Manufacture (known as the Shipperies Exhibition) which held in the nearby Exhibition Hall on Edge Lane in 1886.
RICH chapter in Sydney's pub culture will come to an end this weekend when Harald and Trish Muller pour their last beers at the iconic East Sydney Hotel.
All they hope is that the commitment they made 15 years ago to keep one of Sydney's oldest pubs forever free of pokies, doesn't eventually follow them out the door.
When pokies were introduced to pubs in 1999, the Mullers were one of the few publicans to reject them. It was a decision that has afforded the pub an icon status among rivals.
"I refused to take part in ripping off working class people," Mr Muller says.
"And that's what they were designed to do. They were designed to take money off families who can least afford it."
It was this decision, they claim, that has been the key to the success and survival of one of Sydney's oldest pubs, first built on the corner of Crown and Cathedral streets in 1856 as the Shamrock Hotel.
"We said we would keep it in the tradition of what a pub was designed for in the first place…a wonderful meeting place," he says.
"And we have proven the point that you can make a good living out of a pub without pokies."
But after 35 years, they have finally sold out of the pub business. "We want to now enjoy the fruits of our labour," Muller says.
That labour included many days and nights working behind their own bar.
"It's probably why we didnt go broke, " Muller jokes.
"But in all that time, we have never had a fight in this pub, we've never had security. And we've never had a pokie machine.
"It's sad to leave but, it was time to move on, to do something different."
The new owners, a Sydney family, are believed to be committed to keeping the pokie ban.
Source: The Telegraph
Barcaldine, Queensland. The pub was opened in 1887 by the Lennon family from Ireland. It was the second Railway Pub. This pub and its forebears had a propensity for burning down, several times in fact, even while it was being rebuilt. Destroyed 1896, 1927 and again in 1929 when a rebuild was occurring. It seems like its run of bad luck ended there. How many Railway pubs in Australia, well, google will tell you!
A road train loaded with cattle is just entering the shot to the right.
sat the camera on timer mode on the bench in the pub right in front of our snoozing hound for a long exposure so no flash to disturb the sleeping pooch!
Wolfgang and Helen, mine hosts at the Buck Inn at Chop Gate in the heart of the North York Moors provide the club with camping in their garden. The weekend was notable for high winds and rain which seem to be plaguing the entire country these days. In the picture Lance (our meet organiser - may constant light shine upon him) can be seen among the array of nine tents braving the elements beneath the rounded summits of Cock Howe and Green Howe running north along the western rim of Bilsdale. Tonight we enjoyed a marvelous three course traditional German dinner washed-down with laughter, much good cheer and just for authenticity - a splash or two of Dortmund Export - libations to the gods of Donner und Blitzen!..
I'm out in my faithful Terra Nova Laser Competition Tent closest to camera on the right of the paving stones, slept like a log.
in Supplément à La France Graphique, décembre 1951.
Jacno, par Marcel Jacno, publié par Deberny & Peignot
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The Riva.
She only managed to eke two pints of Pedigree from the cask before it ran out. So it was just Hobgoblin available. But I suppose we were lucky as the pub had only just reopened after a long period of closure.
4th May 2017