The Old Bull and Butcher was a public house in Ryton on Dunsmore on the A423 Banbury Road.
The pub first appears in the Victuallers’ Recognizances in 1819, with Joseph Olorenshaw ...
An interesting set of information survives in the 19th century court records: the calendar of ‘Victualler’s Recognizances’. These have been transcribed by volunteers at the Warwickshire County Record Office and ...
The Shop, the Pub, the Farm
The pub’s just round the corner, the Oak and Black Dog to the left of the shop. This was really the heart of the village. In the ...
According to a typed written note inserted within the package of deeds, the enclosed documents were uncovered in an attic when the house was cleared. Unfortunately the address of the ...
Pub signs are well-known and well documented; pub murals may have been painted by the same sort of artist but are often less well-known, and sadly more ephemeral. Here are ...
From about 1938 until March 1944 my Mum and Dad, Vera and Bill Gregory, ran the pub part of RM Bird and Co the wine merchants, at 32 Bridge Street; ...
I grew up in the Dugdale Arms, Nuneaton. Our family had run “The Dug, or The Duggie”, as it was known, since 1911, but its history extended further back than ...
I do still go round Coventry city centre, which has changed a bit from my time as a student. The old fire station is still there, by Pool Meadow bus ...
This well-known pub is situated at 57, Smith Street and is a popular pub to this day. The earliest record of it as a pub is the 1806 map of ...
This etching of Main Street in the centre of Wolston shows The Beeches and the Red Lion Inn. The Red Lion is no longer a pub, but the building has ...