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Anne of Cleeves.
Ham, egg and chips. (Salad wasn't mentioned on the menu. I couldn't give it away, so it went to waste).
Pint of Beacon Hill.
12th April 2018
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.
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
"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 ]
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.
The King & Castle pub located in the station buildings at Kidderminster Town station, SVR.
1st November 2018
Taken on Kodak XX motion picture film, camera used was a Nikon N80 with 50mm 1.4 lens
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at Brooklyn Park Pub in SE Portland
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Nikon F3, Ilford HP5+ black and white film, shot at ISO 1600, home-developed in Ilfotec DD-X, printed on fiber paper at Portland Community College darkroom
No longer a working pub unfortunately, but at least the facade has been preserved. Tontine Street, Folkestone, UK.
Old dockers pub surrounded by new-build offices and High-Rise Apartments. It has been standing since before 1827, in Pilot Street in an area of Belfast known as Sailortown.
There is evidence in the form of manacles attached to an upstairs wall that the building was once used as a ‘holding station’ for convicts before transport to Australia.
The place was also reportedly used as a ‘bordello’ during the early 1900’s.It survived a fire... which almost gutted the place. and two bomb attacks, one from
Hitler and one in the early years of the troubles.
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!
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
in Supplément à La France Graphique, décembre 1951.
Jacno, par Marcel Jacno, publié par Deberny & Peignot
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Pub in church street, dating from 1740 it was called the Blue Bell Inn when I visited in 2019, now after 14 months refurbishment re-named the Spirit Vaults (?? !!)
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