Just an addendum of the pub history stuff,

Just an addendum of the pub history stuff, I walked past the board outside the Bull & Mouth on New Oxford Street last night which has a detailed history of the pub and its name. The only part of this it that really interests me is at the end. The pub itself is a bog standard T&J Bernard hostelry, overpriced but okay – its tables are crammed in a nice way and it knows how to suck a tourist in from the hotel next door. Still its history explains its somewhat unusual name, leaving in the tantalizing tit-bit that the pub changed its name in 1982 to The Falkland Arms. It changed back in 2000.

The name the Bull & Mouth is more interesting I suppose and ties into a long more illustrious history. But when I first drunk there it was The Falkland Arms and whilst it’s obvious why the name was changed I’m a little bit sad it was changed back. There are plenty of pubs called The Trafalgar still knocking about after all, and this is the way pubs actually document history.

Pete Baran in Pumpkin Publog • 607 views