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Charles Young is licensed to sell
Wines, Spirits, Beer and Tobacco at these premises.


June 2023 - David Fisher finds the house to be at
New Alresford,
Hampshire.
The CRICKETERS ARMS.
The Holly Tree
The HOLLY TREE

Nigel Bown locates the property to

Shudy Camps,
Near Linton,
Cambridgeshire.
P W - Brewers Arms
The BREWERS ARMS
Mary A Beeby is licensee.


December 2020 - Mark Britton locates the house to Wenny Road, Chatteris. The house still stands as a private dwelling.
(Alfred Beeby of the Brewer's Arms was discharged from bankruptcy May 1925 - a temporary licence was granted to his wife, Mary Ann.)

Where was the Piper's Fancy?

Calyn Keohane finds this to have been a guest house
in Coldwaltham, Sussex.

Today it is a residential home.
BULLAS - White House - INN
BULLAS - An early image - pre 1900
The sign appears to read :-
BULLAS
WHITE HOUSE
INN
But Paul Fuller discovers it to have been the WHITE HORSE, Fisher Gate, Doncaster.
The house of Thomas Bullas.
Certainly an early image because the house was demolished in
1868.
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The
BUCK INN

Retailer of Foreign & British Spirits .......Good Stabling.

Today a private dwelling on the A480 at Woonton, Herefordshire.
Thanks to Paul Fuller for the ID on this 26/20/2018.
The PLUMBERS ARMS - Thomas Brown is licensee.
The shop next door is owned by J Boyes
and sells Wild Geranium & Trilby cigarettes - amongst many others.

08.2017 - Paul Fuller finds the shop of John Boyes to be at No. 2 Fylde Street, Preston.
It stood next door to No. 3, the PLUMBERS ARMS, which was formerly the New Fighting Cocks. The name change happening in 1881.
Thomas Brown was licensee in 1904 to at least 1907.

The PLUMBERS ARMS closed, probably pre 1911.
The area was redeveloped in the 1960's.

NOAH'S ARK

Should be easy....  

As it happens it took a while to locate because the house was once called the
FOX and is recorded in history as such.

Paul Fuller tracked it down, October 2016 and locates it to Fox Lane, Eversley Cross, Hampshire.

An early scene and the
BELL INN is to the right.
The buildings to the left appear to be mostly timber clad.


October 2015 - Adrian Wayne-Morgan traces the house to the High Street, Bushey, Herts.
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The
THREE HORSE SHOE INN
Bass ale on sale 

September 2015 - Calyn Keohane finds the house (still trading) in Llangeitho, Tregaron, Ceredigion, Wales. SY25 6TW.

The two windows at the extreme LH end have long since been filled in, as has the LH door.
 
The
GEORGE HOTEL
in what appears to be the market square? 


It turns out to be Halstead, Essex.
The bank to the left having been demolished to allow widening of the Hedingham Road.

Nigel Bown confirms location. 11/2014

The
OLD WHITE HART
Selling NICHOLL'S ENTIRE & FINE ALE
This card posted 1905 - from Norwich.

Don Parry confirms the house was at High Street, Lewisham, a H & V Nicholl's Anchor Brewery house. Feb 2013

The
GEORGE & DRAGON HOTEL
Elizabeth Mallett is licensee.


29.10.12 - Nick Smith traces the house to
CARRIGILL, CUMBRIA

Elizabeth Mallett apparently died in 1932
GLOBE - JUNE 1913 FLOOD
The GLOBE INN
selling BULLARDS ALES
is at the end of the terrace to the right.
The flood was June 1913

Whittlesey confirmed by Phil Self    02/2012

The magnificent gas lamp is perhaps
a trifle over the top at the
KINGS ARMS
Selling YOUNGS & Co Ales
Pay-az-u-go Billiards could be played here.

Another positive ID by
Peter Williams (Australia)
This Kings Arms still serves
ale at EPSOM.


The church should provide a good clue.
The KINGS (ARMS ?) was apparently run by
licensee JACKSON at the time......
..... a chance Jackson was the name of the brewery..........


17.10.2007 - Peter Williams locates another Kings Arms
at Carshalton Surrey.

Ref : Nelson 2
LORD NELSON COMMERCIAL HOTEL

Positively identified by Peter Parke
24.11.05 as the 
LORD NELSON INN at
SOUTHWOLD'

Confirmed by LRLH

ANGEL - MORGANS ANGEL
MORGANS ALES & STOUT

A funeral procession -
Card posted February 1913
GOUDE Motor Cycles to left.

Confirmed as Whittlesey.
Barclays Bank stands where Goude's Cycle shop was.
The Nationwide has replaced the Angel
December 2005 - LRLH
Another fine piece of detective work by Bunny.
CROWN
Leonard Bridgwood stands at the 
door of the CROWN INN.

 

...... and a positive ID puts the house at
PATTINGHAM
STAFFORDSHIRE.

Good work Bunny!

Diss area - FOX
The FOX
A Youngs, Crawshay & Youngs house.
Thought to be in the Diss area.

Yes indeed!
Tracked down March 2006 by Leslie Robert Linford Hazell to
HAUGHLEY GREEN - just north of Stowmarket.
BOURNE HALL HOTEL

February 2006 - 
Two suggestions as being at
POOLE ROAD
BOURNEMOUTH

Can you confirm?

Confirmed by Alan Crowe May 2006
The property was demolished in the 1980's


The house appears to be called the WINDMILL or MILL
and the licensee is possibly George C Carr?

The WINDMILL INN 
is in CHURCH STREET, STRATFORD on AVON.

Thanks Bunny !
WHITE SWAN
The WHITE SWAN
a Northampton Brewery Co house

Still looks very similar at
Main Street
Holcot
Northants.
Tel : 01604 781263

Another positive ID by Dennis Taylor 16.03.2005
DEVONSHIRE ARMS
A photograph by
D Nobbs of Gt Yarmouth.
Selling SHELL & BP Petrol
in 1954
A fine identification by Chris Hiscox 24.08.2006
The house still trades in Peak Forest.
Situated on the A623 (Hernstone Lane)
SK17 8EJ
Tel: 01298 23875
Presumably Gt Yarmouth photographer D. Nobbs was on holiday.
Swan Westerfield Probably a Youngs, Crawshay & Youngs house.
Perhaps a
SWAN is depicted on the sign?
Thought to be in the Diss area, possibly in Suffolk.

Indeed it is the SWAN
at WESTERFIELD
Suffolk.

Still trading 2012 see:-
http://www.westerfield-village.co.uk/pubs.html

Oct 2006 - Thanks again to Bunny LH
Three Horseshoes - Barnham Broom
Probably Norfolk

.... and so it is!

Turns out to be the Horseshoes at Barnham Broom.

A fine identity by Bunny - June 2007

The sign of the
JOLLY FARMERS says
Steward & Patteson Ales are on sale,
but the house is out of sight.


Another fine piece of detective work by Bunny - October 2007.

The houses to the right still survive at
Carbrooke.

The licensee is called Haines
and the beer is brewed by Morlands (Oxfordshire)
But where is / was the MAYBUSH ?

Feb 2008 : Phil Child was the first to positively identify this house..
Still trading at 
Newbrigde
Witney
Oxfordshire
OX20 7QD

The VOLUNTEER INN is just about visible
behind this fine vehicle.

LRLH confirms that the car has a Hastings registration.

September 2011
Jane Courtier confirms that the house was in
Middle Street, Hastings, Sussex and closed in 1956
Jane proved the picture of ancestor Elizabeth Beale standing outside.


The SPORTSMAN's INN
has licensee Jane Jones

 

Turns out to be at AFON-WEN on the A541
Near Caerwys, Flintshire, Wales

Another find by Bunny - August 2011

 

It appears that the
WESTBOURNE HOTEL
is selling
BASS ON DRAUGHT.

 

Phil Self identifies this to be at
1 Artesian Road, London, W2 5DL
The site today developed into apartments.

GOLDEN CROSS
A fine turnout at the
GOLDEN CROSS.........

........ and here is the GOLDEN CROSS again,
having recently had a make-over it seems.
The Golden Cross turns out to be at Marlbrook, near Bromsgrove. - Identification by Peter Williams, Australia - March 2013
 
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