Pubs: A Collection of Hotel, Inn, and Tavern Signs in Great Britain and Ireland: to Which Are Added a Few Foreign Café Signs
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Pubs: A Collection of Hotel, Inn, and Tavern Signs in Great Britain and Ireland: to Which Are Added a Few Foreign Café Signs
Inn signs -- Great Britain
35. A fine brand of hops used to be imported from Würtemburg.
36. Best known as a landmark in the University boat race.
37. Said to derive its sign from Queen Elizabeth having sheltered
there. Called in parish books of 1586 'The Queen's Tree.' (Larwood.)
38. Larwood states that this sign is very rare. He gives it the
epithet of gloomy, referring to Psalm cxxxvii. 2.
39. Probably alludes to the Druids.
40. From Virginia came the first tobacco brought into England.
41. The best known Tabard was that inn in Southwark whence Chaucer and
his party started for Canterbury. The tabard, a sleeveless jacket,
still worn by heralds.
42. Does this refer to the thirsty reputation of cobblers?
43. Cravat. Derived from Croats. Introduced into France 1636.
(Brewer.)
44. A sign of great antiquity. It is found in 1562, and was probably
originally a tobacconist's sign.
The Calves Head Club met at the Black Boy, Newgate Street. Variations
of the sign are the Arab Boy, East Sheen; the Black Boys, Aylsham.
45. Stow mentions a Black Bell in Fish Street Hill.
46. This may refer to some ghostly hound.
47. This inn is extinct. The name is a variant of leather bottle.
48. The Black Lion appears in the arms of Queen Philippa, Consort of
Edward III. Also borne by Owen Glendower.
49. The badge of Richard II.
In the garden of this house is the old sign that used to be in
Piccadilly on site of the present Criterion.
50. The White Horse in Kensington was frequented by Addison.
51. This house figures in the adventures of Mr. Pickwick.
52. Badge of Edward IV.
53. Refers probably to Robin Hood, or combined as Green Man and Still
was found as a herbalist's sign. (Dr. Brewer.)
54. Lincolnshire seems very partial to blue; we find the Blue Man,
Boar, Dog, Fox, Bull. Larwood also mentions in the same county--Blue
Cow and Greyhound.
55. Larwood supposes this sign to refer to the marriage of James I.
with Anne of Denmark.
56. Badge of Cadwallader, ancestor of the House of Tudor.
57. The Red or Roan Horse. Washington Irving's Inn. The badge of Pedro
of Castille, father-in-law of John of Gaunt.
58. The House of Martlesham has a lion painted in Post Office Red
supposed to originate from a Dutch vessel taken at Sole Bay 1672.
59. Thus the old nursery rhyme
I had a bonny nag
His name was dapple grey
He would bring me to an alehouse
A mile out of the way.
Pope also refers to 'Dappled Flanders mares.'
60. In 1861 there were in the West Riding alone no fewer than 77 inns,
etc., bearing this sign. (Larwood.)
61. This sign appears to be unique. Pied.--Variegated; spotted like a
magpie.
62. Sorrel. A reddish-brown colour. French--saure.
This and the Chestnut Horse, Great Finborough, refer to the County
Breed of Suffolk Horses.
63. This inn bears a pictorial sign with the words 'intactum sileo.'
Larwood also mentions Bell and Bullock; Bell and Lion; Bell and
Candlestick.
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