British Pubs

Perfect pubs: 12 of the UK's best boozers

Perfect pubs: 12 of the UK's best boozers From well-kept beer to classic decor, some pubs just manage to get the basics right.

Black Country pubs!

'I went on a bar crawl in underrated UK town with nation's most beautiful pubs' Dudley in the Black Country has one of the highest concentrations of pubs with historical interiors, according to the Campaign for Real Ale's extensive database

I set up the Group Bass Nights some time ago, but didn't do much with it. There seems to be a bit of a comeback for Bass and a rise in interest in it, after many years of obscurity. Come over and join us for a pint!

BERT: “That pub over the road has a sign up saying ‘No mobile 'phones. Pretend it’s 1973’.
ERIC: “So what did you do Bert?”
BERT:“I gave him 17p for the pint and lit a cigarette”!

The Crooked House: Fire rips through famed 'wonky':

The Crooked House: Fire rips through famed 'wonky' pub The popular Crooked House at Himley, near Dudley, is completely destroyed by a blaze.

Pub continues its search for the right ‘couple’ at landmark pub A brewery is continuing its search for a couple to take on an historic town-centre pub.

The Anchor
34 Park Street
Bankside
LONDON
SE1 9EF

A tavern, under various names, has been at this pub's location for over 800 years. The current incarnation was built in the early 1800s.

Being close to the original site of the Globe Theatre, it is not unsurprising that William Shakespeare was supposedly a regular at a previous incarnation of the pub.

The Anchor Bankside started life as the "brewery tap room" for the Anchor Brewery, which was first established in 1616. To the rear of the pub are buildings that were once operated by the Anchor Brewery. This quite large pub occupies a warren of rooms, passages, nooks and crannies and staircases right by the River Thames.

It is where diarist Samuel Pepys observed the Great Fire of London in 1666, writing that he took refuge here, where he watched the fire grow.

The Anchor tavern became a favourite haunt for smugglers and river pirates. During the course of repairs carried out in the early 19th century, a massive oak beam was removed, revealed ingeniously contrived hiding places, which were possibly used for the storage of contraband and stolen goods.

In the 1861 census, it was known as the Blue Anchor, 1 Bankside; this differentiated it from the Golden Anchor at 11 Park Street in the same census.

Brewery: King Brewery, formerly Punch Taverns; Barclays

Photo: 14 June 2008 by Ewan Munro from London, UK

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Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese
145 Fleet Street
LONDON
EC4A 2BP

A bobby stands outside of Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, London, circa 1910. Source unknown.

Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese is a Grade II listed public house at 145 Fleet Street, on Wine Office Court, City of London. Rebuilt shortly after the Great Fire of 1666, there has been a pub at this location since 1538. The vaulted cellars are thought to belong to a 13th-century Carmelite monastery which once occupied the site.

The entrance to this pub is situated down a narrow alleyway and is unassuming, yet once inside visitors will realise that the pub occupies a lot of floor space and has numerous bars and gloomy rooms. In winter, open fireplaces are used to keep the interior warm. In the bar room are posted plaques showing famous people who were regulars. Some of the interior wood panelling is nineteenth century, some older, perhaps original.

The pub is known for its literary associations, with its regular patrons having included Charles Dickens, G.K. Chesterton and Mark Twain.
The pub is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.

The pub is owned by Tadcaster, Yorkshire based Samuel Smith's Brewery.

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London Pubs

The Crooked House to be sold:

The Crooked House: Britain's 'wonkiest pub' to be sold The Crooked House in Himley is among 61 properties being sold off by pub giant Marston's.

Owners fined £20k for bulldozing historic pub:

Punch Bowl Inn: Owners fined £20k for bulldozing historic pub The 18th Century Punch Bowl Inn was illegally demolished despite warnings from a council.

The iconic pub has been closed for several months...

Historic city pub with caves put up for sale The pub has been closed for several months

Medieval ship buried underneath pub:

An ancient medieval ship is buried underneath this English pub and researchers are hoping to figure out how the heck it got there So much history lies just underneath our feet — thousands and thousands of years of human exploration, discovery, technology, tools, settlements, everything. It's all so close to the surface.

Fight to save 80 years old pub...

Villagers fight to save pub that dates back nearly 800 years More than 100 people attended a meeting in the village of Sibson on Wednesday night

The Brocklesby Ox at Ulceby, Lincolnshire.

Edinburgh pubs!

Travel Writer sparks debate after asking locals to name Edinburgh's 'signature pub' Travel Writer Simon Calder took to Twitter to spark a debate on whether some of the UK's biggest cities have a single 'signature pub' that everyone would recognise – and there were more than a few suggestions for Edinburgh's.

Pub saved!

Pub 'oozing' with history saved and run by seven locals "We didn't want to see another village pub close down"