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Ship Tavern, Holborn. The Ship Tavern is an inn at the western corner of Lincoln's Inn Fields, at the corner of Gate Street and the Little Turnstile in London. Established in 1549, at the height of the English Reformation, when Catholicism became illegal, it was used to shelter Catholic priests and hold secret Catholic services.
"Ye olde" is a pseudo-Early Modern English phrase originally used to suggest a connection between a place or business and Merry England (or the medieval period). The term dates to 1896 or earlier; [ 1 ] it continues to be used today, albeit now more frequently in an ironically anachronistic and kitsch fashion.
Charles Lester "Charlie" Brown (October 24, 1922 – November 24, 2008) was a United States Army Air Forces pilot during World War II.He became well known for being the pilot of the B-17F Flying Fortress named Ye Olde Pub which was involved in the Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident.
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Ye Olde Curiosity Shop is a store founded in 1899, on the Central Waterfront of Seattle, Washington, United States. It is currently located on Pier 54 . Best known today as a souvenir shop and museum , it also has aspects of a dime museum , and is an important supplier of Northwest Coast art to museums.
Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem is a Grade II listed [1] public house in Nottingham which claims to have been established in 1189, [2] although there is no documentation to verify this date. The building rests against Castle Rock, upon which Nottingham Castle is built, and is attached to several caves, carved out of the soft sandstone . [ 3 ]
Ye Olde Mitre. The Ye Olde Mitre is a Grade II listed public house at 1 Ely Court, Ely Place, Holborn, London EC1N 6SJ. [1] It is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors. [2] Historic England documents indicate that the pub was built about 1773, and remodelled internally in the early 20th century. [1]
A Higher Call is a story about chivalry; it tells the story about Franz Stigler, a German fighter ace of the Luftwaffe pilot who flew a Messerschmitt Bf 109, and Charlie Brown, a 21-year-old American pilot of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress named 'Ye Olde Pub'. On 20 December 1943, following a bombing mission over Germany, the severely damaged ...