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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RWMENN - The Seven Stars is a Grade II listed public house at 53-54 Carey Street, Holborn, London. It is unusual for having survived the Great Fire of London.
It probably originated in the 17th century, and it is dated 1602, and was formerly known as The Log and Seven Stars.
Whilst the frontage may bear the date 1602, the building itself is likely to date from the 1680s.
The interior served as a filming location for a scene in the movie All the Old Knives
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RMMPBY - Following the UK's Spring Budget announcement on 15th March 2023, the drinks and hospitality industry are preparing for the upcoming changes to alcohol duty ? which will take effect on 1st August 2023. Draught products will receive additional relief, while duty on other alcohol products is set to rise in line with inflation.
According to WSTA, the forecast inflation rate of 10.1% is being used as the measure for increasing duty rates on all non-draught products, but will be adjusted according to alcohol content. In simple terms, the higher the alcohol per volume (ABV), the higher the new duty rate will be.
Duty changes in line with ABV
While some products have previously been measured on volume only ? such as still wine and cider ? from 1st August all alcohol products will be measured by alcohol volume or ABV.
What does this mean for beer?
Draught beer and cider products are protected by a 9.2% discount offered on items in 20ltr containers that are less than 8.5% and use a dispense system, meaning that, for example, the duty on a 50ltr 4% lager will not change.
However, the standard rate of duty on packaged beer that is 3.5% ABV and above will rise by 10.1%. This will increase the price of a 24 pack of 330ml 4.5% lager by ?0.69p per case.
What does this mean for wine?
Most wine will see an increase of ?0.44 per 75cl bottle, or a 20% increase in the duty paid (?2.67 vs the current ?2.23). This increase will apply to wines with an ABV between 11.5% and 14.5%.
Wines with an ABV above 15% will see a duty increase of ?0.97 (+44%) per 75cl bottle, and this increase gets bigger the higher the alcohol percentage ? duty on fortified wines of +20% ABV will go up by ?1.30 to ?4.28 per 75cl bottle.
On the other hand, wine under 11.5% ABV will be treated more favourably. Duty on wine at 10% ABV, for example, will be ?0.09 less than the current rate (at ?2.14 per 75cl bottle).
Further abolishment of separate duty rates for sparkling and still wine
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RA23C2 - The interior of The Flask, a historic public house on Flask Walk in Hampstead, north London. The image shows the traditional bar area with dark wood panelling, shelves of wine and spirits, chalkboard menus listing beers and bar snacks, and warm pendant lighting suspended over the counter.
The Flask dates back to the early 18th century and is known for retaining much of its historic character, including period-style fittings and a layout typical of long-established London pubs. The interior reflects a balance between everyday functionality and heritage, with practical bar design sitting alongside decorative details that evoke the pub's long social history.
Photographed in natural indoor light during normal service, the image documents everyday pub life in Hampstead, illustrating themes of British pub culture, hospitality, and the continued use of historic interiors as living social spaces rather than preserved museum pieces. It is well suited for editorial use relating to London lifestyle, heritage pubs, food and drink culture, and urban social history. The Flask in Hampstead is owned by Fuller, Smith & Turner (Fuller's), one of London's best-known historic brewing companies. The pub has origins dating back to the early 18th century, when it began life as a small alehouse serving travellers on the road north out of London, taking its name from the stone flasks once used to carry spa water from nearby Hampstead wells. Over time it evolved into a substantial village public house and became embedded in Hampstead's social and literary life, frequented by writers, artists and local residents drawn to its discreet location and informal atmosphere. Despite rebuilding and refurbishment over the centuries, The Flask has retained its character as a neighbourhood pub rather than a showpiece venue, a continuity reinforced under Fuller's stewardship, which has generally favoured traditional pub identities, cask ale, and long-term community use over aggressive rebranding.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RA23D1 - The exterior of The Flask, a well-known historic public house on Flask Walk in Hampstead, north London. The building features a distinctive deep blue painted frontage with traditional pub signage advertising wines and spirits, lantern-style exterior lighting, and large windows revealing a warmly lit interior.
The Flask has long been part of Hampstead's village character, serving as a neighbourhood pub for residents and visitors alike. Its location on the narrow pedestrian-friendly Flask Walk reinforces its role as a social meeting point within one of London's most established residential areas, close to Hampstead Heath.
Photographed in natural daylight, the image captures everyday pub life in north London, with customers seated outside and people socialising along the street. It illustrates enduring British pub culture, the importance of local public houses to community life, and the continued presence of historic pubs within London's conservation areas. The Flask in Hampstead is owned by Fuller, Smith & Turner (Fuller's), one of London's best-known historic brewing companies. The pub has origins dating back to the early 18th century, when it began life as a small alehouse serving travellers on the road north out of London, taking its name from the stone flasks once used to carry spa water from nearby Hampstead wells. Over time it evolved into a substantial village public house and became embedded in Hampstead's social and literary life, frequented by writers, artists and local residents drawn to its discreet location and informal atmosphere. Despite rebuilding and refurbishment over the centuries, The Flask has retained its character as a neighbourhood pub rather than a showpiece venue, a continuity reinforced under Fuller's stewardship, which has generally favoured traditional pub identities, cask ale, and long-term community use over aggressive rebranding.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RA23D2 - The exterior of The Flask, a well-known historic public house on Flask Walk in Hampstead, north London. The building features a distinctive deep blue painted frontage with traditional pub signage advertising wines and spirits, lantern-style exterior lighting, and large windows revealing a warmly lit interior.
The Flask has long been part of Hampstead's village character, serving as a neighbourhood pub for residents and visitors alike. Its location on the narrow pedestrian-friendly Flask Walk reinforces its role as a social meeting point within one of London's most established residential areas, close to Hampstead Heath.
Photographed in natural daylight, the image captures everyday pub life in north London, with customers seated outside and people socialising along the street. It illustrates enduring British pub culture, the importance of local public houses to community life, and the continued presence of historic pubs within London's conservation areas. The Flask in Hampstead is owned by Fuller, Smith & Turner (Fuller's), one of London's best-known historic brewing companies. The pub has origins dating back to the early 18th century, when it began life as a small alehouse serving travellers on the road north out of London, taking its name from the stone flasks once used to carry spa water from nearby Hampstead wells. Over time it evolved into a substantial village public house and became embedded in Hampstead's social and literary life, frequented by writers, artists and local residents drawn to its discreet location and informal atmosphere. Despite rebuilding and refurbishment over the centuries, The Flask has retained its character as a neighbourhood pub rather than a showpiece venue, a continuity reinforced under Fuller's stewardship, which has generally favoured traditional pub identities, cask ale, and long-term community use over aggressive rebranding.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PG92TX -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PGAYM7 - There has been a building on our site since the 1300s although the first mention of the Kings itself is not until 1639. The Georgian frontage was added in 1753 although the size of the building was reduced in the 1890s when a decline in trade resulted in part of the front being turned into a shop. It wasn't until 1936 that the Kings left private ownership and was bought by the Friary Brewery of Guildford which later became part of Allied Breweries.
We've had a few famous guests over the years including Tsar Peter the Great (who left without paying his bill!) as well as some European royalty who met here in 1814 to discuss post war Europe after the Battle of Trafalgar. Tsar Peter the Great's visit is commemorated by a plaque on the front of the building which was unveiled in 1998 by the Russian Ambassador to commemorate the tricentenary of the visit.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PGAYME - There has been a building on our site since the 1300s although the first mention of the Kings itself is not until 1639. The Georgian frontage was added in 1753 although the size of the building was reduced in the 1890s when a decline in trade resulted in part of the front being turned into a shop. It wasn't until 1936 that the Kings left private ownership and was bought by the Friary Brewery of Guildford which later became part of Allied Breweries.
We've had a few famous guests over the years including Tsar Peter the Great (who left without paying his bill!) as well as some European royalty who met here in 1814 to discuss post war Europe after the Battle of Trafalgar. Tsar Peter the Great's visit is commemorated by a plaque on the front of the building which was unveiled in 1998 by the Russian Ambassador to commemorate the tricentenary of the visit.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2NAWGEC -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JREC8E -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JRAHTT - The business began 8 years ago and was originally set up on my narrow boat making homemade tea, cake, coffee and preserves, as 'Cake on The Cut'.
I've always had a great love of the countryside, gathering wild ingredients and being inventive in the kitchen, which has slowly evolved into Gangplank Spirits & Preserves. I've travelled all over the UK canal network making and selling my produce.
The business has flourished and this year we have expanded and become a limited company, we now sell our products from the boat, at land based events, on the website and have also begun supplying stockists!
Founder - Sam Keay
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JRAHW1 - The business began 8 years ago and was originally set up on my narrow boat making homemade tea, cake, coffee and preserves, as 'Cake on The Cut'.
I've always had a great love of the countryside, gathering wild ingredients and being inventive in the kitchen, which has slowly evolved into Gangplank Spirits & Preserves. I've travelled all over the UK canal network making and selling my produce.
The business has flourished and this year we have expanded and become a limited company, we now sell our products from the boat, at land based events, on the website and have also begun supplying stockists!
Founder - Sam Keay
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JPDJGG - Revived by Tanners in 1983, this gin is traditionally double distilled and bottled at the full 40% vol which helps the botanicals to express themselves. Wonderfully crisp and clean with well-defined juniper character and a citrus edge.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JJYRD0 -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JJYRD1 -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JJYRDX -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JGM7EB - The Peveril of the Peak, named after Walter Scott's Novel is also a famous pub in central Manchester.
It is also the name of a stagecoach / mailcoach which ued to travel across the Peak District, from Luton to Manchester
Peveril of the Peak (1823) is the longest novel by Sir Walter Scott. Along with Ivanhoe, Kenilworth, and Woodstock this is one of the English novels in the Waverley novels series, with the main action taking place around 1678 in the Peak District, the Isle of Man, and London, and centring on the Popish Plot.
Plot introduction
Julian Peveril, a Cavalier, is in love with Alice Bridgenorth, a Roundhead's daughter, but both he and his father are accused of involvement with the Popish Plot of 1678.
Most of the story takes place in Derbyshire, London, and on the Isle of Man. The title refers to Peveril Castle in Castleton, Derbyshire.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JGM7EC - The Peveril of the Peak, named after Walter Scott's Novel is also a famous pub in central Manchester.
It is also the name of a stagecoach / mailcoach which ued to travel across the Peak District, from Luton to Manchester
Peveril of the Peak (1823) is the longest novel by Sir Walter Scott. Along with Ivanhoe, Kenilworth, and Woodstock this is one of the English novels in the Waverley novels series, with the main action taking place around 1678 in the Peak District, the Isle of Man, and London, and centring on the Popish Plot.
Plot introduction
Julian Peveril, a Cavalier, is in love with Alice Bridgenorth, a Roundhead's daughter, but both he and his father are accused of involvement with the Popish Plot of 1678.
Most of the story takes place in Derbyshire, London, and on the Isle of Man. The title refers to Peveril Castle in Castleton, Derbyshire.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JDDRH7 - Read more at https://pubheritage.camra.org.uk/pubs/108
A very fine pub in central Liverpool which is one to compare with other excellent Heritage pubs on Merseyside - the Stork
in Birkenhead, the Prince Arthur
in Liverpool and the Edinburgh
in Crosby
Like them it is a Victorian building (in this case of c.1865) re-modelled about in the early 20th century. They all share corner sites with the public bar occupying the angle and surrounded by an L-shaped corridor. All too have beautiful tiled dados in their corridors dating from Edwardian re-modelling schemes (as seen in our picture). A further similarity is the way the corridor works to provide a drinking area.
Discovery of the documents submitted to the licensing justices enabled former licensee, John O'Dowd, to trace the evolution of the pub to its present form. Back in 1903 a plan shows the public bar laid out as it is now. There was a snug behind it in the heart of the building and left of this, and on the site of the present toilets, a public room labelled ?parlour'. Then in 1915 the Lion expanded by taking in the building next door at 28 Tithebarn Street also a licensed premises. This enabled the L-shaped corridor to be created round the public bar and the formation of two rooms behind this - a news room in the newly acquired area (the name still survives in the window glass) and a lounge where the skylight is today. Then in 1967, when pubs everywhere were being opened up, plans were drawn up to remove the walls to the corridor from these rooms. These were duly implemented and the corner entrance was blocked. (hence the pub does not merit entry in the Part One of the National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors. In 1979 they added glazed partitions, one outside the gents and one on the right as you enter the news room.
The porch on Moorfields side has mosaic floor and one tiled wall from floor to ceiling.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JDDRYT - Read more at https://pubheritage.camra.org.uk/pubs/108
A very fine pub in central Liverpool which is one to compare with other excellent Heritage pubs on Merseyside - the Stork
in Birkenhead, the Prince Arthur
in Liverpool and the Edinburgh
in Crosby
Like them it is a Victorian building (in this case of c.1865) re-modelled about in the early 20th century. They all share corner sites with the public bar occupying the angle and surrounded by an L-shaped corridor. All too have beautiful tiled dados in their corridors dating from Edwardian re-modelling schemes (as seen in our picture). A further similarity is the way the corridor works to provide a drinking area.
Discovery of the documents submitted to the licensing justices enabled former licensee, John O'Dowd, to trace the evolution of the pub to its present form. Back in 1903 a plan shows the public bar laid out as it is now. There was a snug behind it in the heart of the building and left of this, and on the site of the present toilets, a public room labelled ?parlour'. Then in 1915 the Lion expanded by taking in the building next door at 28 Tithebarn Street also a licensed premises. This enabled the L-shaped corridor to be created round the public bar and the formation of two rooms behind this - a news room in the newly acquired area (the name still survives in the window glass) and a lounge where the skylight is today. Then in 1967, when pubs everywhere were being opened up, plans were drawn up to remove the walls to the corridor from these rooms. These were duly implemented and the corner entrance was blocked. (hence the pub does not merit entry in the Part One of the National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors. In 1979 they added glazed partitions, one outside the gents and one on the right as you enter the news room.
The porch on Moorfields side has mosaic floor and one tiled wall from floor to ceiling.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2MN7P7E - Sitting on an island of land between Chepstow Street and Bridgewater Street this tile clad Victorian pub certainly stands out from its surroundings. The building dates back to the early 19th Century but the cladding was added in 1900. The name is said to commemorate a horse-drawn stagecoach that ran between Manchester and London. Ironically though, the pub, by the same name in Derbyshire, claims that its name came from a book of the same name by Sir. Walter Scott that references Peveril Castle near Castleton in Derbyshire.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2R5PNTC - This image shows a row of traditional cask ale hand pumps from Joseph Holt, one of Manchester's best-known historic breweries, displayed on a pub bar in Manchester city centre. The pump clips include well-established Holt beers such as Holt Mild, Holt Bitter, and Two Hoots, reflecting the brewery's long association with north-west England pub culture.
Founded in 1849, Joseph Holt Brewery remains an important part of Manchester's brewing heritage, with its beers commonly found in tied and free houses across the region. The wooden pump handles, branded badges, and polished bar setting evoke the classic British public house interior, closely associated with cask-conditioned real ale and CAMRA-style drinking traditions.
The image is suitable for editorial and commercial use illustrating British pubs, real ale culture, brewing heritage, hospitality interiors, and Manchester social life, and would work well in features on UK beer, traditional pubs, or regional identity.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AAT2Y4 - Alcohol abuse encompasses a spectrum of unhealthy alcohol drinking behaviors, ranging from binge drinking to alcohol dependence, in extreme cases resulting in health problems for individuals and large scale social problems such as alcohol-related crimes.
Alcohol abuse was a psychiatric diagnosis in the DSM-IV, and has been merged with alcohol dependence into alcohol use disorder in the DSM-5
Globally, alcohol consumption is the seventh leading risk factor for both death and the burden of disease and injury. In short, except for tobacco, alcohol accounts for a higher burden of disease than any other drug. Alcohol use is a major cause of preventable liver disease worldwide, and alcoholic liver disease is the main alcohol-related chronic medical illness. Millions of men and women of all ages, from adolescents to the elderly, engage in unhealthy drinking in the United States. Alcohol use disorder (AUD) reportedly most often affects young men (aged 18?24 years) of lower socioeconomic status.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AAT2Y5 - Alcohol abuse encompasses a spectrum of unhealthy alcohol drinking behaviors, ranging from binge drinking to alcohol dependence, in extreme cases resulting in health problems for individuals and large scale social problems such as alcohol-related crimes.
Alcohol abuse was a psychiatric diagnosis in the DSM-IV, and has been merged with alcohol dependence into alcohol use disorder in the DSM-5
Globally, alcohol consumption is the seventh leading risk factor for both death and the burden of disease and injury. In short, except for tobacco, alcohol accounts for a higher burden of disease than any other drug. Alcohol use is a major cause of preventable liver disease worldwide, and alcoholic liver disease is the main alcohol-related chronic medical illness. Millions of men and women of all ages, from adolescents to the elderly, engage in unhealthy drinking in the United States. Alcohol use disorder (AUD) reportedly most often affects young men (aged 18?24 years) of lower socioeconomic status.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P4HWP5 - Barney the owner started by making Eau De Vie when he came out of his career as a nature photographer, he delicately picks the fruit for each flavour, washing, peeling and preparing each by hand.
After a number of seasons making the different Eau De Vies he then ventured into gin. Barney would soak hundreds of botanicals in a neutral spirit to discover which gave the best flavours, then with each botanical would go through the different species to see which would go the best with the other botanicals.
The final product is created like this: Hard spices, berries and herbs are soaked in our neutral British wheat spirit for 40 hours. We then suspend fresh blood orange zest and a rich mix of flowers and fragrant leaves above the liquid, their aroma gently extracted by the rising steam. 34 ingredients in all come together in a slow 7-hour, carefully guided distillation. It creates a sum much greater than its parts.
The dry flavour is matched with a lovely spearmint flavour which stays with you long after you drink it.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PM625G - Eclectic, historic pub offering beer & cocktails amid colourful paintings of Irish personalities.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2PM625P - Eclectic, historic pub offering beer & cocktails amid colourful paintings of Irish personalities.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RKMM98 - Brighton is a seaside resort on the south coast of England that is part of the city of Brighton and Hove, located 47 miles (76 km) south of London.
Brighton's location has made it a popular destination for tourists, renowned for its diverse communities, quirky shopping areas, large cultural, music and arts scene and its large LGBT population, leading to its recognition as the unofficial gay capital of the UK. Brighton attracted 7.5 million day visitors in 2015/16 and 4.9 million overnight visitors, and is the most popular seaside destination in the UK for overseas tourists. Brighton has also been called the UK's hippest city, and the happiest place to live in the UK
In 1985, the Borough Council described three myths about Brighton's economy. Common beliefs were that most of the working population commuted to London every day
that tourism provided most of Brighton's jobs and income
or that the borough's residents were composed entirely of wealthy theatricals and retired businesspeople rather than workers. Brighton has been an important centre for commerce and employment since the 18th century. It is home to several major companies, some of which employ thousands of people locally
as a retail centre it is of regional importance
creative, digital and new media businesses are increasingly significant
and, although Brighton was never a major industrial centre, its railway works contributed to Britain's rail industry in the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly in the manufacture of steam locomotives.
Since the amalgamation of Brighton and Hove, economic and retail data has been produced at a citywide level only. Examples of statistics include: Brighton and Hove's tourism industry contributes ?380m to the economy and employs 20,000 people directly or indirectly
the city has 9,600 registered companies
and a 2001 report identified it as one of five supercities for the future. In the past couple of years tourists to Brighton and Hove have fallen.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8HD49 - Minimum alcohol pricing in Scotland.
Five European wine-producing nations are trying to block Scotland's plans for minimum alcohol pricing.
France, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Bulgaria have said the policy is illegal, unfair and ineffective and could have a devastating impact on the wine and spirits industry.
They argue that it breaches European free trade law by discriminating against imported alcohol products.
The Scottish government insisted minimum pricing was perfectly legal.
The European Commission (EC) is currently considering the Scottish government's request to be granted an exemption from trade regulations to enact the minimum price law which was approved by the Scottish Parliament last year.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy HE7MBD - Opened by Felix O'Hanlon as The Railway Tavern, the pub was then bought by Michael Fanigan. Fanigan's son Patrick renamed and renovated the pub in 1885.
The Crown owes its elaborate tiling, stained glass and woodwork to the Italian craftsmen whom Fanigan persuaded to work on the pub after hours. These craftsmen were brought to Ireland to work on the many new churches being built in Belfast at the time. It was this high standard of work that gave the Crown the reputation of being one of the finest Victorian Gin Palaces of its time.
In 1978, the National Trust, following persuasion by people including Sir John Betjeman, purchased the property and three years later completed a ?400,000 renovation to restore the bar to its original Victorian state. Further restoration by the National Trust was done in 2007 at a cost of ?500,000. This work is the subject of a BBC Northern Ireland documentary, The Crown Jewel, screened in 2008.
A recognisable landmark of Belfast, the pub has featured as a location in numerous film and television productions, such as David Caffrey's Divorcing Jack (1998) and Carol Reed's classic 1947 film Odd Man Out.
The Crown has been given a Grade A Listed Building status by the Environment and Heritage Service.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy HE7MCN - Fibber Magees, Traditional Irish Music Bar based in Belfast. Nestled in the corner of Blackstaff Square, is the city's hidden gem
Fibber Magee's is the genuine article
a good old spit and sawdust bar, packed to the rafters with little bits of history and steeped in Irish tradition.
Open fire and enjoy the tunes of traditional musicians, every night of the week. With fiddles, pipes and the bodhr?ns
the craic is guaranteed.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CEMWH6 - WM Cadenhead, Scots Scottish Whisky Spirit wooden case from the Aberdeen Wine & Spirit Merchant 47 Netherkirkgate Aberdeen NE Scotland.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M0F6K3 - The Pelican has been a pub in Notting Hill on All Saints Road since 1870, but was recently acquired by new owners and, following a full restoration and soft opening period, it has relaunched as a pub and dining room. Restaurateur James Gummer, along with co-owners Phil Winser and Richard Squire, and Head Chef Owen Kenworthy, have redesigned and refurbished the site to create what they describe as a place that becomes a cornerstone of the local community, not just somewhere to eat and drink.
Owen Kenworthy's background is impressively broad, ranging from The Wolseley and Sketch to Primeur and Brawn, where he was Head Chef alongside Ed Wilson when it opened in 2010. His cooking style is rustic, modern executions of classic British and European cuisine.
The focus is on the finest British produce, with sustainability also a fundamental priority, and engaging suppliers who use regenerative farming methods, where possible. Typical dishes on the dining room menu include: Raw beef with Gentleman's Relish, Ham hock with egg mayo, Potted shrimp, Onglet and shallot, and Lobster and monkfish pie with lobster head gravy. Various cuts of beef are butchered on-site, and a ?5th Quarter Pie' makes use of the offal. Desserts include Lemon posset with shortbread
and Ginger Parkin and custard, made with Owen's family recipe. The pub offering is more casual with options such as Mince on toast
Welsh rarebit
Sausage roll
and Spider crab toast.
A wide selection of British beers includes Allsopp's IPA, Portobello Pilsner, and Deya. In addition to classic cocktails and a concise 40-bin wine list (glasses from ?5/bottles from ?25), a constantly evolving single bottle wine list is available.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RMJ3BE - A cocktail is an alcoholic mixed drink, which is either a combination of spirits, or one or more spirits mixed with other ingredients such as fruit juice, lemonade, flavored syrup, or cream. There are various types of cocktails, based on the number and kind of ingredients added. The origins of the cocktail are debated.
The Oxford Dictionaries define cocktail as An alcoholic drink consisting of a spirit or spirits mixed with other ingredients, such as fruit juice or cream. A cocktail can contain alcohol, a sugar, and a bitter/citrus. When a mixed drink contains only a distilled spirit and a mixer, such as soda or fruit juice, it is a highball. Many of the International Bartenders Association Official Cocktails are highballs. When a mixed drink contains only a distilled spirit and a liqueur, it is a duo, and when it adds a mixer, it is a trio. Additional ingredients may be sugar, honey, milk, cream, and various herbs.
Mixed drinks without alcohol that resemble cocktails are known as mocktails or virgin cocktails.
Traditionally cocktails were a mixture of spirits, sugar, water, and bitters. The term highball appears during the 1890s to distinguish a drink composed only of a distilled spirit and a mixer. During Prohibition in the United States (1919?1933), when alcoholic beverages were illegal, cocktails were still consumed illegally in establishments known as speakeasies.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy F89P0W - Jura distillery is a Scotch whisky distillery on the island of Jura in the Inner Hebrides off the West Coast of Scotland. The distillery is owned by Glasgow founded and based Whyte and Mackay, which in turn is owned by Philippines-based Emperador Inc
The distillery was founded by the Laird of Jura, Archibald Campbell in 1810. The distillery fell into disrepair but was restored in 1884. Around 1900 it was again in disuse and dismantled. In the 1950s two local estate owners, Robin Fletcher and Tony Riley-Smith keen to revive the local economy had the distillery rebuilt and expanded by the architects Lothian, Barclay, Jarvis & Boys with input from whisky and distillery expert William Delm??-Evans
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Emperador Distillers Inc (parent company) 2014 onwards
Whyte and Mackay Group 1995?present
Invergordon Distillers 1985 - 1995
Scottish & Newcastle Breweries 1960 - 1985 Charles Mackinlay & Co 1960
James Ferguson & Sons 1876 - 1901
J & K Orr 1867 - 1876
Norman Buchanan 1853 - 1861
The Campbell of Jura Family 1810?1853
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy HEEGAK - Opened by Felix O'Hanlon as The Railway Tavern, the pub was then bought by Michael Fanigan. Fanigan's son Patrick renamed and renovated the pub in 1885.
The Crown owes its elaborate tiling, stained glass and woodwork to the Italian craftsmen whom Fanigan persuaded to work on the pub after hours. These craftsmen were brought to Ireland to work on the many new churches being built in Belfast at the time. It was this high standard of work that gave the Crown the reputation of being one of the finest Victorian Gin Palaces of its time.
In 1978, the National Trust, following persuasion by people including Sir John Betjeman, purchased the property and three years later completed a ?400,000 renovation to restore the bar to its original Victorian state. Further restoration by the National Trust was done in 2007 at a cost of ?500,000. This work is the subject of a BBC Northern Ireland documentary, The Crown Jewel, screened in 2008.
A recognisable landmark of Belfast, the pub has featured as a location in numerous film and television productions, such as David Caffrey's Divorcing Jack (1998) and Carol Reed's classic 1947 film Odd Man Out.
The Crown has been given a Grade A Listed Building status by the Environment and Heritage Service.
