I remember that there was a pub half way down Holloway bank called the 'Flash Harry' Does anyone know who Flash Harry was? The pub sign was a man in tails brandishing a conductors baton (orchestra not bus!). I met my cousin there one day and when we came out someone had pinched his Krooklok but left his car! I have had cars like that.
I hate the modern trend of dumping old pub names that have stood for years in favour of stupid 'witty' names about slugs etc.
When I started travelling from Ludlow to college I was thrilled to see that BridgeNorth had a pub called 'The Charles Fox' with a picture of the great Charles Fox as the pub sign. Since then some philistine has renamed it 'The Fox tavern' - how sad.
Years ago a group of us maths teachers used to meet at 'The Newton' in Great Barr complete witha sign of that great man experimenting with a spectrum. That is now called the Aspbury Tavern Q.E.D I think.
If you know the 'Labour in Vain' in Telford - there is one I would not dream of keeping - a pub in serious need of a new name.
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