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 pub signboard | sign of The George, Southwark, depicting St George slaying a Dragon

A sign in a pub in Granada notifies customers that the music they are listening to is freely distributable under a Creative Commons license.

He must have blundered into a distribution operation, but there's no further sign of anything at that pub.

The sign on the front of the building has always called the pub the ' Dolphin Hotel '.

A pub sign that claimed that he drank in the White Horse on Shoreditch High Street has recently been removed.

" While the sign no longer exists, his pub does-rebuilt in the 1930s, the pub owes its name to the nearby ice wells which produced ice for central London fish markets.

The sign outside the pub was altered by the current landlord to reflect this.

A sign for these ales on a pub in London

Its heraldry survived in an 18th century pub sign that in turn gave its name to a largely modern district in South London.

Coracles are now seen regularly only in tourist areas of West Wales, and irregularly in Shropshire on the River Severn – a public house in Sundorne, Shrewsbury called " The Coracle " has a pub sign featuring a man using a coracle on a river.

The women are portrayed in Victorian costume being carried off from the " Corona et Ancora " (" Crown and Anchor ", a common English pub sign in seafaring towns )

The Buck's Head pub sign, depicting Henry VIII's supposed escapade in Hitchin

This event is commemorated on the sign of the Buck's Head pub in nearby Little Wymondley.

Sometimes foreigners visiting the countries mentioned above use the " two-fingered salute " without knowing it is offensive to the natives, for example when ordering two beers in a noisy pub, or in the case of the United States president George H. W. Bush, who, while touring Australia in 1992, attempted to give a " peace sign " to a group of farmers in Canberra — who were protesting about U. S. farm subsidies — and instead gave the insulting V sign.

Its pub sign features a boot of the Duke of Wellington, but the tradition of the Soulbury Boot is said to be much older than that.

The White Hart pub sign

There are still many inns and pubs in England that sport a sign of the White Hart, the fifth most popular name for a pub.

", a line which is quoted on the Swan's pub sign to this day.

" Happy Hour " sign on a pub in Jerusalem.

Outside a neighbouring pub, a sign says that the killer was one of the theatre's stage hands, but Richard Archer Prince committed the murder.

The only pub, The Towers, boasts a sign carved by William Bloye.

With so many local people working at the motor works at the time the factory was of great economic importance to West Heath and there was even a pub on Longbridge Lane which was called " The Jolly Fitter " which depicted a happy-looking motor worker on its pub sign.

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.

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 Push operated in a pub culture and comprised a broad range of manual workers, musicians, lawyers, criminals, journalists and public servants as well as staff and students of Sydney University — predominantly though not exclusively in the Faculty of Arts.

The area was home to two of Sydney ’ s most well-established gay and lesbian pubs, the Newtown Hotel on King Street and the nearby Imperial Hotel in Erskineville Road ( the famous drag show pub featured in the movie Priscilla, Queen of the Desert ).

* " Sydney Brenner: A Biography " by Errol Friedberg, pub.

By the early 1980s Sydney had begun to eclipse the post-punk explosion of gloomy drug-addled Melbourne with its beach culture and summery pub music scene.

The number of venues exploded, and fueled by the expansion of FM radio and a prosperous economy, Sydney begun to prove that independent bands could make a healthy living on the amazing pub music circuit at home, without having to first strike out to tour overseas and release internationally acclaimed albums.

The Choirboys formed in the Northern Beaches area of Sydney as a hard rock pub band in 1979.

Harry and Andrew visit the Albury, the Sydney pub where Inger Holter worked as a bartender.

Sekret Sekret would often play at Sydney pub, The Grand, with Rumour assembling an ad hoc line-up of musicians using instruments housed at the venue.

* Volunteer Hotel, former pub in Balmain, Sydney, Australia

On the night of the murder, Tony and Domenic Sergi, nominated as principal suspects by the Woodward Royal Commission, were on a " pub crawl " in Griffith with a number of police officers ; Giuseppe and Rocco Barbaro went to Sydney and, then, the Gold Coast, not returning to Griffith until 20 July ; Francesco Barbaro, brother-in-law of Tony Sergi and cousin of Savero Barbaro ( who was arrested 3 months earlier of marijuana production ), stayed at the Griffith Ex-Servicemen's Club ; and Robert Trimbole was at Randwick, Sydney, at a restaurant.

Following her death, Norton ’ s many paintings, which were owned by Don Deaton, a local printer and pub owner, sold them at auction, all of which went to a single collector, Jack Parker, who purchased the lot for £ 5000, and displayed them at his Southern Cross Hotel in St Peters, Sydney.

After informing the gang of the couple's whereabouts, Jimmy is forced to flee the pub with Alex, attempting to escape on the Sydney Monorail, however the escape proves unsuccessful and Jimmy is taken to a remote location where the gang plan to kill him.

The Johnnys were an Australian pub rock band from Sydney in 1982 – 1989 that combined country and punk musical styles.