Ten illustrations from The Old Inns of Old England by Charles G. Harper (1906), via The Internet Archive, and tidied up a bit by us.
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Gallery: Old Inns of Old England (1906)
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they look good, nice app though some of the captions appear on top of the pictures (thus hard to read) on firefox
The Tan Hill looks exactly the same as it does now (except nowadays it’s a photograph).
Had the best new years’ eve of my life there (Hope it’s not too cheeky to post it here: http://teninchwheels.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/wuthering-pints/)
Some more about The Widow’s Son in Bromley-by-Bow, with its odd little tradition of the sailors and the hot cross buns:
http://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/04/06/the-widows-buns-at-bow-2/
Alas, when I cycled past the other week the pub was boarded up.
Spent my honeymoon at the Bear in Devizes, wife asleep while I watched MOTD and ordered room service 6X, nine years later I was back with the British Guild of Beer Writers on a brewery trip, fond memories. Think I have this book, somewhere.
the Bell in Woodbridge is certainly still there,and again looks identical from outside, helped no doubt as its grade I listed, but thesedays is called “Ye Old Bell and Steelyard” instead (the steelyard is the contraption hanging off the side of the building, basically a weighing machine)