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.

Others of a comparatively traditional rock ' n ' roll bent were also swept up by the movement: The Vibrators, formed as a pub rock – style act in February 1976, soon adopted a punk look and sound.

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.

The other pub is the Plume of Feathers ( the Railway-" The Devils Elbow "-has closed as a pub recently ) and there are also a couple of cafes, one of which is situated in what used to be the town's police station.

The beer houses also tended to avoid the traditional pub names like The Crown, The Red Lion, The Royal Oak etc.

Local events were also often commemorated in pub signs.

Simple natural or religious symbols such as ' The Sun ', ' The Star ' and ' The Cross ' were also incorporated into pub signs, sometimes being adapted to incorporate elements of the heraldry ( e. g. the coat of arms ) of the local lords who owned the lands upon which the pub stood.

Many pubs also hold special events, from tournaments of the aforementioned games to karaoke nights to pub quizzes.

The Queen Vic ( short for the Queen Victoria ) is the pub in EastEnders, the major soap on BBC One, while The Bull in the Radio 4 soap opera The Archers and the Woolpack in ITV's Emmerdale are also important meeting points.

Later pub meetings were at The Lamb and Flag across the street, and in earlier years the Inklings also met irregularly in yet other pubs, but The Eagle and Child is the best known.

There is also a student pub, Felicita's, and a defunct nightclub, Vertigo, which is now study space.

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.

Eastwood eventually sold the pub and now owns the Mission Ranch Hotel and Restaurant, also located in Carmel-by-the-Sea.

Other examples include Felicity Finch ( Ruth Archer ), who also works as a BBC journalist ; having travelled on a number of occasions to Afghanistan, and Ian Pepperell ( Roy Tucker ), who manages a pub in the New Forest.

It is mainly distinguished by the performance venue ( also called a cabaret ), such as in a restaurant, pub or nightclub with a stage for performances.

It also hosts many private businesses including a gas station, feed station, pub & grill and BBQ restairant.

The pub also provided the setting for the BBC's poorly reviewed animated Janner comedy series Bosom Pals, which was based on some of the characters in Cook's paintings and featured the voices of Dawn French as the lead character Stella, Alison Steadman as her best friend Joan, and Timothy Spall as the Dolphin's real-life landlord Billy Holmes.

The Earwicker household also includes two cleaning staff: Kate, the maid, and Joe, who is by turns handyman and barman in Earwicker's pub.

There is also a pub on Thames Road called The Jolly Farmers.

Putney Heath, near the Telegraph pub, was also the venue for the September 1809 duel between Cabinet ministers George Canning and Lord Castlereagh.

The Woodman pub near the end of Broadwalk is reported to have been built in 1727, although there is also evidence to suggest that it dates from 1820.

There is also a pub, The Dukes Head, until circa 1959 another pub, The Crown was also open in the village.

* Patrick was featured in the book, Permanence: Tattoo Portraits ( pub.

The next incarnation of The Sisters of Mercy featured an unknown German guitarist, Andreas Bruhn, whom Eldritch apparently discovered playing in a Hamburg pub and brought into the band in April 1989 ; controversial bassist Tony James ( ex-Sigue Sigue Sputnik guitarist and Generation X bassist / songwriter ); and last-minute recruit Tim Bricheno, formerly of All About Eve, on guitars.

This was not the pub featured in the film The Song Remains the Same.

One television advertisement featured the Cardrona Hotel pub.

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 ).

The show featured a fictional pub called the Foo Bar which was often sought after by tourists but did not actually exist, the popularity of the name later inspired a real licenced venue in nearby beachside Brighton.

This featured Brendan from K-9 and Company and also involved an encounter with ghosts, this time in and around a Lake District pub called " The Sow in Rut ".

Various scenes featured a lady horserider along a beach, a young lady and dog returning home, elderly tweed workers in the highlands, waves crashing below Dunottar Castle, a tea dance, an oil rig in the North Sea, the grampian mountains, chefs in a restaurant kitchen and a waitress in a pub.

The pub featured in the Lewis episode " Allegory of Love ".

This show had a notably Northern, working class focus, and featured pub games such as darts, bar billiards, shove ha ' penny, skittles and arm-wrestling.

The church, churchyard / graveyard and path to the primary school as well as the Greyhound pub also featured in a Dave Allen sketch ( the race to the graveyard between two funeral parties )

Runs are scored according to the number of legs, arms or other items featured in the pub name.

Called September Song, it featured Ronnie's recollections of growing up in his grandmother's house in Dun Laoghaire, the foundation of The Dubliners in O ' Donoghue's pub on Merrion Row, the days touring the world, the loss of his wife and his own battle with cancer.

* Waggon and Horses: Another simple transport name ( prior to American influence, the British English spelling of ' wagon ' featured a double ' g ', retained on pub signs such as this one ).

The exhibition featured a Victorian school room, a colliery disaster, the Second Boer War and ( on the top floor ) a complete pub transported from Hope Street and reconstructed by shopping centre developers.

Scothern's public house, The Bottle and Glass, was featured in The Telegraph in March 2008, when Prince William visited the pub for cider and a pie with his friends from the Red Arrows.

This prominently featured the main street of Thirlmere, including many shots of the pub, local stores, railway station, and surrounding countryside.

* The pub featured at the end of the story where the proprietor has nothing in stock except for an obscure brew called " Speckled Goat " is an homage to the Cheese Shop sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus.

The pub has been featured in many films, notably " A Man of No Importance ", starring Albert Finney.

Among the characters he introduced were the Tavernier family, pub landlord Eddie Royle and most notably the Mitchell brothers and their sister Sam — the Mitchells went on to become major long-term characters, among the most popular featured in the programme.

One of the show's recurring sketches featured a spoof version of EastEnders, with black comedians taking over roles of well known EastEnders characters, who frequent a pub called Rub-a-Dub.

To add balance to the series, the Richards family, who ran the local pub ( The Railway ), were also prominently featured, having been introduced during the latter Thompson family era in April 1991.

The Quality Street Gang was reportedly named after an advertisement for Quality Street confectionery which featured a group of fashionably dressed people: as the " gang " walked into a pub, a wag supposedly shouted " It's the Quality Street Gang " and the name stuck.