It is also reputed to be the only UK town with a railway station and a pub in the middle of a roundabout.

The Campaign for Real Ale ( CAMRA ) is an independent voluntary consumer organisation based in St Albans, England, whose main aims are promoting real ale, real cider and the traditional British pub.

The " CAMRA Pub Heritage Group " is a group established to identify, record and help protect pub interiors of historic and / or architectural importance, and seeks to get them listed, if not already.

The scheme functions slightly differently in each area, and is managed by each branch, but the overall rule is that each participating pub is allowed to purchase beer from whatever brewery they wish, but if it the beer is to be promoted as a ' LocAle ' it must come from a brewery within a predetermined number of miles ( which is set by each CAMRA branch, but generally is around 20 or 25 miles, although, the North London branch has set it at 30 miles ) from brewery to pub door, even if it comes from a distribution centre further away ; in addition, each participating pub must keep at least one LocAle for sale at all times.

In many countries, drinking alcoholic beverages in a local bar or pub is a cultural tradition.

Several are known to have occurred in Indo-European languages, including the presumed original Proto-Indo-European words for bear (* rkso ), wolf (* wlk < sup > w </ sup > o ), and deer ( originally, hart — although the word hart remained commonplace in parts of England until the 20th century as is witnessed by the widespread use of the pub sign The White Hart ).

The J D Wetherspoon pub in Oxford Road, Manchester is named after Ford Madox Brown.

It states on the Wetherspoons website that " This J D Wetherspoon pub is named after the much-travelled artist Ford Madox Brown, a one-time resident of Victoria Park, a suburb south of the pub.

The Admissions, Business, Student Development, and Administrative offices are all in Massman, as well as the cafeteria, the student pub, a coffee shop, Mabee Chapel, a fully equipped fitness and workout facility, and the Rock Room, which is a 24-hour recreational lounge for students.

In Spring 2011 the pub was refurbished and renovated into being a fully equipped 4 * hotel.

Some party and pub games focus on the doing of a particular act of skill, rather than on either the amount a participant drinks or the speed with which they do so.

Continuing the divergence from rock and roll and blues begun by his work with Farthingale, Bowie joined forces with Finnigan, Christina Ostrom and Barrie Jackson to run a folk club on Sunday nights at the Three Tuns pub in Beckenham High Street.

Dressed in a striking costume, his hair dyed red, Bowie launched his Ziggy Stardust stage show with the Spiders from Mars — Ronson, Bolder and Woodmansey — at the Toby Jug pub in Tolworth on 10 February 1972.

Both mill ponds were flooded, along with the lower part of Queen Street, including the Lord Raglan pub.

After the office in the Stowe home, ( and after the first concert fund-raiser ) Greenpeace functions moved to other private homes and held public meetings weekly on Wednesday nights at the Kitsilano Neighborhood House before settling, in the fall of 1974, in a small office shared with the SPEC environmental group, at 2007 W. 4th Avenue, at Maple Street, across from the Bimini neighbourhood pub.

Each nation has at least one pub evening per week, with a following night club.

The first film to address lesbianism with significant depth was The Killing of Sister George in 1968, which was filmed in The Gateways Club, a longstanding lesbian pub in London.

An article in another UK newspaper described a case in which " Gangsters wielding hand guns and a powerful MAC 10 machine pistol struck three times within hours in Wolverhampton "; in one event, a " group of men brandishing a MAC 10 machine pistol sprayed a nearby pub with a hail of bullets ".

A few even longer-active bands including Surrey neo-mods The Jam and pub rockers The Stranglers and Cock Sparrer also became associated with the punk rock scene.

They moved to an estate where in a pub they met Harry Enfield, a neighbour with a stage act, and after he gained a place on Channel 4's Saturday Live, the pair were invited to write for him.

The landlord of a tied pub may be an employee of the brewery — in which case he / she would be a manager of a managed house, or a self-employed tenant who has entered into a lease agreement with a brewery, a condition of which is the legal obligation ( trade tie ) only to purchase that brewery's beer.

The earliest signs were often not painted but consisted, for example, of paraphernalia connected with the brewing process such as bunches of hops or brewing implements, which were suspended above the door of the pub.

For example, a pub in Crowborough, East Sussex called The Crow and Gate has an image of a crow with gates as wings.

United States president George W. Bush fulfilled his lifetime ambition of visiting a ' genuine British pub ' during his November 2003 state visit to the UK when he had lunch and a pint of non-alcoholic lager with British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the Dun Cow pub in Sedgefield, County Durham.

The grave with the inscription is within sight of the ruins of the Kirklees Priory, behind the Three Nuns pub in Mirfield, West Yorkshire.

combines standard punk with elements of football chants, pub rock and British glam rock.

The model town of Saltaire was founded, along with others, as a planned environment with good sanitation and many civic, educational and recreational facilities, although it lacked a pub, which was regarded as a focus of dissent.

From the 1930s to the early 1960s, Soho folklore states that the pubs of Soho were packed every night with drunken writers, poets and artists, many of whom never stayed sober long enough to become successful ; and it was also during this period that the Soho pub landlords established themselves.

John Snow ( physician ) | John Snow memorial, with John Snow pub shown in the background

* Dean Street is home to the Soho Theatre, and a pub called The French House which was during World War II popular with the French Government-in-exile.

The town also has two football clubs, Amlwch Town F. C., who play in the Welsh Alliance League, and the Adelphi Vaults F. C., a Sunday League pub team currently playing in the My Scaffolding League Division 1.

Between February 2005 and August 2006, Teale managed Northern Premier League First Division side Chorley, before leaving to run his pub and restaurant business in Burscough.

Tobie Norris had a famous bell foundry in the town in the 17th century ; his name is now better known as a popular pub on St Pauls Street.

Though Uhuru had previously dismissed ICC summons ,< ref > The Standard Newspaper, " Ocampo three defy summons " ( pub. 12 / 08 / 2011 ) < http :// www. standardmedia. co. ke / hague / InsidePage. php? id = 2000040726 & cid = 653 &>.</ ref > he changed his decision along the way and together in the company his two other co-accused suspects ; Head of Civil Servant, Ambassador Francis Muthaura and former Police Commissioner Hussein Ali.

Bands in London's pub rock scene stripped the music back to its basics, playing hard, R & B-influenced rock ' n ' roll.

Some Scottish and Welsh parishes remained officially " dry " on Sundays ( although often this merely required knocking at the back door of the pub ).

Likewise, The Nags Head, Burntwood only dates back to the 16th century, but there has been a pub on the site since at least 1086, as it is mentioned in the Domesday Book.

At the back of the pub, some of the original stable building can be seen, dating to about 1730.

Pub rock is usually traced back to the " Tally Ho ", a former jazz pub, where Eggs over Easy started playing in May 1971, and were soon joined by Bees Make Honey, Brinsley Schwarz, Max Merritt and the Meteors, Ducks Deluxe and others.

The village centre is quite small, consisting of just a single street, a village green, The Swan Inn pub ( built early 19th century but dates back to 1696 ), a few shops and restaurants and a riverbank adjacent to the River Bure.

However, many buildings such as the Green Dragon pub did survive and many of the houses in Damgate Street date back to 1400, although this is now masked by later brickwork.

Behind closed doors and in pub back rooms plans were drawn up for a mass protest.

The claim of the Royal Oak to date from 1502 cannot be proven since, while a portion at the back is 17th century ( making it physically the oldest portion of any pub in St Ives ), the pub name has to be more recent.

The Running Horse pub dates back to 1403 and is one of the oldest buildings in Leatherhead.

In 1973, they moved to San Francisco, and later supported The Eagles and Yes on tour ; ironically, the sort of “ megastar ” bands that, back in England, pub rock was seen as a backlash against.

During recording sessions for the second Oasis album, ( What's the Story ) Morning Glory ?, the brothers had a violent fight involving a cricket bat when Liam invited everyone from a local pub back into the studio while Noel was trying to work.

During recording sessions for the second Oasis album, ( What's the Story ) Morning Glory ?, the brothers had a violent fight involving a cricket bat, when Liam invited everyone from a local pub back into the studio while Noel was trying to work.

Short of anything else to do, War, Famine and Pestilence go back into the pub.

On Pete's first day back, one of his tasks was to dispose of the body of Mike Shaw, who, in an incident somewhat similar to the death of Josh Matthews, had been accidentally killed by Lucy Day upstairs at the pub, after he had tried to rape Eileen.

The facade ( originally that of Argyll House, which is why the pub opposite is called The Argyll Arms ) dates back to the 19th century.

Hidden in the trees at the back of the village green is a school gate post which is from when there was a school on the village green and also horse mounting steps which are from when there was a pub on the village green.

Stepney is the final resting place, the Guide says, of the chef who dies forgotten and alone among his cats in a back stair, whose memorial is those plastic pins in the shape of a chef's hat found in pub sausages.

View of the back square, showing the late Gerard Golden's pub ; ' the pub that never served a fool '.

The event was staged in the back room of a Nottingham pub, owned by Tom Dennis.

The White Horse pub dates back to the 13th Century, was a Royal Mail staging post and is mentioned by Charles Dickens in Nicholas Nickleby.

* In the Red Dwarf episode " Timeslides ", Dave Lister travels back in time using a mutated photograph of a pub in Liverpool where his band once played a gig to give his teenage self the idea of inventing the Tension Sheet ( a stress relief tool invented by Fred ' Thickie ' Holden, a former classmate of Arnold Rimmer, which earned him millions ).