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Badger's-Sett
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This sign, located near Wychbury Ring at Hagley in
Worcestershire, shows a cautious pair of badgers emerging
from their underground sett to go foraging. A badger's life
centres around such a sett, an underground haven made of
chambers and tunnels about 10-20 yards long and with several
entrances. It is kept clean by both boar and sow bringing in
fresh bedding or bracken, dry leaves, grass and bluebells on
fine nights. The sett is usually excavated in a woodland
hillside where their is some cover from undergrowth and is
accessible to a badger's hunting ground. A pub with this
sign is naturally located close to recognised badger country
and this one is no exception. The woods at Wychbury and
Clent are close by. The pub, however, was previously known
as the Gipsy's Tent.
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Bohemian
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This inn sign was found on a modern pub located
close to
Haymarket Centre on Leicester's
Belgrave Gate. The sign has the name of
Mitchell's and Butler's
so presumably this sign was commissioned by the Cape Hill brewery.
The sign is perhaps a reference to the neighbouring Haymarket Theatre.
Artists and writers are celebrated as people who lives
and act free of regard for conventional rules and practices.
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Image supplied by
Digital Photographic Images.
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Bowl-Turner's-Arms
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The
name of this former
beer house in Leicester's Belgrave Gate may have changed slightly over the years.
Although it is now trading as the Bowl Turner's Arms, it has been listed
as the Bowl Maker's Arms.
The
origins of the pub's name can be found in the 1861 census in which
Loughborough-born Thomas Cattell is recorded as a "turner of bowls."
He kept the pub with his Kilby-born wife Frances for a generation. The
pub was, for many years during the 20th century, operated by
Shipstone's but this sign was probably commissioned by Greenall
Whitley who took over the pub when they acquired the Basford
brewery.
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Image supplied by
Digital Photographic Images.
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