On top of that, wicket-keeper Ted Pooley was still in a New Zealand prison after a brawl in a Christchurch pub.

Most British pubs still have decorated signs hanging over their doors, and these retain their original function of enabling the identification of the pub.

The hand vanished in 2004 as a publicity stunt for the pub but later reappeared and can still be seen there.

While he is still explaining to his reluctant wife that they have to leave in a hurry, Davenport — whom Henry does not recognise from the pub — arrives and wants to have a talk with him.

This javelin is still on display in a local pub near Sheridan's hometown in Bohola, County Mayo, Ireland.

One of the most notable venues was the Hope and Anchor pub on Islington's Upper Street, still a venue.

The back-to-basics approach of pub rock apparently involved chord structures that were still too complicated for punk guitarists like the Sex Pistol Steve Jones, who complained " if we had played those complicated chords we would have sounded like Dr Feelgood or one of those pub rock bands ".

The landlord and his family are still currently living in the pub ( February 2008 ).

This olde style pub was formerly known as the ' NEW INN ' It is now one of the few ' own brew ' pubs still in the country.

When the Northern Union clubs broke away from the RFU to form what is now rugby league, the Morley representatives missed the coach to Huddersfield as they were still in the pub.

The pub still stands, and has since been renamed the William Cobbett.

The original boundary between the old Beeston and Chilwell parishes can still be identified by the change in road name from Chilwell Road ( on the Beeston side ) to High Road ( on the Chilwell side ) where the Hop Pole pub is.

There is a Wetherspoon's chain pub called The Last Post, situated in the building of the old Royal Mail sorting office and still adjacent to the town's main post office.

Gareth Lewis ( who played pub landlord Meic Pierce ) is the seventh longest-serving actor in a continuous role in British television soap history, while Gwyn Elfyn played the part of village shopkeeper Denzil Rees continuously for nearly 28 years from 1984, making him in January 2012 the tenth longest-serving actor still appearing in a United Kingdom soap opera role.

In July 1789, local resident John Walford murdered his wife after a visit to Castle of Comfort Farm ( a pub that still exists ).

Alongside Yasmin's minimarket and the newly opened internet café, The Black Swan would become one of the show's primary meeting places: despite the fact that Pete was openly hated by most of the show's characters, they still all followed him to become regulars at his new pub.

Although the pub has long been refurbished, it still retains some fine original tilework.

It was sacked in 1631 by Algerian pirates, and reminders of the incident still exist in the form of pub names, like " The Algiers Inn ".

The Bradfield Parish workhouse was based in High Bradfield between 1759 and 1847, the building is still there today, standing across the road from the Old Horns pub on Towngate, the building was converted into private houses in the 1870s.

Some of these buildings are still used in their original function, such as St. James's School, the Brass Foundry, the Bottle and Glass pub, T. Cook's sweet shop, the Darby Hand Methodist Chapel and the ' chippy '.

This initiative was soon withdrawn, supposedly because customers were still asking for top-ups, but arguably because other pub chains did not follow their lead.

This included a reconstruction ( in Prague ) of the notorious Ten Bells pub ( still extant on Commercial Street ): alleged to have been a rendezvous of some of the Ripper's prostitute victims, before they were murdered.

More recently, the pub was regularly frequented by Colin Dexter, who created Inspector Morse, and is still frequented by Diarmaid MacCulloch.

Great Woolstone still has its own village pub, the thatched roof " Cross Keys ", which can trace its history back to 1560 and serves real ales.

" 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 pub no longer exists, and the Tavern Stand now stands on its former site.

The Licensed Trade Charity, formed in 2004 from the merger of the Society of Licensed Victuallers and Licensed Victualler's National Homes, exists to serve the retirement needs of Britain's pub landlords.

There are a few shops on the estate but no pubs, there once was a pub on Vesper Road called " The Woodway " which no longer exists.

The retaining wall of the footpath opposite the station outside the pub is about the only physical evidence of the canal which still exists.

For example, McFarlane spends the night in The Anerley Arms, a pub which exists as of 2011, but has a derelict upper floor ( no more overnight guests ) and changing management.

In general, there are few commercial properties, but there exists a pub, The Wheatsheaf Inn, and an electrical showroom, Tebbatts Electronics.

The first building was the local pub which was built by convicts in 1854 and still exists today.

The Good Intent pub, formerly with a large concrete, planetarium-like dome next door ( used for training airgunners ), still exists on the Southend Road, was popular with the aircrews, and has an interesting collection of photos of the Station.

Also many local variations and additions exists which can differ from village to village or from pub to pub.

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.