From the Author of the Internationally Bestselling Red Herrings & White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel, What Caesar did for My Salad, Shaggy Dogs, They Laughed at Galileo:

The pub was once described by seventeenth-century diarist Samuel Pepys as the ‘heart of England while the church is its soul’. These days I would say he is only half right. There remain over 56,000 pubs in Great Britain, half of which are filled with youngsters who play loud music on a jukebox that sounds like somebody is hitting his lawnmower with a hammer, while the next-door neighbour shouts at him over the fence. The other half, however, are the perfect place to while away an afternoon with a pint and fine conversation while quietly contemplating what to do next. Well, that’s what I do.

The pub histories told in this collection are some of my favourite pubs and are extracts from my popular book The Old Dog and Duck (There are many more histories in there.) So take a seat in your favourite armchair by the fireside and join me on a pub crawl along memory lane and around history corner. We may be some time.

Contents

1 – The Blind Beggar

2 – The Bucket of Blood

3 – The Case is Altered

4 – The Crooked Billet

5 – The Eagle and Child

6 – The Elephant and Castle

7 - The Flying Dutchman

8 – The French House

9 – The Garibaldi

10 – The George and Dragon

11 - The Green Man

12 – Harry’s Bar

13 – The Hero of Inkerman

14 – The Horse and Hounds

15 – Jack Straw’s Castle

16 – The John Snow

17 – The Marquis of Granby

18 – Molly Maguires

19 – Molly Malone’s

20 – The Oddfellows Arms

21 - Pickled Parson

22 – The Red Lion

23 – The Royal Oak

24  - The Seven Sisters

25 – The Star and Garter

26 – The Volunteer

27 – JD Wetherspoon

28 – The White Hart

29 – The White Lion

30 – The Widow’s Son