Out of the BH Album: A Plethora of Pubs

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From the time of the Romans, the public house has been part of the British way of life.[/caption]

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Pub names celebrate occupations, animals,mythology, places and pastimes.Naming the pub for a monarch or the local nobility lends a patriotic air to an establishment.[/caption]

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The ever-popular “Rose & Crown” honors the Tudor union. [/caption]

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Oxford’s “Bird & Baby” was the meeting place of the Inklings.[/caption]

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A social center as much as a watering hole, the pub is a perfectly respectable place to take your grandmother for coffee or gin.[/caption]

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A bustling market town like Lyndhurst, capital of the New Forest, always proffers a choice of welcoming public houses.[/caption]

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The custom of visually graphic pub signs dates from the days when most folk could not read.[/caption]