Comments on: The Poshing up of the Chequers http://boakandbailey.com/2012/08/the-poshing-up-of-the-chequers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-poshing-up-of-the-chequers Going on about beer and pubs since 2007 Wed, 22 May 2013 01:03:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Chequers, Cock and Bell: Walthamstow pubs re-born? — Walthamstow Scene http://boakandbailey.com/2012/08/the-poshing-up-of-the-chequers/#comment-20309 Chequers, Cock and Bell: Walthamstow pubs re-born? — Walthamstow Scene Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:26:41 +0000 http://boakandbailey.com/?p=5720#comment-20309 [...] weeks”, although there isn’t much evidence that the refurbishment is underway. There is a rumour that the Antic pub chain have taken it over, which would be interesting. It doesn’t appear on [...]

]]> By: Martyn Cornell http://boakandbailey.com/2012/08/the-poshing-up-of-the-chequers/#comment-20266 Martyn Cornell Sun, 26 Aug 2012 09:49:47 +0000 http://boakandbailey.com/?p=5720#comment-20266 enjoyed the Taylor Walker livery surviving on its sign …
That’s the 1980s revival version, using the logo of the old Cannon brewery, Clerkenwell.

George Cornell’s real name, incidentally, was George Myers: he changed it when young in an attempt to dissociate himself from some early ‘form”.

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