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The Signal Box Inn is named for its location at Lakeside Station of the Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway. The size of the building is approximately to the same scale as the trains that use the track. [3] It has five hand pumps serving real ale and a beer garden, and was submitted for a place in the Guinness Book of Records. [4]
The Three Guineas is a Grade II listed public house located at Reading railway station, in Reading, England.It occupies a building originally built in, or before, 1867. Until 1989, the building formed the main entrance and booking hall of the station, and consequently is listed as the Main Building Of Reading General St
A rail ale trail is a marketing exercise in the United Kingdom that is designed to promote tourism to a rural area, by encouraging people to visit a series of pubs that are close to stations along a railway line. Participants are rewarded for visiting the pubs by train.
Before 1826, when the village pub was renamed The Merry Harriers, it was known at different times as The Old House or The Cow. [ 8 ] A conveyance document from 3 October 1417 transfers lands and tenements at Cowbeech in Wartling (Coppedebeche, Wortlynghe) from Thomas de Hoo, knight to Thomas Huchon of Uckfield (Ukkefeld), to Thomas Werm for the ...
A 1904 postcard of the building. The Crooked House was a pub in South Staffordshire, England.Its name and distinctive appearance were the result of 19th-century mining subsidence which caused one side of the building to be approximately 4 feet (1.2 m) lower than the other.
The pub is served by Transport for London buses 22, 265, 378, 485 which stop on the Lower Richmond road. Putney Bridge tube station (District line) is a 12 minute walk over Putney Bridge and Putney railway station (Southwestern Railway) is a 12 minute walk up Putney High Street. The Santander Cycles Putney Pier docking station is a three minute ...
The pub is situated opposite the Broadhalfpenny Down cricket ground, the original home of the Hambledon Club. Richard Nyren, a landlord of the inn from 1762 to 1772, was the Hambledon Club's team captain. Nyren was succeeded as landlord by William Barber, another well-known Hambledon cricketer, who held the licence until 1784. [1] [2]
The history of The Commercial dates from development of the area around Herne Hill railway station, which opened in 1862.The 1870 Ordnance Survey Map shows a cluster of new commercial development around the front of the railway station captioned ‘Commercial Place’, [5] although the first direct reference to 'The Commercial Hotel' as licensed premises dates to 1876.