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Formerly Great Britain Street, [4] the street was renamed after Charles Stewart Parnell when Dublin Corporation adopted a resolution on 1 October 1911, after the erection of the statue to Parnell on the street as it meets O'Connell Street. [5] The statue was created by Irish-American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Saint-Gaudens stated that "I ...
Both the pub and shop close during the winter months. [2] The Eagle in Benet Street, Cambridge. The pub in which Francis Crick and James Watson announced that they had "discovered the secret of life" (the structure of DNA). The pub is opposite the Cavendish Laboratory [4] and the event is commemorated by a blue plaque next to the entrance. [5]
O'Neill's is an Irish-themed pub chain with 49 outlets in Great Britain.The chain is operated by Mitchells & Butlers, one of the largest pub companies in the United Kingdom.O'Neill's pubs are located in Great Britain only: the chain have no pubs in Northern Ireland, the only part of the UK where the O'Neill's chain does not operate.
restaurants, shops, cafés and pubs; immigrant community, LGBT community Capel Street ( / ˈ k eɪ p ə l / Irish : Sráid Chéipil [ 1 ] ) is a predominantly commercial street in Dublin , Ireland, laid out in the 17th century by Humphrey Jervis .
Irish pubs were often equipped with a snug, a more secluded or private room with seating, similar to that of a British pub's snug.A typical snug within an Irish pub, while within the pub's premises, is usually separated from the rest of the pub by walls or partitions, has or used to have a door and is equipped with a hatch for serving drinks.
On the north side of the road, almost opposite Kenton station is the Traveller's Rest pub. Approximately 1 ⁄ 3 mi (0.54 km) further along the A4006, also on the north side of the road, at the junction with St Leonard's Avenue, is the parish church of St Mary-the-Virgin, Kenton, built in 1935-1936 by the architect Harold Gibbons and a local ...
A section of the road is known as the "Cat and Fiddle Road" after the inn. The building is some 1,689 feet (515 m) above sea level, and it was the second-highest public house in Britain before it closed in 2015 (the Tan Hill Inn in Yorkshire is slightly higher). [1] In 2020, it reopened as a distillery, shop and bar.
Also known locally as "The New Road", the new section was set at an easier gradient than the earlier Winnats Pass route and crossed the Mam Tor landslide. As a result of further movement of the Mam Tor landslide, major road works were required in 1912, 1933, 1946, 1952 and 1966. On the last occasion, the road was closed for six weeks.