General… THE SILENT WOMAN/KING’S HEAD, WIDFORD, ESSEX 11 Nov 202011 Nov 2020 During my wife Maureen and my sojourn into Herefordshire in November 2018, we decided at the beginning of the week to visit the village of Bosbury which we had visited…
Pub Games… THE OLD BELL AND STEELYARD, WOODBRIDGE, SUFFOLK 17 Aug 20197 Oct 2019 The Olde Bell and Steelyard In the summer 2011 issue of the Pub History Society's Newsletter I recalled the visit by my wife and I the previous January to the…
Pub Games… THE BOLT-IN-TUN, FLEET STREET – IN SEARCH OF ANSWERS 17 Aug 20197 Oct 2019 I often gain inspiration for my articles from newspaper cuttings found in dusty tomes. In the past such sources have led to the publication of articles in the Pub History…
Pub Games… GNURDLING AND SIGNAGE 16 Aug 201931 Oct 2019 In the past I have been known to write pieces about the origins of specific pub signs and pub games. Some of my previous efforts which have included the Goat…
Pub History… The Goat And Compasses 22 May 201928 Jun 2019 The Goat and Compasses, Hull (Image © Simon Mason) It’s happened again. Inspiration for this contribution to the Pub History Society Newsletter came once more from a newspaper cutting found in a dusty…
Pub History… The Twin Foxes, Stevenage, Herts 21 May 201931 Oct 2019 Inspiration for the pieces I write for the Pub History Society Newsletter (now Pub History) often arrives via an odd cutting found amongst a collection of old papers that I have purchased…
Pub Signs Pub Signs 21 May 201930 Oct 2019 In addition to darts I do actually have other pub-related research interests and one of these is pub signs. Although I suppose this is a peripheral activity compared to my…
Pub Games… Pub History, Games, Books & Signs 21 May 201930 Oct 2019 The History of Public Houses This may surprise my regular visitors but I actually have research interests other than darts. (Yes. It’s true!) You cannot research darts, or any other…
Dr Patrick Chaplin 