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The Nashville Rooms, now the Famous Three Kings pub, hosted many rock and punk concerts in the 1970s and early 1980s. Joy Division, The Sex Pistols and The Police all played there regularly. In Hanif Kureishi's novel The Buddha of Suburbia, the main character moves from the southern suburbs of London to West Kensington and lives by the ...
Peter & Paul. [3] Eagle and Child, Oxford, derived from the arms of the Earls of Derby, was a meeting place of the Inklings. Rampant Horse (earlier Ramping Horse), Norwich : horses are popular pub signs and names. [46] Red Lion is the name of over 600 pubs. It thus can stand for an archetypal British pub.
The King William Ale House and The Famous Royal Navy Volunteer Public House on King Street. Originally a row of three houses dating to around 1670, these are now two public houses side by side [77] [78] with gabled fronts to the road. [79] The Llandoger Trow on King Street. Dating from 1664, the name derives from the village of Llandogo in ...
Significant dates. Added to NRHP. March 6, 2008. Designated NYCL. November 23, 1965. Fraunces Tavern is a museum and restaurant in New York City, situated at 54 Pearl Street at the corner of Broad Street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan. The location played a prominent role in history before, during, and after the American Revolution.
UK. England. Suffolk. 52°16′36″N 0°41′29″E / 52.2767°N 0.6915°E / 52.2767; 0.6915. All Saints, the parish church of Fornham All Saints (2008) Fornham All Saints is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England in the West Suffolk district. It is north-northwest of the town of Bury St Edmunds and 500m west of Fornham St ...
Llandoger Trow. The Llandoger Trow is a historic public house in Bristol, south-west England. Dating from 1664, it is on King Street, between Welsh Back and Queen Charlotte Street, near the old city centre docks. Named by a sailor who owned the pub after Llandogo in Wales which built trows (flat-bottomed river boats), the building was damaged ...
Prior to 1828, the pub was known as the 'Black Boy'. [2] Though still referred to by its traditional name, it was officially altered to the 'King's Arms' and, later, the 'Fleur de Lys', until a change of ownership led to the restoration of the old name and the creation of the "Black Boy Inn" as it is today. [3]
A pub, formally public house, is a drinking establishment in the culture of Britain, [1] [2] Ireland, [3] Australia, [4] Canada and Denmark. In many places, especially in villages, a pub can be the focal point of the community. The writings of Samuel Pepys describe the pub as the heart of England.