Article: WE'LL DRINK TO THAT! 101 BRITISH PUB NAMES; The sign hanging outside your local can tell you more about its history than you think. PAT MOORE explains 101 popular pub names...(Features)

Article: Village split over pub sign ; The landlady of a country pub is calling for a change in the law after she was hit by a bizarre village spat which could threaten the pub's future.
Western Daily Press (Bristol UK);  November 6, 2008 ;     502 words ......landlady of The Saladin pub in Little Somerford...take down her large sign advertising the pub which is popular...planners demanding the sign be taken down, just...home opposite the pub. And yesterday he...to run a country pub can't put a sign up on private land...

Article: Make mine a sign; LAST ORDERS AS PUB DEMOLISHED.(News)
Birmingham Evening Mail (England);  March 14, 2003 ;     301 words ......out to show me the golden deer sign on the pub and said that was a sign Father...CAPTION(S): LANDMARK: The Yew Tree pub with its striking sign in Yardley; END OF AN ERA: Work...RUDOLPH!: Norma Price with the pub sign. Picture: Trevor Roberts

Article: TRAVELLER IN PUB SIGN ROW; Drinker's fury over 'racist' bar policy.(News)
Birmingham Evening Mail (England);  March 25, 2005 ;     295 words ......told the landlord the sign was illegal and he...and get out of my pub'. 'He said travellers...be named, said the sign was already up in the pub when she and her husband...Equality confirmed the sign was illegal and added...The King George V pub

Article: T-leaf strikes at pub; BANNER THEFT: It's a sign of the times.(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  April 18, 1996 ;     140 words ......yesterday nicked Britain's biggest pub sign in a raid that seems to have...Bar, in Commercial Street. The pub's bosses and Tennents - famed...with mud and unfastened the sign from the scaffolding. Blair...saw the crime. He said: The pub's opposite a taxi rank. It must...several hours to ...

Article: A sign of the times; Pub boss who put up notice to bar drunken travellers faces probe by police.
The Daily Mail (London, England);  June 25, 2005 ;     557 words ...Byline: NICK CRAVEN PUB landlord Ian Briscoe...group, he put up a sign saying 'Sorry, No...were barred from the pub. But they returned...been barred from the pub.' The Briscoes were...racist or not with the sign.' The Gypsy Council...people say if the sign said no women or no...will be ...

Article: Signs of the times - and pub art is here to stay ; The traditional, handcrafted pictorial pub sign has been a staple of the countryside since the 14th century. A Royal Act passed in 1393 made it compulsory for pubs and inns to have a sign hanging outside, to identify them to official ale testers and a largely illiterate population.
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  December 13, 2008 ;     697 words ......traditional, handcrafted pictorial pub sign has been a staple of the countryside...are fears the traditional handmade pub sign is dying out. Author Bill Bryson...one of the region's most successful pub sign writers, Andrew Grundon, believes...

Article: Letter: Pub sign.(Letters)
Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  September 9, 2003 ;     55 words ...Byline: D.Jardine RE YOUR article Daily Post, August 29)on a pub in Frodsham -I lived at the pub and can't recall this sign. In the '60s, we used to host amotorcycleclub there with connections to Dugdale's garage in Alvanley. Some members used to...

Article: England. Cornwall. Bolventor. Bodmin Moor. Jamaica Inn. The sign for the pub made famous by Daphne du Maurier in her novel of the same name. (LON36700)
Magnum Photos;  January 1, 2002 ;     143 words ......Bodmin Moor. Jamaica Inn. The sign for the pub made famous by Daphne du Maurier...Bodmin Moor. Jamaica Inn. The sign for the pub made famous by Daphne du Maurier...Bodmin Moor. Jamaica Inn. The sign for the pub made famous by Daphne du GB. ENGLAND...

Article: A sign of the times; Pub landlord's car park name started out as a joke. When Muslims protested, it ended with an ASBO.
The Daily Mail (London, England);  March 23, 2005 ;     417 words ......insulting. Muslims had said the sign was offensive to their religion...the public complained that the sign was sexually offensive. Mr Trought...We ran a competition in the pub to think of a funny name for...me is the complaints that the sign is sexually-offensive. Well...Street, which is near to ...

Article: No quarter given for Carriers over historic pub's electric sign
Evening News - Scotland;  April 7, 1999 ;     233 words ...A PUB reputed to be the...about its light-up sign. The historic Carriers...chiefs have decided the sign is not in keeping with the rest of the pub and have demanded...wooden boards with the pub's name on them and the box sign that lights up. It...

Article: A pint for a potato at pub that put the bar in barter; Fair trade: The pub sign offering to barter and chef Tim Abbott with some of the super-fresh veg he has exchanged for pints.
The Daily Mail (London, England);  August 15, 2008 ;     377 words ...FOR strangers to the pub, it might seem rather alarming - regulars...The idea is being encouraged by the Pigs pub, in Edgefield, near Holt, which is happy...for its kitchen and hand over a pint. A sign inside the pub says jokingly: 'If you grow, breed, shoot...beer. If beer is not what's required, ...

Article: Mum saves pub sign to send to her son in Australia.(News)
Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England);  May 23, 2006 ;     196 words ...A MOTHER saved a sign from her local pub before it was demolished to...they obliged by handing over a sign from the building. Mrs Palmer, now hopes to ship the sign to father-of-two Danny, 37...him that I had asked for the sign and he is really made up. I...

Article: Protesters brand pub sign a symbol of race prejudice.
The Daily Mail (London, England);  February 8, 2003 ;     364 words ......Called the Labour in Vain, the pub's sign showed how the woman tried to...intervention of the so-called Pub Sign Project Committee has angered...against black people.' He said the sign could be displayed in the pub with an explanation of its background...

Article: Pub's gold sign out of order say watchdogs
Evening News - Scotland;  January 15, 2002 ;     241 words ...A BID by a pub chain to erect "floating" gold...Wetherspoon chain for the metal sign outside The Standing Order...needed to draw attention to the pub, which opened five years ago...Cockburn Association all claim the sign would "have a damaging impact...on a suitable format for the sign. A ...