The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #98027   Message #1937734
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
15-Jan-07 - 07:13 PM
Thread Name: BS: Pub Signs the Law
Subject: RE: BS: Pub Signs the Law
The old pub names often tend to come back - locally for me, the Half Moon in Stortford is back to its old name, after a spell as a Tap and Spile; and in Epping the George and Dragon has got its name back after a period with some silly name or other.

I've always liked the old barber's sign, the red and white pole, referring back to the time when barbers used to do a bit of surgery on the side. Or sometimes it was surgeons doing a bit of barbering on the side.