When was back in the day?
I used to go in there around 1989/90 when I was at Lancashire Polytechnic.
A pint of black death - half Guinness/half Old Tom - went down very nicely, happy days.
1970's
The heritage of pubs
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1970's
Looks like I missed all the fun then.
snorri
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- East coast, up a bit.
Not in a pub, but you really must visit the public conveniences at the head of the ferry pier in Rothesay, Isle of Bute
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Unfortunately the heritage is aslo being eroded in other ways.
Pub signs were a combination of traditional names, local history, culture and moral tales
When Greene King decided to remove all its pub signs for a generic company log this was a direct attack on the history
The other problem is the PC Brigade
There was a pub near here called the "Black Boy" and the sign showed a mother scrubbing a black child.
It was considered offensive and removed
The true story was a moral tale of infidelity about a Naval wife who has an affair with a coloured sailor whilst her husband is at sea. The picture is a vain attempt (The "Labour in vain" pubs sometimes have similar) to hide her sins..... a warning to others not to follow her example
We need to look at these traditions and keep them
Pub signs were a combination of traditional names, local history, culture and moral tales
When Greene King decided to remove all its pub signs for a generic company log this was a direct attack on the history
The other problem is the PC Brigade
There was a pub near here called the "Black Boy" and the sign showed a mother scrubbing a black child.
It was considered offensive and removed
The true story was a moral tale of infidelity about a Naval wife who has an affair with a coloured sailor whilst her husband is at sea. The picture is a vain attempt (The "Labour in vain" pubs sometimes have similar) to hide her sins..... a warning to others not to follow her example
We need to look at these traditions and keep them
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- London
ah, I well remember the old Eagle and Child sign in Hurst Green as a kid. Somewhat alarming - baby being snatched in the talons of an eagle I seem to remember. Last time I was that way they had prettied it up to something like a pic of an eagle suckling a grateful baby. I seem to remember Vespa-ing past a pub called the Headless Woman on one of the back roads to Brighton - I seem to remember that that sign, and maybe the name as well, fell foul of the censors. I'm pretty politically correct myself but think that sort of stuff barmy.
