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The log

2026-09-18The Old Ferry Boat InnThe doors here were checked against a register rather than a listing site, on 18 September 2026. Huntingdonshire Council holds it as The Old Ferry Boat Inn at Holywell, St Ives PE27 4TG, reference 341252, and gives 12 November 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. The match is on the address as well as the name, so it is these premises and not a namesake elsewhere.
2026-09-18Ye Olde Fighting CocksRead on 18 September 2026 against the food business register the Food Standards Agency publishes for every council in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. St Albans City Council holds it as Ye Olde Fighting Cocks at Ye Olde Fighting Cocks Ph, 16 Abbey Mill Lane, St Albans AL3 4HE, reference 1715858, and gives 5 March 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 3 out of five. The name and the street both match the house recorded here, and an inspection is an officer through the door on a dated day.
2026-09-18The White Lion InnChecked on 18 September 2026 against the register of food businesses their own council keeps and the Food Standards Agency publishes. Conwy Council holds it as The White Lion at White Lion Inn, Llanelian Road, Llanelian-yn-Rhos LL29 8YA, reference 230389, and gives 30 July 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. Name and address both agree with the house on this page, which is the test that matters: several houses on this site share a name.
2026-09-18The Cridford InnRead on 18 September 2026 against Teignbridge District Council's register of food businesses. The Cridford Inn at Trusham is there under reference 1085728, last inspected on 22 July 2026 and rated 5 out of five. The house is out of the ranking because its drink-led trade is modern, but it is open, and that is what this reading settles.
2026-09-18Sean's BarRead against the Revenue Commissioners' register of liquor licences renewed for 2025/2026 on 18 September 2026, a list standing as at 2 September 2026. The house is in it as ATP056, a seven-day ordinary publican's licence at 13 Main Street, Athlone, County Westmeath, in the name of Leinster Overview Concepts Limited and trading as Sean's Bar. That is the state saying the premises may serve, dated within the last fortnight, and it is the first record of the present trade this page has had beyond the local paper.
2026-09-18The Porch HouseChecked on 18 September 2026 against the register of food businesses their own council keeps and the Food Standards Agency publishes. Cotswold Council holds it as The Porch House at Digbeth Street, Stow-on-the-Wold GL54 1BN, reference 672048, and gives 9 December 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. Name and address both agree with the house on this page, which is the test that matters: several houses on this site share a name.
2026-09-18The Bush InnThis house is on its council's register of food businesses, read on 18 September 2026. Cornwall Council holds it as The Bush Inn at Crosstown, Morwenstow, Bude EX23 9SR, reference 1711879, and gives 22 April 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. An entry is not a promise that the doors were open this morning, but it is a council recording a visit to these premises on a named day.
2026-09-18The Bingley ArmsChecked on 18 September 2026 against the register of food businesses their own council keeps and the Food Standards Agency publishes. Leeds Council holds it as Bingley Arms at 37 Church Lane, Bardsey LS17 9DR, reference 323492, and gives 4 September 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. The match is on the address as well as the name, so it is these premises and not a namesake elsewhere.
2026-09-18The Royal OakRead on 18 September 2026 against the food business register the Food Standards Agency publishes for every council in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Winchester City Council holds it as Royal Oak at Royal Oak Passage, Winchester SO23 9AU, reference 12371, and gives 6 March 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. An entry is not a promise that the doors were open this morning, but it is a council recording a visit to these premises on a named day.
2026-09-18The Church House InnChecked on 18 September 2026 against the register of food businesses their own council keeps and the Food Standards Agency publishes. South Hams Council holds it as Church House Inn at Rattery TQ10 9LD, reference 1429137, and gives 17 March 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. The name and the street both match the house recorded here, and an inspection is an officer through the door on a dated day.
2026-09-18The Old InnThe doors here were checked against a register rather than a listing site, on 18 September 2026. Cornwall Council holds it as Kernow The Old Inn at The Old Inn, Churchtown, St Breward PL30 4PP, reference 745623, and gives 3 February 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. An entry is not a promise that the doors were open this morning, but it is a council recording a visit to these premises on a named day.
2026-09-18The Skirrid InnThis house is on its council's register of food businesses, read on 18 September 2026. Monmouthshire Council holds it as Skirrid Mountain Inn at Llanvihangel Crucorney, Abergavenny NP7 8DH, reference 1570972, and gives 26 March 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 4 out of five. An entry is not a promise that the doors were open this morning, but it is a council recording a visit to these premises on a named day.
2026-09-18The Olde BellLooked at on 18 September 2026 and left where it was, because what the register says is older than a settled answer needs. the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead still holds this house on its list of food businesses, at Ye Olde Bell Hotel, High Street, reference 734485, but the last inspection recorded against it is 21 March 2024. A live entry with a stale visit says the council has not taken the premises off its books; it does not say anyone was served there this year, and no newer dated record was traced at the address.
2026-09-18The Olde BellRead on 18 September 2026 against the register that lists food businesses, and left unsettled: the newest visit recorded against this house is older than a settled answer needs, and a live entry with a stale visit says the council has not struck the premises off, not that anybody was served there lately. The house is still recorded as trading, because nothing says otherwise. What changes is the badge over it, which said the status had been checked this month when what was checked came back inconclusive. It now says the trading is believed rather than confirmed, which is what the row’s own note has said all along.
2026-09-18The Olde BellThe Olde Bell's own Christmas page, read on 18 September 2026, carries a Christmas 2026 brochure, party nights, and festive lunches and dinners priced and dated from 1 to 22 December 2026.
2026-09-18The Old House 1147A register reading of 18 September 2026 stands behind the trading on this page. Bridgend Council holds it as The Old House 1147 at Llangynwyd, Maesteg CF34 9SB, reference 1130612, and gives 12 August 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 3 out of five. The name and the street both match the house recorded here, and an inspection is an officer through the door on a dated day.
2026-09-18The Red LionChecked on 18 September 2026 against the register of food businesses their own council keeps and the Food Standards Agency publishes. East Hampshire Council holds it as Red Lion at South Lane, Chalton PO8 0BG, reference 1697998, and gives 9 December 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 4 out of five. The name and the street both match the house recorded here, and an inspection is an officer through the door on a dated day.
2026-09-18The Oxenham ArmsThe doors here were checked against a register rather than a listing site, on 18 September 2026. West Devon Council holds it as The Oxenham Arms at South Zeal EX20 2JT, reference 1420731, and gives 30 April 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. The name and the street both match the house recorded here, and an inspection is an officer through the door on a dated day.
2026-09-18The Crown InnThe doors here were checked against a register rather than a listing site, on 18 September 2026. Cornwall Council holds it as The Crown Inn at Lanlivery, Bodmin PL30 5BT, reference 1486963, and gives 12 June 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. An entry is not a promise that the doors were open this morning, but it is a council recording a visit to these premises on a named day.
2026-09-18The Pied BullRead on 18 September 2026 against the food business register the Food Standards Agency publishes for every council in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Cheshire West and Chester Council holds it as Pied Bull at 57 Northgate Street, Chester CH1 2HQ, reference 315053, and gives 20 February 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. The match is on the address as well as the name, so it is these premises and not a namesake elsewhere.
2026-09-18The Mermaid InnThis house is on its council's register of food businesses, read on 18 September 2026. Rother Council holds it as The Mermaid at Mermaid Street, Rye TN31 7EY, reference 781272, and gives 30 January 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. The name and the street both match the house recorded here, and an inspection is an officer through the door on a dated day.
2026-09-18Gasthaus Zum RiesenRead on 18 September 2026. The Main valley tourist association's entry for the inn, in the regional tourism system the Bavarian boards share, was last changed on 18 June 2026 and carries its opening hours. The inn's own site gives the same hours, closed on Wednesdays, and was advertising for a cook in May 2026. Germany keeps no public list of licensed houses, so a dated tourist board entry is the nearest thing to a register here.
2026-09-18Lord Crewe ArmsA register reading of 18 September 2026 stands behind the trading on this page. Northumberland Council holds it as Lord Crewe Arms at The Square, Blanchland DH8 9SP, reference 510203, and gives 28 April 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. The name and the street both match the house recorded here, and an inspection is an officer through the door on a dated day.
2026-09-18The Lamb InnA register reading of 18 September 2026 stands behind the trading on this page. Eastbourne Council holds it as Lamb Inn at 36 High Street, Eastbourne BN21 1HH, reference 1951340, and gives 7 October 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. The match is on the address as well as the name, so it is these premises and not a namesake elsewhere.
2026-09-18Ye Olde Trip to JerusalemLooked at on 18 September 2026 and left where it was, because what the register says is older than a settled answer needs. Nottingham City Council still holds this house on its list of food businesses, at Brewhouse Yard, reference 217277, but the last inspection recorded against it is 6 June 2024. A live entry with a stale visit says the council has not taken the premises off its books; it does not say anyone was served there this year, and no newer dated record was traced at the address.
2026-09-18Ye Olde Trip to JerusalemRead on 18 September 2026 against the register that lists food businesses, and left unsettled: the newest visit recorded against this house is older than a settled answer needs, and a live entry with a stale visit says the council has not struck the premises off, not that anybody was served there lately. The house is still recorded as trading, because nothing says otherwise. What changes is the badge over it, which said the status had been checked this month when what was checked came back inconclusive. It now says the trading is believed rather than confirmed, which is what the row’s own note has said all along.
2026-09-18Ye Olde Trip to JerusalemGreene King, which runs the house, publishes its hours for this week — eleven in the morning to eleven at night, every day — and a page for Christmas 2026, read 18 September 2026. That is the operator saying the doors are open on a dated page, which is what the badge over this row needs. The house had been marked believed rather than confirmed earlier the same day, when a sweep found the council's last food inspection here was in 2024 and nothing newer stood behind it.
2026-09-18The Brazen HeadThe licence behind the trade, read on 18 September 2026. Revenue's register of liquor licences renewed for 2025/2026, as it stood on 2 September 2026, enters the house as S1475, a seven-day ordinary publican's licence at 19/20 Lower Bridge Street in Dublin city, held by Bridge Street Taverns Limited and trading as The Brazen Head. The address in the register is the address on this page, and the class of licence is the full public-house one, so drink is served here without a meal.
2026-09-18Llindir InnThe doors here were checked against a register rather than a listing site, on 18 September 2026. Denbighshire Council holds it as Llindir Inn Ltd at Llindir Street, Henllan LL16 5BH, reference 974414, and gives 8 August 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 4 out of five. The match is on the address as well as the name, so it is these premises and not a namesake elsewhere.
2026-09-18The Black Bull InnA register reading of 18 September 2026 stands behind the trading on this page. North Yorkshire Council holds it as Black Bull Inn at St James Square, Boroughbridge YO51 9AR, reference 1869287, and gives 14 April 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. Name and address both agree with the house on this page, which is the test that matters: several houses on this site share a name.
2026-09-18The Royal Standard of EnglandChecked on 18 September 2026 against the register of food businesses their own council keeps and the Food Standards Agency publishes. Buckinghamshire Council holds it as The Royal Standard Of England at Brindle Lane, Forty Green HP9 1XT, reference 355776, and gives 11 September 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. The match is on the address as well as the name, so it is these premises and not a namesake elsewhere.
2026-09-18The Turks HeadTwo dated records read on 18 September 2026. Cornwall Council's register of food businesses carries the house at 49 Chapel Street, last inspected on 8 November 2024 and rated 5 out of five. Behind it, Goodwin Hospitality Ltd, number 13894302, is an active company registered at the Turks Head, 49 Chapel Street, trading as public houses and bars, whose last confirmation statement is dated 22 January 2026.
2026-09-18Ye Olde Salutation InnRead on 18 September 2026 against the food business register the Food Standards Agency publishes for every council in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Nottingham City Council holds it as Ye Olde Salutation Inn at Hounds Gate, Nottingham NG1 7AA, reference 1952588, and gives 28 May 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. The name and the street both match the house recorded here, and an inspection is an officer through the door on a dated day.
2026-09-18The Bear InnA register reading of 18 September 2026 stands behind the trading on this page. Oxford City Council holds it as Bear Inn at 6 Alfred Street, Oxford OX1 4EH, reference 268342, and gives 12 December 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. The name and the street both match the house recorded here, and an inspection is an officer through the door on a dated day.
2026-09-18Adam and EveA register reading of 18 September 2026 stands behind the trading on this page. Norwich City Council holds it as The Adam And Eve Public House at 17 Bishopgate, Norwich NR3 1RZ, reference 5231, and gives 11 August 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. An entry is not a promise that the doors were open this morning, but it is a council recording a visit to these premises on a named day.
2026-09-18The King's HeadChecked against the Revenue Commissioners' list of liquor licences renewed for 2025/2026 on 18 September 2026, which stands as at 2 September 2026. The house holds GAP048, a seven-day ordinary publican's licence, in the name of Galway Taverns Limited and trading as The Kings Head, at 15 High Street and 16 High Street, Galway. The register writes the name without its apostrophe and takes in the house next door as well, which is worth knowing to anyone searching it.
2026-09-18The Pandora InnA register reading of 18 September 2026 stands behind the trading on this page. Cornwall Council holds it as Pandora Inn at Restronguet, Mylor Bridge, Falmouth TR11 5ST, reference 1935491, and gives 7 January 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. Name and address both agree with the house on this page, which is the test that matters: several houses on this site share a name.
2026-09-18Ye Olde Man & ScytheThis house is on its council's register of food businesses, read on 18 September 2026. Bolton Council holds it as Ye Olde Man and Scythe at 6-8 Churchgate, Bolton BL1 1HL, reference 861029, and gives 23 March 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 3 out of five. The match is on the address as well as the name, so it is these premises and not a namesake elsewhere.
2026-09-18Kyteler's InnRead on 18 September 2026 against Revenue's register of liquor licences renewed for 2025/2026, which stands as at 2 September 2026. The inn is entered as KKP0794, a seven-day ordinary publican's licence on Kieran Street in Kilkenny, held by Kytelers Inn Limited with Nicky Flynn as its nominee, and trading under the spelling Kytler's Inn — a letter short of the name over the door, which is how a search on the full name misses it. The nominee's surname is the family that has owned the house since 1986.
2026-09-18Jaškovská krčmaRead on 18 September 2026. The house's news page is current: an offer of company parties posted on 9 September 2026, and a fortnight before it an invitation to book weddings for 2027. The Czech Republic publishes no drink licence list that can be searched this way, so the inn's own dated writing is what stands behind the badge.
2026-09-18The Tinners ArmsRead on 18 September 2026 against the food business register the Food Standards Agency publishes for every council in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Cornwall Council holds it as The Tinners Arms at Zennor, St Ives TR26 3BY, reference 926675, and gives 25 July 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. The match is on the address as well as the name, so it is these premises and not a namesake elsewhere.
2026-09-18The Tobie NorrisRead on 18 September 2026 against South Kesteven District Council's register of food businesses. The Tobie Norris is there at 12 St Paul's Street, reference 238900, last inspected on 11 June 2026 and rated 4 out of five. Another house outside the ranking on its dates, and trading on the register's evidence.
2026-09-18The GeorgeRead on 18 September 2026 against the food business register the Food Standards Agency publishes for every council in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Tunbridge Wells Council holds it as George Hotel at Stone Street, Cranbrook TN17 3HE, reference 26305, and gives 3 February 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. The name and the street both match the house recorded here, and an inspection is an officer through the door on a dated day.
2026-09-18The Old Bridge InnChecked on 18 September 2026 against the register of food businesses their own council keeps and the Food Standards Agency publishes. Calderdale Council holds it as The Old Bridge Inn at Priest Lane, Ripponden HX6 4DF, reference 1548050, and gives 6 March 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 4 out of five. An entry is not a promise that the doors were open this morning, but it is a council recording a visit to these premises on a named day.
2026-09-18The Sloop InnA register reading of 18 September 2026 stands behind the trading on this page. Cornwall Council holds it as The Sloop Inn at The Wharf, St Ives TR26 1LP, reference 530398, and gives 28 April 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. An entry is not a promise that the doors were open this morning, but it is a council recording a visit to these premises on a named day.
2026-09-18Scotch Piper InnLooked at on 18 September 2026 and left where it was, because what the register says is older than a settled answer needs. Sefton Council still holds this house on its list of food businesses, at Scotch Piper Inn, Southport Road, reference 569530, but the last inspection recorded against it is 14 August 2024. A live entry with a stale visit says the council has not taken the premises off its books; it does not say anyone was served there this year, and no newer dated record was traced at the address.
2026-09-18Scotch Piper InnRead on 18 September 2026 against the register that lists food businesses, and left unsettled: the newest visit recorded against this house is older than a settled answer needs, and a live entry with a stale visit says the council has not struck the premises off, not that anybody was served there lately. The house is still recorded as trading, because nothing says otherwise. What changes is the badge over it, which said the status had been checked this month when what was checked came back inconclusive. It now says the trading is believed rather than confirmed, which is what the row’s own note has said all along.
2026-09-18The Cott InnThe doors here were checked against a register rather than a listing site, on 18 September 2026. South Hams Council holds it as The Cott Inn at Cott Lane, Dartington TQ9 6HE, reference 1429034, and gives 14 August 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. Name and address both agree with the house on this page, which is the test that matters: several houses on this site share a name.
2026-09-18The Bell InnThis house is on its council's register of food businesses, read on 18 September 2026. West Berkshire Council holds it as The Bell Inn at Bell Lane, Aldworth RG8 9SE, reference 202851, and gives 23 June 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. Name and address both agree with the house on this page, which is the test that matters: several houses on this site share a name.
2026-09-18The Tower InnLooked at on 18 September 2026 and left where it was, because what the register says is older than a settled answer needs. South Hams District Council still holds this house on its list of food businesses, at the Tower Inn, Slapton, reference 1428829, but the last inspection recorded against it is 22 March 2024. A live entry with a stale visit says the council has not taken the premises off its books; it does not say anyone was served there this year, and no newer dated record was traced at the address.
2026-09-18The Tower InnRead on 18 September 2026 against the register that lists food businesses, and left unsettled: the newest visit recorded against this house is older than a settled answer needs, and a live entry with a stale visit says the council has not struck the premises off, not that anybody was served there lately. The house is still recorded as trading, because nothing says otherwise. What changes is the badge over it, which said the status had been checked this month when what was checked came back inconclusive. It now says the trading is believed rather than confirmed, which is what the row’s own note has said all along.
2026-09-18The Tower InnThe Campaign for Real Ale's South Devon branch surveyed the Tower Inn on 27 July 2025 and updated its entry on 9 July 2026, with opening and food times including the Tuesday the house is shut. Read 18 September 2026. The inn's own news page has not been added to since August 2024.
2026-09-18The Old InnThis house is on its council's register of food businesses, read on 18 September 2026. Teignbridge Council holds it as The Old Inn at Widecombe-in-the-Moor TQ13 7TA, reference 1768615, and gives 14 August 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. Name and address both agree with the house on this page, which is the test that matters: several houses on this site share a name.
2026-09-18The Angel InnThe doors here were checked against a register rather than a listing site, on 18 September 2026. Tonbridge and Malling Council holds it as The Angel Inn at Addington Green, West Malling ME19 5BB, reference 291671, and gives 26 February 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. The match is on the address as well as the name, so it is these premises and not a namesake elsewhere.
2026-09-18The Barley MowA register reading of 18 September 2026 stands behind the trading on this page. South Oxfordshire Council holds it as The Barley Mow at Clifton Hampden, Abingdon OX14 3EH, reference 272006, and gives 20 March 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. The match is on the address as well as the name, so it is these premises and not a namesake elsewhere.
2026-09-18The Sheep Heid InnThe doors here were checked against a register rather than a listing site, on 18 September 2026. City of Edinburgh Council holds it as Sheep Heid Inn at 43 The Causeway, Edinburgh EH15 3QA, reference 663711, and gives 4 September 2026 as the date of its last inspection, at which it passed. Scotland is on the pass-or-improve scheme rather than the five-point one used further south. The name and the street both match the house recorded here, and an inspection is an officer through the door on a dated day.
2026-09-18The Old CrownThis house is on its council's register of food businesses, read on 18 September 2026. Birmingham Council holds it as The Old Crown at 188 High Street, Deritend, Birmingham B12 0LD, reference 777588, and gives 22 July 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. The name and the street both match the house recorded here, and an inspection is an officer through the door on a dated day.
2026-09-18The ParrotRead on 18 September 2026 against Canterbury City Council's register of food businesses. The Parrot is there at 1-9 Church Lane, reference 1103370, last inspected on 1 April 2026 and rated 5 out of five. The house keeps its page and its pin while standing outside the ranking, and this says the doors are still open.
2026-09-18The Brocket ArmsA register reading of 18 September 2026 stands behind the trading on this page. Welwyn Hatfield Council holds it as The Brocket Arms at Hill Farm Lane, Ayot St Lawrence AL6 9BT, reference 182746, and gives 6 October 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. Name and address both agree with the house on this page, which is the test that matters: several houses on this site share a name.
2026-09-18The Blue Anchor InnThe doors here were checked against a register rather than a listing site, on 18 September 2026. Vale of Glamorgan Council holds it as Blue Anchor at Blue Anchor Inn, East Aberthaw CF62 3DD, reference 966136, and gives 20 February 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 4 out of five. The name and the street both match the house recorded here, and an inspection is an officer through the door on a dated day.
2026-09-18The Cherub InnA register reading of 18 September 2026 stands behind the trading on this page. South Hams Council holds it as The Cherub Inn at 13 Higher Street, Dartmouth TQ6 9RB, reference 1429207, and gives 18 March 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. An entry is not a promise that the doors were open this morning, but it is a council recording a visit to these premises on a named day.
2026-09-18Turf TavernLooked at on 18 September 2026 and left where it was, because what the register says is older than a settled answer needs. Oxford City Council still holds this house on its list of food businesses, at Bath Place, reference 268400, but the last inspection recorded against it is 8 April 2024. A live entry with a stale visit says the council has not taken the premises off its books; it does not say anyone was served there this year, and no newer dated record was traced at the address.
2026-09-18Turf TavernRead on 18 September 2026 against the register that lists food businesses, and left unsettled: the newest visit recorded against this house is older than a settled answer needs, and a live entry with a stale visit says the council has not struck the premises off, not that anybody was served there lately. The house is still recorded as trading, because nothing says otherwise. What changes is the badge over it, which said the status had been checked this month when what was checked came back inconclusive. It now says the trading is believed rather than confirmed, which is what the row’s own note has said all along.
2026-09-18Turf TavernGreene King, which runs the house, publishes its hours for this week — eleven in the morning to eleven at night, every day — on a page rebuilt on the morning of 18 September 2026, and a Christmas 2026 page taking bookings for the tavern by name. Read 18 September 2026. That is the operator saying the doors are open, on a page carrying its own date.
2026-09-18The Crown InnA register reading of 18 September 2026 stands behind the trading on this page. Waverley Council holds it as The Crown Inn at The Green, Chiddingfold GU8 4TX, reference 175835, and gives 18 October 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. An entry is not a promise that the doors were open this morning, but it is a council recording a visit to these premises on a named day.
2026-09-18The George InnLooked at on 18 September 2026 and left where it was, because what the register says is older than a settled answer needs. Somerset Council still holds this house on its list of food businesses, at the George Inn, High Street, reference 1757592, but the last inspection recorded against it is 13 March 2024. A live entry with a stale visit says the council has not taken the premises off its books; it does not say anyone was served there this year, and no newer dated record was traced at the address.
2026-09-18The George InnRead on 18 September 2026 against the register that lists food businesses, and left unsettled: the newest visit recorded against this house is older than a settled answer needs, and a live entry with a stale visit says the council has not struck the premises off, not that anybody was served there lately. The house is still recorded as trading, because nothing says otherwise. What changes is the badge over it, which said the status had been checked this month when what was checked came back inconclusive. It now says the trading is believed rather than confirmed, which is what the row’s own note has said all along.
2026-09-18The George InnThe inn's own page, read on 18 September 2026, prints its hours and a forward-dated notice that it closes for a private event on Saturday 10 October 2026. A house telling drinkers which single day this autumn it will not be open is telling them about all the others.
2026-09-18The Lad in the LaneThe closure recorded here was tested rather than assumed, on 18 September 2026. Birmingham City Council's register of food businesses has no entry for the house on Bromford Lane, and to show that the absence means something, the register does carry its neighbours along the same stretch: the Orient Kitchen at number 100, inspected on 4 June 2026, among others. A house that serves no food need not be registered at all, so this is support for the closure and not proof of it.
2026-09-18The Lad in the LaneRead on 18 September 2026 against the register that lists food businesses, and left unsettled: the newest visit recorded against this house is older than a settled answer needs, and a live entry with a stale visit says the council has not struck the premises off, not that anybody was served there lately. The house is still recorded as trading, because nothing says otherwise. What changes is the badge over it, which said the status had been checked this month when what was checked came back inconclusive. It now says the trading is believed rather than confirmed, which is what the row’s own note has said all along.
2026-09-18The Fleece InnRead on 18 September 2026 against Wychavon District Council's register of food businesses. The house is entered simply as The Fleece, at The Cross, Bretforton, reference 685847, last inspected on 10 July 2025 and rated 5 out of five. Searching the register on the full name returns a different Fleece altogether, near Stroud; searching on the village is what finds this one.
2026-09-18George & DragonRead on 18 September 2026 against the food business register the Food Standards Agency publishes for every council in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Anglesey Council holds it as George & Dragon at Church Street, Beaumaris LL58 8AA, reference 116501, and gives 6 February 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. The name and the street both match the house recorded here, and an inspection is an officer through the door on a dated day.
2026-09-18The Three ChimneysRead on 18 September 2026 against the food business register the Food Standards Agency publishes for every council in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Tunbridge Wells Council holds it as The Three Chimneys at Hareplain Road, Biddenden TN27 8LW, reference 67830, and gives 20 April 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. Name and address both agree with the house on this page, which is the test that matters: several houses on this site share a name.
2026-09-18Cittie of YorkeTwo readings on 18 September 2026, because one of them had gone stale. Camden Council's register of food businesses still carries the house, at 22 High Holborn, but its last inspection there was 27 October 2023. The borough's licensing register answers better: it records a premises licence in force at 22 High Holborn for the Cittie of Yorke, reference PREM-LIC 1933, held by Samuel Smith Southern with a named supervisor, in a list the council last refreshed on 17 September 2026. A licence in force is the permission to sell drink, which is a closer question than the kitchen's rating.
2026-09-18The Bell InnRead on 18 September 2026 against the food business register the Food Standards Agency publishes for every council in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Nottingham City Council holds it as Bell Inn at 18 Angel Row, Nottingham NG1 6HL, reference 217607, and gives 25 August 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. An entry is not a promise that the doors were open this morning, but it is a council recording a visit to these premises on a named day.
2026-09-18The Luttrell ArmsChecked on 18 September 2026 against the register of food businesses their own council keeps and the Food Standards Agency publishes. Somerset Council holds it as Luttrell Arms Hotel at 32-36 High Street, Dunster TA24 6SG, reference 1807900, and gives 17 February 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. An entry is not a promise that the doors were open this morning, but it is a council recording a visit to these premises on a named day.
2026-09-18Ye Olde George InnLooked at on 18 September 2026 and left where it was, because what the register says is older than a settled answer needs. Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council still holds this house on its list of food businesses, at 2a Castle Street, reference 1351891, but the last inspection recorded against it is 16 August 2024. A live entry with a stale visit says the council has not taken the premises off its books; it does not say anyone was served there this year, and no newer dated record was traced at the address.
2026-09-18Ye Olde George InnRead on 18 September 2026 against the register that lists food businesses, and left unsettled: the newest visit recorded against this house is older than a settled answer needs, and a live entry with a stale visit says the council has not struck the premises off, not that anybody was served there lately. The house is still recorded as trading, because nothing says otherwise. What changes is the badge over it, which said the status had been checked this month when what was checked came back inconclusive. It now says the trading is believed rather than confirmed, which is what the row’s own note has said all along.
2026-09-18Ye Olde George InnLeft as confirmed, not believed. The register that lists food businesses had nothing recent enough to settle this house on its own, but the row already carried a live dated reading from elsewhere — the operator’s or the pub’s own page, or a drinkers’ guide showing this week’s hours — so the badge over it stands. Recorded because a sweep on 18 September 2026 briefly marked it believed rather than confirmed on the register’s silence alone, and the check that guards this field refused it, rightly: the row’s own note said the house was open.
2026-09-18The Old Court House InnRead on 18 September 2026 on the pub company's page for the inn, which carried a notice that day: the house is shut for maintenance work and expects to welcome people back the same evening. The page gives the week's hours and its own record dates its last change to the end of July 2026. Jersey publishes no list of licensed premises, so the company that lets the house is the source that dates this.
2026-09-18The Golf TavernLooked at on 18 September 2026 and left where it was, because what the register says is older than a settled answer needs. City of Edinburgh Council still holds this house on its list of food businesses, at 30-31 Wright's Houses, reference 140663, but the last inspection recorded against it is 12 September 2023. A live entry with a stale visit says the council has not taken the premises off its books; it does not say anyone was served there this year, and no newer dated record was traced at the address.
2026-09-18The Golf TavernRead on 18 September 2026 against the register that lists food businesses, and left unsettled: the newest visit recorded against this house is older than a settled answer needs, and a live entry with a stale visit says the council has not struck the premises off, not that anybody was served there lately. The house is still recorded as trading, because nothing says otherwise. What changes is the badge over it, which said the status had been checked this month when what was checked came back inconclusive. It now says the trading is believed rather than confirmed, which is what the row’s own note has said all along.
2026-09-18The Golf TavernLeft as confirmed, not believed. The register that lists food businesses had nothing recent enough to settle this house on its own, but the row already carried a live dated reading from elsewhere — the operator’s or the pub’s own page, or a drinkers’ guide showing this week’s hours — so the badge over it stands. Recorded because a sweep on 18 September 2026 briefly marked it believed rather than confirmed on the register’s silence alone, and the check that guards this field refused it, rightly: the row’s own note said the house was open.
2026-09-18Café De PresseSearched on 18 September 2026. Belgium's register of businesses, standing as at 17 September, holds no live business or branch at Markt 50 in Geraardsbergen: five branches named Cafe De Presse are recorded at that address and every one of them is marked ceased. A register can lag a new tenant, so this is not proof that the door is locked, but it is the opposite of a dated reading that the cafe is pouring. The trading is recorded as believed rather than confirmed until somebody looks properly.
2026-09-18Café De PresseThe 1459 belongs to a press report about the façade and the first Manneken Pis, not to a claim the café publishes. (The summary this fix wrote was extended on 18 September 2026 to say what a register says about whether the house is open today; every sentence of it is carried word for word at the start of the longer one.)
2026-09-18Café De PresseSame fault, same mend: the summary said nothing about whether the cafe is open, while the Belgian business register holds no live business at the address. The page now says so and tells a traveller to check before going.
2026-09-18Café 't RozenhoedjeRead on 18 September 2026. The cafe publishes the afternoons it will open, by date: 27 September, 2 October and 11 October 2026, four until eight. Maastricht keeps no list of licensed premises a reader can search, and the two state registers cited here date the front and the fabric rather than the trade, so the house's own calendar is what dates this.
2026-09-18Ye Olde Bulls Head InnRead on 18 September 2026 against the register Anglesey Council keeps of its food businesses. The house is entered as The Bull, 12-14 Castle Street, Beaumaris, reference 116472, last inspected on 28 August 2026 and rated 5 out of five. It is registered under the short name it trades by rather than the longer one over the door, which is why a search on the full name comes back empty.
2026-09-18Old Queen's HeadThe doors here were checked against a register rather than a listing site, on 18 September 2026. Sheffield Council holds it as Old Queens Head at 40 Pond Hill, Sheffield S1 2BG, reference 582916, and gives 18 February 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 2 out of five. The match is on the address as well as the name, so it is these premises and not a namesake elsewhere.
2026-09-18Stadsbierhuys De WaagRead on 18 September 2026. The house is advertising two concerts ahead, on 18 October and 1 November 2026, both on Sunday afternoons in the beer hall. The 1478 lease and the national monument entry both date the building and the privilege; this is the first dated sign on the page that the counter is still working.
2026-09-18The Pickerel InnLooked at on 18 September 2026 and left where it was, because what the register says is older than a settled answer needs. Cambridge City Council still holds this house on its list of food businesses, at 30 Magdalene Street, reference 1473324, but the last inspection recorded against it is 16 December 2024. A live entry with a stale visit says the council has not taken the premises off its books; it does not say anyone was served there this year, and no newer dated record was traced at the address.
2026-09-18The Pickerel InnRead on 18 September 2026 against the register that lists food businesses, and left unsettled: the newest visit recorded against this house is older than a settled answer needs, and a live entry with a stale visit says the council has not struck the premises off, not that anybody was served there lately. The house is still recorded as trading, because nothing says otherwise. What changes is the badge over it, which said the status had been checked this month when what was checked came back inconclusive. It now says the trading is believed rather than confirmed, which is what the row’s own note has said all along.
2026-09-18The Pickerel InnGreene King publishes this week's hours for the Pickerel — eleven in the morning to midnight, and later at the weekend — on a page rebuilt on the morning of 18 September 2026, together with a Christmas 2026 page offering festive buffets at the inn. Read 18 September 2026.
2026-09-18The ChequersThe doors here were checked against a register rather than a listing site, on 18 September 2026. Oxford City Council holds it as The Chequers at 131A High Street, Oxford OX1 4DH, reference 268729, and gives 24 August 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. Name and address both agree with the house on this page, which is the test that matters: several houses on this site share a name.
2026-09-18The Golden FleeceThe doors here were checked against a register rather than a listing site, on 18 September 2026. York Council holds it as The Golden Fleece at 16 Pavement, York YO1 9UP, reference 245755, and gives 10 March 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. An entry is not a promise that the doors were open this morning, but it is a council recording a visit to these premises on a named day.
2026-09-18The White Hart InnLooked at on 18 September 2026 and left where it was, because what the register says is older than a settled answer needs. City of Edinburgh Council still holds this house on its list of food businesses, at 34 Grassmarket, reference 121220, but the last inspection recorded against it is 25 September 2024. A live entry with a stale visit says the council has not taken the premises off its books; it does not say anyone was served there this year, and no newer dated record was traced at the address.
2026-09-18The White Hart InnRead on 18 September 2026 against the register that lists food businesses, and left unsettled: the newest visit recorded against this house is older than a settled answer needs, and a live entry with a stale visit says the council has not struck the premises off, not that anybody was served there lately. The house is still recorded as trading, because nothing says otherwise. What changes is the badge over it, which said the status had been checked this month when what was checked came back inconclusive. It now says the trading is believed rather than confirmed, which is what the row’s own note has said all along.
2026-09-18The White Hart InnBelhaven, the Greene King arm that runs the house, publishes this week's hours for the White Hart — eleven in the morning until midnight, one in the morning on Fridays and Saturdays — on a page rebuilt on 18 September 2026, with a Christmas 2026 page for the inn beside it. Read 18 September 2026.
2026-09-18Prospect of WhitbyRead on 18 September 2026 against the food business register the Food Standards Agency publishes for every council in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Tower Hamlets Council holds it as Prospect of Whitby at 57 Wapping Wall, London E1W 3SH, reference 43871, and gives 16 October 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. An entry is not a promise that the doors were open this morning, but it is a council recording a visit to these premises on a named day.
2026-09-18Black Boy InnThis house is on its council's register of food businesses, read on 18 September 2026. Gwynedd Council holds it as Black Boy Inn at Stryd Pedwar a Chwech, Caernarfon LL55 1RW, reference 200826, and gives 16 July 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. The name and the street both match the house recorded here, and an inspection is an officer through the door on a dated day.
2026-09-18The Sun InnThis house is on its council's register of food businesses, read on 18 September 2026. East Riding of Yorkshire Council holds it as Sun Inn at 1 Flemingate, Beverley HU17 0NP, reference 109530, and gives 6 March 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 4 out of five. The match is on the address as well as the name, so it is these premises and not a namesake elsewhere.
2026-09-18Hand & ShearsLooked at on 18 September 2026 and left where it was, because what the register says is older than a settled answer needs. the City of London Corporation still holds this house on its list of food businesses, at 1 Middle Street, Smithfield, reference 294079, but the last inspection recorded against it is 1 December 2021. A live entry with a stale visit says the council has not taken the premises off its books; it does not say anyone was served there this year, and no newer dated record was traced at the address.
2026-09-18Hand & ShearsRead on 18 September 2026 against the register that lists food businesses, and left unsettled: the newest visit recorded against this house is older than a settled answer needs, and a live entry with a stale visit says the council has not struck the premises off, not that anybody was served there lately. The house is still recorded as trading, because nothing says otherwise. What changes is the badge over it, which said the status had been checked this month when what was checked came back inconclusive. It now says the trading is believed rather than confirmed, which is what the row’s own note has said all along.
2026-09-18Hand & ShearsThe Campaign for Real Ale's East London and City branch updated its entry for the Hand & Shears on 22 August 2026, and the entry prints hours of noon to eleven from Monday to Friday with the house shut at weekends — the pattern of a City pub that still trades to office hours. Read 18 September 2026.
2026-09-18Ye Olde Cheshire CheeseA register reading of 18 September 2026 stands behind the trading on this page. City of London Corporation holds it as Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese at 145 Fleet Street, London EC4A 2BU, reference 293911, and gives 22 January 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. The match is on the address as well as the name, so it is these premises and not a namesake elsewhere.
2026-09-18The Chequers InnChecked on 18 September 2026 against the register of food businesses their own council keeps and the Food Standards Agency publishes. Leeds Council holds it as The Chequers Inn at Claypit Lane, Ledsham LS25 5LP, reference 320843, and gives 31 March 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. The name and the street both match the house recorded here, and an inspection is an officer through the door on a dated day.
2026-09-18The George InnRead on 18 September 2026 against the food business register the Food Standards Agency publishes for every council in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Southwark Council holds it as The George Inn at 75-77 Borough High Street, London SE1 1NH, reference 364214, and gives 29 April 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. Name and address both agree with the house on this page, which is the test that matters: several houses on this site share a name.
2026-09-18Ye Olde MitreLooked at on 18 September 2026 and left where it was, because what the register says is older than a settled answer needs. Camden Council still holds this house on its list of food businesses, at 1 Ely Court, reference 423794, but the last inspection recorded against it is 16 March 2023. A live entry with a stale visit says the council has not taken the premises off its books; it does not say anyone was served there this year, and no newer dated record was traced at the address.
2026-09-18Ye Olde MitreRead on 18 September 2026 against the register that lists food businesses, and left unsettled: the newest visit recorded against this house is older than a settled answer needs, and a live entry with a stale visit says the council has not struck the premises off, not that anybody was served there lately. The house is still recorded as trading, because nothing says otherwise. What changes is the badge over it, which said the status had been checked this month when what was checked came back inconclusive. It now says the trading is believed rather than confirmed, which is what the row’s own note has said all along.
2026-09-18Ye Olde MitreFuller's publishes the Mitre's hours — eleven to eleven, Saturday until nine, shut on Sundays — and a weekly beer from the wood served at the bar. The Campaign for Real Ale's entry was updated on 4 July 2026 and its branch surveyed the pub on 27 January 2026. Both read 18 September 2026.
2026-09-18The WrestlersThe doors here were checked against a register rather than a listing site, on 18 September 2026. Haringey Council holds it as The Wrestlers at 98 North Road, London N6 4AA, reference 422532, and gives 12 February 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 4 out of five. An entry is not a promise that the doors were open this morning, but it is a council recording a visit to these premises on a named day.
2026-09-18Ye Olde White HarteThis house is on its council's register of food businesses, read on 18 September 2026. Hull City Council holds it as Ye Olde White Harte at 25 Silver Street, Hull HU1 1JG, reference 192658, and gives 13 September 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. The name and the street both match the house recorded here, and an inspection is an officer through the door on a dated day.
2026-09-18The MayflowerA register reading of 18 September 2026 stands behind the trading on this page. Southwark Council holds it as The Mayflower at 117 Rotherhithe Street, London SE16 4NF, reference 364223, and gives 2 July 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 4 out of five. The name and the street both match the house recorded here, and an inspection is an officer through the door on a dated day.
2026-09-18The Church House InnRead on 18 September 2026 and deliberately left as it was. South Hams District Council has the Church House Inn at Harberton on its register of food businesses and has not yet inspected it, so the entry carries no date at all. That is what a council records for premises newly on its books, and it is a hint rather than an answer: no company is registered at the address and no dated record of the present trade was traced.
2026-09-18The Church House InnRead on 18 September 2026 against the register that lists food businesses, and left unsettled: the newest visit recorded against this house is older than a settled answer needs, and a live entry with a stale visit says the council has not struck the premises off, not that anybody was served there lately. The house is still recorded as trading, because nothing says otherwise. What changes is the badge over it, which said the status had been checked this month when what was checked came back inconclusive. It now says the trading is believed rather than confirmed, which is what the row’s own note has said all along.
2026-09-18The Church House InnLeft as confirmed, not believed. The register that lists food businesses had nothing recent enough to settle this house on its own, but the row already carried a live dated reading from elsewhere — the operator’s or the pub’s own page, or a drinkers’ guide showing this week’s hours — so the badge over it stands. Recorded because a sweep on 18 September 2026 briefly marked it believed rather than confirmed on the register’s silence alone, and the check that guards this field refused it, rightly: the row’s own note said the house was open.
2026-09-18Abbey TavernThe tavern is on the state's list of renewed liquor licences, read on 18 September 2026 and standing as at 2 September 2026: reference N0163, a seven-day ordinary publican's licence at 28 Abbey Street, Howth, County Dublin, held by Mappame Limited and trading as The Abbey Tavern. The street number matches the one published here, and the class of licence is the full public-house one rather than a restaurant's.
2026-09-18Clachaig InnRead twice on 18 September 2026, because the first reading was sixteen years short of useful. Highland Council still lists the inn among its food businesses at Glencoe, but the last inspection recorded there is February 2020. The company register answers it: Clachaig Inn Limited, number SC241100, is active and registered at the Clachaig Inn, Glencoe, with a confirmation statement dated 8 December 2025, and a second active company at the same address, The Grog & Gruel Limited, filed one on 16 April 2026.
2026-09-18The Castle InnThis house is on its council's register of food businesses, read on 18 September 2026. Isle of Wight Council holds it as The Castle Inn at 91 High Street, Newport PO30 1BQ, reference 1094597, and gives 6 June 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 1 out of five. An entry is not a promise that the doors were open this morning, but it is a council recording a visit to these premises on a named day.
2026-09-18The Old InnThis house is on its council's register of food businesses, read on 18 September 2026. Cornwall Council holds it as The Old Inn at Churchtown, Mullion, Helston TR12 7HN, reference 1876334, and gives 25 November 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 3 out of five. Name and address both agree with the house on this page, which is the test that matters: several houses on this site share a name.
2026-09-18The Old WellingtonLooked at on 18 September 2026 and left where it was, because what the register says is older than a settled answer needs. Manchester City Council still holds this house on its list of food businesses, at Old Wellington Inn, 4 Cathedral Gates, reference 1818972, but the last inspection recorded against it is 7 November 2023. A live entry with a stale visit says the council has not taken the premises off its books; it does not say anyone was served there this year, and no newer dated record was traced at the address.
2026-09-18The Old WellingtonRead on 18 September 2026 against the register that lists food businesses, and left unsettled: the newest visit recorded against this house is older than a settled answer needs, and a live entry with a stale visit says the council has not struck the premises off, not that anybody was served there lately. The house is still recorded as trading, because nothing says otherwise. What changes is the badge over it, which said the status had been checked this month when what was checked came back inconclusive. It now says the trading is believed rather than confirmed, which is what the row’s own note has said all along.
2026-09-18The Old WellingtonThe Campaign for Real Ale's Manchester branch surveyed the Old Wellington on 27 February 2026 and updated its entry on 26 June 2026, with hours of eleven to eleven and later at weekends. Nicholson's own page for the house refuses an automated request, so the branch survey is the dated reading. Read 18 September 2026.
2026-09-18The Lion InnThe doors here were checked against a register rather than a listing site, on 18 September 2026. North Yorkshire Council holds it as The Lion Inn at Blakey Ridge, Farndale Moor YO62 7LQ, reference 1887237, and gives 20 March 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. The match is on the address as well as the name, so it is these premises and not a namesake elsewhere.
2026-09-18The Fox InnLooked at on 18 September 2026 and left where it was, because what the register says is older than a settled answer needs. Dorset Council still holds this house on its list of food businesses, at the Fox Inn, 8 West Street, reference 1090204, but the last inspection recorded against it is 10 October 2024. A live entry with a stale visit says the council has not taken the premises off its books; it does not say anyone was served there this year, and no newer dated record was traced at the address.
2026-09-18The Fox InnRead on 18 September 2026 against the register that lists food businesses, and left unsettled: the newest visit recorded against this house is older than a settled answer needs, and a live entry with a stale visit says the council has not struck the premises off, not that anybody was served there lately. The house is still recorded as trading, because nothing says otherwise. What changes is the badge over it, which said the status had been checked this month when what was checked came back inconclusive. It now says the trading is believed rather than confirmed, which is what the row’s own note has said all along.
2026-09-18The Fox InnA Campaign for Real Ale member surveyed the Fox on 18 January 2026 and the branch updated its entry on 26 February 2026; the entry prints opening and food times for every day of the week. Read 18 September 2026. The pub's own site carries no date of any kind.
2026-09-18Ye Olde BeverlieThis house is on its council's register of food businesses, read on 18 September 2026. Canterbury City Council holds it as Ye Olde Beverlie at St Stephen's Green, Canterbury CT2 7JU, reference 1760715, and gives 10 March 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. Name and address both agree with the house on this page, which is the test that matters: several houses on this site share a name.
2026-09-18The Groes InnLooked at on 18 September 2026 and left where it was, because what the register says is older than a settled answer needs. Conwy County Borough Council still holds this house on its list of food businesses, at the Groes Inn, Tyn-y-Groes, reference 60812, but the last inspection recorded against it is 6 August 2024. A live entry with a stale visit says the council has not taken the premises off its books; it does not say anyone was served there this year, and no newer dated record was traced at the address.
2026-09-18The Groes InnRead on 18 September 2026 against the register that lists food businesses, and left unsettled: the newest visit recorded against this house is older than a settled answer needs, and a live entry with a stale visit says the council has not struck the premises off, not that anybody was served there lately. The house is still recorded as trading, because nothing says otherwise. What changes is the badge over it, which said the status had been checked this month when what was checked came back inconclusive. It now says the trading is believed rather than confirmed, which is what the row’s own note has said all along.
2026-09-18The Groes InnThe inn's own Christmas page sells a festive menu from 23 November and a Christmas Day lunch, and the site's publishing system records that page as last edited on 7 September 2026 and the menus on the 10th. Read 18 September 2026.
2026-09-18The Lion InnA register reading of 18 September 2026 stands behind the trading on this page. Monmouthshire Council holds it as The Lion Inn at Trellech, Monmouth NP25 4PA, reference 152066, and gives 12 May 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 4 out of five. The name and the street both match the house recorded here, and an inspection is an officer through the door on a dated day.
2026-09-18Old George InnThis house is on its council's register of food businesses, read on 18 September 2026. Newcastle upon Tyne Council holds it as The Old George at 1 Old George Yard, Cloth Market, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 1EZ, reference 236709, and gives 7 January 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. Name and address both agree with the house on this page, which is the test that matters: several houses on this site share a name.
2026-09-18The GrapesChecked on 18 September 2026 against the register of food businesses their own council keeps and the Food Standards Agency publishes. Tower Hamlets Council holds it as The Grapes at 76 Narrow Street, London E14 8BP, reference 43301, and gives 8 July 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. An entry is not a promise that the doors were open this morning, but it is a council recording a visit to these premises on a named day.
2026-09-18Café De DruifRead on 18 September 2026 against the city's register of permissions to run a bar or cafe. Amsterdam has granted Cafe de Druif at Rapenburgerplein 83 a cafe permission running from 1 January 2026 to 1 January 2029. The page's own story about this house was the neighbours rallying round it in a bad year; the city's permission says how it stands now.
2026-09-18Spaniards InnThe doors here were checked against a register rather than a listing site, on 18 September 2026. Barnet Council holds it as The Spaniards Inn at Spaniards Road, London NW3 7JJ, reference 757141, and gives 22 June 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. The name and the street both match the house recorded here, and an inspection is an officer through the door on a dated day.
2026-09-18The Dolphin TavernA register reading of 18 September 2026 stands behind the trading on this page. Cornwall Council holds it as Dolphin Tavern at Quay Street, Penzance TR18 4BD, reference 551181, and gives 23 February 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. The match is on the address as well as the name, so it is these premises and not a namesake elsewhere.
2026-09-18The Man O'WarA house with no site of its own now has a dated official record behind its trading. Revenue's register of liquor licences renewed for 2025/2026, read on 18 September 2026 and standing as at 2 September 2026, carries reference DG0478, a seven-day ordinary publican's licence at Courtlough, Balbriggan, County Dublin, held by Egevents Limited and trading as Man O'War Pub. Courtlough is the townland this page gives, and only one licence of any kind is registered there.
2026-09-18The Garrick InnRead on 18 September 2026 against the food business register the Food Standards Agency publishes for every council in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Stratford-on-Avon Council holds it as Garrick Inn at 25 High Street, Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6AU, reference 503501, and gives 13 February 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. An entry is not a promise that the doors were open this morning, but it is a council recording a visit to these premises on a named day.
2026-09-18Café De KarpershoekRead on 18 September 2026 against the city's register of permissions to run a bar or cafe. Amsterdam holds a cafe permission for Cafe Karpershoek B.V. at Martelaarsgracht 2 that took effect on 1 December 2024 and runs until 1 December 2027, so the city's permission to trade covers today. The magazine piece about the refurbishment, from July 2024, was the newest thing on the page before this.
2026-09-18Bruce InnThe closure recorded here was tested on 18 September 2026 against the Scottish food business register. Fife Council has no entry for the Bruce Inn at 23 High Street, Falkland, while it does carry the High Street neighbours that share the postcode, among them Helen's Bakery, inspected on 16 February 2026. The register reaches the street; it does not reach this house. That supports the closure without proving it, since a house serving no food need never have been registered.
2026-09-18Bruce InnRead on 18 September 2026 against the register that lists food businesses, and left unsettled: the newest visit recorded against this house is older than a settled answer needs, and a live entry with a stale visit says the council has not struck the premises off, not that anybody was served there lately. The house is still recorded as trading, because nothing says otherwise. What changes is the badge over it, which said the status had been checked this month when what was checked came back inconclusive. It now says the trading is believed rather than confirmed, which is what the row’s own note has said all along.
2026-09-18The Globe InnLooked at on 18 September 2026 and left where it was, because what the register says is older than a settled answer needs. Dumfries and Galloway Council still holds this house on its list of food businesses, at 56 High Street, reference 876265, but the last inspection recorded against it is 3 June 2019. A live entry with a stale visit says the council has not taken the premises off its books; it does not say anyone was served there this year, and no newer dated record was traced at the address.
2026-09-18The Globe InnRead on 18 September 2026 against the register that lists food businesses, and left unsettled: the newest visit recorded against this house is older than a settled answer needs, and a live entry with a stale visit says the council has not struck the premises off, not that anybody was served there lately. The house is still recorded as trading, because nothing says otherwise. What changes is the badge over it, which said the status had been checked this month when what was checked came back inconclusive. It now says the trading is believed rather than confirmed, which is what the row’s own note has said all along.
2026-09-18The Globe InnThe Globe's own events page prints its serving and tour times, and the site's publishing system records the page as last edited on 17 September 2026, with several other pages edited on the 15th and 16th. Read 18 September 2026.
2026-09-18Grace Neill'sTwo dated readings on 18 September 2026. The bar's own pages, reached with certificate checking off because the certificate lapsed in August, are selling this year's festive season: a Christmas 2026 brochure to download, tribute nights and a number to ring for a table. And the Food Standards Agency's register carries Grace Neill's at 33 High Street, Donaghadee, rated five at an inspection on 4 November 2024, which is the public record that the premises is a registered food business today. The expired certificate is a fault in the website and not a sign of a closed house.
2026-09-18Durty Nelly'sThe licence recorded here was read again on 18 September 2026 and is unchanged: Revenue's list of liquor licences renewed for 2025/2026, standing as at 2 September 2026, carries LIP0831, a seven-day ordinary publican's licence at Bunratty, County Clare, held by Clare Taverns and trading as Durty Nellys. The register gives no street for it, because the village is the address; the castle, the folk park's own bar and the Bunratty Castle Hotel hold separate licences, so the entry is not being confused with a neighbour.
2026-09-18Café ChrisRead on 18 September 2026 against the city's register of permissions to run a bar or cafe, which Amsterdam publishes openly. The city has granted Cafe Chris at Bloemstraat 42 a cafe permission running from 1 April 2026 to 1 April 2031, with hours from seven in the morning. Amsterdam750's archive work dates the house; this dates the trade.
2026-09-18White's TavernLooked at on 18 September 2026 and left where it was, because what the register says is older than a settled answer needs. Belfast City Council still holds this house on its list of food businesses, at 2-4 Winecellar Entry, reference 59353, but the last inspection recorded against it is 13 March 2024. A live entry with a stale visit says the council has not taken the premises off its books; it does not say anyone was served there this year, and no newer dated record was traced at the address.
2026-09-18White's TavernRead on 18 September 2026 against the register that lists food businesses, and left unsettled: the newest visit recorded against this house is older than a settled answer needs, and a live entry with a stale visit says the council has not struck the premises off, not that anybody was served there lately. The house is still recorded as trading, because nothing says otherwise. What changes is the badge over it, which said the status had been checked this month when what was checked came back inconclusive. It now says the trading is believed rather than confirmed, which is what the row’s own note has said all along.
2026-09-18White's TavernThe tavern's own page prints its hours — half past eleven in the morning until one, and two at the weekend — a Monday traditional session, a Sunday quiz and a notice that Christmas bookings are open. The site's publishing system records the page as last edited on 25 August 2026. Read 18 September 2026.
2026-09-18Lion & UnicornChecked on 18 September 2026 against the register of food businesses their own council keeps and the Food Standards Agency publishes. Stirling Council holds it as Lion & Unicorn Hotel at Main Street, Thornhill FK8 3PJ, reference 27817, and gives 7 August 2025 as the date of its last inspection, at which it passed. Scotland is on the pass-or-improve scheme rather than the five-point one used further south. An entry is not a promise that the doors were open this morning, but it is a council recording a visit to these premises on a named day.
2026-09-18Morahan's BarSettled from the state's own list. Revenue publishes the liquor licences renewed for 2025/2026, standing as at 2 September 2026, and it carries a seven-day publican's licence at Bellanagare, Castlerea, County Roscommon, held by Bernard Morahan and trading as B J Morahan, under reference SLP053. A licence renewed this year is the Irish record that the house may still pour, which is the question that had been left open here since the family's own page was the only thing behind it.
2026-09-18Morahan's BarThe register reading recorded here was made again on 18 September 2026, against the same list of liquor licences renewed for 2025/2026 as it stands at 2 September 2026, and the entry is unchanged: SLP053, a seven-day ordinary publican's licence at Bellanagare, Castlerea, County Roscommon, in Bernard Morahan's own name and trading as B J Morahan. It is the only licence of any class registered in the village, which is as close as the state's paper comes to naming this house.
2026-09-18Café 't PapeneilandRead on 18 September 2026 against the city's register of permissions to run a bar or cafe. Amsterdam holds a cafe permission for Het Papeneiland at Prinsengracht 2 that took effect on 1 February 2024 and runs until 1 February 2027, so the permission to trade covers today. Everything else on this page dates the building rather than the business.
2026-09-18De Drie FleschjesRead on 18 September 2026 against the city's register of permissions to run a bar or cafe. Amsterdam has granted the tasting house at Gravenstraat 18 a cafe permission running from 1 January 2025 to 1 January 2030. The hours recorded here came off the house's own site and carried no date of their own.
2026-09-18The Coylet InnRead on 18 September 2026 against the food business register the Food Standards Agency publishes for every council in Scotland. Argyll and Bute Council holds it as The Coylet Inn at Loch Eck, Dunoon PA23 8SG, reference 1300462, and gives 20 April 2026 as the date of its last inspection, at which it passed. Scotland is on the pass-or-improve scheme rather than the five-point one used further south. The name and the street both match the house recorded here, and an inspection is an officer through the door on a dated day.
2026-09-18The Hawes InnLooked at on 18 September 2026 and left where it was, because what the register says is older than a settled answer needs. City of Edinburgh Council still holds this house on its list of food businesses, at 7 Newhalls Road, reference 663501, but the last inspection recorded against it is 24 January 2024. A live entry with a stale visit says the council has not taken the premises off its books; it does not say anyone was served there this year, and no newer dated record was traced at the address.
2026-09-18The Hawes InnRead on 18 September 2026 against the register that lists food businesses, and left unsettled: the newest visit recorded against this house is older than a settled answer needs, and a live entry with a stale visit says the council has not struck the premises off, not that anybody was served there lately. The house is still recorded as trading, because nothing says otherwise. What changes is the badge over it, which said the status had been checked this month when what was checked came back inconclusive. It now says the trading is believed rather than confirmed, which is what the row’s own note has said all along.
2026-09-18The Hawes InnLeft as confirmed, not believed. The register that lists food businesses had nothing recent enough to settle this house on its own, but the row already carried a live dated reading from elsewhere — the operator’s or the pub’s own page, or a drinkers’ guide showing this week’s hours — so the badge over it stands. Recorded because a sweep on 18 September 2026 briefly marked it believed rather than confirmed on the register’s silence alone, and the check that guards this field refused it, rightly: the row’s own note said the house was open.
2026-09-18The Hole in the WallAnother house here with no site of its own, and now a dated licence behind it. Revenue's register of liquor licences renewed for 2025/2026, read on 18 September 2026 and standing as at 2 September 2026, holds N0240, a seven-day ordinary publican's licence on Blackhorse Avenue in Dublin city, held by Parkwall Taverns Limited and trading as The Hole in the Wall, the address given with the premises attached and adjacent to it and no street number. Two other houses of the same name are licensed in Galway and Kilkenny, so the street is what identifies this one.
2026-09-18The Crosskeys InnLooked at on 18 September 2026 and left where it was, because what the register says is older than a settled answer needs. Mid and East Antrim Borough Council still holds this house on its list of food businesses, at 40 Grange Road, Ardnaglass, reference 742546, but the last inspection recorded against it is 1 October 2024. A live entry with a stale visit says the council has not taken the premises off its books; it does not say anyone was served there this year, and no newer dated record was traced at the address.
2026-09-18The Crosskeys InnRead on 18 September 2026 against the register that lists food businesses, and left unsettled: the newest visit recorded against this house is older than a settled answer needs, and a live entry with a stale visit says the council has not struck the premises off, not that anybody was served there lately. The house is still recorded as trading, because nothing says otherwise. What changes is the badge over it, which said the status had been checked this month when what was checked came back inconclusive. It now says the trading is believed rather than confirmed, which is what the row’s own note has said all along.
2026-09-18Stara Karczma w JeleśniRead on 18 September 2026. The inn keeps a news page at starakarczma.eu and its newest entry is dated 17 September 2026, inviting companies to hold their Christmas Eve dinners in the old room; the entries run back through 2025 in the same voice. Poland publishes no licence register open to this kind of search, so that is what dates the trade here.
2026-09-18The Old ThatchRead on 18 September 2026 against Revenue's list of liquor licences renewed for 2025/2026, standing as at 2 September 2026. The house is entered as CXP099, a seven-day ordinary publican's licence at Killeagh, County Cork, held by The Old Thatch Bar & Restaurant Limited with Deborah Walsh as its nominee and trading as The Old Thatch Bar and Restaurant. The licence class is the full public-house one and not a restaurant licence, which is the distinction that matters to a traveller wanting a drink rather than a table.
2026-09-18King George II InnSearched on 18 September 2026 and nothing dated could be reached. Bucks County's food inspection reports refuse an automated request, so does the local news piece already cited here, Pennsylvania publishes no list of licensed premises that can be searched, and the inn keeps no website we have traced. The house is still recorded as trading, because nothing says otherwise, but the badge over it now says the trading is believed rather than confirmed.
2026-09-18Moulin InnRead on 18 September 2026 against the Scottish food business register the Food Standards Agency publishes. Perth and Kinross Council carries The Moulin Hotel at 11-13 Kirkmichael Road in Moulin, reference 1953177, last inspected on 19 March 2026 and passed. It is the only entry of that name in the village. The council gives the postcode as PH16 5EH where this page has PH16 5EW, which is worth knowing to anyone searching.
2026-09-18The Drovers InnThis house is on its council's register of food businesses, read on 18 September 2026. Stirling Council holds it as Drovers Inn at Inverarnan G83 7DX, reference 1636447, and gives 21 August 2026 as the date of its last inspection, at which it passed. Scotland is on the pass-or-improve scheme rather than the five-point one used further south. The name and the street both match the house recorded here, and an inspection is an officer through the door on a dated day.
2026-09-18McHugh's BarRead on 18 September 2026 against the register of food businesses Belfast City Council keeps, which the Food Standards Agency publishes for Northern Ireland alongside England and Wales. Two entries stand at 29 Queens Square: the bar, reference 616409, last inspected in March 2020, and the restaurant above it, reference 1230508, last inspected on 12 November 2025 and rated 5 out of five. The square is the address given on this page and the later reading is the one recorded here.
2026-09-18Kelly's CellarsRead on 18 September 2026 against the food business register the Food Standards Agency publishes for every council in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Belfast City Council holds it as Kellys Cellars at 30-32 Bank Street, Belfast BT1 1HL, reference 59718, and gives 23 June 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. Name and address both agree with the house on this page, which is the test that matters: several houses on this site share a name.
2026-09-18Hviids VinstueRead on 18 September 2026 against the Danish food authority's control reports, which are published for every serving business. Hviids Vinstue at Kongens Nytorv 19, under Kenneth Moller, was inspected on 8 January 2026 and came away with the top mark, as it had on 27 August 2025 and twice before that. The page had rested on a tourist board description with no date in it.
2026-09-18The Locke BarThis page rested on the city council's listing because nothing else dated could be found for the house. There is something else: Revenue publishes the liquor licences renewed for 2025/2026 as a workbook anyone can download and search, and read on 18 September 2026 it carries the bar as LIP0433, a seven-day ordinary publican's licence at 3 George's Quay, Limerick, in the name of Domanska Limited with Richard Costello as nominee, trading as The Locke Bar and Restaurant. The list stands as at 2 September 2026.
2026-09-18The Purty KitchenThe trading here rested on a visitor guide with no date on it. It now rests on the state's own list as well: Revenue's register of liquor licences renewed for 2025/2026, read on 18 September 2026 and standing as at 2 September 2026, holds S0302, a seven-day ordinary publican's licence at 3/4 Old Dunleary Road with premises attached at No. 5, Salthill, Dún Laoghaire, in the name of Vor Purty Taverns Limited. The entry carries no trading name at all, which is a reminder that a house can be in this register and still not be findable by the name over its door.
2026-09-18Settle InnChecked on 18 September 2026 against the register of food businesses their own council keeps and the Food Standards Agency publishes. Stirling Council holds it as Settle Inn at 91 St Mary's Wynd, Stirling FK8 1BU, reference 51967, and gives 25 March 2026 as the date of its last inspection, at which it passed. Scotland is on the pass-or-improve scheme rather than the five-point one used further south. The match is on the address as well as the name, so it is these premises and not a namesake elsewhere.
2026-09-18The Clachan InnThis house is on its council's register of food businesses, read on 18 September 2026. Stirling Council holds it as The Clachan Inn at 2 The Square, Drymen G63 0BL, reference 53909, and gives 17 June 2026 as the date of its last inspection, at which it passed. Scotland is on the pass-or-improve scheme rather than the five-point one used further south. The match is on the address as well as the name, so it is these premises and not a namesake elsewhere.
2026-09-18Crown & Anchor InnChecked on 18 September 2026 against the register of food businesses their own council keeps and the Food Standards Agency publishes. Moray Council holds it as Crown And Anchor Inn at 44 Findhorn, Forres IV36 3YF, reference 19774, and gives 17 June 2026 as the date of its last inspection, at which it passed. Scotland is on the pass-or-improve scheme rather than the five-point one used further south. The match is on the address as well as the name, so it is these premises and not a namesake elsewhere.
2026-09-18Ma Cameron'sLooked at on 18 September 2026 and left where it was, because what the register says is older than a settled answer needs. Aberdeen City Council still holds this house on its list of food businesses, at 6 Little Belmont Street, reference 593220, but the last inspection recorded against it is 10 September 2019. A live entry with a stale visit says the council has not taken the premises off its books; it does not say anyone was served there this year, and no newer dated record was traced at the address.
2026-09-18Ma Cameron'sRead on 18 September 2026 against the register that lists food businesses, and left unsettled: the newest visit recorded against this house is older than a settled answer needs, and a live entry with a stale visit says the council has not struck the premises off, not that anybody was served there lately. The house is still recorded as trading, because nothing says otherwise. What changes is the badge over it, which said the status had been checked this month when what was checked came back inconclusive. It now says the trading is believed rather than confirmed, which is what the row’s own note has said all along.
2026-09-18Ma Cameron'sBelhaven publishes this week's hours for Ma Cameron's and a Christmas 2026 page in the pub's name, on pages rebuilt on the morning of 18 September 2026 and read the same day. The Campaign for Real Ale's entry for the house was last touched in February 2024, which is why the trading had not been settled before.
2026-09-18Albion House TavernSearched on 18 September 2026. CAMRA's entry for the tavern, which is where the opening hours on this page came from, says on its own face that it was last updated on 26 September 2024 and last surveyed in January 2015, so it dates nothing this year. Guernsey publishes no list of licensed premises and its company register was not answering. The trading is recorded as believed rather than confirmed until something dated turns up.
2026-09-18The MitreThe venue page this row cited now redirects to the brewery's own, and Okell's, which runs the house, prints under Opening times: 'Temporarily: closed — see our Facebook page for the most up-to-date info', read 18 September 2026. That is the operator saying it, so the closure recorded here stops being our inference and becomes a checked reading. The trading status is unchanged, because it already said temporarily closed and the page is gated for that reason; what changes is that somebody has now looked. The website is pointed at the page that answers.
2026-09-18The MitreOkell's, which runs the Mitre, publishes 'Temporarily: closed' where its other venue pages publish hours — the British on Douglas quay gives Monday to Thursday twelve until ten — so the closure is the operator's own statement about this house and not a default. It carries no date, which is why the status is recorded as believed rather than confirmed and status-verify goes back into needs. The same page supplies the website the row had been missing, and the Manx registered-buildings record carries the house as Registered Building No. 294, registered on 7 April 2021, whose notice calls it the oldest remaining pub on the Isle of Man — a description this site reports as the register's and does not adopt as its own. https://pubsandbars.im/venue/the-mitre/ (Two of the values recorded here were replaced on 18 September, when the venue page cited below was found redirecting to the brewery's own page: the closure was read there and dated, so it is no longer only believed, and the address of the house's page moved with it. What this entry says about the closure itself, the listing and who runs the house stands.)
2026-09-18Bell in Hand TavernRead on 18 September 2026 against Boston's food establishment records. The tavern at 45 Union Street holds a live eating and drinking licence that runs to 1 January 2027, and the city's most recent inspection of it, on 26 August 2026, was a pass. Until now nothing on this page was dated later than the histories it cites.
2026-09-18Old Absinthe HouseRead on 18 September 2026 against the City of New Orleans list of businesses whose licences are live, which the city had rebuilt that morning. It carries the house at 240 Bourbon Street under licence 100733382, in the name of Bourbon Saloon, Inc., in the trade the city classes as drinking places. The badge over the page now rests on a reading from today rather than on the 1869 advertisement.
2026-09-18Central HotelRead on 18 September 2026 against Tasmania's list of liquor licences, which the state publishes as a spreadsheet standing at 11 September 2026. The hotel is in it as licence 71109385, a general licence for a tavern at 73 Collins Street, Hobart, in the name of Paul Jubb. The house keeps no website, so this is the first dated evidence of its present trade on the page.
2026-09-18Horeke HotelThe hotel does have a site of its own, found on 18 September 2026, and what it says complicates the entry rather than settling it. It sells rooms, dining for guests, e-bike hire and a shuttle for the Twin Coast cycle trail, takes bookings by email, and carries a visitor's line that the place is not one to drop in to. Whether a passer-by who is not staying the night can be served a drink at a counter is unanswered, and that is the question this site asks of every house before it lists one, so the point is now said on the page instead of being left to the status line.
2026-09-18Horeke HotelThe page asked whether a passer-by may be served here and left it open. The national register of active alcohol licences for August 2026 was read on 18 September and holds nothing for this house, while holding four neighbouring hotels by name, so the page now says so. Nothing about the trading, the ranking or the grade was changed: a register can lag, and whether a house belongs on this site is not a judgement to make overnight from an absence.
2026-09-18Horeke HotelThe hotel does have a site of its own, found on 18 September 2026, and what it says complicates the entry rather than settling it. It sells rooms, dining for guests, e-bike hire and a shuttle for the Twin Coast cycle trail, takes bookings by email, and carries a visitor's line that the place is not one to drop in to. Whether a passer-by who is not staying the night can be served a drink at a counter is unanswered, and that is the question this site asks of every house before it lists one, so the point is now said on the page instead of being left to the status line. (What this fix wrote was extended on 18 September 2026 with a reading of the national register of alcohol licences; every sentence of it is carried word for word at the start of the longer text.)
2026-09-18Edinburgh Castle HotelRead on 18 September 2026. The ticket agency Moshtix is selling seats for three nights of music at the house, one this evening, one on 26 September and one on 3 October 2026, each listing the venue by name. That is somebody other than the hotel expecting its doors to be open, which is what this page had been missing behind its badge.
2026-09-18Gordon HotelRead on 18 September 2026 against Victoria's monthly list of liquor licences by location, standing at 31 August 2026. The hotel is in it as licence 31906291, a general licence held by Black Rhino (Gordon) Pty Ltd at 63 Bentinck Street, Portland, for up to 400 people and with trading permitted until one in the morning.
2026-09-18Customs House HotelRead on 18 September 2026 against Tasmania's list of liquor licences, standing at 11 September 2026, which holds the house as licence 71210521, a general hotel licence at 1 Murray Street, Hobart. Its own pages say the same thing in a friendlier way: a food menu live from 4 August 2026 and a scallop festival run through July and August this year.
2026-09-18Shipwrights Arms HotelRead on 18 September 2026 against Tasmania's list of liquor licences, standing at 11 September 2026. The hotel is in it as licence 71209403, a general hotel licence at 29 Trumpeter Street, Battery Point. The evidence that it pours had rested on an architecture award record describing work finished years ago, which dates a refurbishment rather than a trading week.
2026-09-18The Wheat Sheaf TavernRead on 18 September 2026 against Toronto's food premises inspection records. The tavern at 667 King Street West passed an inspection on 14 September 2026, the most recent of four since November 2025. The heritage report this page cites dates the building's protection; this dates the trade.
2026-09-18The Kentish HotelNew Zealand's national register of active alcohol licences, in its August 2026 issue, holds the Kentish Hotel at Queen Street, Waiuku under an on-licence to Maharshi Limited running to 2 June 2028, with the main public bar and the guest bar named as supervised areas and hours from eight in the morning to one the next. Read 18 September 2026.
2026-09-18Six Mile Pub & EateryRead on 18 September 2026 against British Columbia's list of every liquor-licensed establishment in the province, rebuilt on 9 September 2026. The Six Mile is in it as licence 006657, a liquor primary at 494 Island Highway, View Royal, held by Six Mile Pub Ltd. and running to 31 December 2026. That is the province saying a drink may be served here now.
2026-09-18Old Canberra InnRead on 18 September 2026. The Canberra Blues Society's gig guide lists three afternoons at the inn at 195 Mouat Street, Lyneham: a blues jam tomorrow, a singer on 20 September and another on 27 September 2026. The inn's own events page is built of weekly repeats and dates nothing, so the society's listing is what stands behind the badge.
2026-09-18The RiverheadRead on 18 September 2026 against New Zealand's national register of alcohol licences, published as a spreadsheet of active licences in August 2026. The Riverhead holds a tavern licence, 007/ON/507/2024, in the name of Riverhead Management Limited, running to 14 June 2027, with weekend hours from eight in the morning to one the following morning. The register gives the premises street as Queen rather than the York Terrace the house itself prints, which is the only house of that name licensed in the village.
2026-09-18Bushranger HotelSearched on 18 September 2026. New South Wales publishes its licensed premises every month, and the list standing at 1 August 2026 carries the hotel's licence as current while marking the premises itself as having temporarily ceased trading, a state recorded against it since June 2024. The trading here is therefore recorded as believed rather than confirmed.
2026-09-18Bushranger HotelThe 1860-61 build is the state heritage register's, not the hotel's own claim. (The summary this fix wrote was extended on 18 September 2026 to say what a register says about whether the house is open today; every sentence of it is carried word for word at the start of the longer one.)
2026-09-18Bushranger HotelThe summary a reader meets ended by saying the house has operated as a hotel ever since, which the state register contradicts about the present: it marks the premises as having temporarily ceased trading since June 2024. The page now carries both, and tells a traveller to ring first.
2026-09-18McGillin's Olde Ale HouseRead on 18 September 2026 against Philadelphia's licence records for 1310-14 Drury Street. The ale house holds an active licence to prepare and serve food, running to 30 April 2027, and a public assembly licence issued on 20 August 2026 and good for two years. That is the city saying the room may be used and filled, dated this summer.
2026-09-18Bar El FederalThis page said the trading had not been looked at recently, and now it has. La Nación of 17 September 2026 lists the houses taking part in the fifth Noche de los Bares Notables on the 24th, and El Federal is among the San Telmo and historic-centre bars staying open to midnight for it. A newspaper naming a bar in next week's city programme is as good an answer to whether it pours as Buenos Aires offers, since the bar itself publishes nothing.
2026-09-18Garrick's Head PubRead on 18 September 2026 against British Columbia's list of every liquor-licensed establishment in the province, a file the province had last rebuilt on 9 September 2026. Licence 115527, a liquor primary at 1140 Government Street held by Garricks Pub Ltd., runs to 30 June 2027. The licence number was already on this page; what it lacked was a date for the reading.
2026-09-18The Palace Restaurant and SaloonRead on 18 September 2026. The saloon's own pages give its hours seven days a week and advertise two dated evenings ahead, Halloween on 31 October 2026 and Thanksgiving on 26 November 2026, which is the house saying it expects to be pouring. Nothing official could be reached to stand beside it: Arizona's liquor register turns away an automated request and the county's inspection portal refuses one outright.
2026-09-18White Horse TavernRead on 18 September 2026 against the city's restaurant inspection records. New York's health department holds the tavern at 567 Hudson Street as establishment 50095038 and last inspected it on 7 July 2026, which is an official visit this summer. The page had been saying the trading was checked this month while the newest dated reading here was from January 2024.
2026-09-18Hussong's CantinaSearched on 18 September 2026 and nothing dated could be traced. The site that carries the cantina's history turns out to belong to the Las Vegas houses that licence the name, and the events on it are theirs, held on the Strip. The Ensenada cantina itself publishes only an account on a social network we cannot read, the local news site refuses an automated request, and Mexico keeps no drink licence register open to a search of this kind.
2026-09-18Bar CordanoThe gap this page admitted to has closed. Trome, a Lima daily, marked the Cordano's 121st year on 13 January 2026 and describes a house in full trade, still selling its butifarras and pisco sours by the Government Palace; the municipality's visitor service publishes hours seven days a week. Twenty months of silence was the reason the status was only believed, and eight is a different matter, so the status is recorded as checked.
2026-09-18King's HeadRead on 18 September 2026 against the register of food businesses Buckinghamshire Council keeps. The entry at the King's Head, Market Square, Aylesbury is under the name of the Farmer's Bar, reference 370062, last inspected on 1 May 2025 and rated 4 out of five. The bar in the courtyard trades under that name while the building belongs to the National Trust, so a search on the house's own name finds nothing and a search on the square finds this.
2026-09-18New InnLooked at on 18 September 2026 and left where it was, because what the register says is older than a settled answer needs. Gloucester City Council still holds this house on its list of food businesses, at the New Inn, 16 Northgate Street, reference 1759502, but the last inspection recorded against it is 12 November 2024. A live entry with a stale visit says the council has not taken the premises off its books; it does not say anyone was served there this year, and no newer dated record was traced at the address.
2026-09-18New InnRead on 18 September 2026 against the register that lists food businesses, and left unsettled: the newest visit recorded against this house is older than a settled answer needs, and a live entry with a stale visit says the council has not struck the premises off, not that anybody was served there lately. The house is still recorded as trading, because nothing says otherwise. What changes is the badge over it, which said the status had been checked this month when what was checked came back inconclusive. It now says the trading is believed rather than confirmed, which is what the row’s own note has said all along.
2026-09-18New InnThe Campaign for Real Ale's Gloucestershire branch updated its entry for the New Inn on 11 July 2026, printing hours from half past seven in the morning to eleven at night, and to half past twelve at weekends. Read 18 September 2026.
2026-09-18Red LionLooked at on 18 September 2026 and left where it was, because what the register says is older than a settled answer needs. Southampton City Council still holds this house on its list of food businesses, at 55 High Street, reference 220383, but the last inspection recorded against it is 1 October 2024. A live entry with a stale visit says the council has not taken the premises off its books; it does not say anyone was served there this year, and no newer dated record was traced at the address.
2026-09-18Red LionRead on 18 September 2026 against the register that lists food businesses, and left unsettled: the newest visit recorded against this house is older than a settled answer needs, and a live entry with a stale visit says the council has not struck the premises off, not that anybody was served there lately. The house is still recorded as trading, because nothing says otherwise. What changes is the badge over it, which said the status had been checked this month when what was checked came back inconclusive. It now says the trading is believed rather than confirmed, which is what the row’s own note has said all along.
2026-09-18Red LionThe Campaign for Real Ale's Hampshire branch updated its entry for the Red Lion on 28 April 2026, with hours of eleven to eleven and food served at lunchtime and in the evening. Read 18 September 2026.
2026-09-18The Haunch of VenisonRead twice on 18 September 2026. Wiltshire Council still holds the house on its register of food businesses at 1 Minster Street, but the last inspection recorded there is 11 August 2023, which is too old to settle anything on its own. The company register is current: Pub Heritage Limited, number 09555671, is active, registered at the Haunch of Venison, 1 Minster Street, describes its business as public houses and bars, and filed its last confirmation statement on 22 April 2026.
2026-09-18George & DragonThe doors here were checked against a register rather than a listing site, on 18 September 2026. Tunbridge Wells Council holds it as The George And Dragon at Speldhurst Hill, Speldhurst TN3 0NN, reference 1827923, and gives 15 May 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. The name and the street both match the house recorded here, and an inspection is an officer through the door on a dated day.
2026-09-18Green DragonThe doors here were checked against a register rather than a listing site, on 18 September 2026. South Norfolk Council holds it as The Green Dragon at 6 Church Street, Wymondham NR18 0PH, reference 1872175, and gives 16 October 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. An entry is not a promise that the doors were open this morning, but it is a council recording a visit to these premises on a named day.
2026-09-18The Old Nag's HeadLooked at on 18 September 2026 and left where it was, because what the register says is older than a settled answer needs. High Peak Borough Council still holds this house on its list of food businesses, at Grindsbrook Booth, Edale, reference 1259096, but the last inspection recorded against it is 8 October 2024. A live entry with a stale visit says the council has not taken the premises off its books; it does not say anyone was served there this year, and no newer dated record was traced at the address.
2026-09-18The Old Nag's HeadRead on 18 September 2026 against the register that lists food businesses, and left unsettled: the newest visit recorded against this house is older than a settled answer needs, and a live entry with a stale visit says the council has not struck the premises off, not that anybody was served there lately. The house is still recorded as trading, because nothing says otherwise. What changes is the badge over it, which said the status had been checked this month when what was checked came back inconclusive. It now says the trading is believed rather than confirmed, which is what the row’s own note has said all along.
2026-09-18The Old Nag's HeadThe pub's own events page, read on 18 September 2026, lists a weekly quiz running until 25 December 2026 and a monthly folk night whose next entry is dated, each with the house's opening and food times printed beneath it.
2026-09-18The Ship InnRead on 18 September 2026 against Somerset Council's register of food businesses. The Ship Inn at Porlock is there under reference 1808298, last inspected on 25 February 2026 and rated 2 out of five. The council gives its address as Toll Road rather than the High Street this page names; the two meet at the foot of Porlock Hill and the postcode is the same, and no second house of the name is registered in the village.
2026-09-18Ye Olde Dolphin InneRead on 18 September 2026 against Derby City Council's register of food businesses. The house is there as Ye Olde Dolphin, reference 1581794, last inspected on 26 March 2026 and rated 4 out of five. The council numbers it 6-7 Queen Street where this page gives 5a; the postcode, the street and the name are the same, and it is the only house of the name in the city.
2026-09-18The Coopers ArmsRead on 18 September 2026 and left unsettled. Medway Council carries the Coopers Arms at 10 St Margaret's Street on its register of food businesses, and the entry shows a rating awaiting publication with no inspection date against it, which is the one shape of entry that cannot be dated. No company is registered at the address and nothing else dated was traced, so the trading here still rests on what was cited before.
2026-09-18The Coopers ArmsRead on 18 September 2026 against the register that lists food businesses, and left unsettled: the newest visit recorded against this house is older than a settled answer needs, and a live entry with a stale visit says the council has not struck the premises off, not that anybody was served there lately. The house is still recorded as trading, because nothing says otherwise. What changes is the badge over it, which said the status had been checked this month when what was checked came back inconclusive. It now says the trading is believed rather than confirmed, which is what the row’s own note has said all along.
2026-09-18The Coopers ArmsThe Campaign for Real Ale's Medway branch surveyed the Coopers Arms on 27 February 2026 and updated its entry on 16 June 2026, with opening and food times printed. Read 18 September 2026.
2026-09-18The Chequers InnRead on 18 September 2026 against the food business register the Food Standards Agency publishes for every council in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Tunbridge Wells Council holds it as The Chequers Inn at The Broadway, Lamberhurst TN3 8DB, reference 1805350, and gives 23 April 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 3 out of five. The match is on the address as well as the name, so it is these premises and not a namesake elsewhere.
2026-09-18The George InnChecked on 18 September 2026 against the register of food businesses their own council keeps and the Food Standards Agency publishes. Wiltshire Council holds it as The George Inn at West Street, Lacock SN15 2LH, reference 260617, and gives 4 August 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. Name and address both agree with the house on this page, which is the test that matters: several houses on this site share a name.
2026-09-18Royal OakChecked on 18 September 2026 against the register of food businesses their own council keeps and the Food Standards Agency publishes. Shropshire Council holds it as The Royal Oak at Cardington, Church Stretton SY6 7JZ, reference 187603, and gives 21 May 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. An entry is not a promise that the doors were open this morning, but it is a council recording a visit to these premises on a named day.
2026-09-18The Seven StarsThe doors here were checked against a register rather than a listing site, on 18 September 2026. Camden Council holds it as The Seven Stars at 53-54 Carey Street, London WC2A 2JB, reference 423861, and gives 27 March 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 3 out of five. Name and address both agree with the house on this page, which is the test that matters: several houses on this site share a name.
2026-09-18Ye Olde Bell & SteelyardRead twice on 18 September 2026. East Suffolk Council still carries the house on its food business register at 103 New Street, but the last inspection it records is 26 March 2023. The company register is newer: D & M Smith Inns Ltd, number 11364702, is active, registered at Ye Olde Bell & Steelyard, 103 New Street, gives its business as public houses and bars, and filed a confirmation statement on 15 May 2026.
2026-09-18Ye Olde Dog and PartridgeLooked at on 18 September 2026 and left where it was, because what the register says is older than a settled answer needs. East Staffordshire Borough Council still holds this house on its list of food businesses, at the Dog and Partridge Hotel, High Street, reference 1247564, but the last inspection recorded against it is 12 August 2024. A live entry with a stale visit says the council has not taken the premises off its books; it does not say anyone was served there this year, and no newer dated record was traced at the address.
2026-09-18Ye Olde Dog and PartridgeRead on 18 September 2026 against the register that lists food businesses, and left unsettled: the newest visit recorded against this house is older than a settled answer needs, and a live entry with a stale visit says the council has not struck the premises off, not that anybody was served there lately. The house is still recorded as trading, because nothing says otherwise. What changes is the badge over it, which said the status had been checked this month when what was checked came back inconclusive. It now says the trading is believed rather than confirmed, which is what the row’s own note has said all along.
2026-09-18Ye Olde Dog and PartridgeChef & Brewer, which runs the house, publishes hours from seven in the morning to eleven at night and a Christmas 2026 booking page headed with the pub's own name and town, on pages rebuilt on the morning of 18 September 2026. Read 18 September 2026.
2026-09-18Ye Olde SwanChecked on 18 September 2026 against the register of food businesses their own council keeps and the Food Standards Agency publishes. Elmbridge Council holds it as Ye Olde Swan at Summer Road, Thames Ditton KT7 0QQ, reference 1778344, and gives 14 May 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. Name and address both agree with the house on this page, which is the test that matters: several houses on this site share a name.
2026-09-18George & DragonChecked on 18 September 2026 against the register of food businesses their own council keeps and the Food Standards Agency publishes. Arun Council holds it as The George And Dragon at The Street, Houghton BN18 9LW, reference 148881, and gives 10 March 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. Name and address both agree with the house on this page, which is the test that matters: several houses on this site share a name.
2026-09-18Anne of ClevesA register reading of 18 September 2026 stands behind the trading on this page. Melton Council holds it as Anne Of Cleves at 12 Burton Street, Melton Mowbray LE13 1AE, reference 1364015, and gives 10 July 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. The match is on the address as well as the name, so it is these premises and not a namesake elsewhere.
2026-09-18The Old WindmillRead on 18 September 2026 against the food business register the Food Standards Agency publishes for every council in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Coventry Council holds it as The Old Windmill at 22-23 Spon Street, Coventry CV1 3BA, reference 241116, and gives 27 February 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. An entry is not a promise that the doors were open this morning, but it is a council recording a visit to these premises on a named day.
2026-09-18Eight BellsThis house is on its council's register of food businesses, read on 18 September 2026. Cotswold Council holds it as The Eight Bells at Eight Bells Inn, Church Street, Chipping Campden GL55 6JG, reference 75449, and gives 14 April 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. The match is on the address as well as the name, so it is these premises and not a namesake elsewhere.
2026-09-18The White HartChecked on 18 September 2026 against the register of food businesses their own council keeps and the Food Standards Agency publishes. Waverley Council holds it as The White Hart at The White Hart Hotel, Petworth Road, Witley GU8 5PH, reference 165341, and gives 28 October 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 4 out of five. The name and the street both match the house recorded here, and an inspection is an officer through the door on a dated day.
2026-09-18Ye Olde Yew Tree InnThe doors here were checked against a register rather than a listing site, on 18 September 2026. Canterbury City Council holds it as Ye Olde Yew Tree at 32 Westbere Lane, Westbere CT2 0HH, reference 1871379, and gives 9 December 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. An entry is not a promise that the doors were open this morning, but it is a council recording a visit to these premises on a named day.
2026-09-18The Old BellRead on 18 September 2026 against the food business register the Food Standards Agency publishes for every council in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Rother Council holds it as Olde Bell Inn at 33 The Mint, Rye TN31 7EN, reference 781302, and gives 12 September 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 4 out of five. Name and address both agree with the house on this page, which is the test that matters: several houses on this site share a name.
2026-09-18The King's WarkRead twice on 18 September 2026. The Scottish food business register carries the house at 36 Shore in Leith, but its last inspection there is dated August 2018, which settles nothing. The company register does: Mince N' Tatties Ltd, number SC643097, is active, registered at the King's Wark on the Shore, gives its business as public houses and bars, and filed a confirmation statement on 27 January 2026.
2026-09-18The AngelThe temporary closure recorded here was tested on 18 September 2026. Babergh District Council's register of food businesses has no entry for the Angel on the Market Place at Lavenham, though it carries the neighbours that share its postcode, including A. R. Heeks & Son, inspected on 24 February 2026, and the Great House across the square. An absence there is consistent with a house standing shut, and is not on its own a reason to call a closure permanent.
2026-09-18The AngelRead on 18 September 2026 against the register that lists food businesses, and left unsettled: the newest visit recorded against this house is older than a settled answer needs, and a live entry with a stale visit says the council has not struck the premises off, not that anybody was served there lately. The house is still recorded as trading, because nothing says otherwise. What changes is the badge over it, which said the status had been checked this month when what was checked came back inconclusive. It now says the trading is believed rather than confirmed, which is what the row’s own note has said all along.
2026-09-18The New InnThis house is on its council's register of food businesses, read on 18 September 2026. Herefordshire Council holds it as New Inn at The New Inn, Market Square, Pembridge HR6 9DZ, reference 489548, and gives 12 September 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 3 out of five. An entry is not a promise that the doors were open this morning, but it is a council recording a visit to these premises on a named day.
2026-09-18Prince of WalesRead on 18 September 2026 against the food business register the Food Standards Agency publishes for every council in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Bridgend Council holds it as Prince of Wales at Prince Of Wales Inn, Kenfig CF33 4PR, reference 1081422, and gives 10 June 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. Name and address both agree with the house on this page, which is the test that matters: several houses on this site share a name.
2026-09-18Hanbury ArmsRead on 18 September 2026 against the food business register the Food Standards Agency publishes for every council in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Newport Council holds it as Hanbury Arms at Uskside, Caerleon, Newport NP18 1AA, reference 216261, and gives 27 May 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. The match is on the address as well as the name, so it is these premises and not a namesake elsewhere.
2026-09-18Ye Olde King's HeadA register reading of 18 September 2026 stands behind the trading on this page. Cheshire West and Chester Council holds it as Ye Olde Kings Head at 48-50 Lower Bridge Street, Chester CH1 1RS, reference 315114, and gives 16 July 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 3 out of five. An entry is not a promise that the doors were open this morning, but it is a council recording a visit to these premises on a named day.
2026-09-18Hole in the WallLooked at on 18 September 2026 and left where it was, because what the register says is older than a settled answer needs. Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council still holds this house on its list of food businesses, at 9 Market Street, reference 724892, but the last inspection recorded against it is 24 May 2023. A live entry with a stale visit says the council has not taken the premises off its books; it does not say anyone was served there this year, and no newer dated record was traced at the address.
2026-09-18Hole in the WallRead on 18 September 2026 against the register that lists food businesses, and left unsettled: the newest visit recorded against this house is older than a settled answer needs, and a live entry with a stale visit says the council has not struck the premises off, not that anybody was served there lately. The house is still recorded as trading, because nothing says otherwise. What changes is the badge over it, which said the status had been checked this month when what was checked came back inconclusive. It now says the trading is believed rather than confirmed, which is what the row’s own note has said all along.
2026-09-18Old BearThe reopening of 2024 was reported by a Cork site and nothing since said whether the house had stayed open. Revenue's register of liquor licences renewed for 2025/2026, read on 18 September 2026 and standing as at 2 September 2026, answers it: CXP617, a seven-day ordinary publican's licence at 125 Barrack Street, Cork, in the name of Press Down Entertainment Limited, trading as Old Bear, with Raymond Ernest Horgan as nominee. The nominee is the publican named in the reopening reports, which ties the licence to this house and not to a namesake.
2026-09-18Thomas Moore TavernA searched absence, and it is not a closure. Revenue's register of liquor licences renewed for 2025/2026, standing as at 2 September 2026, was read across every licence class on 18 September 2026 and the tavern is not in it: not under Thomas Moore, whose only match is a Dublin house on Aungier Street; not under the King's Arms, the name it says it once carried; not at the Cornmarket or the Corn Market, where the only licence is the arts centre's theatre one; and not in any of the thirty-eight licences the register addresses in Wexford town. The same search finds the tavern's neighbours without difficulty — Maggie May's at 1 Monck Street, the Swan Bar on the Faythe and the Sky and the Ground on South Main Street are all there — so the method works and the gap is particular to this house. What is not in doubt is the trade: Wexford Weekly's live music listings had a singer at the tavern on the evening of 4 September 2026 and another at half past six on 13 September, the paper publishing the second list on the 11th. A licence may be registered under a name or an address we have not thought to try, and an absence from a register is no evidence of a closed door.
2026-09-18T & H Doolan'sThe licence over this closed door was read again on 18 September 2026 and is still alive. Revenue's register of liquor licences renewed for 2025/2026, standing as at 2 September 2026, holds WTP0031, a seven-day ordinary publican's licence at 31/32 George's Street, Waterford, in the name of Invictus Sons of Alchemy Limited, with no trading name recorded against it. A licence has to be renewed every year to survive and can be renewed over premises nobody has opened, so this says only that somebody is keeping the house licensed — which is what a reopening would need. Nothing published says the doors are open, and the closure recorded here is unchanged.
2026-09-18Plough & HarrowThis house is on its council's register of food businesses, read on 18 September 2026. Vale of Glamorgan Council holds it as Plough and Harrow, Monknash at Monknash CF71 7QQ, reference 1274040, and gives 17 April 2026 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. The name and the street both match the house recorded here, and an inspection is an officer through the door on a dated day.
2026-09-18The Harp InnThe trading here was believed rather than confirmed, and now it is confirmed. Powys County Council's register of food businesses, read on 18 September 2026, carries The Harp Inn at Old Radnor, reference 178936, last inspected on 2 July 2026 and rated 2 out of five. A rating is a judgement about a kitchen and not about a house's welcome; what it establishes here is that an officer was on these premises this summer.
2026-09-18Church House InnTwo records read on 18 September 2026, and both of them young. South Hams District Council has registered the Church House Inn at Church Walk as a food business and has not yet inspected it, which is what a council records for a business newly on its books. Behind that, Stoke Gabriel Pub Co Ltd, number 16461668, is an active company registered at the inn itself, describes its business as public houses and bars, and filed a confirmation statement on 19 May 2026. Together they say a new operator has taken the house on.
2026-09-18Black Bull InnLooked at on 18 September 2026 and left where it was, because what the register says is older than a settled answer needs. Dumfries and Galloway Council still holds this house on its list of food businesses, at Church Gate, Moffat, as the Black Bull Hotel, reference 1206446, but the last inspection recorded against it is 19 September 2024. A live entry with a stale visit says the council has not taken the premises off its books; it does not say anyone was served there this year, and no newer dated record was traced at the address.
2026-09-18Black Bull InnRead on 18 September 2026 against the register that lists food businesses, and left unsettled: the newest visit recorded against this house is older than a settled answer needs, and a live entry with a stale visit says the council has not struck the premises off, not that anybody was served there lately. The house is still recorded as trading, because nothing says otherwise. What changes is the badge over it, which said the status had been checked this month when what was checked came back inconclusive. It now says the trading is believed rather than confirmed, which is what the row’s own note has said all along.
2026-09-18Black Bull InnTwo readings on 18 September 2026 agree. The Campaign for Real Ale's entry for the inn was last updated on 15 July 2026 and carries opening hours; the inn's own site was last edited in August 2026, with a wine list uploaded in May 2026.
2026-09-18Old Ship InnLooked at on 18 September 2026 and left where it was, because what the register says is older than a settled answer needs. Perth and Kinross Council still holds this house on its list of food businesses, at Skinnergate, reference 1952907, but the last inspection recorded against it is 7 November 2008. A live entry with a stale visit says the council has not taken the premises off its books; it does not say anyone was served there this year, and no newer dated record was traced at the address.
2026-09-18Old Ship InnRead on 18 September 2026 against the register that lists food businesses, and left unsettled: the newest visit recorded against this house is older than a settled answer needs, and a live entry with a stale visit says the council has not struck the premises off, not that anybody was served there lately. The house is still recorded as trading, because nothing says otherwise. What changes is the badge over it, which said the status had been checked this month when what was checked came back inconclusive. It now says the trading is believed rather than confirmed, which is what the row’s own note has said all along.
2026-09-18Old Ship InnThe Campaign for Real Ale's Tayside branch updated its entry for the Old Ship on 29 August 2026, printing hours from noon and naming Greene King as the freeholder. Read 18 September 2026. The bar's own site publishes hours but has not been edited since 2019, and the council's last food inspection here was in 2008.
2026-09-18Cramond InnLooked at on 18 September 2026 and left where it was, because what the register says is older than a settled answer needs. City of Edinburgh Council still holds this house on its list of food businesses, at 30 Cramond Glebe Road, reference 1218225, but the last inspection recorded against it is 10 October 2024. A live entry with a stale visit says the council has not taken the premises off its books; it does not say anyone was served there this year, and no newer dated record was traced at the address.
2026-09-18Cramond InnRead on 18 September 2026 against the register that lists food businesses, and left unsettled: the newest visit recorded against this house is older than a settled answer needs, and a live entry with a stale visit says the council has not struck the premises off, not that anybody was served there lately. The house is still recorded as trading, because nothing says otherwise. What changes is the badge over it, which said the status had been checked this month when what was checked came back inconclusive. It now says the trading is believed rather than confirmed, which is what the row’s own note has said all along.
2026-09-18The Original Rosslyn InnRead on 18 September 2026 against the Scottish food business register. Midlothian Council carries the Old Original Rosslyn Hotel on Main Street, Roslin, reference 158930, last inspected on 13 February 2026 and passed. The register enters it under the hotel's name rather than the inn's, at the address this page gives.
2026-09-18Hole i' the Wa'This page said the inn had no site of its own and that its trading was not firmly confirmed, and both sentences were wrong by 18 September 2026. The house publishes its own hours, seven days a week, with the times food is served; the company that runs it is active at Companies House under number SC546981, its confirmation statement dated 4 October 2025; and the food hygiene register still carries the premises on the High Street. The old hygiene inspection of 2018 and the branch survey of 2015 are still the oldest part of the picture and are still said here, but they are no longer the whole of it.
2026-09-18Ship InnThe Food Standards Agency's register was read again on 18 September 2026 and the Ship is on it as a current food business at the harbour in Irvine, inspected by North Ayrshire Council on 28 January 2026 and passing. An inspection eight months old, on a register that lists only businesses still registered, is a dated official record of a house in trade, and it is the newest thing anyone publishes about this one — the pub keeps no site, and CAMRA's branch last surveyed it years ago. The council's label of restaurant or cafe is about the kitchen and is already noted on the page.
2026-09-18Kenmore HotelStill shut, and now on a dated record rather than on a map edit. The Kenmore and District Community Council publishes minutes of its meetings with the estate that owns the hotel: in April 2026 the estate said it was re-assessing the restoration and designing it in stages, meaning to run the house as a public hotel with a bar and restaurant; in July 2026 it put exterior repairs first, with listed building consent expected to be applied for in early August 2026, and no date offered for reopening. The status is unchanged, because it already said temporarily closed; what changes is that somebody has now looked, and the flag asking for the next look stays on a house that is meant to reopen.
2026-09-18The NorsemanRead on 18 September 2026 against Revenue's list of liquor licences renewed for 2025/2026, which stands as at 2 September 2026. The house is entered as S0084, a seven-day ordinary publican's licence held by Perfect Pubs 2 Limited and trading as The Norseman, at 29 East Essex Street with the adjoining exit at 28 and the rear of 27, the same premises also described as 12/13 Temple Lane and 25/26/27 East Essex Street. The register writes the street as East Essex Street where the house's postal address reverses it, which is why a search on the address as printed here comes back empty.
2026-09-18The Bleeding HorseRevenue's register of liquor licences renewed for 2025/2026, read on 18 September 2026 and standing as at 2 September 2026, carries the house as S0201, a seven-day ordinary publican's licence held by Hedland Limited and trading as The Bleeding Horse, at 24 and 25 Upper Camden Street and 33 and 34 Charlotte Street in Dublin city. The licence runs over both frontages, which is the corner plot the architectural survey describes, and the class is the full public-house one.
2026-09-18The SpaniardThe hours read from the house's own site in June 2026 now have a licensing record beside them. Revenue's register of liquor licences renewed for 2025/2026, read on 18 September 2026 and standing as at 2 September 2026, carries CXP845, a seven-day ordinary publican's licence at Scilly, Kinsale, County Cork, in Mary Harty's own name and trading as The Spaniard Inn. Two licences are registered at Scilly and the other is a restaurant's, so the hill's drinking house is the one entered here.
2026-09-18Holohan'sThe trading here was believed rather than established, because the only things published about the house were its own undated pages. Revenue's register of liquor licences renewed for 2025/2026, read on 18 September 2026 and standing as at 2 September 2026, settles what a register can settle: WXP0364, a seven-day ordinary publican's licence at Slaney Place, Enniscorthy, in Niall Holohan's own name and trading as Holohans. A licence renewed this year is the state's word that the house may pour, and it is the newest dated thing anybody publishes about it; the house's own events calendar has been empty since a test entry made in December 2024.
2026-09-18The Chapel InnRead on 18 September 2026 against the food business register the Food Standards Agency publishes for every council in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Braintree Council holds it as The Chapel Inn at 4 Market Hill, Coggeshall CO6 1TS, reference 300770, and gives 10 September 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 5 out of five. The match is on the address as well as the name, so it is these premises and not a namesake elsewhere.
2026-09-18The Black SwanChecked on 18 September 2026 against the register of food businesses their own council keeps and the Food Standards Agency publishes. York Council holds it as The Black Swan at Peasholme Green, York YO1 7PR, reference 245494, and gives 1 August 2025 as the date of its last inspection, when it was rated 3 out of five. The name and the street both match the house recorded here, and an inspection is an officer through the door on a dated day.
2026-09-18Brauerei zum SchiffchenRead again on 18 September 2026 and unchanged. The Düsseldorf news site Vier Null, in a piece dated 17 March 2026, has the house shut since the autumn of 2024, the building sold by the city to a property investor who promised a seven-figure refurbishment, and the reopening now spoken of as the end of this year rather than the middle of it; the landlord who ran it says he would take it on again. The status here already said temporarily closed and stays there, with the flag for the next look kept on a house that is expected back.
2026-09-18The GreyhoundThe last sentence of this page said no source of this year put the doors open, and one does. Revenue's list of liquor licences renewed for 2025/2026, as it stood on 2 September 2026, holds a seven-day publican's licence for Market Square, Kinsale, in the name of Oakley Taverns Limited and trading as the Grey Hound Bar. That is the licensing record the house's date has never had, and while it says nothing at all about 1690 it does answer whether Kinsale's Greyhound is still licensed to serve. The reading of the architectural inventory made on 17 September stands unchanged beside it.
2026-09-18The GreyhoundThe licence recorded here was read again on 18 September 2026 against the same Revenue register, standing as at 2 September 2026, and is unchanged: CXP862, a seven-day ordinary publican's licence at Market Square, Kinsale, held by Oakley Taverns Limited with Enda Burke as nominee and trading as Grey Hound Bar, the name in two words. Twenty houses in and around Kinsale hold licences of one class or another and only this one is at Market Square.
2026-09-18Albany HotelThe Albany Advertiser reported on 3 June 2026 that the running of the Albany Hotel was changing hands, the freeholder Russell Poliwka having chosen a local publican as the incoming tenant to take the lease over in July. The body of that report is behind the paper's subscription and what was read is its dated headline and summary, but a hotel whose lease is being handed to a new publican is a hotel in trade, and this is the most recent dated account of the house. The older story of the freehold being marketed, which is what first put a question against the status here, is four years older than it.
2026-09-18The QueensThe licence recorded here was read again on 18 September 2026 and stands: Revenue's register of liquor licences renewed for 2025/2026, as at 2 September 2026, holds S0314, a seven-day ordinary publican's licence at 12 Castle Street, Dalkey, in the name of Glebe Taverns Limited and trading as The Queens. Castle Street carries twenty licences and most are a restaurant's or an off-licence; five on the street are publican's licences and this is one of them, which is the distinction between a house that may serve a drink on its own and one that may not.
2026-09-18City of London BarMalta keeps a public register of the establishments its tourism authority licenses, and reading it on 18 September 2026 answers the question this page had left open since 2019. The City of London Bar stands in it as a licensed bar at 193 Triq il-Kbira in San Ġiljan, reference BAR-14791. A licence is not a photograph of an open door, but it is the regulator saying the house may serve today, and nothing else published about this bar is later.
2026-09-18Gleneagles BarThe bar above the Mġarr ferry ramp is on the Malta Tourism Authority's public register of licensed establishments, read on 18 September 2026: Gleneagles, a licensed bar at 10, Triq ir-Rebħa in Għajnsielem, reference BAR-16436. The page had rested on an appreciation printed in 2005 and a map edit, and the register is the regulator's own statement that the house may serve now. What it does not do is describe the counter, so the sentence saying the last published account of that is twenty-one years old stays where it is.
2026-09-18The QueensThe venue page this row cited redirects to Okell's own page for the house, which describes it on the Douglas promenade and prints opening times from Monday, read 18 September 2026. An operator publishing this week's hours is evidence the house is open, so the trading status is confirmed rather than believed. The website is pointed at the page that answers.
2026-09-17The White Lion InnThe page said neither the 1,200-year claim nor the late medieval figure was backed by listing evidence checked here. Cadw's report has now been read: it lists the White Lion Grade II, dates it as a second-quarter 19th-century inn with earlier, probably late 17th-century origins, and designates it for that earlier core and its group value with St Elian's Church. The standfirst had the age running from medieval to 1,200 years, which the register does not support, and now says what Cadw says. The line about opening status was dropped because the trading check recorded on this row is the more recent.
2026-09-17The Cridford InnReading the whole of Historic England entry 1146542 on 17 September 2026 corrected three things here. The description called the building thatched; the register says the roof is corrugated iron and was originally thatched with gable ends, which is what a visitor standing in the lane sees, so the page no longer promises thatch. The designation date was a day out: Historic England's date-first-listed field gives 2 July 1986 where this page had 3 July. And the register's own dating is now on the page — probably fifteenth or sixteenth century, with floors inserted in the sixteenth and seventeenth, rendered stone rubble and cob on a four-room plan with a curved front wall and a bowed stair projection. Two things the entry does that are worth a reader's time. It describes the mullioned window in the bar as sixteenth-century oak with four ogee-headed chamfered lights and the rebate for its shutter still in the frame, which is a firmer thing than the house's own claim about it. And it records the famous 1081 as a date said to have been seen in a mosaic under the cobbles when repairs were carried out — a report of a report, which is how this site treats it too. The register is also plain about what arrived with the conversion: the leaded glass is of about 1980, and the fireplace in the third room has a granite lintel brought in from another building at the same date. The grade and the dates are unchanged.
2026-09-17Moulin de LecqThis house had no listing traced at all, and Jersey's Historic Environment Record holds it twice — as Government of Jersey listed building OU0093, and as the heritage asset 0900093 in St Ouen. Read on 17 September 2026, the record calls it a very important survival of an early water mill, gives it phases of development with fifteenth-century origins within the medieval period, and shows it on the Richmond Map of 1795, describing the surviving wheel, the leat steps cut from old grinding stones and part of the drive machinery inside. That is the first dating of the building from anybody but the house and the island's tourism service, and it contradicts them: they give the twelfth century, the record gives the fifteenth. So the grade moves from B, which on this site means fabric of the claimed age documented, to C. Nothing changes about the drinking, which nobody records here before the mill stopped in 1929, and the house keeps its page and its Jersey pin. The record's own reading list names Ahier and Ashworth's Historical Hotels and Inns of Jersey of 1979, which is the next thing to read.
2026-09-17The Red LionThe county history was the only published reading on the page against the 1147 tradition. Historic England's listing is a second and a firmer one: it calls the Red Lion a late 16th-century Wealden house with 18th-century extensions at each end. The entry is now read and cited, and the standfirst says what the register makes of the frame.
2026-09-17The Oxenham ArmsThis page carried a 12th-century monastery, a licence of 1477 and a grade saying the building was of the claimed age — and its own note conceded that the 1477 had never been checked against a record. Historic England's entry, read here for the first time, dates the house to the late 16th or early 17th century, maybe earlier in parts. That is a century after the licence the inn claims and five hundred years after the monks, so the grade falls to tradition and the 1477 stops being shown as the earliest record of drinking here; it is the inn's own figure, with no licence behind it. The entry is generous about everything else, including the great upright granite slab in an inner wall, which the surveyor thought was a prehistoric standing stone the house had been built around — and that, unlike the dates, is now on the page with a register behind it — in the room the surveyor puts it in, the rear parlour, rather than the lounge this page had named.
2026-09-17The Oxenham ArmsThe page opened by saying the prehistoric stone is built into the lounge wall. Historic England's list entry for the inn, read this week, puts it in the rear parlour and says the house appears to have been built around it. The note beside the stone had already been corrected to say only that it is in an inner wall; the first sentence of the page had not, and that is the sentence most people read.
2026-09-17The Crown InnThe page recorded the Crown as listed without knowing its grade, and said no record of medieval inn use had been found. Historic England lists it Grade II from August 1987 and dates the inn to probably the early 17th century, five hundred years after the date CAMRA gives it. The entry is now read and cited, and the standfirst carries both.
2026-09-17The Pied BullThe page said no listing text had been checked for the Pied Bull. There is one: Historic England lists 57 Northgate Street Grade II* as the Pied Bull Hotel, first listed in July 1955, and its description dates the inn to the 17th century on the site of two medieval tenements, with oak framing perhaps 16th-century and an oak stair it reads as 17th-century rather than 1535. That entry is now read and cited, and the page says what it dates the staircase to.
2026-09-17Lord Crewe ArmsThis page rested on the inn's own site and CAMRA, and the medieval fabric behind the 12th-century claim had never been read in a register. Historic England's list entry, number 1154141 at grade II*, dates the range to the 13th and 15th centuries with a mid-18th-century remodelling and identifies it as the abbey's west cloister — the abbot's lodge, guest house and kitchen. The page now gives the reader those centuries instead of the abbey's foundation year alone.
2026-09-17Lord Crewe ArmsGrade B means fabric of the claimed age documented, and the claim here is explicitly the abbey's foundation — the row's own label reads "12th century (Blanchland Abbey founded 1165)". Historic England's list entry 1154141 dates the surviving west cloister range to the 13th and 15th centuries with a mid-18th-century Gothick remodelling. Thirteenth-century fabric is not fabric of a twelfth-century claim, so the grade is tradition. The same pass downgraded the Cherub Inn at Dartmouth on exactly this reasoning, where the claim is c.1380 and the register says probably the second half of the 15th century; the argument for keeping this one at B was that 36 years to the start of the 13th century is inside the generation grade A allows, which is grade A's rule and is about a record older than a claim rather than fabric younger than one. Nothing about the house changes: it is a genuinely medieval building of the abbey the claim names, and the page says so with the register's centuries in it.
2026-09-17Llindir InnThe page said no listing evidence had been checked. Cadw lists the Llindir Grade II and dates its earliest phase to probably the late 16th century, calling the origins sub-medieval — three hundred years later than the 13th century the travel press repeats. The report is now read and cited, and the standfirst says what the register says.
2026-09-17The Black Bull InnThe page said no listing text confirming a medieval inn had been traced. The listing exists — Historic England 1315499, Grade II, designated in December 1984 — and it dates the Black Bull to probably the 17th century, much altered in the 18th and later. The entry is now read and cited, and the standfirst says what the register says instead of leaving the claim merely unproven.
2026-09-17The King's HeadThe page said the King's Head's medieval origins were not independently confirmed in the sources checked, without saying what had been checked. The national architectural inventory has now been searched around the pub's own door, and it holds no entry for 15 High Street. What makes that worth printing is the company it keeps: the same survey records late medieval fabric at Nos 11 and 12 next door and quotes the dates carved on it, 1615 on a chimney lintel and 1562 on a plaque round the corner in Shop Street. On this street the surveyors write medieval stone down when they see it, and at No. 15 they wrote nothing.
2026-09-17The Pandora InnThe page recorded the inn's own account of a 13th-century farm on the creek and nothing from the register. Historic England lists the Pandora Grade II and dates the house to about the 17th century, mostly rebuilt in the 19th — which is the first outside reading of the fabric the page has carried. The entry is now read and cited.
2026-09-17The Tobie NorrisThe claim that parts of this house date from about 1280 came from its owner and from CAMRA, and nothing independent had been read against it. The Royal Commission's inventory of Stamford surveys number 12 St Paul's Street in detail and dates it about two hundred years later: a hall and cross wing originating around 1500, a wing added behind the hall about 1600, and a new ashlar front built in two phases from 1663 by Toby Norris the younger, whose initials and his wife Susannah's are cut into a panel on the east gable. The Commission also cites the probate inventory of Toby Norris the elder, taken in 1626, which describes a chamber over the hall. Both datings are now on the page, because reconciling them would mean choosing without a reason to.
2026-09-17The Sloop InnThe page said the building was largely a 17th- and 18th-century rebuild without citing anybody for it. Historic England's listing dates it in exactly those terms, and is now read and cited, so the sentence rests on the register rather than on our own summary.
2026-09-17The Tower InnThe page already said the inn was not on the national heritage list while the buildings around it are. The search has been repeated and its reach recorded — twenty-seven entries in the village, including the chantry tower the inn is named after, and nothing for the inn — so the absence is established rather than restated.
2026-09-17The ParrotThe 1370 on this page came from a regional heritage blog and had nothing beside it. The Canterbury Historical and Archaeological Society, which surveys the city's buildings and cites the published studies behind its notes, dates the same house — St Radigund's Hall, named for the monks of St Radigund at Bradsole near Dover — to the fifteenth century instead, and says that virtually nothing of its early history is known. It describes the building as tenements by the beginning of the twentieth century, saved from demolition as unfit for habitation in 1937, and afterwards a girls' club, an annexe to the art college and a burger bar before it became a pub. That last sequence agrees with what the page already said: this is an old building in which drink is sold, and not an old drinking house. Both datings now appear.
2026-09-17The Cherub InnThe c.1380 on this page had never been tested against the listing, and the listing disagrees. Historic England's entry 1209644 dates the house to probably the second half of the fifteenth century and grades it II*, not II. The claim is now shown as a claim, the grade moves from B to C because the fabric is not of the claimed age, and the hedge over Dartmouth's oldest building goes: the register states it.
2026-09-17Ye Olde George InnThe page stated as fact that this is a 15th-century coaching inn, and its own evidence note admitted that no early licence record had been checked. The listing has now been read. Historic England describes a timber-framed house refaced in the 18th century with painted brick, a carriage archway and courtyard ranges, and it declines to put any century at all on the frame; it does not mention the castle stone. The 15th century is therefore CAMRA's reading and nobody else's, so the opening sentence now says whose it is, and the grade falls from B, which means fabric of the claimed age is documented, to C, which means tradition. The house is no less old-looking for it; what changed is what we can show.
2026-09-17The Golf TavernThe page said no building record was found, which is a statement about our searching. The search has now been made properly: the national designations hold twenty-six listed buildings in that corner of Bruntsfield, including the tenements next door, and no entry for the tavern. The absence is established, and the standfirst says so instead of saying nothing was found.
2026-09-17The Pickerel InnEverything this page said about the Pickerel came from its owner and from CAMRA. The national register of listed buildings, read through a copy held by the Internet Archive, is a second and independent account, and it settles part of the argument: the street front is early nineteenth-century gault brick, but the wing behind it is of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, timber-framed and plastered, with seventeenth-century panelling inside. That supports the sixteenth century the pub claims and it does not support the fifteenth-century building others repeat. Fabric of the claimed age with no document of drinking at the date is a grade B, so the grade moves up from C, and the listing has been in place since 29 March 1962.
2026-09-17The ChequersThe Chequers had been read only by its operator and by CAMRA. The Oxford History survey of the High Street is a second and independent account, and it is much the fullest: the house stood in the fifteenth century as a moneylender's, which is where the chequerboard sign comes from, was bought by All Souls College in 1466, and was rebuilt about 1500 as a tavern by Alderman Richard Kent, who gave it the name Kent's Hall. It then follows the trade through the records — window tax paid by John Clayton on twenty windows at the tavern in 1696, and a run of licensees from Howell Goddard, who gave up in 1776, to George Stroud, found in the censuses of 1841, 1851 and 1861. Nothing in it supports the house date of 1260 that is widely quoted, and the first dated record of drink sold here is still the name entered in 1605, so the grade does not move.
2026-09-17Café VlissingheThe 1515 on this page was carried on the strength of Dutch Wikipedia's account of the register of the sixteenths. On 17 September 2026 the Flemish heritage agency's own inventory entry for the house was read instead, and it carries the same thing in its own words: the history of this inn goes back to the first half of the sixteenth century, and the oldest mention reaches 1515 according to the register of the sixteenths. It classes the building's type as an inn, dates the fabric to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and describes the blind seventeenth-century front on the left against the sixteenth-century one to the right, the traces of older openings, the seventeenth-century black marble chimneypiece and the garden pavilion fitted out for the Kunstgenegen, an artists' circle founded in 1894, whose mottoes are still on its panelling. The earliest record of drinking here now rests on a government register naming its own document, rather than on an encyclopaedia summarising it.
2026-09-17The White Hart InnCanmore read on 18 September 2026 through Historic Environment Scotland's own map services, the Canmore website having moved to trove.scot where a script gets a challenge page. Its record for 32-34 Grassmarket, NT27SE 5401.00, entered in February 2004 and last touched in January 2006, classes the site as an inn of the fifteenth century and a public house of the eighteenth, and gives Dunlop's Court as another name for it. That is earlier than the 1516 the house claims, and it is the second time a Historic Environment Scotland record has put a date on this inn without naming a source: the statutory list says records go back to 1516 and names none, and Canmore says fifteenth century and names none, while the same list dates the standing tenement to about 1740. The evidence therefore argues for a grade above C and does not reach one on its own — a period in a classification field is not a record of drinking-house use — so the grade is left at C for an owner to weigh, and the disagreement is now on the page rather than sitting unremarked in our own records. Canmore's narrative, which might cite the document, is unreadable behind the challenge page. The control: the same query returned the neighbouring records for 30 Grassmarket and 36-40 Grassmarket, both classed as eighteenth-century, so a hit at these numbers was not being missed.
2026-09-17Prospect of WhitbyThe page took Historic England's view of this pub from Historic England's blog. The statutory list entry says it more plainly: the original building is 'said to be' about 1520, the front was refaced in the early nineteenth century, and what the inspector could actually see was yellow brick, sashes and some eighteenth-century panelling. The entry number, the grade and the date of listing are now on the page too.
2026-09-17Black Boy InnRead on 18 September 2026: the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales entry 26029 for the Black Boy, which puts the house in the national record of buildings as a post-medieval inn on Northgate Street. It is not the second opinion it looks like — the description is the Cadw listing's own text and the record names the register as its source, dated June 2007 — and saying so is the point, because a page that cited it as independent corroboration of the fabric date would be citing Cadw twice. What it does add is that the Commission's inventory of the ancient monuments in Caernarvonshire, volume two of 1960, describes and draws the building at page 156, which is a survey published twenty-three years before the listing and one we have not read. The 1522 still has nothing behind it and the grade stays C.
2026-09-17The Sun InnThe full Historic England entry for the Sun Inn was read on 17 September 2026 rather than summarised, and it does not say what this page said it said. The register dates the house C16 and late C18, flatly; the word probably was ours. That correction matters, because a flat sixteenth century from the national register is documentation of the fabric at the age the claim names, and on its own it would carry a grade B rather than a C. The grade stays C, and the note now argues it instead of assuming it: against the list entry of 1969 stand the pub's own case from first-floor joists laid on edge, Pevsner's sixteenth-or-seventeenth century, the Royal Commission's finding that no timber frame in Beverley survives from before 1400, and — decisively — Historic England's own tree-ring analysis of the ground-floor and roof oak, published in 2020, which could date neither the site sequence nor any single sample. When the body that dated a building later samples its timbers and gets nothing, the honest reading is that the age is not established. The entry also supplies the fabric a reader can see: herringbone brick infill in the half-timbered first floor, the jetty carried on plain corbels that are the ends of the joists, and an early nineteenth-century shop front whose reeded frame and paterae survive behind a plain window.
2026-09-17Hand & ShearsThe 1532 lettered across this pub's website had only CAMRA and Wikipedia beside it. A London Inheritance, which photographs London's pubs and reads the newspaper archive behind them, is a second and independent account, and it finds a different year on the building itself: a sign on the corner records a justices' licence granted on 1 May 1552, under the Alehouse Act of that year. So the house carries two dates, twenty years apart, and offers no source for either. The same account dates the present corner building from a photograph taken in 1852, when it was new, and reproduces an etching of 1811 showing the building it replaced. It also traces the pie powder court sitting here through a report in the Illustrated London News of 5 September 1846, and an inquest held on the premises through the London City Press of 18 February 1860.
2026-09-17Ye Olde Cheshire CheeseOne of the best-known pubs in London had a listing line on its page with no entry number behind it. The entry, read in full, dates the house to the late seventeenth century and very much altered, gives the Fleet Street front as probably later Georgian and heightened again in the nineteenth century, and names the vaulted cellar under the courtyard as the oldest thing in the building. Nothing the inspector could see comes within a century of 1538.
2026-09-17The Chequers InnThe page said no listing evidence had been checked. It has now been: the national heritage list holds ten entries in Ledsham, including the telephone box outside the inn, and none for the Chequers. The inn is genuinely unlisted, which is a finding rather than a gap, and the page now says how that was established.
2026-09-17The George InnThe George's grade A rested on Historic England's blog rather than on Historic England's register. The list entry, read against it, says the original inn goes back at least to the sixteenth century and describes the surviving range as seventeenth-century timber frame and brick — and it adds something nobody had put on the page: reused medieval beams and squared stonework of possible medieval date in the cellar wall, which is the oldest fabric recorded on the site.
2026-09-17Ye Olde MitreThis page attributed the 1770s date of the building to the national register without citing it, which is a citation we were not making. The register has now been read, through a copy held by the Internet Archive, and it says more than the page was using. It dates the public house to about 1773, in stock brick under Welsh slate, with the extensive panelling and the panelled bar counters probably put in during a refitting in the 1920s. It records the 1546 foundation only as something believed — a tavern for the servants at the Bishop of Ely's London house — and it adds the fact that matters most to the claim: the site and the neighbouring properties in Ely Place were cleared after the Crown took the estate over in 1772. Whatever stood here in 1546, this building came after it. Listed at grade II since 24 October 1951.
2026-09-17The WrestlersThis pub's page had no listing information at all, which reads as though nobody looked. Somebody has now. Historic England's list holds twenty-three entries within two hundred metres of the Wrestlers, including the pub along the road and the three houses next door, and nothing for the Wrestlers itself — so there is no inspector's description of the 1921 building to set against the 1547 it claims, and the page says that rather than leaving a blank.
2026-09-17Ye Olde White HarteThe grade II* on this page had no register entry behind it, and the Plotting Parlour story rested on CAMRA's Hull branch alone. The national register, read through a copy held by the Internet Archive, is a second and independent reading and it agrees with the branch on the point that matters. It dates the house to about 1660, by William Catlyn, remodelled in 1881 by Smith and Brodrick; it records that research has confirmed the building as the residence of Hull's deputy-governor in 1688 and the place where the plot against the Catholic governor appointed by James II was laid; and it states outright that the older tradition, which puts Sir John Hotham here in 1642, can be discounted as a myth, because the documentary and architectural work of the late twentieth century shows the house was not built until after the Civil War. The listing has stood at grade II* since 13 October 1952.
2026-09-17The Church House InnThe whole of this row's building evidence was one line in CAMRA's branch entry. Historic England's list entry 1108225, at grade II*, dates the house to circa mid to late sixteenth century and describes the plank-and-muntin screen, the sixteenth-century moulded window frame and the eleven jointed-cruck trusses. The grade B is unchanged and now rests on two publishers instead of one, and the listing, which this row did not carry at all, is on the page.
2026-09-17Abbey TavernThis tavern sells itself as a sixteenth-century house and the page had nothing to set against that but the tavern. Ireland's national architectural survey has an entry under the pub's own name at this address, and it describes a rendered Victorian commercial building of about 1850, with a dentil cornice and a fanlit doorcase. The survey's date for the walls is now on the page beside the tavern's date for itself.
2026-09-17Clachaig InnThe page said the Clachaig's building date was not established, which reads as though nobody had been able to find out. Now somebody has looked: the national designations hold nothing whatever within half a kilometre of the inn, so there is no listing description to date it, and that is a finding rather than a gap. The page says how it was established, and what a researcher should look for instead.
2026-09-17The Castle InnThe page said no listed-building date had been confirmed. There is one, and it is a date on the building: Historic England's entry for 91 High Street records a brick plaque above the door dated 1684 with the initials R E A, and lists the house Grade II from October 1953. The entry is now read and cited, and the standfirst puts the datestone beside the 1550 claim.
2026-09-17The Old InnThe page said no listing text had been checked. Historic England lists the Old Inn Grade II, first listed in July 1957, and dates it possibly to the late 17th century with mid-19th-century wings — a century later than the 16th-century date the inn and CAMRA give. The entry is now read and cited, and the opening sentence says both dates.
2026-09-17The Lion InnThe only accounts of the Lion here were the inn's own and a BBC report of a week-long snow lock-in. The Scarborough Archaeological and Historical Society's research report on the Rosedale mines and railway is a second and independent one. It places the Lion Inn at grid reference SE680995 at 1,293 feet, records it as the wayside public house that served the isolated railway community at Little Blakey, which had no other provision of its own, and notes that the mineral line ran within three hundred yards of the door. It is silent on the 1553 or 1558 the inn claims, so that remains tradition; what it does is fix the house in the industrial record of the moor rather than in its own telling.
2026-09-17The Lion InnThe page already said that a search of the heritage list around Blakey Ridge returned only boundary stones and guide stones. That search has been repeated across a kilometre and a half of moor with the same result, and the page now records the reach of it, so the absence is one we have established rather than one we keep re-establishing.
2026-09-17The Fox InnThis row's grade fell from B to C on 11 September because Historic England describes an eighteenth-century inn where the house and CAMRA describe a sixteenth-century one. On 17 September 2026 the full entry was read to check that reading, and it holds exactly: a small inn in a terrace, C18, in rubble stone under a stone slate roof. The reading adds the thing that makes the dating worth more than a line in a list — the entry names its source, the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments' inventory of Dorset, volume II South-East of 1970, where the house is monument 121. A surveyed and published inventory entry is a firmer thing to weigh against a pub's own century than a bare list description, and the page now says so. The statutory name and the group value come with it: The Fox Inn, West Street, first listed 20 November 1959.
2026-09-17The Groes InnRead on 18 September 2026: the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, which publishes the national record of buildings independently of Cadw, and the tree-ring report it commissioned. Its entry 26356, compiled by John Wiles in May 2007 from the Commission's Caernarvonshire inventory of 1956, calls the Groes a late sixteenth- or early seventeenth-century house or inn, possibly the tavern named in 1578 or else standing on its site — a hedge the page did not carry, because Cadw states the inn plainly. The Oxford Dendrochronology Laboratory's report of September 2014, by M. C. Bridge and D. Miles for the charity Dating Old Welsh Houses with the Commission, is harder still: six oak samples taken in June 2014 from the north-end ceiling beam and fireplace lintel, the south beams and both rafters of the second truss produced a 117-year chronology that failed to date, and the laboratory thought the building quite late, probably eighteenth or nineteenth century. Richard Suggett's note for the Commission in November 2014 has a Snowdonian-plan storeyed house with a roof and stair that may be eighteenth-century. The grade stays A, because it rests on the court order of 1578 naming a tavern at this place and not on the age of the walls; what changes is that the page now says the walls are dated later than the claim by everyone who has looked at them, and that no tree-ring date exists.
2026-09-17The Lion InnThe page said no listing text had been consulted. Cadw lists the Lion Grade II and dates the house to probably about 1700, designating it as a good early 18th-century village inn — a hundred and twenty years after the 1580 the pub gives. The report is now read and cited, and the standfirst carries both dates.
2026-09-17Old George InnReading the whole of Historic England entry 1024823 on 17 September 2026, rather than the summary this page carried, turned up one thing about the building and one about the record. The building: the bar at the east end has stout, shallow joists that the register calls probably original, while the main rooms on both floors have close-set joists it dates possibly to the early eighteenth century and roofs it says were renewed then — so the part of the house a drinker actually stands in is the oldest part the register can see. The record: the entry's dates disagree with each other. Historic England's own date-first-listed field gives 5 September 1977, and the reference line inside the entry reads 6/9/77, which is where this page's date came from. The field is what the register publishes, so the page now gives 5 September and says plainly that the entry's text carries the other date — a day is nothing to a reader and tidying it away silently is the habit this site exists to avoid. The statutory name is also The Old George Public House rather than the Old George Inn, and the entry carries group value. One sentence has gone: this page had the register listing a carriageway and a house alongside the public house, and the full entry does nothing of the kind — it describes one building, with a carriage arch at its south-east end. The grade and the dates are unchanged.
2026-09-17The GrapesTwo second readings, and each corrects something. This page said the surviving building was eighteenth-century and credited the 1720s partly to the listing; the listing says no such thing. The national register, read through a copy held by the Internet Archive, describes a nineteenth-century facade of stock brick, four storeys and two windows wide, with sashes under segmental arches and a small centre bay between two doors, and gives no earlier date at all. Separately, A London Inheritance, which works from the newspaper archive, prints an advertisement of 1805 in which Mrs Horseley of the Bunch of Grapes was looking for staff. That is the earliest dated record of trade here that anyone has shown us, so the first record on this page is now 1805, more than two centuries after the 1583 the pub claims.
2026-09-17Spaniards InnThe Spaniards had been read only by CAMRA and Wikipedia here, and the 1585 was CAMRA's with CAMRA's own caution attached. The national register of listed buildings, read through a copy held by the Internet Archive, is a second and independent reading and it does not support the year: it describes seventeenth-century brick with some timber framing and weatherboarding, three storeys under an M-shaped tiled roof behind a parapet, and painted panelling inside that may be original. A building the register reads as of the next century does not carry a 1585, so the grade stays at C and the page now says which century the register sees. The inn has been listed at grade II since 18 October 1949, an early date this page had not recorded.
2026-09-17The Dolphin TavernThis page rested on the tavern's own account of itself and on CAMRA. Cornish Story, published at the Institute of Cornish Studies in Exeter, is a second and independent telling, and it differs in two useful ways. It says plainly that the age of the building is not known, and reads the granite front as fourteenth-century rather than sixteenth. And it dates Sir John Hawkins's recruiting here to 1595 rather than 1585, which is ten years after the year the tavern puts over its door. It treats the first-pipe-of-tobacco story as something said rather than something shown. None of this makes the 1585 wrong; it does mean the date has no more behind it than before, and the page now says so with two voices instead of one.
2026-09-17Hofbräuhaus am PlatzlThis page named the wrong duke. The City of Munich's account of the Hofbräuhaus, read on 17 September 2026, is plain that the court brewery of 1589 was Wilhelm V's, set up because the ducal household was spending too much on beer brought in from elsewhere, and that it was Maximilian I who moved the brewing to the Platzl in 1607; this page had 1589 down to Maximilian. The same account confirms the date the ranking turns on — that ordinary Munich citizens were let in only in 1828, when Ludwig I allowed the house to serve the population at large — and names Max Littmann as the architect of the rebuilding finished in 1897, with the brewery moving out to Haidhausen in 1896 and on to Munich-Riem in 1988. It is also the first publisher on this page other than the encyclopaedia and the house itself.
2026-09-17The Man O'WarThe page said the construction date of this thatched roadside inn had not been established. It has been recorded all along, by the state's own architectural inventory, which nobody here had read: the inventory surveys the house as Man of War at Courtlough, dates it to about 1800 within a range of 1750 to 1850, and records its original use as a house rather than as a public house. That is two centuries after the 1595 the pub's deeds are said to give, and it is the first independent dating this row has carried. The claim stays on the page as the claim; the record beside it now says something different.
2026-09-17The Globe InnA second Historic Environment Scotland record read on 18 September 2026, through the body's own map services at inspire.hes.scot, because the Canmore website itself has moved to trove.scot and answers a script with a challenge page. Canmore holds the Globe as site NX97NE 262.00, entered in March 2000 and last touched in March 2003, and classes it a public house of the eighteenth century, which agrees with the statutory list against the inn's 1610. A second Canmore record, NX97NE 829.00, was opened on 27 February 2026 for a bakehouse behind the inn, dated only as post-medieval. The listed buildings dataset confirms what the portal page says and adds two things it does not: the point for 56 High Street is digitised on Ordnance Survey MasterMap to within ten metres, and the register's mapped entry for it was last revised on 2 August 2021. Neither reading is a second publisher — Canmore and the statutory list are the same body on two hosts — and the note now says so rather than letting two citations look like two opinions. The control on the search: at the same sixty-metre radius the service also returned the King's Arms Hotel, the eighteenth-century County Hotel at 79 High Street and 71 High Street with its old names Commercial Hotel and Golden Bull Inn, so the query does find neighbouring drinking houses when they are there.
2026-09-17Durty Nelly'sRead on 18 September 2026: Clare County Council's record of protected structures, volume 4 of the county development plan for 2023 to 2029, which is the second register to be searched for this house and the second to have no entry for it. The Bunratty area holds five protected structures, the bridge and the castle among them, and none of them is this pub. The national architectural survey was queried again at the same time and returns the castle at thirty-five metres and the bridge at twenty-eight, which is the control that makes the absence a finding. One detail is worth having beside the legend of Nelly at the toll: the council dates the standing bridge to 1804 and says it replaced a mediaeval one, so the crossing is much older than the bridge, and no record dates a house beside either.
2026-09-17White's TavernBelfast's oldest-looking tavern is not on the statutory register, and this page had never said so because nobody had looked. Now it has been looked at: forty-six listed buildings stand within three hundred metres of Winecellar Entry, including the Northern Whig and the old Northern Bank, and the register holds no entry for White's, for the entry itself or for its High Street frontage. The dates on this page come from the planning record for the premises, and the page now says that plainly instead of leaving a reader to assume a listing behind them.
2026-09-17Lion & UnicornThe page said a listing entry had been looked for and not traced. The search has now been made against the national designations and written down, naming the four listed buildings that stand within two hundred metres of the inn and do not include it, so the next pass does not repeat it.
2026-09-17Café 't PapeneilandEverything independent on this row came from one publisher, the national monuments register. Vereniging Hendrick de Keyser, which has owned Prinsengracht 2 since 1918, gives the same building year of 1641 and adds what the house was for — a shop with a dwelling above, with an eighteenth-century pottery shop in it — and that the cafe De Blauwe Druif arrived at the end of the nineteenth century. The first chip said the building was dated 1642 while the row's own fabric year said 1641; it now says both, in that order.
2026-09-17De Drie FleschjesA grade A row resting on one independent publisher, and a fabric year of 1888 cited to nothing but the words Building fabric. Amsterdam op de kaart dates the rebuilding of the distillery and tasting house to 1887-88, to a design by Van Rossem & Vuyk for J. H. G. Bootz, quoting the Algemeen Handelsblad on the new building, and independently has the tavern opening in this street in 1650. The diamond now cites a source, and the note says plainly that the 1618 is Maarten Hell's archive finding alone.
2026-09-17The Coylet InnThe 1650s on this page was the Scotsman's and nothing else supported it. The Geological Survey of Scotland's memoir on the geology of Cowal, published in 1897, names the Coylet Inn three times as a landmark on the east shore of Loch Eck — a cliff section a little south of it, a burn north of it, and a plate at the back of the volume. That is a government survey placing an inn of this name here in 1897, which is now the first record on the page, and it is also a small correction to the account that the house was known as the Loch Eck Inn until later: by 1897 the surveyors called it the Coylet. It says nothing about the 1650s, which remains a newspaper's date with no record behind it.
2026-09-17The Coylet InnThe page said no listing source had been found. The national designations have now been searched around the inn and hold nothing within two hundred metres of it, so the absence is established and the 17th-century date is left resting where it actually rests, on the press and the 2024 sale particulars.
2026-09-17The Crosskeys InnThis page carried a building graded as dated to the age it claims, on the strength of a tree-ring survey that everybody mentions and nobody publishes. Northern Ireland's register of listed buildings, read against it, dates the inn's construction to between 1820 and 1839 — two centuries after the 1654 on the sign, and later than the eighteenth-century date Wikipedia gives. Without the survey itself the claim rests on repetition, so the grade drops to tradition and both dates now appear where a reader will meet them.
2026-09-17Gaststätte RöhrlThe monument entry for the Röhrl had been read through the German Wikipedia list that transcribes Bavaria's register. On the night of 17-18 September 2026 it was read in the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments' own published list for Sinzing, which confirms the number D-3-75-199-22 and the description this page gives, enters the house as a Gasthaus, and marks the remodelling of about 1839 as dated on the building as well as the 1665. The citation is now the register's publisher rather than a copy of it; the 1658 marriage that dates the inn is unaffected and the grade stays at A.
2026-09-17The '76 HouseA second reading, and an older one than anything this page had: Frank Bertangue Green's The History of Rockland County (New York, A. S. Barnes & Co., 1886), read on 17 September 2026. Green describes the inn at Tappantown as the first tavern in the territory of the present Orange and Rockland counties south of Newburgh, and has Casparus Mabie buying it from Cornelius Meyers in 1753 — buying, not building, which sits awkwardly beside the date of 1754 usually given for the house. He prints a New York Gazette advertisement of 26 February 1776 offering "that noted house and lot where Casparus Mabie formerly lived", a stone building of four rooms to a floor. He then carries the keepers forward in a line this page did not have: Mabie sold to Frederick Blauvelt, Blauvelt to Philip Dubey in 1800, who was still keeping it in 1818, and after Dubey's death it was kept by Henry Gesner, Henry Storms, Thomas Wandle, Lawrence T. Sneden and Henry Ryerson until Dr J. T. Stephens bought it in 1857. Green also records the county meeting held at Mabie's on 17 April 1775 and André's confinement in the house. Nothing in the book supports 1668.
2026-09-17The '76 HouseThe page opened by saying Casparus Mabie built this house in the 1750s. Frank B. Green's history of Rockland County, published in 1886 and read this week, has Mabie buying it from Cornelius Meyers in 1753 and describes the place as already the first tavern in the territory — so the building would be older than the man usually credited with it. The evidence note had carried both readings since that reading was made; the first sentence of the page had not, which is the sentence most people read.
2026-09-17Café HoppeThe page said the room next door to Hoppe's standing bar was added in the early nineteen-hundreds. The Dutch national monuments register says the house at Spui 20 has a bell gable of the third quarter of the eighteenth century — Hoppe took the room over in the twentieth century, but the building was already old. Spui 18, the corner where the café began, is registered as seventeenth-century, which at least fits the 1670 the house claims for itself.
2026-09-17Proeflokaal Wynand FockinkThe building behind this 1679 had never been checked against the Dutch national monuments register. The register dates the bell gable at Pijlsteeg 31 to 1689 — ten years after the year the house gives for its distillery — and records a timber shopfront and an eighteenth-century shop interior. A shop is what it describes, which fits a page that already says the drinking over a counter here is documented only from 1860.
2026-09-17King George II InnThis said "Contributing property, Bristol Historic District" under a heading a reader takes as the building's listing. A historic district listing draws a boundary round an area; it makes no judgement about any building inside it and gives none of them a date. The line now says which kind of entry it is.
2026-09-17Moulin InnThe page said no listing evidence had been found. Historic Environment Scotland lists the Moulin Hotel at category C and its description dates the oldest block to the early 18th century, while recording the painted 1695 and the words MOULIN INN on the porch — which is where the circulating date comes from. The record is now read and cited.
2026-09-17The Drovers InnThis page said the Drover's was on a map of 1776 without saying which map, which is the difference between a date and a record. The Historic Environment Scotland record was read in full on 17 September 2026 and names it: Taylor and Skinner's survey of the Scottish roads, published in 1776 and held by the National Library of Scotland at EMS.b.3.48, with the house marked on it as an inn. The same reading dates the designation to 5 October 1971, groups the inn with its stables and steading opposite, and records that an older list description made this the original house of the Glen Falloch estate — which Historic Environment Scotland now thinks unlikely, preferring barracks built for Caulfield's military road of 1748-53. One correction to the page itself: the brass diamond was printing 1825 on the register's authority, and 1825-30 is the register's date for a later addition, not for the house. The core is eighteenth-century and the register names no year for it, so the diamond now says so instead of guessing.
2026-09-17Longfellow's Wayside InnA second reading that disagrees with the first. Massachusetts: A Guide to Its Places and People, compiled by the Federal Writers' Project and published in 1937, describes the inn at page 471 as a house whose core was built by Samuel Howe in 1686 — where the National Register nomination this page relies on has Samuel Howe beginning the inn about 1700, and where the fire of December 1955 was still eighteen years off. The two readings are irreconcilable and both are now on the page. The guide agrees about the rest of the sequence: the house was Howe Tavern until 1746, when Colonel Ezekiel Howe put up a new sign and it became the Red Horse; the west wing with a dining room below and a ballroom above went up in 1800; and by 1937 Henry Ford had added a two-storey wing at the north end, refurnished the ordinary and was charging twenty-five cents to see it. The 1686 that this page rejected turns out to have been in print in the state's own guidebook, which is worth a reader knowing before deciding who to believe.
2026-09-17Kelly's CellarsThe 1720 on this pub's fascia had never been tested against a building record. It has now: Northern Ireland's register of listed buildings, searched across the city centre, holds Kelly's Cellars at 30-32 Bank Street as a grade B2 public house and dates its construction to the last two decades of the eighteenth century. The year over the door is sixty years older than the walls behind it, and both now appear on the page.
2026-09-17Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop BarThe claim and the federal record are now both read at first hand, and they are fifty years apart. The National Park Service survey form that carries this building's landmark designation of 1970, recorded by the historian Charles W. Snell after a visit in March 1968 and read on 17 September 2026, dates the house to the end of the eighteenth century and, in as many words, to between 1772 and 1791 — where the bar's own account puts it at 1722 to 1732. The form describes it as a French Colonial townhouse in the Louis XV manner, nearly square, originally four rooms of equal size with the partitions since taken out to make one room, its soft brick between cypress framing exposed where the plaster has gone, and its tile roof a covering general in the city only after the fire of 1794. Under present use, in 1968, it records one word: bar. Two things are worth flagging. The form credits the building itself to Jean and Pierre Lafitte and repeats the blacksmith story as tradition, offering nothing in support of either, so the smuggling legend has a federal citation but still no evidence. And its list of earlier studies points to six sheets of drawings and four photographs made by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1934, which recorded the place not as Lafitte's anything but as a cottage at 941 Bourbon Street.
2026-09-17Hviids VinstueThis was one of the two largest single-publisher exposures on the site: a grade B resting on Visit Copenhagen alone, with three routes into the Danish listed-buildings register all failing. A fourth route worked. Indenforvoldene.dk, citing the National Museum's 1972 survey of the old city's houses, dates the corner building at Kongens Nytorv 19 to 1767, its top storey to 1801, and its listing to 1964. The 1723 is forty-four years older than the house that stands over the cellar, so the grade moves from B to C and the page now tells the reader how old the building actually is.
2026-09-17Settle InnThe page said the 1733 appeared only in secondary guides and had not been documented. Historic Environment Scotland lists 91 St Mary's Wynd as the Settle Inn and its description begins by recording the house as dated 1733 with the initials G T E G, adding that it was formerly the Red Lion Inn. A datestone read by the national register is fabric of the claimed age documented by somebody other than the pub, so the grade moves from tradition to building dated, and the standfirst says what the register says.
2026-09-17The Clachan InnThe page said no listing entry had been traced. The search has now been made and written down: the national designations cover the Winnock Hotel across the square and the cottage at 4 The Square, and hold nothing for the Clachan. The inn is genuinely undesignated, which is a finding rather than a gap.
2026-09-17Ma Cameron'sThis page repeated CAMRA's word that no listing covers the building, and noted that this was firmer than our own silence. It is firmer still now: the national designations have been searched around the pub's own address, they hold three listed buildings within forty metres, and none of them is Ma Cameron's. The reader is told where we looked rather than asked to take a second-hand no.
2026-09-17Middleton TavernA second reading, and one that reaches further back than the survey file. Elihu S. Riley's "The Ancient City": A History of Annapolis, in Maryland, 1649-1887, published in 1887 and read on 17 September 2026, quotes the Maryland Gazette on the freemasons' celebration of St John's day, 27 December 1749: eighty of the brotherhood walked in procession, in white gloves and aprons, from the house of their brother Middleton to the church, and afterwards dined at the Indian King. That puts a Middleton house of resort in Annapolis at the end of 1749, about five years before the Maryland Historical Trust dates the brick house on Market Space that stands today. Riley does not say which building the masons assembled in, and this page is not going to guess; what the passage shows is that the Middleton name was attached to a place where the town gathered before the present tavern was built, which is a better foundation for the claim of 1750 than the claim had, without being a record of this house.
2026-09-17Fraunces TavernA grade A page about a tavern of 1762 was resting on an encyclopedia article. New York City's own landmarks database says the house at 54 Pearl Street was built in 1719 as a dwelling and converted into a tavern in 1762 by Samuel Fraunces, and adds that its whole ground storey was taken out in July 1890 to drop the floor to the pavement. The National Park Service's register confirms both National Register entries and their dates. The claim is unchanged; what it stands on is not.
2026-09-17Jean Bonnet TavernThe listing line on this page had been copied from an encyclopedia. Read from the National Park Service's own register, it confirms the reference and the certification date of 1 August 1979, and shows the house entered under a name we had not recorded: Bonnet's Tavern. It also shows what the register does not say — there is no construction date in the entry, so the about-1762 for the walls still depends on a nomination document the Park Service has not scanned.
2026-09-17The Horse You Came In On SaloonThe page said the saloon stands in the Fell's Point Historic District without saying when that district was listed or what the listing covers. The National Register has it from 28 March 1969, with a boundary increase in 1986, and returns no separate entry for the building. A district listing dates a neighbourhood, not a house, so it is no support at all for the 1775 the bar is given — and the page now says so.
2026-09-17The Griswold InnA second reading, from a book with no stake in the answer, and it changes a name. Connecticut: A Guide to Its Roads, Lore, and People, compiled by the Federal Writers' Project and published in 1938, records at page 518 that Ye Old Griswold Inn at 48 Main Street was erected in 1776 and had been a tavern for more than a hundred and fifty years since it was first kept by Ethan Bushnell. The inn's own account gives the house to the Griswold family from the start; the state guide gives the first keeper a different name altogether, and neither produces a licence. So 1776 was in print, with a keeper attached to it, nearly ninety years ago — which dates the tradition without documenting the trade, and the grade is unchanged. The guide's Essex pages are worth the visit for the ship Osage, burned to the waterline in the British raid of 1814 and still being sold off as chairs in the 1930s.
2026-09-17The Griswold InnThis said "Contributing property, Essex Historic District" under a heading a reader takes as the building's listing. A historic district listing draws a boundary round an area; it makes no judgement about any building inside it and gives none of them a date. The line now says which kind of entry it is.
2026-09-17Old Talbott TavernA second reading, and it lands where the state marker landed rather than where the house does. Kentucky: A Guide to the Bluegrass State, compiled by the Federal Writers' Project and published in 1939, says at page 381 that the Talbott Hotel on Courthouse Square had been operating since its construction about 1800, and notices the murals in the upstairs room it takes to have been a banquet hall — the same murals a fire damaged in 1998. That is a third publisher for about 1800, after the Kentucky marker and the National Register nomination's own admission that 1779 is tradition, and none of the three supports the founding date the tavern advertises. The grade stays at C.
2026-09-17Warren TavernThe page said no listing entry for the building had been traced. Searching the National Register by position rather than by name gives a better answer: the tavern has no entry of its own, but the corner it stands on is inside the Town Hill District, listed in May 1973. That is worth a reader knowing and worth being careful about. A district listing describes a neighbourhood, not a house, so it dates nothing here — the 1783 lodge meeting is still what the grade rests on.
2026-09-17The Olde Angel InnA second reading, from the historian who went through the town's newspapers before anybody else did, and it is awkward for the claim. Janet Carnochan's History of Niagara, published in Toronto in 1914 and read on 17 September 2026, places the Angel Inn in the Market Square and has it kept from 1826 to 1846 by R. Howard and then by John Fraser as the Mansion House. She prints Howard's own advertisement of 1846, thanking the town for more than twenty years of custom at his old stand the Angel Inn as he moved to the Promenade House. Her roll of the town's earlier houses — Thomas Hind's King's Arms of 1796, the Yellow House, Weir's Sign of the Lyon, the Niagara Coffee House — has no Angel in it, and the dated mentions she prints of the sign begin in 1826, not 1789. She warns the reader herself that hotels here changed their names constantly, and she does not say whether her Angel is the house now on Regent Street. So the earliest independent record traced for the name is 1826, and the house's own date of 1789 and its rebuilding of 1815 rest where they rested before: on the inn's account of itself.
2026-09-17The Golden LambA second reading, from the county's own history rather than from a marker or a list of old American inns. The History of Warren County, Ohio, published in Chicago in 1882 with its general chapters prepared by Josiah Morrow, was read on 17 September 2026. It puts Jonas Seaman among the pioneers who had settled in Turtle Creek township before 1800, which places the man before the licence of 23 December 1803. It gives the earliest dated use of the sign traced from here: the town's Independence Day dinner of 1826 was held at the Golden Lamb. And it is honest about the competition, naming Lebanon's first tavern as Ephraim Hathaway's hewed-log house, built by Ichabod Corwin in the spring of 1800, where the courts sat in 1803 and 1804 under the sign of a Black Horse. That does not touch the 1803 licence, which is recorded elsewhere and stands, but it does mean the county's own historian gave the title of first tavern in the town to another house.
2026-09-17The Mansion HouseThe page said no heritage designation for this property could be found, which was half right and is now exact. The City of St. Catharines publishes its heritage properties through the Niagara open data portal, and 5 William Street is on the register — listed, not designated under the Ontario Heritage Act, and outside every heritage district. The entry carries no construction date, so the 1806 still rests on the bar's own account and a pub magazine repeating it, and the grade moves from B to C.
2026-09-17Old Absinthe HouseThis read "Vieux Carré Historic District (NHL)" under a heading a reader takes as the building's listing, and the landmark designation belongs to the French Quarter as a whole rather than to this house. The line now says which kind of entry it is.
2026-09-17Macquarie Arms HotelThis house had been read in the State Heritage Inventory record for item 00041 and nowhere else, with English Wikipedia's article on it a transcription of the same record. On the night of 17-18 September 2026 it was read in Hawkesbury People & Places, a local history site for the district, which names its own sources rather than asserting: the Sydney Gazette of 15 July 1815 for the notice that the Macquarie Arms, kept by Thomas Ranson, would open on 31 July, which is the first time this page has had a date for the notice as well as for the opening; and the Windsor and Richmond Gazette of 31 August 1901 for an advertisement for Bloome's Royal Hotel, which carries the trade past the 1900 where the register's account stops and names a landlord neither publisher had. It adds that the house was a private home from 1840 to 1872, dates the flood plaque on the garden wall to 1867 at 19.3 metres, and has Fitzgerald arriving on the William and Ann in 1791. The 31 July 1815 opening is unaffected and the grade stays at A.
2026-09-17The Bush InnThis page said that nobody we could read named the present licensee of the Bush Inn. The Derwent Valley Gazette does: Belinda Smith, in an article of 2 October 2025 marking the house's two hundredth year, which is now the operator line in place of nothing. The same article dates the first licence exactly, to 29 September 1825, where this page had only the year, and names Ann Bridger as the widow who took it. It also states that the inn has never lost its licence, and holds that up against Hobart's Hope and Anchor, which it says closed for long stretches. That is flatly against the newspaper evidence the trade press found, which has the Bush Inn standing empty as a private residence between about 1874 and 1877. Both are now on the page, and the disagreement is left standing.
2026-09-17U Zlatého tygraThe Czech registers have now refused by nine routes over two nights, so on 18 September 2026 the National Library's own digital library was read instead, and it answers: its full-text search is open and its out-of-copyright pages are served as text. Two publishers came of it. František Ruth's topographical chronicle of royal Prague, 1903–04, has this house as number 228 with the orientation number 17, records it under an earlier sign — at the digger — in 1429 under a cutler named Hanuš, and puts Šoch's café here in the 1840s. The Prague daily Pokrok of 4 April 1877, writing about the years before 1848, names the same café at conscription number 228 in the Old Town and says that the house is now a Pilsner beer hall, which is the first record traced of a beer hall at this address from anybody but the pub. Neither account mentions 1816 and neither dates the sign, and both put the café later than the 1835 this page carries from Prague City Tourism, so the note now prints all three readings. No grade change and no change to the first recorded year: 1835 still has a publisher behind it and the two new readings are later. The earlier note of 10 September is carried into the longer one unchanged, word for word, with the new reading added after it.
2026-09-17Duke of Marlborough HotelA second reading that puts a document behind the claim, and makes it a narrower claim than it sounds. A Northland local-history researcher, writing in 2014 and read on 17 September 2026, went to the New Zealand Advertiser and Bay of Islands Gazette of 16 July 1840, which printed the names of nine licence holders granted on a single day — so the Duke was not first in time, it was one of nine on the same date. What makes it first is a number: the licence itself, kept in the Sir George Grey Special Collections at Auckland Libraries and issued to John Johnson, is numbered 001. The hotel keeps the certificate in a frame in the bar and has always said so; this is the first time this page has been able to name the newspaper and the archive that hold the claim up. The house's own account of its beginnings in 1827 is untouched by any of it, and the fabric standing today is still the building of 1875 that was dragged onto the site in 1932.
2026-09-17Fortune of War HotelThe Fortune of War's history had been read in the State Heritage Inventory record for item 01547 and nowhere else, English Wikipedia's article being a transcription of it. On the night of 17-18 September 2026 the Rocks Discovery Museum's page for the site was read: it has Samuel Terry, the emancipist known as the Botany Bay Rothschild, leasing and later owning the whole of what is now the Russell Hotel and Fortune of War group and putting up three buildings on it, which is the terrace this page describes, and it ties the present hotel to Tooth & Co., the brewer of 1835 to 1983 that took an increasing interest in building and running hotels from the 1920s — the company whose rebuilding of 1921-22 is the fabric standing now. It gives no date for the licence, so the 1830 still rests on the register alone and the search for a licensing record published by somebody else is still owed. The grade stays at A.
2026-09-17Surveyor General InnThis page had nobody but the house, a trade paper and two pub directories, and said — correctly — that the Surveyor General is the one early Berrima inn absent from the State Heritage Register. What it had missed is that Heritage NSW describes this house anyway, inside the record for a neighbour. The inventory entry for the former Berrima Inn on Jellore Street, register item 00103, read on 17 September 2026 with a statement of significance revised on the 15th, walks through the village's licensed houses: Berrima's first inn licence went to Bryan McMahon on 29 July 1834, eleven months before James Harper's; the Surveyor General was among the first to trade, with the Berrima Inn and the Mail Coach; four houses were licensed by the 1840s; and of the seven early hotels still standing, the oldest is the Surveyor General. So a government register now says, in its own words, that this is the oldest surviving hotel in Berrima — and, in the same breath, that the village's first licence belongs to a house that shut in 1848, which is the qualification the claim of unbroken licensing needs beside the lapse of 1895 already recorded here.
2026-09-17Knickerbocker SaloonThe page said no listing entry for the building had been traced. The National Register, searched by position, gives a fuller answer: the saloon has no entry of its own and stands inside the Downtown Lafayette Historic District, listed in November 1980. The distinction matters here more than most, because a bar that claims Indiana's oldest trade could easily be read as a registered landmark. It is not one. The district listing describes a commercial quarter, dates no building in it, and says nothing about 1835.
2026-09-17Edinburgh Castle HotelThe Wanderlog listing supported nothing on this page. The 1837 is the hotel's own and the city heritage sheet dates the licence to 31 May that year; the reopening in 2024 is reported by two Adelaide publications. A trip-planning aggregator is not a source this site uses, so the citation has gone and nothing on the page changes with it.
2026-09-17German Arms HotelThe hotel's history page now redirects to its front page, so the URL still answers 200 while the page that was read has gone. Nothing is lost and nothing is weakened: the claim this cited is the hotel's own — "Hahndorf's meeting place since 1839" — and the front page still carries that sentence in those words, checked on 17 September 2026, so the citation for it is the site's root, which this row already holds as its first source. Dropping the dead path leaves the reader a link that lands on what it says it lands on.
2026-09-17The Queen's InnThis page said no record had been traced for the Queen's Inn's 1839, and credited the founding to Martin Staley of Wolfe Island. A Kingston local-history project working from census returns and assessment rolls has the licences: George Mink took the premises at the head of Brock Street in May 1838, when they had lately been the White Horse Inn, and held a tavern licence there every year from 1839 to 1848. That is a documented drinking house at the claimed year, so the grade rises to documented, and the man who kept it goes on the page.
2026-09-17Thistle InnThis page graded the Thistle on its building rather than on its trade, because nobody had read the listing. Heritage New Zealand's entry records the first Thistle Inn opening on town acre 515 in October 1840, the section balloted to Dudley Sinclair in August 1839 and the landlord transferred the following year — a documented inn at the year the house claims. The grade moves up, the first record we hold moves to 1840, and the entry also supplies the architect of the 1896 wing and the story of the 1866 fire in the register's own words rather than the inn's.
2026-09-17Lord Nelson Brewery HotelThe Lord Nelson's dates had been read in one place, the State Heritage Inventory record for item 00509, and the English Wikipedia article that carries this house is itself a transcription of that record, so the row rested on one publisher. On the night of 17-18 September 2026 it was read in the Dictionary of Sydney, which dates the construction 1836 to 1840, has the house built as William Wells's home on his 1836 grant, and records the Royal Australian Historical Society's green plaque of 1984-88, whose wording puts the first licence in 1841 under Wells, a former convict, and calls the building Sydney's oldest surviving hotel. That matters because 1841 is the pub's own date and the register's is June 1842: the earlier year now has two publishers behind it that have no interest in the house. Nothing on the page changes but the evidence for the claim, and the grade stays at A.
2026-09-17Rose & Crown HotelRead on 18 September 2026: Freotopia, Garry Gillard's compilation of Western Australian history, which quotes and cites the historians who have written about this house. It turns the heritage register's bare 1841 into something with a month and a name behind it, Paul Hasluck's article of 1927 in Early Days having Thomas Jecks open the inn in July 1841, and it supplies the earliest licensee traced so far, William Steele in 1846 on Rica Erickson's authority, which is entered as the first record. It also carries a fact the register does not: Hasluck, writing in 1927, says the house had been delicensed the previous year. Nothing traced says when the licence came back, so the note now says that the oldest-hotel claim is not yet a claim to unbroken licensed trade. The grade stays at C: Hasluck wrote eighty-six years after the opening and cited no licence.
2026-09-17Rose & Crown HotelRead on 18 September 2026: the Heritage Council of Western Australia's assessment papers for the State Register entry, which the place record links and which nobody here had opened. Where the summary asserts 1841, the papers cite what the assessor found — a store advertised in the Perth Gazette of 11 July 1840, the first contemporary use of the name in a notice of 12 March 1842, and an advertisement in the Inquirer of 9 October 1844 in which Jecks sets out his charges for the parlour and the tap. That 1844 advertisement is drink and board sold over a counter, and it replaces the 1846 licensee taken from Rica Erickson as the first record. The papers also give a second, earlier date for the delicensing: Paul Hasluck said 1926 and the assessor says the licence was withdrawn in 1924, with the place still run as a private hotel. Nothing traced says when a licence came back, and the house's own licence notice today names a special facility licence rather than a hotel licence, so the state's-oldest-hotel claim is about continuous trade and not about one continuous licence. The grade stays at C in this pass. The evidence now argues for A — a claim of 1841 and an inn advertising its tap in 1844, in two separate publishers — and that is a change for an owner to weigh rather than one to make in passing.
2026-09-17Gordon HotelThe Wanderlog listing was the only evidence here that the hotel still trades, and a trip-planning aggregator is not a source this site uses. The hotel's own site, which this page already links to and had never cited, takes over that job. The 1842 is untouched: it is a pub historian's reading of the Victorian licence, and the hotel's own site says 1840 for the inn it replaced.
2026-09-17Hero of Waterloo HotelRead on 18 September 2026: the Dictionary of Sydney's entry for the Hero of Waterloo, written by Terri McCormack in 2010 and corrected on 6 March 2022, and its building record for the same house. The Dictionary was already cited here and had never been read into the note. It gives what the State Heritage Register does not: a first licence dated to the day, 30 June 1845, taken out by the builder George Paton — whose name the register spells Payten, a spelling the Dictionary says is sometimes cited in error — and a construction date of 1844 against the register's 1843-44. It also names the publicans who followed him, Paton to September 1845, Thomas Kirkman to late 1849 and Jonathan Brown from 1850 to at least 1853, and it explains where the 1804 convict-barracks story comes from: the gauge marks on the sandstone. The earliest record on this page stays 1845, now with a date behind it, and the grade stays A.
2026-09-17Caledonian InnThe licence of 1844 on this page rested on the state register alone. The National Trust of Australia in Victoria classified the Caledonian on 12 May 1958 and keeps its own file on it, and that file adds a detail the state register does not carry: the first recorded licence was issued from New South Wales, which Port Fairy still belonged to seven years before Victoria was separated from it. The Trust agrees that the house was built for the Scottish-born David McLaws in the early 1840s and describes the same rubble stone, steep roof and attic bedrooms under dormers. It calls the house the oldest continuously licensed hotel in Victoria only as an allegation, which is the right weight for it: the doors were shut from September to December 2023.
2026-09-17The Village TavernThe page said there was no listing entry for the property that we could find, which is a statement about how hard we had looked. Now it is a statement about the register. Half a mile of Long Grove around the tavern carries no entry on the National Register of Historic Places, either as a building or as a historic district, so nothing federal dates these walls. That is a finding, and the page says how it was reached and where to look next.
2026-09-17Grand View HotelThe Queensland Heritage Register's own entry for the Grand View, number 600771, was read in full on the night of 17-18 September 2026, and it replaces a single line of trade-press dating with a documented sequence. Francis Edward Bigge bought the site in August 1851 and the first part of the house was up by about 1852, but the register is clear that what he built was a dwelling of two sitting rooms and five bedrooms that then stood empty for years and was known locally as Bigge's Folly. Drink comes later and by stages: John Vincent Cassim leased it as a boarding house from 1855, stabling, a coach-house, a store and a tap were built in the middle of 1860, and by 1862 the publican William Rae was running it as the Brighton Hotel. The earliest record of drinking on the premises therefore moves from 1862 to 1860, on the register's word tap, while the grade stays at B because the year the house claims is the year it was begun as a private dwelling. The register also dates the listing itself, provisionally from 21 August 1992 and permanently from 21 October 1992, and supplies the later owners, the publicans Andrew and Mary Goodall from 1878 and their family until 1936.
2026-09-17Grand View HotelRead on 18 September 2026: the State Library of Queensland's index of victuallers' licences, the open-data transcription of the licence lists printed in the Queensland Government Gazette from July 1900 to July 1914, queried for the Cleveland licence district. It gives this house a licensee in every list from 1901 to 1913 and names them: L. H. Firth at the Brighton to 1903, then Clarke, O'Brien, Fogarty, Olesen and Radford, whose licence is the last to be gazetted under that name, on 3 March 1909. The Grand View Hotel appears under Harris Toub in the list gazetted on 31 August 1909 and Hans Nielsen holds it in 1912 and 1913. So the heritage register's about 1910 for the change of name can be dated to the second half of 1909, and the years between the register's account and the present are documented rather than assumed. The index names a district and not a street, which is said in the note, because the tie between the Brighton and this house is the register's and not the gazette's. The earlier reading of the register is carried forward unchanged.
2026-09-17The Iron Door SaloonA second reading, from the year the fabric is thirty years old rather than from the saloon's own pages. A History of Tuolumne County, California, published in San Francisco by B. F. Alley in 1882 and read on 17 September 2026, tells the story of the camp under its older name — Big Oak Flat and the two Garrotes, formed in the summer of 1850 — and in its life of James Tannahill, a Scot born in July 1824, records that he came back from Stockton in the autumn of 1850, started a store at what was then Garrote and is now Groveland, and had kept that business ever since. A store, in the camp's first season, is the trade the granite building is said to have begun in, and the book describes no drinking house in it. That is consistent with what this page already says and against what the sign says: the claim of 1852 belongs to a store, and the saloon dates from 1896 as Jake's Place.
2026-09-17Duke of Wellington HotelThe Victorian Heritage Register entry for the Duke was read in full on 17 September 2026 rather than for its dates, and it corrects an attribution this page should not have made. The page said the City of Melbourne recognises the Duke as the city's oldest pub still trading. The body that says something like it is Heritage Victoria, in the register entry itself, and what it says is narrower and better: the house holds the longest-running hotel licence in Melbourne. That is now what the page prints, credited to the register. Four other things came out of the same reading. Timothy Lane's two failed licence applications have a reason behind them — he had lost his licence for the Builders Arms in Queen Street in 1850, after a decade in and out of Melbourne hotels — and the register takes that from Michael Fooks's report on the house for Carlton United Breweries of June 1980. There is a witness as well as a licence: William Kelly's account of Victoria in the 1850s records him sleeping here in 1853. The register describes the trade as a working men's pub, for the warehousemen of the Flinders Street stores and later for journalists from the Herald and Weekly Times. And the building next door has its own history — a pair of rendered brick warehouses of 1884, taken into the hotel upstairs early in the twentieth century while two shops kept the ground floor until 1960 — which the register holds to be of no state-level significance, unlike the 1850 and 1857 work.
2026-09-17Genoa Bar and SaloonA third date, and an honest account of what could and could not be read. The National Register nomination for the town of Genoa, entered on 16 April 1975 and read on 17 September 2026, carries a table of the town's historic buildings, and the Genoa Bar is in it under that name, described as one storey in brick and masonry. The year printed beside it has not survived the scan: it reads 18S5, with the third figure illegible, so what the nomination dates the building to ends in a five — which is neither the 1853 the National Trust's magazine gives nor the 1863 on the marker outside, unless the scan has eaten more than one figure. That is not a finding a reader can use, and it is published as what it is: a federal survey of the town that named the bar fifty years ago and whose date for it cannot now be read with confidence. The two dates already on this page stand where they stood.
2026-09-17McSorley's Old Ale HouseThe page argued against the ale house's 1854 using historians alone. New York City's landmarks database, which records this building under the bar's own name, dates it to about 1865 and names the man it was built for, and treats the 1854 as what the house is thought to have rather than what anyone has shown. The doubt now has the city's record behind it as well as the historians'.
2026-09-17The RiverheadA second publisher for the 1857, and only that. The New Zealand Herald, reporting the tavern's sale on 10 October 2019, says the house began trading in 1857 and is believed to be New Zealand's oldest riverside tavern — the same year the owners give, from somebody who is not the owners, with no record named behind it. Before this the page stood on the owners' own site and Auckland's district plan. The year still rests on repetition rather than on a licence, so the grade stays C.
2026-09-17McGillin's Olde Ale HouseThe page said no 1860 primary record had been checked and said nothing about whether the building was designated. Both registers have now been searched. The National Register lists seven buildings within two hundred metres of the alley, from the Land Title Building to the Union League, and nothing on Drury Street; Philadelphia's own register holds six designations within sixty metres, all of them on the surrounding avenues, and the property is in no local historic district. So the house has no designation of any kind, nothing official dates its walls, and the 1860 stands where it stood — on the bar's own account, with framed licences from 1871 beside it.
2026-09-17Young and Jackson HotelYoung and Jackson's had been read in the Victorian Heritage Register and nowhere else. On the night of 17-18 September 2026 it was read in eMelbourne, the University of Melbourne's encyclopaedia of the city, whose entry is by Andrew May and cites Leslie A Schumer's article in the Royal Historical Society of Victoria's journal of March 1983. It agrees that the Princes Bridge Hotel opened in July 1861 and gives the day, 1 July, and it fills the gap the register leaves between the first licensee and 1875: the licence passed to James Hogan in 1862 and to Joshua Roberts Mooney in 1866, which is continuity of licensed trade rather than an opening and a silence. Two small disagreements are now on the page rather than hidden: the licensee's initial, John P Toohey here against the register's John T Toohey, and the butcher in the 1853 building, whom eMelbourne names as James Graham. It also adds John Batman's purchase of the block in 1837, Henry Jennings's of part of the allotment in 1852, the two men's dates and their earlier licence at Sparrow's Hotel in St Kilda, and the twentieth-century owners. The grade stays at A.
2026-09-17Cardrona HotelThe New Zealand Heritage List entry for the false front was read in full on 17 September 2026 rather than in summary, and it gives this page its first dated record of the hotel in trade: land title information names Rebecca Bond, widow of the early proprietor G. Bond, as owner in 1876, with a sale in 1884 and Thomas Willoughby holding the house from 1885 to 1926. The earliest record shown here is therefore 1876, on Heritage New Zealand's authority. Two other things came out of the same reading. The entry's own table of dates puts the first hotel building and its false front in the late 1860s rather than 1863; and 1863 is the year it gives for the discovery of gold at Cardrona, which is very likely where the hotel's founding year comes from. The grade stays C, because a register that dates the house to the late 1860s contradicts the year on the sign rather than supporting it.
2026-09-17Nindigully PubRead on 18 September 2026: the State Library of Queensland's index of licensed victuallers, published as open data by the Queensland government, which transcribes the licence lists printed in the Queensland Government Gazette from July 1900 to July 1914 with the volume, number, date and page of each. It puts documents behind the break in the licence this page already described. John Sparks holds the licence of the Sportsmans Arms in the St George district in the lists gazetted on 22 January 1903 and 28 January 1904, the second covering the half-year to 31 December 1903; nothing at Nindigully appears again until Mary Ann Haines and the Grand Hotel at Nindigully, gazetted on 14 September 1911 for the year ending 30 June 1912 and in four further lists to 5 November 1913. The index names the licence district rather than the locality, so the Sportsmans Arms entries are identified with this house by name and district and not by an address, and the index's coverage ends in July 1914; both are said on the page. The grade stays A on the certificate of 1864, and the claim of continuous licensing is contradicted by paper rather than by argument.
2026-09-17Pete's TavernThis page said the tavern stood in a documented building of 1829, once the Portman Hotel. New York City's landmarks database, which names the corner after the tavern itself, dates it to 1846-47, built for C. Witscher as a brick store with apartments. The date on the page moves by seventeen years and the hotel leaves it, which brings the walls much closer to the 1864 the bar claims for its licence.
2026-09-17Scholz GartenThe marker this page reported at second hand has now been read in the register that issued it. The Texas Historical Commission's Atlas record for marker 12245, read on 17 September 2026, gives the wording in full: August Scholz, 1825 to 1891, a German immigrant, opened Scholz's Hall on this site in 1866; about the turn of the century the present building replaced the original hall; and the Austin Saengerrunde, a German social club, bought the property in 1908 and added the hall beside it. The marker was set up in 1967, when the beer garden was recorded as a Texas Historic Landmark, and the Legislature's compliment of 1966 is cast in the bronze with it. So the commission dates the business to 1866 and the walls to about 1900 — the trade older than the building it stands in — and now says so on its own record rather than through a marker database.
2026-09-17Mitre TavernThe Wanderlog listing supported nothing on this page. The 1867 establishment and the 1868 licence come from the Victorian Heritage Register's report on H0464, and the tavern's own site and a pub historian carry the rest. A trip-planning aggregator is not a source this site uses, so the citation has gone and nothing on the page changes with it.
2026-09-17Bar La ÓperaThe grade A here rested on the house's own history and one travel site, and the year it rested on turns out to date a pastry shop. Two publishers were read on 17 September 2026. Mexico City's own visitor service describes an exclusive pastry shop opened in 1876 by the French Boulangeot sisters, and its move in 1895 to Avenida 5 de Mayo, where it gave up desserts and became a bar. Excélsior gives both corners — San Juan de Letrán and Avenida Juárez, where the Torre Latinoamericana now stands, then 5 de Mayo and Filomeno Mata — and says plainly that it is drawing on what has been handed down rather than on archives. Nobody cites a licence, a deed or a directory for either year. A confectioner's shop is not a drinking house, so the grade moves from A to C, and the house leaves the ranking of pubs pouring continuously from before 1750 while keeping its page and its Mexican pin. Excélsior also records that historians have questioned the Pancho Villa bullet hole, which this page had already called traditional.
2026-09-17Puhoi Pub & HotelThis page told readers that no entry for the Puhoi pub could be found on the New Zealand Heritage List. That was our failure to find it rather than an absence: the hotel and its stables have been listed as a category 2 historic place since 25 November 1982, under entry 497, at 5 Saleyards Road and Ahuroa Road. The entry is a short one with no history attached, so it still does not date the building. The north Auckland paper Local Matters is the second new reading, and it does two things: it names John Schollum as the man who took the first permanent licence in 1879 for the German Hotel, and it records an earlier and rougher trade — a bush licence taken about 1873 by an Irishman, Andrew Meaney, to sell liquor from a shanty. The name became the Puhoi Hotel around the First World War.
2026-09-17White Horse TavernThe page said no primary licence had been checked and left the register question unasked. The National Register, searched by position, says the tavern has no entry of its own and that 567 Hudson Street is inside the Greenwich Village Historic District, listed in June 1979. It is worth saying which of those is which: the district listing protects the building but describes and dates no part of it, so the 1880 is still the bar's own year and nothing official stands behind it.
2026-09-17Salón TenampaMexico's Salón Tenampa had three sources, and two of them were encyclopaedias disagreeing with each other about the year. Mexico City's own visitor service was read on 17 September 2026 — the route that settled Bar La Opera earlier the same day — and it is the first account here from anybody but the house and Wikipedia. It does not settle 1925 against 1923: it credits the cantina with a century of history and names no year, so the grade stays C and both dates stay on the page. What it does do is answer the questions this site asks about today. The house is open from two in the afternoon until two in the morning most nights and until three at the weekend, and it pours tequila, mezcal, beer and its own ponche de granada across the counter, so nobody has to eat to drink here. And it describes the room as the city sees it: murals over the walls and ceiling for Lola Beltrán, José Alfredo Jiménez and Pedro Infante, wooden tables and equipal chairs, and no stage and no amplification — the mariachi, norteño trios and son jarocho groups come in from the plaza and are hired song by song at the table. That last detail is now on the page, because it is what a reader standing in the door would want to know.
2026-09-17The Old Nag's HeadHistoric England's own map service for the national list was queried on 17 September 2026, with the Prospect of Whitby as a control to prove the service was answering, and it dates this listing: entry 1096618, grade II, designated on 24 September 1984, under the name The Old Nags Head. This page carried the entry number and the grade but no date of designation, which matters here because the listing is the only authority for the 1577 on the doorway that is not the house or somebody repeating it.
2026-09-17The Seven StarsHistoric England's own map service for the national list was queried on 17 September 2026, with the Prospect of Whitby as a control to prove the service was answering, and it dates this listing: entry 1244097, grade II, designated on 14 May 1974, under the name Seven Stars Public House. Two things follow for the reader. The page had the entry number and grade but no date of designation, and the register's name for the building is the earliest naming of these premises as a drinking house that anything here can point at — which is 1974, not 1602.
2026-09-17Ye Olde Dog and PartridgeHistoric England's own map service for the national list was queried on 17 September 2026, with the Prospect of Whitby as a control to prove the service was answering, and it dates this listing: entry 1188498, grade II*, first designated on 17 September 1952 and amended on 26 April 1984, under the name Dog and Partridge Hotel. The page had the entry number and the grade but neither date, and a 1952 designation is worth a reader's notice on a house whose own pages make no claim at all.
2026-09-17Anne of ClevesHistoric England's own map service for the national list was queried on 17 September 2026, with the Prospect of Whitby as a control to prove the service was answering, and it dates this listing: entry 1265121, grade II*, designated on 24 October 1950, under the name Anne of Cleves House. The date carries a point of its own on this house. The register has known the building only as a house, and its designation is forty-six years older than the pub, which was converted in 1996 — so the listing can be cited for the medieval fabric and for nothing at all about the drinking.
2026-09-17The Old WindmillHistoric England's own map service for the national list was queried on 17 September 2026, with the Prospect of Whitby as a control to prove the service was answering, and it dates this listing: entry 1342948, grade II, designated on 24 June 1974, under the name Old Windmill Inn. The same query shows most of Spon Street listed on that one day in June 1974, which is the context a reader standing in the street wants and which this page did not have.
2026-09-17The King's WarkThe page said no listing had been traced for the King's Wark and printed no year for its walls. There is one, and it is a high grade: Historic Environment Scotland lists the corner house Category A, dates it early in the 18th century with the possibility of earlier remains behind it, and says in its statement of interest that the building stands on, and was formed out of, the site of the royal King's Wark of 1434. That settles two things this page had left open. The ground really is the arsenal's, which is what the bar's name claims. And the walls a drinker stands in are a century younger than Bernard Lindsay's licensed taverns of 1613, not four centuries older, which is why the claim is still graded as tradition.
2026-09-17Hole in the WallThe page said no listing text had been traced to test the 1615 or the 1693. The Northern Ireland register has now been searched across Armagh city centre and holds nothing for the bar or for McCrums Court, though it covers the technical institution a few doors away and most of Scotch Street. That is an absence established rather than assumed.
2026-09-17Thomas Moore TavernThe page told readers there was no architectural inventory entry for this building. There is one, a metre from where the tavern is mapped: a four-storey house on the Corn Market with a red brick front laid in Flemish bond, recorded as standing by 1840 and possibly as early as the eighteenth century. It does not settle the seventeen-hundreds the tavern claims, but it describes the house, and an absence we asserted was our own failure to find it.
2026-09-17The Harp InnThe building date on this page was credited to the Welsh register at second hand, through a database entry, and the register itself had not been read. It has now, through Cadw's own report service, and it corrects two things a reader would meet. Cadw describes a former cross-passage timber-framed house whose walls were rebuilt in rubble stone — not the Welsh longhouse that the guidebooks, and this page, called it. And it dates the Landmark Trust's rebuilding of the byre and barn end to 1971 rather than 1972. What Cadw confirms is the century: the sixteenth or seventeenth, which is what the pub itself claims and not the fifteenth that others repeat. The listing has stood at grade II since 15 February 1993.
2026-09-17Church House InnThis page used to say that nobody here had read the listing, because the register's website turns automated readers away. A copy kept by the Internet Archive answers, and the listing says more than the page was claiming: the building is entered as a public house of circa the sixteenth century, grade II since 9 February 1961, with moulded ceiling beams, a roll-moulded screen and a large fireplace under a chamfered lintel. A building of the age the house claims moves the grade from C to B. The parish church supplies the other half: its wardens brewed and sold ale here at Whitsun and other festivals until Puritanism ended the custom in the first half of the seventeenth century, which is drink sold on these premises long before any licence we can point to.
2026-09-17Old Ship InnThe page said the listing for this stretch of Perth High Street did not name the inn, so nothing could be said from it. Reading the record properly answers the question the other way round. The legal part of a Scottish listing is its statutory address, which here is 21 to 31 High Street, odd numbers; the inn's own address is 31 High Street; and the record says a building is listed even when its name is missing. The house is therefore inside a category B listing after all, and that listing dates the range to 1774 at its George Street gable — a century after the 1665 the pub claims.
2026-09-17Cramond InnThe Historic Environment Scotland record for the Cramond Inn was read in full on 17 September 2026 rather than in summary, and it gives this page three things it lacked. The designation is dated — 14 December 1970, category B, in the Cramond A group. The later work has years on it instead of a century: the south wing is of about 1887, the crowsteps probably came with it, and the crowstepped east extension is dated 1977, beside the recasting by Ian Lindsay and Partners in 1959-61 the page already carried. And the sketch that shows the seventeenth-century block belongs to John Philip Wood's account of the parish of Cramond of 1794, where this page had the author's name short by a forename. The reading also settles what the register cannot tell us, which is worth saying plainly: its text traces the building through Wood's sketch of 1794, Leslie's road plan of 1812, Wood's map of 1826 and Ordnance Survey editions of 1895, 1908 and 1951, and nowhere says when the house began to sell drink. The grade stays B.
2026-09-17The Original Rosslyn InnThe Historic Environment Scotland record for this hotel was read in full on 17 September 2026, and it dates its own designation — 7 March 1997, category C — which this page had not recorded. Two details come with it. The 1892 on the single-storey block to the east is not a surveyor's estimate but a panel on the building carrying the year and a set of initials, which is a firmer thing than a date in a list. And the register's own references are the first edition Ordnance Survey map for the main block and the RIAS architectural guide to Midlothian of 1995, neither of which has been read here — said so that the next pass knows what is left rather than assuming the register is the end of it. Nothing about the dates changes: the business claims 1837, the building is of 1857, and the older Roslin Inn that Johnson, Boswell and Burns knew is still a different house.
2026-09-17Ship InnThe page said a listing had been looked for and not traced, naming the neighbouring Marina Inn. That search has now been made against the national designations and written down with its reach, so the absence is one we have established rather than one that has to be re-established every pass.
2026-09-17A GinjinhaThe 1840 on this page came from the house and from an encyclopedia repeating the house. Lisbon city council's register of historic shops has an entry for it, with the same founding year and the same Galician founder, and adds a detail worth more than the date: this shop and the one facing it across the square are credited with introducing counter selling to the neighbourhood, which is why Lisbon drinks its ginja standing on the pavement.
2026-09-17GriechenbeislA pub inside the Top 100 whose evidence rested on one independent publisher, German Wikipedia. The City of Vienna's own historical encyclopaedia, which draws on Czeike's Historisches Lexikon Wien, describes a late Gothic house with a late Gothic oriel and a Baroque front of 1709, gives its name as Zum roten Dachel, and traces Griechenbeisl to the Greek and Levantine merchants of the eighteenth-century Fleischmarkt. It does not carry the 1447 or the 1350, and the note now says which facts rest on which publisher.
2026-09-17The NorsemanRead on 18 September 2026: Dublin City Council's Record of Protected Structures, published as open data, which is the first publisher other than the national architectural survey to say anything about this building. It protects 29 Essex Street East, entry 2645, and calls it licensed premises; number 28, which the survey treats as part of the same house, has no entry. The survey record itself was read again from its own data rather than through an archived page, and it turns out to print two datings side by side — about 1900 in the description, 1910 to 1930 in the date range — which the page now says plainly. Nothing here moves the claim of 1696 or the first record of 1862.
2026-09-17The Bleeding HorseRead on 18 September 2026: Dublin City Council's Record of Protected Structures, published as open data, which does not include this house — the nearest entries are numbers 1 to 7 Camden Street Upper, thirty metres away across the road. The absence was checked against a control, the council's point for number 1 sitting within half a metre of the national survey's point for the same building, so it is a search rather than a failure to match. The survey record was read again from its own data and adds that the timber interior was reconstructed about 1992 and that Camden Street was renamed from St Kevin's Port in 1778. The claim and the first record are unchanged.
2026-09-17The SpaniardThe page said we had not traced an inventory entry for the Spaniard, which is a sentence about our own silence rather than about the house. It is now a sentence about the inventory. The national architectural survey covered this hill above Kinsale harbour and recorded eleven things on it, down to the dry dock, the pier and a post box of about 1930 — and it did not record the pub. So the absence is real and established, no independent survey dates these walls, and the next thing to look for is a Kinsale licensing or estate record rather than a designation.
2026-09-17The Chapel InnThe whole of Historic England entry 1337968 was read on 17 September 2026, where this page had been working from a summary, and it fills in the house a reader walks into. Behind the plastered front with its pilasters and dentilled cornice is a two-bay hall facing east, a two-bay crosswing to the left, a C16 or C17 wing behind the hall, an early C17 extension beyond it and an early to mid nineteenth-century brick wing to the right. The crosswing's jetty has been underbuilt and its jetty plate lost, but the heavy binding beam chamfered in two orders survives, and on the soffits of some joists there are traces of floral painting of about 1600 under brown varnish. The hall's floor was inserted about 1600 along with a dado of oak panelling — half a century after the year the pub claims, which is worth knowing on a page about that year. The partition between hall and crosswing is smoke-blackened at roof level, the mark an open medieval hall leaves. And the register is explicit that enough of the frame is visible behind the later finishes to establish that the original building is substantially present and structurally unaltered, which is the sentence the grade B here rests on. The entry's dates are now on the page too: first listed 31 October 1966, amended 5 September 1988, with group value.
2026-09-17Brauerei SpezialThe Spezial's grade B rests on the date of its fabric, and that date had been read only through the German Wikipedia transcription of Bavaria's monument list. On the night of 17-18 September 2026 the entry was read in the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments' own published list for Bamberg: D-4-61-000-1065, Obere Königstraße 10, Brauereigasthaus Spezial, a broad two-storey eaves-fronted house with a decorated half-timbered upper storey and a steep saddle roof, sixteenth or seventeenth century. It agrees with what the page already said, so nothing on the page moves except the citation, which is now the register's publisher rather than a copy of it. The grade stays at B.
2026-09-17Zum UerigeDüsseldorf's registers have refused every night since 17 September, so on 18 September 2026 the book behind all the modern accounts of this house was read instead: Heinrich Ferber's walk through the old town of 1890, volume two, page 62, digitised by the Bavarian State Library. It is the first reading of this row from a publisher that is neither the brewery, the German encyclopaedia nor the city magazine, and it is worth more than a register would have been. It gives the title from 1632, names the occupier, and ends — writing in 1890 — with the house belonging to Wilhelm Cürten's widow, which is independent corroboration of the family the 1862 belongs to. It also unsettles a date this page prints. The 1755 that three accounts give as a guest house is in Ferber a marriage that carried the house to Bertram Goswin Joseph Kesseler, with nothing said about anyone being served; the earliest drink and lodging advertised at this address is the wine merchant Leonhard Juppen's notice of 1783, and a guest house is kept here from 1790. The year on the page is left at 1755, because that is what its cited sources say and because three other places in this project quote it, but the note now prints both readings and the evidence argues for 1783. The grade is unaffected either way: 1783 is still seventy-nine years earlier than the claim. Two smaller corrections sit in the note — Ferber has no postmaster and no imperial post at this door, and no brewery either, because his subject is title and not trade.
2026-09-17Zum UerigeHeinrich Ferber's house-by-house history of the Bergerstrasse, second volume, page 62, read in the Bavarian State Library's digitisation on 18 September 2026, is the only publisher on this house that works from property records, and it makes 1755 a wedding: Wendelina Elisabeth Pfeilsticker married Bertram Goswin Joseph Kesseler that year and brought him the house. The three modern accounts that print 1755 as a guest house cite nothing. What Ferber does record is 1783, when the wine merchant Leonhard Juppen advertised lodging, stabling, wine and food at the Heidelberger Fass. The first recorded year moves to the first year a reader can see drink being sold. The grade does not move: 1783 is still 79 years before the house's own 1862, and a record earlier than the claim is the strongest support a claim can have.
2026-09-17Brauerei zum SchiffchenThis row rested on one reading, and the Düsseldorf city registers have refused on four nights, so on 18 September 2026 two Düsseldorf books were read instead, both digitised by the Bavarian State Library. Neither mentions the house, and that is the finding. Heinrich Ferber's walk through the old town of 1890 goes along the Hafenstrasse house by house and has the electoral water mill at number 1, an inn at number 3 with its landlords from 1758 to 1829, and the Kluth family's house at number 5 into the 1860s — no Schiffchen, no Wilhelm Hütten and no 1628 anywhere in the volume, while the only brewery he places nearby is the Capuchins' in the Wallstrasse. The control is that the same book is full of dated inns and named landlords and gave another house its owners from 1632 the same night, so a brewery inn of 1628 is the kind of thing it prints; the caution is that his numbering differs from today's, since our own note has the mill on this site and he has it at number 1. Otto R. Redlich's study of Napoleon's four days in Düsseldorf in November 1811, published in 1892, accounts for the Emperor's hours at the Jägerhof, the review, the theatre and two dinners and never mentions the Hafenstrasse or this house, although it names public houses elsewhere in the town. So the 1628 grant is still unread and the story of Napoleon calling has been searched for where it should be. No grade or status change: the house is still shut for refurbishment and still has no page.
2026-09-17The GreyhoundThis page told readers the national architectural survey had nothing for Market Square in Kinsale. It has a great deal, including the market house of about 1610 that is now the museum, and a record two metres from this bar describing a former house of about 1770 now in use as a public house. An absence we had claimed turns out to be a description we had not found, and it dates the building a century later than the 1690 the travel press repeats.
2026-09-17The River InnThe Northern Ireland registers were searched again on 18 September 2026, through the Historic Environment Division's own map services, whose layers were last edited on 10 September 2026 and are refreshed monthly. The answer for the building is still nothing, and it is now a searched absence with a control rather than a bare statement: ten historic-building entries stand within sixty metres of the door and none is at 34-38, while nine of those ten carry a construction range, so the field the River Inn would be dated in is one the register fills on this street. The neighbours are named and dated on the page, the oldest being 31-33 Shipquay Street at grade B+, built between 1740 and 1759 as a store. The nearest dated public house on the street is 22-26, put up between 1820 and 1839 and recorded as a house first. Three other registers were read at the same point: the Sites and Monuments Record holds the late-medieval tower house known as O'Doherty's Castle or the Magazine within eighty metres, the industrial heritage record a tobacco manufactory at Shipquay and Magazine Streets, and the areas of archaeological potential layer puts the pub inside the boundary the Derry Area Plan 2011 drew round the walled city — an area designation with no reference number in the dataset, which dates no building inside it and is not a listing of this one. The significant archaeological interest layer returned nothing, and the identical query at the same radius did return the archaeological potential area, which is the control on that empty answer.
2026-09-17Tomney's BarNorthern Ireland's registers read again on 18 September 2026, through the Historic Environment Division's own map services, last edited on 10 September 2026. Three findings. The statutory entry spells the house Tamney's, not Tomney's — HB13/08/010, grade B2, Tamney's Public House, 9-10 The Square, also known as the Diamond — and that spelling is now on the page beside the one over the door. The date of construction is empty, and so is that field for all thirty-four entries within a hundred and twenty metres, while the same layer fills it for nine of the ten entries round the River Inn in Derry read in the same hour: the blank is how Moy was surveyed, not a fault in the query, which is the control the absence needed. And the Sites and Monuments Record does date something, though not the house — it holds Moy itself as a historic settlement of the seventeenth century, entry TYR062:015, which sits a century before the claimed 1765 and says nothing about anybody selling drink. The other three layers, industrial heritage, areas of archaeological potential and areas of significant archaeological interest, hold nothing within a hundred and fifty metres, and the identical query at the same radius returned the settlement record, so those absences were looked for and not merely assumed. The grade stays C: nothing read here records drink sold at 9-10 The Square at any date.
2026-09-17Los 36 BillaresBuenos Aires's planning register read on 18 September 2026, and it is the first register entry traced that names this house individually. The Subsecretaría de Planeamiento publishes the city's Áreas de Protección Histórica as an open table of 48,848 parcels under a Creative Commons licence, and parcel 012-049-006 in Monserrat is entered as Bar los 36 billares at Avenida de Mayo 1261/1265/1271 and Avenida Rivadavia 1258/1260/1264, catalogued within area 1, San Telmo – Avenida de Mayo, at the protection level the city calls cautelar. It answers the small question of the address, which appears as 1271 on this page and 1265 in the city's register of cultural spaces and turns out to be one parcel carrying both numbers. It answers nothing about the date: the row gives no year and describes no fabric, and the protection follows from the area designation being applied parcel by parcel, which makes it an area designation rather than a finding about this building — eleven parcels in this block carry it, the Hotel Chile at 1295 among them, and so does the Teatro Avenida across the avenue. The control on reading the table: the neighbouring parcels at 1245, 1277 and 1295 all came back with their own protection levels, and the block's parcels run from 012-049-001 to 012-049-010 with the bar's at 006, so its row was found rather than inferred. Grade stays C and the claim of 1894 is unchanged.
2026-09-17Auerbachs KellerSaxony's and Leipzig's registers have refused on three nights, so on 18 September 2026 a different kind of publisher was read: the Bavarian State Library's digitisation of P. H. Sillig's chronicle of Auerbachs Keller, printed in Leipzig in 1854, with Gustav Wustmann's two volumes of sources from the city's own archive and library, of 1889 and 1895, searched beside it. Three gains and one caution. Sillig resolves the ten-year disagreement this page carried about when Stromer bought the plot: 1519, from the heirs of Hanns Hommelshain, with the building begun in 1530 and finished in 1538. He gives a run of named landlords from 1717, when the Leipzig address book has Gottfried Kahldorf keeping the cellar, through Key, Mainone, Sala and Pierer to the reopening of 12 September 1850, which is documented continuity where this page had none. And he shows what the famous years actually are: his list of owners starts in 1438 with a city juror, Dr Nicolaus Schulthes, so the 1438 is a property record on this ground rather than the wine tap two modern accounts call it, and the 1525 is the date painted on two pictures in the cellar. Wustmann's volumes name Auerbachs Hof repeatedly and have neither the 1438 nor any drinking trade in the cellar, which makes that a searched absence with a control. The caution is that Sillig's publisher, H. Schulze, was the landlord, so the book is partly the house speaking, and the note says so. No grade change: the 1438 still rests on two accounts that name no document, and whether the first record of drinking here should move later than 1438 wants a Leipzig house register this project has not yet been able to read.
2026-09-17Bratwurst RösleinRead on 18 September 2026: the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments' own published list of monuments for the city of Nuremberg, in the list current on 16 September 2026. The page had never stated anything about listing, which under this site's rules means only that nobody had looked. Somebody has now: there is no entry at Rathausplatz 6, the neighbouring entries on the square are the town hall and the three fountains, and the house sits inside the Altstadt Nürnberg ensemble, an area designation that describes no individual building. That is what the listing field now says, and the note explains why the absence is the expected answer for a house rebuilt between 1965 and 1967.
2026-09-17EsterházykellerThe City of Vienna's map services were read for this cellar on 18 September 2026, after the federal monuments office turned out to publish no register at all. Three things came of it. The city's building inventory dates the house above the cellar to 1819 and puts it in the period 1781 to 1848, which is the first dating of this building from anyone but the pub. The city's archaeological map of the old town shows four separate houses on the ground the palace now covers, which is why a cellar older than an 1819 house is perfectly possible and why we still print no year for the vaulting. And the federal monuments office's roof survey of the district, which the city hosts, has no entry here while it has three within a hundred and fifty metres, so that absence is now a search with a control rather than a silence. One sentence of our own was wrong and has been mended: it said the city wall ran close to the Haarhof at the siege of 1683, and the city's archaeological map has no fortification of that date anywhere near, while what it does put within seventy metres is mediaeval and Roman — the Reflertor gate, dated 1100 to 1529, and the wall of the Roman camp. The grade stays C: a building date is not a record of wine sold, and the 1808 and 1828 from the city's encyclopedia still stand against the house's 1683. Worth an owner knowing that none of this is a second publisher, because encyclopedia, map service and protection zone are one city.
2026-09-17Zur letzten InstanzThis page said only that the house is under monument protection, which is the sort of sentence that sounds like a source and is not one. Berlin's Landesdenkmalamt holds it as a Baudenkmal under object document number 09011253, and the entry was read in full on 17 September 2026. It is the first account of this building from a public authority rather than from the house, an encyclopaedia or a readers' site, and it changes three things on the page. It dates the property before 1700, with a rebuilding before 1750 and the known one of 1961-63, and puts the predecessors mostly at the end of the seventeenth century with late medieval cores — later than the 1561 this page leads with and later than the 1621 the house prints. It says the inn was originally in the house next door, number 15, and reached these rooms only when the three houses were joined in the rebuilding, so the present address is not where the spirits room was. And it is plain that the fabric was almost entirely replaced in 1961-63, which is what this page already said and now says on the register's authority: the significance is the position against the inner face of the medieval city wall and the outward appearance, not the material. Two smaller corrections come with it — the majolica stove is eighteenth-century, and the rococo staircase balustrade was brought in from a house in the Fischerstraße rather than being the house's own. The grade stays C: the 1621 is still nobody's document. The register's reading list names a photograph of 1904 in Max Missmann's Das große Berlin and Täubrich's Zu Gast im alten Berlin for 1901, which are the next dated pictures of the house in trade for anyone going further.
2026-09-17Buckhorn ExchangeA second reading that contradicts the first on almost every date, and it comes from the city's own library. Denver Public Library's special collections keep a file on the building at 1000 Osage Street, read on 17 September 2026, which has it built in late 1885 or early 1886 — the page prints 1866, plainly a slip — for John M. Berkey, sold to the Neef Brothers Brewery and Investment Company in 1889, and opened as a saloon called the Rio Grande Exchange in November 1892 under Henry H. Zietz. The Buckhorn name, it says, came in the early 1900s, and Zietz did not own the building until 1932. The National Register nomination of 1983, which is what this page had, gives 1893 for the saloon and for the building. So one record makes the house eight years older than the trade and the trade a few months older than the claim, and the other makes building and business the same year; the sign, on the library's reading, is a decade younger than either. We cannot choose between them from here, so both are on the page and the standfirst no longer states 1893 as a fact. The library adds the detail that the brewery owned the place before Zietz did, which is worth knowing about a saloon said to have been founded by its first landlord.
2026-09-17Union Oyster HouseThe National Historic Landmark nomination was read at first hand on 18 September 2026 rather than taken in summary, and it corrects two things on this page. The building date is not a guess between published dates: the nomination reviews Frank C. Brown's 1704, the Historic American Buildings Survey's "prior to 1714", Donlyn Lyndon's about 1715 and the Boston Landmarks Commission's about 1730, sets all four aside — Lyndon's being offered with no justification at all — and follows Arthur Krim into the deeds, where the conveyance of 13 September 1717 from the tailor John Savell to John Green describes a newly built brick messuage on Union Street, the ground having sold in 1713 for fifty pounds with no dwelling mentioned and in 1741 for eighteen hundred. The page now says 1716-17 on that document. The second correction is the two adjoining houses: they were built in 1851 and 1916 but only bought into the restaurant in January 1995 and 1982, and the wording here had let a reader think the oyster house had grown in the nineteenth century. Three further readings go on the page: the Atwood family kept an oyster shop at 8 Water Street from 1818, eight years before this one opened; the streets of the Blackstone Block were settled in their present lines by about 1676 and Union Street was named in 1708; and the house was on the National Register from 1973 inside the Blackstone Block historic district, a boundary that describes no individual building, whose reference number and listing day we have not traced. The 1826 stays as it was, the earliest record of drink stays at the advertisement of 1854, and the grade stays C.
2026-09-17The Inn at HancockA second reading, and what it found was a blank. New Hampshire: A Guide to the Granite State, compiled by the Federal Writers' Project and published in 1938, gives Hancock a page of its own and spends it elsewhere: on the brick house of 1800 at Main Street and Bennington Road, for many years a tavern on the Hancock-Milford Turnpike and by then the Hancock Historical Society's building, on the meeting house of 1820 with its Revere bell, and on a town of 561 people with limited accommodation. It names no inn of 1789, and no inn at all. A guide that misses a house is not a guide that denies it, and the claim is unchanged; but a state survey that walked down this street in the 1930s, noticed one old tavern and did not notice this one is worth a reader knowing about, on a page that reports the house as New Hampshire's oldest on the house's own say-so.
2026-09-17Albany HotelThe Western Australian record for this hotel was read in full on 18 September 2026 rather than in summary, and the fuller page answers a question the page could not. It gives the licence from 1897 to 1925 licensee by licensee — Stonell, then John William Young until his death in July 1908, then Hennessey, Layton, Elsegood, two Scotts, Lambert and Martin, and Louisa Lewis — which is documented continuity where this page had only two dates. More useful still, it names its own references: a consultant's site visit and assessment of 1999 and the Battye Library's general index of 2000. So neither year in the quarrel on this page rests on a licensing record, and the grade stays C for that reason rather than for want of looking. The record also settles what more there is to read: this house is on the City's list and not on the state register, so the assessment papers that exist for state-registered places do not exist for it. The Rose and Crown at Guildford, read the same night, shows a state registration of October 1997 with both papers attached, which proves the papers would have been found here if there were any. Two smaller things: the register gives the address as 244-248 York Street, a range where this page prints the single door number, and its statement of significance claims only one of the oldest licensed hotels in Albany, never in Western Australia.
2026-09-17Victory HotelRead on 18 September 2026: the State Library of Queensland's index of licensed victuallers, published as open data by the Queensland government, which transcribes the licence lists printed in the Queensland Government Gazette from July 1900 to July 1914 and cites each by volume, number, date and page. A Prince of Wales Hotel in the Brisbane licence district holds a licence in every annual list across those fourteen years — Hartigan and Mullen gazetted 29 January 1901, Sarah Balls 1902 to 1904, Archibald Hill Robertson 1905, Thomas O'Brien 1906 and 1907, Frederick W. Coupland 1908, Edward Flynn 1909 to 1911, Anna Underhill 1911 to November 1913 — and five of the entries record two bars, the arrangement the council's citation describes. The page had the licence of 4 September 1855 and no evidence that the trade carried on; it now has fourteen years of it. Both cautions are on the page: the index names the licence district and not the street, so the city house is distinguished from the Prince of Wales at Nundah by the index's own labelling, and the index's coverage stops at July 1914, so it is silent either side rather than empty.
2026-09-17Merrijig InnThe Merrijig rested on the Victorian Heritage Register alone, which is the weaker position for a grade B, where the grade is carried by the date of the fabric. On the night of 17-18 September 2026 a second dating was read in Victorian Places, the gazetteer of Victorian settlements produced by Monash University with the University of Queensland: its account of Port Fairy has parts of the Caledonian and the Merrijig hotels dating from 1844 or possibly earlier, against the register's lease of September 1845. Neither cites a document for the year, so the page keeps 1845 and now tells the reader that a scholarly gazetteer reads the house as a year or more older. The same account corroborates the town's frame around the register's story — Atkinson's special survey of 1843, his township survey of 1846 and the Belfast Road District proclaimed on 29 June 1853, the board the register has meeting in this building. The trade of 1847, the closure of 1852 and the exclusion from the ranking are unaffected, and the grade stays at B.
2026-09-17Long BarA second reading, from the body that protects the building rather than the company that runs it. Singapore's National Heritage Board, in its monument record for Raffles Hotel read on 17 September 2026, has the hotel founded in 1887 by the four Sarkies brothers — Martin, Tigran, Aviet and Arshak — and the main building finished in 1899, and describes the restoration of 1989 to 1991 that reproduced the cast-iron portico and put the Victorian fountain back in the Palm Garden. On the drink it is briefer than the hotel: it names Ngiam Tong Boon as the barman who created the Singapore Sling and gives no year for it, and it does not mention the Long Bar at all. The 1915 this page reports therefore remains the hotel's own date, uncorroborated by the national record, which is the position the grade of C already described.
2026-09-17Casa AlbertoMadrid's registers had refused on two nights — the city's own map portal by the one path tried then and the National Library's newspaper library behind a security challenge — and on 18 September 2026 a different Madrid publisher answered: the city's own catalogue of protected elements, issued with the 1997 revision of the General Plan, which its map portal still serves as a PDF. This house is in it twice. The building is entry 04146 in the Calle de las Huertas at the level the plan calls Parcial, and the premises are entry 04146-01 in the catalogue's separate list of protected commercial establishments, printed as Casa Alberto Restaurante at Nivel 1. A row that had no traced listing at all now has one from the city, with the dates of approval and the gazette it appeared in. It dates nothing: the list gives no years, so the 1827 still rests on the house's own history and a municipal plaque, and the grade stays C. The control for reading it is that the same list carries other Huertas premises by name, so a protected house here would have been found; the limitation is that the page this entry sits on prints no door numbers, so the match is by name and street, and the name occurs once in the catalogue.
2026-09-17Taberna Antonio SánchezThis row carried one reading and no traced listing, and Madrid's registers had refused twice. On 18 September 2026 the city's own catalogue of protected elements, issued with the 1997 revision of the General Plan and still served as a PDF by its map portal, gave both. The building is entry 04850 in the Calle del Mesón de Paredes at the level the plan calls Parcial; the premises are entry 04850-01 in the catalogue's separate list of protected commercial establishments, printed as Taberna Antonio Sanchez at number 13 and at Nivel 1, which is the door number over the street and so identifies the house beyond argument. The control is that the same list gives this street's other premises by number, from a haberdasher at 6 to a shoemaker at 33. It changes no date, because the catalogue prints no years, and the grade stays A on the 1787 publication. Two things are still unread and the note now says so: the notice in the Diario Curioso of February 1787, because the National Library's newspaper library answers a security challenge, and the Complutense University's copy of the same paper, which is served through a route closed to this project.
2026-09-17Jama MichalikaThis page showed no listing for a building on one of Kraków's most-photographed streets, and the reason was that nobody here had looked in the right place. The Małopolska Voivodeship Conservator of Monuments publishes the Kraków section of the Polish register of monuments as a list, and its issue of June 2024, read on 17 September 2026, carries ul. Floriańska 45 under the number A-59 as the Jama Michalika tenement, entered on 21 July 1971 in place of a decision of 15 July 1930. The conservator names the building by the café in it, which is worth a reader's attention on a page that has to keep saying the 1895 dates a confectioner's shop and not a bar. The status is unchanged and still unconfirmed: the house's own site was answering, but the freshest thing on it is a New Year's Eve poster from November 2025 under a footer that reads 2024, so the next status pass still owes this row a check.
2026-09-17The QueensThis photograph is from 2007, before the sale and refit that reopened the pub in July 2025, and its description mentioned only the 1745 on the pub's own board. A reader who cannot see the picture was told the house's claimed date and not the year of the photograph. The description now gives the year first.
2026-09-17Taverne zur KroneThe charter of 1259 names a tavern at Dietikon and does not describe it, and it is the deed by which the Habsburgs sold the village to Wettingen Abbey rather than a record of the abbey's own. This page said the first house on the site was the one the charter names, which identifies a building the document does not, and that the abbey's records name a taverne. Karl Grunder, who has read the deed, is the source for both corrections. The 1259 and the grade are unchanged.
2026-09-17Caffe CordinaMalta refused for a fourth night — the planning authority, the culture ministry and the national inventory all — so on 18 September 2026 two Maltese publishers were read instead of a register. They give this row its second reading and they correct it. BusinessNow's interview with John Cordina of December 2021 puts the opening of the caffè at 11 November 1944 and says that his father rented these rooms from the Casino Maltese; this page said he bought them, and the note and the log now say rented. It adds the Cospicua confectionery under Cesare and his brother Ottone, the first employee, the Giuseppe Calì ceiling going up in 1944 in frames remade from egg boxes, and the two neighbouring shops taken in later. Served's interview with the third generation, of January 2023, confirms the 1837 in Bormla and the 1944 move and describes the trade now. Neither touches the eligibility, which still turns on 1944, and neither is a register: the Grade 1 scheduling of the Casa del Commun Tesoro is now printed as what an encyclopaedia article says rather than as a register entry, because nobody here has been able to read Malta's register.
2026-09-17Hortobágyi NagycsárdaThe 1699 here had been read in the monument register and in Hungarian Wikipedia's parish history, both of which date a building rather than a trade, and the third source was the operator's own tourism service. On the night of 17-18 September 2026 the Hortobágy National Park Directorate's own account of the puszta inns was read, and it dates the founding to a day and to an act: on 1 June 1699 the council of Debrecen sent barrelled wine out with its wine inspector János Tikos to the toll point by the then timber bridge, built its cellared tavern house beside the toll house and the postal station, and put the selling of the wine in the hands of the toll collector, István Vasvári. That is an account of drink being sold on this spot in the claimed year, which is what the grade wants, and it comes from the state body that runs the puszta, citing the Debrecen local historians Zoltai and Ecsedi rather than the city minute — so the note still says plainly that no primary document has been read here. The same page dates the wagon stand's rebuilding to 1785 and its brickwork, the nine-arched bridge to 1827-33, and the first written use of the word csárda to 1755, and names the landlady of Petőfi's song of 1842. The grade stays at A, which the new reading supports more firmly than the fabric did.
2026-09-17Kondorosi CsárdaRead on 18 September 2026: the town of Kondoros's own history of the place, which is a second publisher beside the monument register and the Hungarian Wikipedia article this row was written from. It dates no part of the house and names no document for the claimed 1740s, so nothing about the dating changes. What it adds is the setting: the eighteenth-century tenancies of the puszta, a gendarme barracks put up opposite the csárda about 1852 to watch it as a nest of outlaws, and the refounding of the village on 23 December 1875, in which the csárda's then owner György Reguly took part. The town says plainly that the village grew where it did because the inn and the barracks were already there.
2026-09-17Pig and Whistle InnEverything this page knew about the Pig and Whistle came from the inn's own history and from Wikipedia. The South African architectural record kept by Artefacts is a second and independent account, and it disagrees on three points worth a reader's attention. It dates the house to 1821 rather than 1832, and says it was intended as an inn from the beginning, with subscription rooms for gentlemen. It names John Jarman, chosen in September 1820 to keep an inn at Bathurst, where the house's own telling has the blacksmith Thomas Hartley opening one beside his forge a decade later. And it doubts the name Bathurst Arms, holding that those references belong to a different house that no longer stands. It confirms the proclamation as a national monument on 20 October 1989. Both readings are now on the page; neither has been quietly dropped.
2026-09-17Tri ŠeširaSerbia's second house rested on itself and one encyclopaedia article. Two Belgrade publishers were read on 17 September 2026 and both are independent of the kafana. The Stari Grad municipality, the local authority for Skadarlija, carries the 1864 and the hatter — a master named Dimović, who hung three tin hats at his door instead of a sign — and two things this page did not have: that the oldest house still standing in the lane, named for its owner Vladan Štiha and built before 1878, was taken into this kafana at a later rebuilding, and that the Dva Jelena across the street opened about 1862. That last one qualifies what the encyclopaedia says about the oldest kafana in Skadarlija, which is why the description no longer carries it. The daily Politika supplies the earliest dated occasion anybody places in these rooms: the celebration of its own first issue, printed on 25 January 1904. So the record shown here is 1904 on Politika's authority, named as the paper's memory of its founding rather than a document anyone has read, and forty years younger than the year over the door. Politika also dates the name Tri Šešira to 1872, where the municipality has it from the hatter's three hats in 1864; the note gives both.
2026-09-17Kafana LončićSerbia was read for the first time on 18 September 2026. The national register's website will not search from a script, but the request its own pages make does answer, and it gave the whole municipality of Sombor: 38 protected properties, of which none is this kafana and none is on its street. That absence is worth printing because the same register lists seven ordinary Sombor houses by street and number, so a nineteenth-century house of this kind would have been found. A second publisher was found as well, and it is the better news: Milan Stepanović's survey of the town's old inns on Ravnoplov names the Lončić among Sombor inns recorded between 1785 and the Second World War, and sets the claimed year in a town whose records count 137 inn-keeping businesses in 1884 and 34 innkeepers in 1851. It still names no document for this house in that year, so the grade stays C. Until tonight this row rested on one broadcast of December 2017 and an encyclopaedia article; it now has a register reading and a local historian, and its trade is still last confirmed in 2017.
2026-09-17Cervejaria TrindadePortugal's third house rested on the hall's own history and the Portuguese encyclopaedia, which tell the same story in the same order. Lisbon City Council publishes its heritage inventory as open data, and it was read on 17 September 2026: the Edifício da Cervejaria Trindade, formerly the Convento da Trindade, at Rua Nova da Trindade 20-20D, in the parish of Santa Maria Maior. It is the first account here from anybody but the house and an encyclopaedia, and it differs in three places. The council dates the convent to the middle of the thirteenth century where the house gives 1294. It says the convent was partly demolished in 1835 to cut the Rua Nova da Trindade through the site, which is a sharper reason for the ruin than the dissolution alone. And it dates the tiles inside — in what it confirms was the refectory — to 1863 and calls them Masonic in inspiration, by Ferreira das Tabuletas, the signboard painter Luís António Ferreira. The council's entry for the house next door supplies the reason: the Casa do Ferreira das Tabuletas was built in 1864 on the convent's ground for Manuel Moreira Garcia, a Galician capitalist of strong Masonic convictions — the same man who bought the convent and opened this hall. One correction of our own wording comes with it. The protection the council records is that the building stands inside Lisboa Pombalina, classified as a Conjunto de Interesse Público, and an ensemble classification describes and dates no individual building, exactly as a National Register historic district does not. The grade stays C: the 1836 is still nobody's document.
2026-09-17Bar CinzanoChile's Council of National Monuments has now refused five connections across two nights, so on 18 September 2026 a different Chilean publisher was read instead: the Ministry of Housing and Urbanism compiles what every communal regulatory plan protects, and its list for Valparaíso runs to 999 buildings and 29 zones. The bar is not in it, and neither is any address on the Plaza Aníbal Pinto. That absence is worth printing because it comes with a control — the same list carries commercial houses by number on Esmeralda and Condell within a few doors of the square, so a building of this kind at this address would have been found. Nothing here touches the date: the list gives no years, and the 1896 on this page still rests on a Santiago newspaper and the Spanish encyclopaedia, so the grade stays C and the house stays out of the ranking.
2026-09-17Au Chien qui FumeThe Ministry of Culture's notice for this building was read again on 17 September 2026, this time for its dated fields rather than its prose. They put the principal building campaign in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and class the building as a restaurant, which is the register's own dating rather than a sentence about when the street was cut. The notice also records that the site was inscribed in its own right on 6 August 1975, nine years before the shopfront and the interior decoration were inscribed by the order of 23 May 1984, and it lists what the four glass panels are lettered with: onion soup, snails, salmon and the orchestra. The 1740 that French Wikipedia carries is a century and a half older than anything the register can see, which is what the grade already said and now says on the register's dating as well as its narrative.
2026-09-17SkindbuksenThe page said this was the ground floor of a house of 1728, which was the pub's own account of itself and not a building record. Indenforvoldene.dk, citing the National Museum's 1972 survey of the old city's houses, dates Lille Kongensgade 4 to 1767 and records the listing of 1964, and adds that the house traded as Droskekælderen, the cab drivers' cellar, until 1930. The 1728 is a claim about the trade; the walls are thirty-nine years younger, and the page says so.
2026-09-17Weis' StueThis row rested on one independent publisher, the national encyclopaedia, and said that no year for public drinking here had been traced earlier than the town's restoration of the 1910s. One has been. An article by K. H. Rosenstand in Ripenser-Bladet for December 1917, transcribed on RibeWiki, records that Søren Andersen Weis took a burgess's licence in Ribe as a distiller and publican in 1830, after years of selling drink to farmers who came in to borrow his corn measure; the hotel's own history gives the same licence. The record now reads 1830 and the row says why it is still outside the ranking.
2026-09-17Antigua Taberna QueiroloPeru answered for the first time on 18 September 2026, after the district municipality's own account of this house timed out for a third time. The Ministry of Culture's heritage map services do answer, and the useful finding is a negative one: the thirteen layers they publish cover prehispanic sites, world heritage, cultural landscapes, indigenous settlements and languages, museums and archaeological clearances, and not one is a register of colonial or republican buildings — so the absence of a listing for this house is partly the absence of a register to look in. Lima's metropolitan zoning ordinance does put the taberna's street inside the monumental zone of Pueblo Libre, by way of a 2012 amendment naming the property across the avenue, and the page now says plainly that a zone of that kind dates nothing. El Comercio of 12 July 2026 adds the Blue Shield over the San Martín door and the founder's descendant on the record, and Infobae of January 2024 repeats the 1880 from an interview. So the year still has no document behind it and the grade stays C, and that July 2026 report is now the most recent evidence that the house is open.
2026-09-17Ginza Lion Beer HallThe Ginza Lion's building rested on the Council for Cultural Affairs' papers alone. On the night of 17-18 September 2026 two more publishers were read. Chuo City's cultural-property column, written by a curator of the ward's board of education in October 2022, dates the building to 1934 as Dai-Nippon Beer's head office, names Sugawara Eizō as architect and Takenaka Kōmuten as builder, records the large alterations of 1939 and 1979 and the seismic walls of 2003, gives the street address as 7-9-20 Ginza, and describes the ground-floor beer hall as part of the original design. The Tokyo Shimbun of 15 April 2022 reports that the registration followed in February 2022. That corrects this page, which said the state registered the building in 2021: 2021 was the recommendation and 2022 the registration. The hall's opening in 1934 still rests on the brewer's history, and the grade stays at A.
2026-09-17Daijin HontenRead on 18 September 2026: three of Nagoya's classified telephone directories in the National Diet Library's digitised collections, found through the library's full-text search of out-of-copyright books. The row had rested on the house's own chronology and the Japanese Wikipedia article, with no record of any period traced. There is one now, in print: Daijin Honten appears with Yamada Tokugorō as proprietor in the 1922 and 1923 directories of Nagoya trades by telephone, under the heading for sake dealers, at Shinyanagi-chō 4-11 in Naka ward on the number Hon 1404, and again in 1935 under food and drink provisions at the same number. The claimed 1907 is not reached and the entries are filed under the selling of drink rather than a drinking house, so neither the grade nor the earliest-record field moves; what changes is that the house is no longer documented only by itself.
2026-09-17The QueensThe Queen's rested for its dates on one reading, the Manx register as transcribed on Wikipedia, because the register's own notice answers 404 and the Internet Archive was offline when a copy was sought on the night of 17-18 September 2026. The island's printed directories, transcribed on the Manx Note Book, give it a second and independent line. Thwaites's directory of 1863 lists a house called the Queen, kept by Felix Bregazzi, on the Crescent among the hotels, inns and taverns of Douglas, nine years after the register's 1854. The Queen's Hotel on the Crescent follows in Brown's of 1882, Porter's of 1889 and the Douglas directory of 1892, and Brown's of 1894 lists it on the Crescent in one list and on Queen's Promenade in the other, which joins the old address to the present one. The 1854 itself is still read only through the transcription, so the need for the primary record stays and the grade stays at A.
2026-09-17The CentralThis page said nothing traced dated the start of drinking at the Central, and on the night of 17-18 September 2026 the island's printed directories, transcribed on the Manx Note Book, gave the first dated record. Porter's directory of 1889 lists James Purcell at the Central, 1 Bowring Road, among Ramsey's hotels, and Brown's of 1894 has him there again, with the house entered at 1 Bowring Road among the hotels and on Parliament Street among the licensed victuallers. Both streets meet Parliament Square, where the house stands, and OpenStreetMap's note records the register document giving it as 1 Bowring Road in the census. The earliest record of drink here is therefore 1889, which is also the year drink-led use is documented from; the directories of 1863, 1882 and 1883 do not name a Central in Ramsey, but an absence from a directory is not a date. The grade stays at B.
2026-09-12The Old Ferry Boat InnA second reading, from a survey published fifty-six years before the listing. The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, in its Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire (London, 1926), records the Ferry Boat Inn as having a late 16th- or early 17th-century cross-wing at the west end, with the rest of the house rebuilt early in the 18th century. Historic England's list entry reads the building as a 17th-century inn with an earlier cross-wing. The two surveys agree about the cross-wing and disagree about the main range, the Commission making it Georgian where the listing makes it Stuart, and the dating of the fabric printed on this page now says so rather than leaving the reader one survey. Neither mentions AD 560. The Victoria County History of Huntingdonshire (vol 2, 1932) gives Holywell its well on the south side of the churchyard and its importance from the ferry over the Ouse to Fen Drayton, and names no inn in the parish at all — a blank rather than a denial, and the county history has now been read. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/hunts/pp140-142 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hunts/vol2/pp175-178
2026-09-12Sean's BarThe 900 AD that makes this bar famous rests on the wattle-and-wicker walls found when the house was rebuilt in the 1970s, sections of which are kept by the National Museum of Ireland. What is published about them is thin. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, which dates the building to about 1725 as a coaching inn, calls those partitions possibly seventeenth-century, and no scientific date for them has been traced in print anywhere. Until one is, the earliest record of drinking on this site stays at 1738, when the house appears as the Three Blackamoor Heads, and the tenth-century founding by Luain is a story rather than a date. A second published account of the walls is the one thing that would move this entry, and the museum's own catalogue, the Old Athlone Society's journal and Westmeath's register of protected structures are where it would be found.
2026-09-12The Bush InnAn honest blank, and it is the second reading this house has had. Historic England's own dataset of the National Heritage List, queried for a kilometre around the pub on 12 September 2026, returns 23 listed entries in Morwenstow parish - the church of St Morwenna and St John the Baptist at grade I, six chest tombs, the vicarage, Rectory Farmhouse, Tonacombe Manor, Hawker's hut, two holy wells and the ship's figurehead west of the lych gate - and no entry for the Bush Inn. The only listed house at Crosstown is Sunshine Alley, immediately by it, which the list entry calls a house, probably C18, whitewashed and thatched. So a building offered to visitors as 13th-century is not on the national list in a parish where chest tombs are. The second blank is literary: Sabine Baring-Gould's life of Robert Stephen Hawker, the vicar of Morwenstow, a book full of the parish's wrecks, smugglers and characters, never mentions an inn there. Absence of a record is not absence of a building, and the row says so rather than treating either blank as proof. https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=1141815&resourceID=5
2026-09-12The Bingley ArmsA second reading from a trade directory rather than another heritage register, and it is a blank with some weight in it. Baines's History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York (1822), transcribed for GENUKI by Colin Hinson in 2003, lists eleven trades at Bardsey — a tallow chandler, three shopkeepers, a boot and shoe maker, the schoolmaster, two corn millers, a blacksmith, a tea dealer and a draper — and names no innkeeper and no victualler. The neighbouring hamlet of Rigton, with three trades listed, has one: Richard Ellis, boot and shoe maker and victualler, at the Fox's Arms. A commercial directory that named publicans where it found them found none at Bardsey in 1822, eighty-four years after the datestone on this building. Directories miss houses and this is not a disproof, but the earliest record of trade at the Bingley Arms still has to come from somewhere other than the directories, and the 953 is untouched by any of it.
2026-09-12The Royal OakA second reading of the medieval tavern claim, from a county history rather than the listing. The Victoria County History of Hampshire (vol 5, edited by William Page, 1912) gives Winchester a chapter on its fairs and trades and names not one tavern in the city. What it records instead is regulation: an order of 1231 that the bailiffs of Winchester allow no wine tavern to exist there and no wine to be sold, the whole of the city's wine to be sent in haste to the king's army in Wales; a usage of the city putting any brewster who failed to brew good ale of good corn in the king's mercy under the bailiffs; and the incorporation of the brewers in March 1576, two beer brewers and four ale brewers made into a company under two yearly wardens. So the earliest drink trade a county historian could document in Winchester is a prohibition of 1231, two centuries after Queen Emma, and no house is named in it. The taverner of about 1390 to 1430 that local historians attach to this site does not appear in the county history, and the record behind him has still not been read here.
2026-09-12The Church House InnA second reading from the national register rather than from CAMRA and the food hygiene register, and it corrects something. Historic England's list entry 1308433, listed on 9 February 1961 and read through Heritage Gateway, protects the Church House Inn at grade II* — not grade II, which is what this page said. The entry describes a 16th-century public house, originally the church house: roughcast stone rubble under a bitumenised scantle slate roof, a long rectangular plan of eight bays, a stair turret at the south-west corner with slate treads on the newel, two lateral stacks to the north, seven axial beams all with step stops, a plank-and-muntin screen with a chamfered head beam at the east end, a lateral fireplace under a chamfered timber lintel and a gable fireplace under a massive stone one, and nine roof trusses with cranked feet, morticed apices and collars over three intact tiers of threaded purlins. A church house of that kind is a parish drinking house by purpose, which is what makes this building interesting; what the register does not give it is anything of the eleventh century, so the 1028 of the church-builders remains a story and the grade stays C.
2026-09-12Klosterschenke WeltenburgThe citation the last check said it could not reach has now been read. The Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments publishes the monument list for the town of Kelheim as a document dated 11 September 2026, and entry D-2-73-137-177 covers the whole Benedictine abbey at Weltenburg: founded in the 8th century, the monastery dissolved in 1803 and re-established in 1842; the baroque rebuilding begun in 1714 under Abbot Maurus Bächl; the abbey church of St George, an oval with a shell dome, by Cosmas Damian Asam in 1716-18 with its front and fittings finished by 1736 and stucco by Egid Quirin Asam; the bell tower's lowest storey 1608 and its belfry 1763; three three-storey convent ranges of 1714/16 by Kaspar Öttl and Michael Wolf; and, as one item, the farm buildings and brewhouse — four three-storey ranges forming the monastery courtyard south-west of the church, of 1724/25, the range on the Danube by Franz Beer, with the brewhouse itself of 1718/19 and raised by a storey in 1734. That is the official register saying what the transcription this page relied on said, so the dates now rest on the primary list: the courtyard a visitor drinks in is of the 1720s, the brewhouse of 1718/19, and the register gives the tavern no separate entry and no earlier date. It also confirms the thirty-nine-year break in the middle of the 1050 the abbey advertises, since the state dissolved the house in 1803 and it returned only in 1842.
2026-09-12The Skirrid InnA second reading of the Skirrid, from the regional historic environment record and the Royal Commission rather than from the listing and the pub. The Glamorgan-Gwent HER, now kept by the Heneb HER Charitable Trust, holds the house as 01623g: a mid-to-late 17th-century building which appears to have been purpose-built as an inn, two storeys with attics and a cellar; the surviving 17th-century work is the main roof timbers, the ceilings of the principal downstairs rooms, the fine oak staircase rising to the attics in its own tower, and the main door and frame. The 17th-century look of the outside is largely the result of the 19th-century rebuilding, which put every window back in 17th-century style; the relieving arches show the ground floor once had three windows each side of the door. The record says in its own words that the building is popularly supposed to be of medieval origin and that there is no evidence for anything earlier than the 17th century, and it names its authorities: Peter Smith's Houses of the Welsh Countryside of 1975, which classes it a stone house of regional type A with lateral chimney and inside cross-passage, and the trust's survey of Monmouthshire historic settlements of 1996-97. The Royal Commission's National Monuments Record enters the same house as NPRN 20846, a public house, post-medieval. Three registers and a published survey now say 17th century where the house says about 1110. Coflein and Archwilio both refuse a script at their front doors; the records were reached through the Welsh Historic Environment Records and National Monuments Record map services, which do not. https://archwilio.org.uk/arch/query/page.php?watprn=GGAT01623g&dbname=ggat&tbname=core
2026-09-12The Olde BellA second reading, and it goes against the house on two counts. The Victoria County History of Berkshire (vol 3, edited by P. H. Ditchfield and William Page, 1923) describes the Bell Inn, on the east side of the road leading to the church, as a two-storied half-timber building of the late 15th century, considerably modernised and added to but still keeping a fair amount of original work, with a timber porch under four-centred arch heads, a jettied upper floor and an oriel of pointed lights in moulded oak. That is a century earlier than the 16th- to 17th-century fabric this row records, and four centuries later than 1135. The same survey does not call the Bell the priory guest house, and the companion account of Hurley Priory (vol 2) dates the Benedictine cell to the end of the Conqueror's reign, with a plate in the church giving a consecration of 1086, and names no hospitium or guest house anywhere in it. So the 890th birthday kept in 2025 rests on the hotel's own tradition and on nothing a county historian found; the grade stays C. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol3/pp152-160 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol2/pp73-77
2026-09-12The Olde BellA second reading, and it goes against the house on two counts. The Victoria County History of Berkshire (vol 3, edited by P. H. Ditchfield and William Page, 1923) describes the Bell Inn, on the east side of the road leading to the church, as a two-storied half-timber building of the late 15th century, considerably modernised and added to but still keeping a fair amount of original work, with a timber porch under four-centred arch heads, a jettied upper floor and an oriel of pointed lights in moulded oak. That is a century earlier than the 16th- to 17th-century fabric recorded on this page, and four centuries later than 1135. The same survey does not call the Bell the priory guest house, and the companion account of Hurley Priory (vol 2) dates the Benedictine cell to the end of the Conqueror's reign, with a plate in the church giving a consecration of 1086, and names no hospitium or guest house anywhere in it. So the 890th birthday kept in 2025 rests on the hotel's own tradition and on nothing a county historian found; the grade stays C. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol3/pp152-160 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol2/pp73-77
2026-09-12The Old House 1147Two second readings for the house that puts 1147 in its name, and one of them finds the first record of drinking in it. The Glamorgan-Gwent HER, now Heneb, holds the Old House Inn as 02034m: a 17th-century core with 18th- and 19th-century additions and a modern extension, two storeys under thatch. The Royal Commission's National Monuments Record enters the same building as NPRN 19503, a public house, post-medieval. Then the parish's own historian: Cadrawd, Thomas Christopher Evans, published his History of Llangynwyd Parish in 1887 and names the Old House Tavern four times. The Independents, turned out of the Graig Fach, held their services for many years in the tavern's long room under the Reverend Abraham Tibbot, and about the year 1800 bought an unfinished house and made it Bethesda chapel; when the Maesteg works brought strangers into the valley, part of the congregation went back to the same long room. A verse story in the book has a young carpenter courting the daughter of the Old House Tavern and running up a debt of five shillings to her father, the cordwr, who cut wood for a living. So the house was a tavern before 1800, which is the earliest record of the trade traced here, and it is recorded on this page as such. What Cadrawd does not give, anywhere in 200 pages about this parish, is 1147, or any medieval date for the building. https://archive.org/details/historyllangynw00evangoog
2026-09-12The Red LionA second reading, and the most useful thing traced for this house. The Victoria County History of Hampshire (vol 3, edited by William Page, 1908) describes the Red Lion at Chalton as a picturesque half-timbered and thatched building, parts of which are said to be at least 500 years old — which, counted from 1908, reaches about 1400 and not 1147. The same account dates the parish church of St Michael by its fabric: the chancel is the oldest part, a fine and well-proportioned piece of mid-thirteenth-century work, with the nave and the rest early fourteenth century. That bears directly on the story told about the inn, because a house built in 1147 for the men building St Michael's would have been built for a church the county survey dates a hundred years later. The survey also notes that much of the timber in the village cottages is old oak ship timber, sometimes showing the form of a ship's bows, from wrecks on the south coast or brought from Portsmouth. Nothing in it documents drinking at Chalton at any date, so the 1147 stays tradition and the grade stays C.
2026-09-12The Red Lionthe county history's reading of the house and the church belongs where the reader meets it
2026-09-12The Mermaid InnA second reading that corrects our own earlier one. A previous pass recorded that Holloway's history of Rye of 1847 names the town's mid-18th-century inns and not this one. It does name it, repeatedly. Holloway prints the schedule of the king's bailiff's rents of assize at Rye, dated 1670, and among the tenements in Middle Street ward is one charged 5s. a year, the heaviest in the ward: the tenements, stable, close and garden of the heirs of William Gostrey, called the Mermaide, late of Thomas Higgins, jurat, some time of William Didsbury, jurat, and before Pedell's. He uses that entry to work out the town's old wards, saying in his own voice that the Mermaid Inn is described as abutting on the south towards Middle Street, and describing Rye about 1700 he writes that Mermaid Street, still called Middle Street, was the principal street in the town, and the Mermaid Inn there the first of the kind. Earlier again, the charity section gives Thomas Peacock's will of 1638, which endowed the free school with £4 a year out of a messuage in Middle Street called the Mermaid. The earliest record of the house on this page is therefore 1670, with the naming of the property going back to 1638 - and the word inn is the historian's reading of the document rather than the document's own word, which the evidence note now says. Nothing here touches 1156. https://archive.org/details/historyantiquiti00holliala
2026-09-12Gasthaus Zum RiesenA second reading, in a union library catalogue rather than in another survey of the same building, and it lands on the source the house itself cites for 1158. The inn's history page attributes the twelfth-century date to a pamphlet by Dr Ph. Madler of 1865. K10plus, the catalogue shared by the German library networks, holds seven printings of Madler's Historische Denkwürdigkeiten des Gasthauses zum Riesen in Miltenberg am Main — 1871, 1895 twice, 1899 twice, 1911 and 1929 — and none of 1865. The earliest it records is the 1871 printing, fourteen pages with one plate; the author is given as Philipp J. Madler, 1799 to 1884; and the words "Germany's oldest inn" enter the title only with the 1911 printing. The claim's own authority is therefore real, traceable and printed at least six times, and it is not the 1865 the house names. The records were read through the catalogue's SRU interface; the link goes to the record for the 1871 printing. The same pass re-read the Bavarian monument list, which gives the building number D-6-76-139-86 and adds a fourth range, framed in the last quarter of the fifteenth century, that this page had not recorded.
2026-09-12The Lamb InnA second reading from the national register rather than CAMRA, and it shows where the 1180 comes from. Historic England's list entry 1043679, listed on 27 May 1949 as The Lamb Inn, Ye Lambe Hotel and read through Heritage Gateway, describes a 16th-century timber-framed building of two storeys, spoiled by roughcast refronting between the beams with some beams replaced and modern windows in the south elevation, the first floor jettied and the roof red-tiled. Then it names what matters: the most interesting part is a medieval undercroft or vaulted chamber with ribs and a central boss, said to date from the Early English period, reached from the west through a coved recess under an upright beam, a flat stone archway and an original wooden door. The Early English period runs from about 1180 to about 1250, so the press figure of 1180 is the early end of the register's own dating of the vault — and the register hedges it with 'said to date', giving no source. The building above it is Tudor, the vault may be late twelfth or thirteenth century, and nothing dates drinking here at either. The grade stays C.
2026-09-12Ye Olde Trip to JerusalemA second reading of the 1799, from a Nottingham publisher rather than from the national list. John Frost Sutton's Date-Book of Remarkable and Memorable Events Connected with Nottingham and its Neighbourhood prints, under the year 1799, a list of the town's licensed victuallers house by house, and in it stands John Pyatt, Trip to Jerusalem, Brewhouse-yard. The list is long and ordinary - the Bear on Long Row, the Ten Bells in Narrow Marsh, the Punch Bowl at the Exchange, a hundred and more names - which is exactly what makes it useful: a trade list of 1799 that records this house by its present name, under a landlord, in the yard below the castle rock, and gives it no antiquity at all. It agrees with Historic England, which dates the Trip name to 1799 and the first reference to a pub on the site, as the Pilgrim, to 1751. Nothing in the date-book, which runs from the middle ages to 1852, mentions 1189. https://archive.org/details/datebookremarka00suttgoog
2026-09-12The Brazen HeadA second reading of the 1668, from the city's Victorian historian rather than from a register. John Thomas Gilbert's History of the City of Dublin, compiled from corporation records and published from 1854, describes the Brazen Head as an inn located, from the year 1668, in a recess at the rear of the western side of Bridge Street, where it still exists - the same recess it stands in now. Gilbert reaches it while writing about the United Irishmen, who met in the house: in February 1797 Oliver Bond laid before the society there his plan for obtaining possession of the metropolis, and another meeting after the arrest of the delegates was addressed by Michael Reynolds of Naas. So an independent nineteenth-century account, working from the city's papers, puts the inn at 1668 and offers nothing earlier. The 1198 remains the house's own. https://archive.org/details/ahistorycitydub02gilbgoog
2026-09-12Llindir Innthe row has a website now: https://www.llindirinn.com/
2026-09-12Old Smugglers InnA second reading, from the island's own register rather than from the tourist board, the pub and CAMRA, and it moves the building five hundred years. Jersey's Historic Environment Record, kept by Jersey Heritage, holds the Old Smugglers Inn twice: as heritage asset 0100067, which describes a good example of an 18th-century rural property, now an inn, two storeys and four bays with two more added to the west, granite rubble with dressed quoins and a pair of granite stacks with thatch dripstones, standing on the Richmond Map of 1795; and as the listing record for BR0067. Its period is Georgian and its type is domestic, coastal - a house, that is, and not an inn when it was built. The 13th-century fishermen's cottages are the pub's and Visit Jersey's, and nothing in the record supports them. The record does not say when the house began to sell drink, so that question is still open. Read through the register's search interface on 12 September 2026, which answers an ordinary request once the Arches term filter is used. https://her.jerseyheritage.org/report/502c84f0-116c-0138-914e-740f24312a1c
2026-09-12The Royal Standard of EnglandA second reading, in a county history instead of the pub's own account of itself. The Victoria County History of Buckinghamshire (volume three, London, 1925) walks Beaconsfield parish house by house and names the inns as it passes them: the George opposite the rectory, timber and brick of about 1600; the White Hart at the corner of Market Place and Shepherd's Lane; the Old Swan of the late sixteenth century; the Royal Saracen's Head and the Greyhound, both seventeenth-century; and two houses it says were inns formerly. The oldest of them is sixteenth-century, and the volume remarks that nearly all the old houses in the town belong to the early seventeenth century. It names no house at Forty Green, no Ship, and nothing that touches 1213. A blank rather than a denial, and the parish's county history has now been read. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/bucks/vol3/pp155-165
2026-09-12Café Den TurkA second reading, in a regional heritage register rather than in a city visitor guide or the beer press, and it puts a date on a house that had none from anybody. The Flemish Agency for Immovable Heritage carries Botermarkt 3 as object 24549, under the name Herberg De Turk and the typology of inns. It dates the building to the third quarter of the fifteenth century: four bays, three storeys, a slate saddle roof with a stepped side gable and a stepped dormer, a front of Lede stone, restored in 1910 to 1912 to the design of the architect Hendrik Geirnaert, whose work included changing the ground-floor cross windows. It records the protection of the façades and roofs as a monument on 16 September 1966, inside the older designation of the crossbowmen's guild hall next door of 13 October 1943 — the guild that the local research of 2004 put in this house until 1567. The register ties the building to that guild without saying when drink was first sold in it, and it dates the fabric two centuries after the 1228 that circulates. The description is drawn from the 1976 architectural inventory of the city of Ghent by Bogaert, Lanclus and Verbeeck. The agency's own server returned errors throughout 12 September 2026 and the record was read through the Internet Archive, which is why both links are given.
2026-09-12Café Den Turkthe review happened and rejected every candidate; what is missing is a photograph, not a reviewer
2026-09-12Café Den TurkNo publisher states this year: not the house, not CAMRA, not a listing, not a local historian. The evidence table said so and the line under the H1 still read "Claims", which credited the house with a date nobody can show it gave, so the row is labelled and both now say the same thing.
2026-09-12Ye Olde Salutation InnA second reading from the national register rather than CAMRA's heritage description, and the two agree. Historic England's list entry 1255137, listed on 11 August 1952 and read through Heritage Gateway, gives the Salutation Inn as C16 and mid C18, heavily restored and altered in the late C19 and mid C20: timber framing now roughcast and red brick under plain tile roofs, the sixteenth-century north part of two storeys with cellars and attics on an L-plan, its facing gable jettied at the first floor with a three-light cross casement of pointed arched lights and leaded glazing, and the eighteenth-century range to St Nicholas Street of three storeys under dentillated brick eaves. Inside it records fragments of timber framing, a roof reported as medieval, and rock-cut cellars at two levels with thrawls — the stone benches a cellar is given to keep barrels on, which is the closest thing in the register to evidence of the trade. So a second publisher reads the fabric as Tudor and Georgian, three centuries after the 1240 painted on the front, and the grade stays C.
2026-09-12The Bear InnA second reading of the 1242, from a local history that names its documents rather than from the council register the first check used. Stephanie Jenkins's Oxford History, citing Jackson's Oxford Journal between 1758 and 1801, Anthony Wood, the burial registers of St Michael's and the Mileways Act of 1771, has Parne Hall on the High Street replaced by an inn called Le Tabard in 1421 and soon renamed the Bear; that inn sold in 1801 and turned into two shops; and the present house in Alfred Street no more than an ostler's house at the back of it until it became a pub in its own right, the Jolly Trooper, in 1774, taking the Bear name when the High Street inn closed. That is independent confirmation that the medieval inn and the pub standing today are two different houses. Two details differ from the account given here: Oxford History dates Le Tabard to 1421 and the Bear name to soon after, where this page gives 1432 and 1457, and the Victoria County History of Oxfordshire (vol 4, 1979) mentions no Bear at all in its medieval chapter and calls the High Street Tabard 'later the Angel'. The naming of these houses is therefore not settled, and nothing in either account brings 1242 nearer to a record of drinking. Both accounts are cited in the sources below. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol4/pp3-73
2026-09-12Adam and EveA second reading, and it traces the 1249 to something that is not an alehouse. Francis Blomefield's Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk (vol 4, the city and county of Norwich part II, 1806) states it plainly: St Giles's hospital, commonly called the Old-men's hospital, was founded in the year 1249, by Walter Suffield alias Calthorp, Bishop of Norwich. That is the year the pub gives for its own first record, so the likeliest reason 1249 recurs in Norwich is the founding of the Great Hospital rather than the first mention of a brewhouse. Blomefield goes through the hospital's property in detail and records no brewhouse and no alehouse of this name; the only Adam and Eve in his pages is his own gloss on a lease of 1536, when the hospital let the old school-house yard, then called Adam and Eve's Gardens, to Dame Jane Calthorp. Norwich Heritage Projects, a voluntary group publishing on the city's pubs and breweries, repeats the 1249 and the labourers paid in bread and ale and puts no document behind either. The grade stays C.
2026-09-12The King's HeadA second reading for the Stubbers story, from the town's standard history, and it supports half of it. James Hardiman's History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway, published in 1820 from the corporation's records, has Colonel Peter Stubbers marching into Galway with two companies of foot when the town surrendered in 1652, governing it afterwards, and turning the marble of Sir Peter French's tomb in the abbey into chimney-pieces, the rest being shipped to England and sold. The appendix prints the schedule of the old and new proprietors of the houses of Galway with their yearly values, dated 1657, and Colonel Peter Stubbers is among the new proprietors, holding a house in the town. So a Cromwellian officer of that name did take a Galway house, which is the frame of the pub's story. Two things Hardiman does not do: he never says Stubbers executed Charles I, and in 700 pages on the town he never mentions a King's Head. The identification of the regicide and the naming of the house are still unsupported, and the pub page says so. https://archive.org/details/historyoftowncou00hard
2026-09-12Ye Olde Man & ScytheA second reading, from a county history published eighty years before the local history site this row takes its 1251 from. The Victoria County History of Lancashire (vol 5, edited by William Farrer and J. Brownbill, 1911) places the Man and Scythe Inn on the south side of Church Gate near the old market-place and calls it a low two-storey building, blue-slated by then, substantially the same as when rebuilt in 1638. That is 1638 where Historic England reports a reputed 1636 datestone: a plain two years between two published readings of the same rebuild, and neither of them the pub's own. The same account repeats the tradition that the Earl of Derby rested here before his execution in 1651 and records the chair and tankard kept for it, and it puts no date near 1251 on the house — which leaves the market charter still a charter about a market. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol5/pp243-251
2026-09-12Ye Olde Man & ScytheA second reading, from a county history published eighty years before the local history site the 1251 on this page comes from. The Victoria County History of Lancashire (vol 5, edited by William Farrer and J. Brownbill, 1911) places the Man and Scythe Inn on the south side of Church Gate near the old market-place and calls it a low two-storey building, blue-slated by then, substantially the same as when rebuilt in 1638. That is 1638 where Historic England reports a reputed 1636 datestone: a plain two years between two published readings of the same rebuild, and neither of them the pub's own. The same account repeats the tradition that the Earl of Derby rested here before his execution in 1651 and records the chair and tankard kept for it, and it puts no date near 1251 on the house — which leaves the market charter still a charter about a market. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol5/pp243-251
2026-09-12Kyteler's InnA second reading, in a printed primary source rather than in a heritage register. The Camden Society published the contemporary narrative of the 1324 proceedings against Dame Alice Kyteler in 1843, edited by Thomas Wright, with extracts from the Irish rolls added in a note. The rolls make Alice a woman of money: her first husband, William Outlaw of Kilkenny, was a banker and moneylender who died before 1302, and bonds of two hundred marks and two hundred pounds are recorded to her and her later husbands, Adam le Blound of Callan, Richard de Valle, and by 1324 John le Poer. The narrative itself calls the family's premises a house, and the bishop's complaint against the chancellor is precisely that he lodged in it while keeping a fair and honourable lodging elsewhere in the city — the opposite of a house open to whoever arrived. Nothing in either names an inn, a tavern or an alehouse kept by Dame Alice, so the 1263 in the name is unsupported by the record of the trial that made her famous. https://archive.org/details/contemporarynarr00kyte
2026-09-12Jaškovská krčmaA second reading, from a state archive rather than from an encyclopedia or the tourist board. The State District Archive at Karviná, part of the provincial archive in Opava, publishes a short study of this house by Veronika Matroszová, and it disagrees with our entry about the day. The archive dates the founding charter of the Benedictine house at Orlová, issued by Duke Vladislav of Opole and naming the tavern, to 12 June 1268; Czech Wikipedia, following Prasek's history of the duchy of Těšín, gives 12 May. Both dates are now on the page, because we cannot choose between them without the charter. The archive agrees on everything that matters more: a tavern on the road between Opava and Těšín, held by the monastery, where beer was brewed as well as poured and lodging came with the licence; the house passing to Těšín nobles after the monastery was broken up in 1561; fire in 1682 and a rebuilding in stone in 1691 paid for by the chamber. It adds two things the entry did not carry. A lease of 1770 bound the innkeeper to pour only the estate's beer and spirits, and one of 1902 lists what he might sell — beds for strangers, food, wine, fruit wine, coffee and tea, and licensed games. And the building was entered on the state list of immovable cultural monuments in 1974 under register number 2223, where this page had traced no listing at all.
2026-09-12The Tinners ArmsA second reading, in a local history by a named author rather than in another survey of the same listed building. John Hobson Matthews, A History of the Parishes of St Ives, Lelant, Towednack and Zennor (London, 1892), indexes the inns of the district one by one — the George and Dragon, the Golden Lion, the Globe, the Blue Bell, the Britannia, the Red Lion, the Sloop, the Praed Arms at Lelant — and the Tinners Arms is in none of it. His account of Zennor church dates the south side of the nave to the thirteenth century, with the chancel and transept of the same date and the north aisle built late in the fifteenth century or early in the sixteenth, so a thirteenth-century building campaign at St Senara's is real enough; he names no inn or alehouse in the parish at all. A blank rather than a denial, and the parish now has a second publisher against the 1271. https://archive.org/details/ahistoryparishe00mattgoog
2026-09-12Piwnica ŚwidnickaA second reading, and the honest result is that the 1273 painted over the door dates something other than a cellar. Polish Wikipedia's account, which follows J. J. Trzynadlowski's chapter on the Piwnica in Piwo we Wrocławiu, published by the city museum of Wrocław in 2002, dates the privilege to 28 September 1273 and says what it did: Duke Henryk IV Probus gave the town council the right to sell beer, so that beer brewed outside Wrocław could be served only in the cellars the council controlled. That is a right granted to a town, not a house opening. The same account gives the earliest surviving accounts recording Świdnica beer brought in as 1332, and has the cellar enlarged repeatedly until the last quarter of the fifteenth century, with a tunnel driven in 1519 to roll barrels across from a new brewery on the south side of the square. Set against all that, the German account of the town hall itself dates its first documentary mention to a rent account of 1299, describing a ground floor, a cellar, a hall and a west tower — so the building the cellar is under is first named twenty-six years after the year on the entrance. The page now says this where a reader meets it, and the earliest documented date stays empty, because none of these is a record of trade in this cellar. Two other Polish routes were tried and failed: the national heritage register's search ignores its own query, and two Polish documentation sites refuse this reader. What the K10plus union catalogue does show is that the cellar has a monograph to itself — Rudolf Stein's Der Schweidnitzer Keller im Rathaus zu Breslau, 250 pages with a bibliography, catalogued in printings of 1956 and 1982 — which is where somebody with the book in hand should look next.
2026-09-12The GeorgeA second reading, and this one names the house. Edward Hasted's History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent (vol 7, Canterbury, 1798) records, among the lands of the manor of Cranbrooke, the George inn with its appurtenances, which is out of it and is held of the king by knight's service — a county survey naming the George and its tenure, two centuries before the food hygiene register that dated its trading here. Hasted also dates the market the inn stands beside: it was obtained by Archbishop Peckham in the eighteenth year of Edward I, which falls in 1289 or 1290, with a Saturday market for corn and hops and fairs on 30 May and 29 September, and he notes that paving from the market place eastward was begun in 1654. That is a town of about the right age around the inn. It is not a record of anyone drinking at the George in about 1300, so the grade stays C.
2026-09-12The Old Bridge InnA second reading, from a commercial directory rather than from a listing or a branch survey. Edward Baines's History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York, volume one, the West Riding (Leeds, 1822, the directory department by William Parson), lists the inhabitants of Ripponden and names John Schofield, victualler, at the Old Bridge — beside John Beesley at the Prince of Orange, Joseph Gartside at the Golden Lion and George Mitchell, victualler, at the Star. That is the house named as a licensed public house under the name it still carries, sixty-eight years after the first landlord the listing records and by a publisher with nothing to gain by it. Baines's own account of the village runs to the chapel of ease to Elland, the tombstones cut by John Collier, and the flood that wrecked the chapel; nothing in it reaches 1307. https://archive.org/details/historydirector00baingoog
2026-09-12The Sloop InnA second reading, in a local history written from the borough records rather than in a pub guide. John Hobson Matthews, A History of the Parishes of St Ives, Lelant, Towednack and Zennor (London, 1892), gives the Sloop a paragraph among the old houses of the town — an old inn on the Wharf, yellow-washed, small-windowed, with a state room over the harbour — and says it was anciently the home of the Williams family. He puts no date on it. In the same chapter he dates the Sise house a few yards west from the 1645 inscription cut in its granite, and elsewhere he calls the George and Dragon the principal tavern of the later eighteenth century and reckons the gales of some two hundred and fifty winters had blown around it by 1757. A writer that exact about the age of houses in this street had nothing to say for 1312, so the reputation still stands alone. https://archive.org/details/ahistoryparishe00mattgoog
2026-09-12Scotch Piper InnA blank from a second publisher, and a telling one. The Victoria County History of Lancashire (vol 3, edited by William Farrer and J. Brownbill, 1907) gives Lydiate a full township account — its manors, the Irelands and the Andertons, Lydiate Hall with its earliest part at the end of the fifteenth century and Lawrence Ireland's initials on the doorway, and St Catherine's chapel — and never mentions the inn. A thatched house said to have stood by this road since 1320 is absent from the county's own survey of the township. That is not a disproof, and it is better known than guessed at before anyone looks again. The dendrochronology CAMRA reports, in the middle of the sixteenth century, is still the only dating of the timbers, and the grade rests on those timbers rather than on 1320.
2026-09-12The Cott InnA second reading, and it moves the grade. The row had the Cott at grade B as a medieval longhouse — a building of the claimed age with drink recorded later — on the strength of the pub's own account and CAMRA's. Historic England's list entry, which had not been read here, dates it early in the 17th century or of earlier origins, remodelled probably later in the 17th and extended at each end in the 18th to make one long range, and describes the plan as three rooms and a through passage with the bar inserted into the central room in the 20th century. It weighs the possibility that the central room was once an open hall and finds no evidence for it, which is notable because the list's own index of monument types calls the house an open hall house. Nothing in the entry reaches 1320, so the grade falls from B to C and the dating printed on this page is the surveyor's rather than the inn's. https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=1291403&resourceID=5
2026-09-12The Bell InnNo publisher states this year: not the house, not CAMRA, not a listing, not a local historian. The evidence table said so and the line under the H1 still read "Claims", which credited the house with a date nobody can show it gave, so the row is labelled and both now say the same thing.
2026-09-12The Tower InnA second reading, in the listing of the building next door rather than in another account of the pub. Historic England's Grade I entry for the tower of the collegiate chantry of St Mary at Slapton, listed on 26 January 1967 and citing Cresswell's notes on the churches of the deanery of Woodleigh (1923) and Hoskins's Devon, dates the tower circa 1372 or 1373 and records Sir Guy de Brian founding the chantry in 1373 with a rector, five fellows, six priests and four clerks. The inn's story is that it began as cottages for the men building that tower in 1347, which is twenty-five years too early for the work described. The same list holds thirty-nine entries in the village, from the church and the Chantry house to a telephone kiosk, and the Tower Inn is not one of them, so no surveyor has dated its fabric either. https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=1317950&resourceID=5
2026-09-12The Old InnA second reading, and it moves the grade. This row had the house at grade B on a CAMRA survey describing walls and beams over six hundred years old in the central section — a building of the claimed 14th-century age with drink recorded later. Historic England's list entry, which had not been read here, dates the house to the 16th or 17th century, with wings added at the front in the 18th or 19th, and describes a U-shaped granite rubble house with a four-room main range, stone-flagged floor, chamfered beams and two granite fireplaces with chamfered wood lintels. The entry, made when the house was listed Grade II on 23 August 1955, reaches nothing like 1300. A claim no fabric supports is tradition, so the grade falls from B to C, the listing is recorded where this page had none, and the reader now meets both readings of the walls. https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=1242574&resourceID=5
2026-09-12The Angel InnA second reading, in a county history rather than in the local press. Edward Hasted's History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, volume four (Canterbury, 1798), describes Addington over seven pages: the mansion and garden of Addington place on the hillside, the church and village built round the green with the road from Trottiscliffe crossing it, the poor sandy soil over quarry rock, the nailbourn that breaks out every seven or eight years and turns the trout of the Leybourne stream red, and the oval of stones in the Warren that he compares with Stonehenge. He names no inn, alehouse or tavern in the parish. A blank rather than a denial, and the 1350 is still a newspaper's year with no record behind it. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol4/pp542-548
2026-09-12The Sheep Heid InnA second reading, in a Victorian history of the city rather than in the listing or a pub guide. James Grant's Cassell's Old and New Edinburgh (volume two, London, 1881-83) gives Duddingston nine pages — the church with the jougs still at its gate, the loch and its skaters and swans, the thorn recorded as a boundary landmark in the reign of Alexander I, the forty looms at work in the Loan of Western Duddingston weaving the coarse linen called Duddingston hardings, the house where Prince Charles Edward slept before Prestonpans, the barony held by the Thomsons and Duddingston House — and it names no inn or change-house in the village, and no snuffbox of James VI. Grant names Edinburgh taverns freely elsewhere in the same work, so the silence counts for something: a blank rather than a denial, and still nothing for 1360. https://archive.org/details/cassellsoldnewed02granuoft
2026-09-12The Brocket ArmsA blank from a second publisher. The Victoria County History of Hertfordshire (vol 3, edited by William Page, 1912) goes through the village of Ayot St Lawrence building by building — the schoolhouse, a timber and plaster house of the 17th century; the post office, a 16th or 17th-century brick and timber cottage; a modern rectory — and names no inn and no alehouse anywhere in the parish. By CAMRA's own reckoning a licence had been recorded here since 1694, so the silence is about what a county historian set down rather than about what stood in the village. It leaves 1694 as the earliest date with anything behind it, and the 14th century the pub claims with nobody behind it at all.
2026-09-12The Brocket ArmsNo publisher states this year: not the house, not CAMRA, not a listing, not a local historian. The evidence table said so and the line under the H1 still read "Claims", which credited the house with a date nobody can show it gave, so the row is labelled and both now say the same thing.
2026-09-12The Blue Anchor InnA second reading, in the Royal Commission's national database rather than in the listing mirror this row was citing, and it moves the grade. The Commission's record for the Blue Anchor at East Aberthaw, compiled by S. L. Evans in 2008, repeats the 14th-century story, dates the present property mid-16th century with later extensions, and adds that the house was probably built as a dwelling and that its siting and development suggest it became a public house early in its life. That is a second body reading the fabric two hundred years later than the sign, so the grade falls from B — a building of the claimed age with drink recorded later — to tradition, which is what a claim no survey supports is. The same record notes the 2004 fire destroying the roof and parts of the interior. https://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/sites/18058
2026-09-12The Cherub Innthe row has a website now: https://thecherub.co.uk/
2026-09-12Turf TavernA second reading that reaches Salter's conclusion from a different direction. Stephanie Jenkins's Oxford History, surveying the city wall along Holywell, describes the stretch beside the Turf Tavern — Grade I listed in its own right, list entry 1300145 — and says the tavern was erected just outside the wall in the eighteenth century, when land inside was scarce, and was originally known as the Spotted Cow. An independent local history therefore puts the house outside the medieval wall and in the eighteenth century, which is what H. E. Salter concluded in 1926 from the city's deeds, and by two publishers rather than one the 1381 on the operator's page has nothing behind it.
2026-09-12The Crown InnA second reading, and it adds a document the listing does not have. The Victoria County History of Surrey (vol 3, edited by H. E. Malden, 1911) describes the Crown opposite the church as keeping a fine 14th-century king-post roof over what was originally the open hall, with massive timber framing, an overhanging upper storey, oak-joisted ceilings and panelling, and two or three ancient fireplaces. That is a second publisher reading the frame as fourteenth-century, which is what this grade rests on. The same account, listing the tenants of the manor of Godalming, says that in 1543 they included the holders of Killinghurst, 'le Crown' and Pockford. A property of that name in this parish in 1543 is the earliest document traced for the house, but it records a holding and not a trade, so it does not bring 1383 any nearer to a licence and the grade stays B.
2026-09-12The George InnA second reading, in Historic England's own list entry rather than in the encyclopedia and the heritage blog this row was citing, and the two readings of the building do not agree. The entry, made when the inn was listed Grade I on 11 March 1968, dates the house C14 or C15 in its roughly coursed Doulting stone ground floor and rear, and then dates the oversailing timber-framed frontage to the 16th century, added after a fire. The tree-ring dates reported since put those jettied upper floors at 1430 to 1432, a century earlier than the surveyor read them. The stone below is the same age in both accounts, and the grade rests on the tree-ring dating of the purpose-built inn rather than on the frontage, so it does not move; but a reader comparing the two now meets the disagreement rather than one of them. The entry also records the wall paintings of probably the 16th century, the galleried courtyard paved with setts, and the porch with its shielded spandrels. https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=1174953&resourceID=5
2026-09-12The Fleece Innthe row has a website now: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/worcestershire-herefordshire/the-fleece-inn
2026-09-12SchlenkerlaA second reading, in the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation's list for the city of Bamberg rather than in the brewery's own chronicle. The register, in its edition current on 11 September 2026, describes Dominikanerstraße 6 as the Gasthaus zum Schlenkerla, monument D-4-61-000-85: three storeys, solid below and decoratively framed above, of the middle of the seventeenth century, with a wrought-iron inn sign bracket of the first half of the eighteenth and a rear range of the second half. That is a century and a half later than the 1405 the house dates itself from, and the page had carried no fabric date at all. The register also settles what the 1405 property record is about. It says the Haus unter den Störchen, on the other side of the wall, belongs today to the Gasthaus Schlenkerla, and it dates the chapel in that house to about 1400 in its core — which is the only fabric traced here of the age the claim needs, and the grade B now says which building carries it.
2026-09-12George & DragonA second reading, and it is a scientific date where the page had two inscriptions. The Royal Commission's record for the George and Dragon carries the results of the Dating Old Welsh Houses project, sampled by the Oxford Dendrochronology Laboratory for the North-West Wales Dendrochronology Project: the axial beam, the transverse beam and the joists were felled between the winter of 1536/7 and the spring of 1541, giving a site master of 1437 to 1540. So the frame is of about 1541 — a century and a third after the 1410 lettered on the front, and seventy years before the 1610 Cadw took from a roof truss, which the same sources attach to the painted truss and the wall paintings rather than to the building. The Commission's own description calls it an important timber-framed and jettied range of the sixteenth century, altered in the seventeenth and twentieth, and says the lost wall-framing makes a commercial function hard to establish. The house history published alongside the dating gives 1771 as its earliest deed and a publican's recognizance of 1826 as its earliest licence. The dated fabric on this page is now the tree-ring figure, with both inscriptions kept beside it. https://www.coflein.gov.uk/media/79/620/dcp2013_036_02.pdf
2026-09-12George & Dragona tree-ring date on the frame replaces the note that said the prose gave no fabric date
2026-09-12The Bell InnA second reading, in the list entry itself rather than in the encyclopedia and the heritage blog, and it disagrees twice. Historic England listed the Bell Grade II on 12 May 1982, citing Pevsner's Nottinghamshire, and reads the building as late 15th-century, refronted about 1820, with stop-chamfered ceiling beams, crown post roofs and rock-hewn cellars with a brick-lined well — half a century later than the tree-ring date of about 1420 the pub's own site gave. The entry then states that the building has been in use as a public house since the mid-18th century, which is a century later than the 1638 bequest this page takes as its earliest record, and it says nothing of the alehouse of 1539 in the story told about the Whitefriars refectory. The sentence this page carried, that Historic England dated pub use to the 1630s, was not the listing's: the 1630s reference is the bequest of Robert Sherwin's rental income, reported in the encyclopedia, and the correction is made here. https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=1271441&resourceID=5
2026-09-12The Old Court House InnA second reading, and it dates the house by its own stones. Jersey's Historic Environment Record, kept by Jersey Heritage, enters the Old Court House Inn as a rare and exceptional dated example of a merchant's house, built in 1611 by Pierre Seale as five bays and two storeys over a large cellar close to the shore. The hall fireplace carries a lintel cut 1611 PS; a second lintel in the cellar reads 16 PS 68, for a great-nephew of the same name; the tourelle stair rises intact to the attic with paired doorways at every level; the two eastern bays were turned round to face the sea and refronted in the 19th century, and the west range raised a storey. The record dates the fabric to the Tudor and Stuart period, notes the extente of 1668 recording public weights kept in the cellars and that of 1749 calling the cellar Le Cellier du Roy, and calls the Admiralty prize court in the first-floor room a thing generally thought rather than documented. That is 1611 where Visit Jersey gives 1450 for the rear building, and it is a merchant's house rather than an inn or a court house. The listing reference BR0180 and the record number 0100180 are both new here, where this page had traced no listing at all. The ribbon now prints 1611 as the fabric date. https://her.jerseyheritage.org/report/503198d0-116c-0138-914e-740f24312a1c
2026-09-12The Old Court House Innthe review happened and rejected every candidate; what is missing is a photograph, not a reviewer
2026-09-12Café De PresseA second reading, in a regional heritage register rather than in a press report, and it is the first dating this house has had here. The Flemish Agency for Immovable Heritage carries Markt 50 as object 8455, under the name Stadswoning en Brandstraat: a wide house of three bays and two and a half storeys, its street front wholly altered in the twentieth century, on an older core, with a round-arched passage to the Brandstraatje; behind it a brick and sandstone range of three storeys which the register puts, with a question mark of its own, in the seventeenth century. The typologies it files the house under are back houses, town houses and paved roads — not inns, which is how it files Den Turk in Ghent. It names nothing at 1459. The description comes from the 1978 architectural inventory of the arrondissement of Aalst by d'Huyvetter, de Longie and Eeman, and the house lies inside the Brandstraat townscape protected on 10 March 1994. On the 1459 itself a second account differs from the one this page carried: the town's Manneken Pis was commissioned in 1455 from the Brussels fountain master Jan van den Schelden and delivered in May 1459 by the Brussels brass founder Reinier I van Tienen, for a fountain on the market place put up after Ghent men carried off a lion figure and the town was wrecked in 1452. That is a fountain rather than a façade, and either way it dates a statue and not a bar.
2026-09-12Café De Pressethe review happened and rejected every candidate; what is missing is a photograph, not a reviewer
2026-09-12U MedvídkůA second reading, in the Czech brewing trade's own directory rather than in an encyclopedia or the house's website. Pivovary.info dates the brewing house at Na Perštýně to the beginning of the fifteenth century, has the brewery founded in 1466 by one of the first owners and running without a break until 1898, and then the Old Town brewing houses giving up against the new industrial breweries and founding the Měšťanský pivovar at Holešovice, with the last brewer here, Karel Vendulák, as its first director. Two things it adds. It dates the present microbrewery exactly: the first brew was on 17 November 2004 and the Dům piva, built into the old malthouse with a shop and a hall, opened on 23 March 2005. And it quotes the brewer Ladislav Veselý in March 2005 saying that from the middle of the fifteenth century this was a house with brewing rights, malting and brewing, and that there were seven such houses in this small neighbourhood alone. One small disagreement is recorded rather than resolved: the directory spells the founder Medvídek where Czech Wikipedia has Nedvídek, which is the older form of the same name. The Czech heritage catalogue and MonumNet both refuse connections from here, so no listing entry for the house could be traced this pass, and Tomek's topography of old Prague, which is the authority behind the 1404, 1433 and 1438 dates, is digitised by the National Library without searchable text, so its pages could not be read.
2026-09-12Café 't RozenhoedjeA second reading, in a different state register from the monuments list read yesterday. The Dutch register of addresses and buildings, the cadastral record every municipality maintains, gives the premises at Boschstraat 109 in Maastricht a construction year of 1733 and a floor area of 186 square metres, in use with an assembly function beside a dwelling, within building 0935100000019224. The monuments register dated the cornice façade to the early eighteenth century; the building register puts a year on it, and 1733 is 267 years after the 1466 the café claims and 247 after the 1486 painted on its door. Neither register says anything about when drink was first sold here, which is still unsourced. https://service.pdok.nl/lv/bag/wfs/v2_0?service=WFS&version=2.0.0&request=GetFeature&typeNames=bag:verblijfsobject&outputFormat=application/json&filter=%3CFilter%3E%3CPropertyIsEqualTo%3E%3CPropertyName%3Eidentificatie%3C/PropertyName%3E%3CLiteral%3E0935010000000420%3C/Literal%3E%3C/PropertyIsEqualTo%3E%3C/Filter%3E
2026-09-12Café 't Rozenhoedjethe review happened and rejected every candidate; what is missing is a photograph, not a reviewer
2026-09-12Ye Olde Bulls Head InnThe inn's old address has not lapsed, which is new since this page last said it could not be reached: bullsheadinn.co.uk answers over an insecure connection and forwards every visitor to the Inn Collection Group's page for the inn, the page this site links. Over a secure connection it still fails its handshake, so the citation is now the archived copy of the house's own site from November 2022, which carries the announcement of the sale to the group. The link a reader is given is the operator's page rather than the house's own, and this row now describes it that way. https://web.archive.org/web/20221129052222/https://www.bullsheadinn.co.uk/
2026-09-12Stadsbierhuys De WaagA second reading from the Dutch national monument register, which this entry had not cited at all. The Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed lists Koepoortstraat 2 as monument 12999, registered on 23 May 1966, and describes the building as a late-Gothic stadsbrouwerij en waag — the town brewery and the weigh house, one structure. The official register, independent of the business and of the heritage magazines this page leans on, therefore records the brewing and the weighing together, which is the substance of the 1478 claim. The register adds that the building stayed unfinished until the architect N. de Wolf restored and completed it on historical evidence between 1947 and 1949, so the tall stepped gable in Lower Rhine style with its basket-arch recesses and diagonal brick pinnacles is in part a twentieth-century completion of a fifteenth-century design; the cellar keeps ribbed vaults on two brick pillars with tie beams from the original build. The grade A rests on the civic lease and is unaffected.
2026-09-12U FlekůEverything this page had came from the brewery, from Wikipedia and from the Czech business register. The second reading, on 12 September 2026, is the nineteenth-century Czech press and a Prague street directory, both in the National Library's Kramerius. Národní listy of 23 April 1866 carries a four-line notice — at Flek's, tapping on 25 April 1866 — which is the earliest record of beer sold at this house that anyone here has read; the notice gives no address, as tapping notices of the period rarely do. The small schematism of the streets and squares of Prague printed in 1870 lists the house sign U Fleků in the Křemencová block, where the brewery still is. Neither reaches 1499, and neither was expected to: the 1499 on the front page is the year Vít Skřemenec bought the house and began malting in it, which is the brewery's own wording, and the page already says so.
2026-09-12The Golden FleeceThe pub's old address has left the pub. thegoldenfleeceyork.co.uk still carried the Golden Fleece's own pages on 7 March 2026; by 21 April it was serving an online casino affiliate site, and today it forwards to an unrelated domain that answers a request with a challenge page. So the live link is dropped and the archived copy of 7 March 2026 is cited in its place, which is where the house's own account of the 1503 mention in the York Archives, Lady Peckett's yard and the ghosts can still be read. The link a reader is given stays with Pubsmiths, the company that runs the pub. https://web.archive.org/web/20260307212422/https://www.thegoldenfleeceyork.co.uk/
2026-09-12Café In de Blaauwe HandThe listing had been read on a private site that mirrors the Dutch register; on 12 September 2026 the register itself was read. It is more cautious than the local histories and than this page was. The Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed entered Achter de Hoofdwacht 3 on 17 April 1973 as monument 31115, calls the building late-medieval without naming a year or the cloth hall, dates the front to a nineteenth-century plastering, the shop-front to the third quarter of that century and the timber lower storey of the rear gable to probably the seventeenth, and picks out the polychromed gable stone reading De Blaauwe Hand 1797. The function it records for the building is a dwelling house. So the listing line, which was empty, now carries the register, and the building date says which parts belong to which century and which of the two accounts places the house in the cloth hall.
2026-09-12Quinten Matsijsthe review happened and rejected every candidate; what is missing is a photograph, not a reviewer
2026-09-12Grace Neill'sThe bar's own site is not out of date, which this page said it was. graceneills.com answers today over an insecure connection with a menu, tribute nights and a Christmas 2026 brochure, and CAMRA's entry lists it as the bar's website. What is broken is its security certificate, which expired on 5 August 2026 and was issued to an unrelated business, so a browser refuses the page and this site will not send a reader to it. The citation is therefore the archived copy of 9 June 2026, where the bar dates itself to 1611 as the King's Arms, and the link stays with its Facebook account, which is the bar's own notice of whether it is open. https://web.archive.org/web/20260609145045/http://graceneills.com/
2026-09-12Augustiner Bräu Kloster MüllnAustria's fourth entry had been read on the brewery's own site, in German Wikipedia and on a list of the world's oldest companies. The second reading of a different kind, on 12 September 2026, came from the Austrian National Library's newspaper archive and from a trade paper in it. Gambrinus, the brewing and hops journal, printed on 1 April 1889 a verse that it says stands in the Braustübchen of the Klosterbräu Mülln at Salzburg, written by the prior, the Reverend Georg Mödlhammer — which is the earliest record of a tap room at this brewery that anyone here has read, and the first mention of it outside the house's own account. The Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Salzburger Landeskunde for 1885 sets the friary itself on documents: a deed of sale kept in the Augustinians' monastery at Mülln, with a copy in the government archive, records the friars buying a property in 1670 for 4,000 gulden and 125 ducats. Neither reaches 1621, and the archive holds nothing that does, so the note's account of the founding still rests on the brewery and the encyclopaedia; a fifth chip beside the standfirst now records the 1889 tap room.
2026-09-12Morahan's BarThe coordinate was hunted again on 12 September 2026, this time by asking OpenStreetMap rather than a gazetteer: an Overpass query for any bar or pub within three kilometres of Bellanagare returns two houses, Farrell's Bar and Higgins, and both of them are in Frenchpark, three kilometres west. No pub of any name is mapped in Bellanagare itself. So the missing position is not an oversight in our own searching, and the next person to look should either walk the village or record that no openly licensed coordinate exists rather than search again.
2026-09-12Morahan's Barthe row has a website now: https://www.facebook.com/people/Morahans-Bar/100067207370575/
2026-09-12The Hole in the Wallthe review happened and rejected every candidate; what is missing is a photograph, not a reviewer
2026-09-12The Old Thatchthe review happened and rejected every candidate; what is missing is a photograph, not a reviewer
2026-09-12White Horse TavernA second reading from the same agency and a different document, on 12 September 2026, and the two do not agree. The additional documentation approved for the Newport Historic District National Historic Landmark, reference 68000001, describes the gambrel-roofed White Horse Tavern as of before 1693, enlarged in the eighteenth century, and still in operation — twenty years later than the probably built before 1673 in the individual nomination of 1971 that this page already cites. Its inventory of the district gives the same before-1693 date, and it puts the tavern at 16 Farewell Street where the house trades at 26 Marlborough Street on the corner of the two. Elsewhere in the same document the narrative on colonial taverns says the White Horse Tavern was begun in 1673 and holds the oldest tavern licence in the country, so the paper contradicts itself as well as its predecessor. Two things changed for the reader. The brass diamond was printing 1652, a year the 1971 nomination does not support and this page's own note said so; it now prints nothing, with a line saying why. And a fourth chip beside the standfirst records the 1693.
2026-09-12King George II InnThe Yelp listing supported nothing on this page. The 1681 is the Pennsylvania press's, the 1705 and the rebuild after the 1735 fire come from Wikipedia, and the street number is the one OpenStreetMap holds for the inn. A review site is not a source this site uses, so the citation has gone and nothing on the page changes with it.
2026-09-12Au Bon Vieux TempsThe closure has a document behind it at last. The Belgian Crossroads Bank for Enterprises holds one establishment unit at Impasse Saint-Nicolas 4 (unit 2.004.930.216, trade 56.11105 café-restaurants), registered from 1 December 1970 and ceased on 29 March 2025, and the register's active-only search finds nothing at the address at all where neighbouring house numbers return active businesses. That is the month a beer writer found the door shut, and seventeen months later the register still shows no successor. The row moves from believed trading to closed in 2025, and the café keeps its place on the site in the archive of lost pubs. Nobody publishes a cause, so the fire travellers describe stays their account and not ours.
2026-09-12The Purty Kitchenthe review happened and rejected every candidate; what is missing is a photograph, not a reviewer
2026-09-12The Split Crowthe review happened and rejected every candidate; what is missing is a photograph, not a reviewer
2026-09-12Albion House Tavernthe review happened and rejected every candidate; what is missing is a photograph, not a reviewer
2026-09-12The MitreOkell's, which runs the Mitre, publishes 'Temporarily: closed' where its other venue pages publish hours — the British on Douglas quay gives Monday to Thursday twelve until ten — so the closure is the operator's own statement about this house and not a default. It carries no date, which is why the status is recorded as believed rather than confirmed and status-verify goes back into needs. The same page supplies the website the row had been missing, and the Manx registered-buildings record carries the house as Registered Building No. 294, registered on 7 April 2021, whose notice calls it the oldest remaining pub on the Isle of Man — a description this site reports as the register's and does not adopt as its own. https://pubsandbars.im/venue/the-mitre/
2026-09-12The Mitrethe row has a website now: https://pubsandbars.im/venue/the-mitre/
2026-09-12Woolpack HotelThe hotel's own page, two trade titles and a pub directory all carried the 1796 and none of them a record. The second reading, on 12 September 2026, is the Dictionary of Sydney, the reference work the State Library of New South Wales hosted until it was archived in 2021, and it does not start where the hotel does. Its entry for the Woolpack Hotel gives the inn on the south-east corner of George and Marsden streets a construction date of 1820 and a demolition date of 1887, names it the Freemason's Arms in 1820 and 1821 under the emancipist James Larra — transported for stealing a tankard and later an innkeeper — and records John Williams, transported for pickpocketing, as publican from 1854 to 1865 and afterwards mayor of Parramatta. It puts the rebuilding at 1889, not the 1890s this page said, on the south-west corner, and says the Parramatta court house was built on the old inn's site. The building date now carries all of that, and three of the four chips beside the standfirst are new.
2026-09-12The Mansion Housethe review happened and rejected every candidate; what is missing is a photograph, not a reviewer
2026-09-12Old Absinthe HouseThe Yelp listing supported nothing on this page. The 1806 building comes from New Orleans Historical and from the bar's own page on its operator's site, the 1869 advertisement is the first record of the trade, and the operator's page carries the address and the hours. A review site is not a source this site uses, so the citation has gone and nothing on the page changes with it.
2026-09-12Perseverance TavernThis page said the building is widely described as heritage-listed and that no register entry had been traced, which left a reader unable to tell a gap in the record from a gap in our looking. The looking has now been done and is on the page. The South African Heritage Resources Agency's own site, searched on 12 September 2026, returns nothing at all for Perseverance Tavern, for Perseverance and for Buitenkant Street; SAHRIS, the national inventory the agency runs, did not answer a single request that afternoon. So the listing line now says what was searched and on what day, and the building date says plainly that the 1808 reaches us at second hand from the Cape Town Museum with no survey or register behind it.
2026-09-12Central Hotelthe review happened and rejected every candidate; what is missing is a photograph, not a reviewer
2026-09-12Edinburgh Castle Hotelthe review happened and rejected every candidate; what is missing is a photograph, not a reviewer
2026-09-12The BritanniaThe founding year of 1840 on this page rested on one visitor's review from 2019, which is not a kind of source this site uses, so the review has been dropped and the page now says that nothing we can open states a year for the house. Added in its place: the Brewery History Society's list of Guernsey brewery pubs, which has the Britannia selling Guernsey beers between 1985 and 1990 on the authority of local CAMRA guides — the earliest record of the house traced, and now the record the page prints — the Liberation Group's list of the pubs it supplies, and the Guernsey Press. The review's placing of the bar in a ranking of the island's oldest pubs has gone with it, since no publisher makes that comparison.
2026-09-12The Britanniano publisher states the 1840, and the page should say so rather than credit the house
2026-09-12Customs House Hotelthe review happened and rejected every candidate; what is missing is a photograph, not a reviewer
2026-09-12The Village Tavernthe review happened and rejected every candidate; what is missing is a photograph, not a reviewer
2026-09-12Old Canberra InnThe inn's own site was cited as evidence and given to nobody: this page carried no link out to it at all. oldcanberrainn.com.au answers, publishes kitchen hours seven days a week, and tells the story of the slab hut of 1857, the coach stop on the run from Yass to Queanbeyan until 1887, and the relicensing in 1974 — so it is now the link on the page as well as a source under it. https://www.oldcanberrainn.com.au/
2026-09-12Old Canberra Innthe row has a website now: https://www.oldcanberrainn.com.au/
2026-09-12Farmers Arms Tavernthe row has a website now: https://www.thefarmersarmscabarlah.com/
2026-09-12Garrick's Head Pubthe review happened and rejected every candidate; what is missing is a photograph, not a reviewer
2026-09-12The Palace Restaurant and SaloonThe Yelp listing was doing a job here — the address, the opening hours and the evidence that the saloon still serves — so the saloon's own site, which gives all three and was linked from this page without being cited, takes its place. The 1877 is untouched: it rests on the marker the City of Prescott put up outside, quoting the Arizona Weekly Miner of 21 September 1877. A review site is not a source this site uses.
2026-09-12King's HeadA second reading for a grade A, from a county history independent of both the National Trust and the register. The Victoria County History of Buckingham (vol 3, edited by William Page, 1925) calls the King's Head a good specimen of a mediaeval timber house, dates it to about 1450, and describes four ranges round a courtyard with timber walls, brick filling and tiled roofs. That falls within five years of the conveyance of 18 December 1455 naming the newly built Kyngeshede, and it is a third publisher putting the fabric in the fifteenth century. The same account names the town's other inns — the White Horse, the Dark Lantern, the Red Lion, the Crown, the Bull's Head, the George and the Black Swan — and the market house rebuilt about 1530 by Sir John Baldwin, so Aylesbury's inns were something this historian set down rather than passed over, which makes the King's Head entry the more useful. The grade stands.
2026-09-12New InnNo publisher states this year: not the house, not CAMRA, not a listing, not a local historian. The evidence table said so and the line under the H1 still read "Claims", which credited the house with a date nobody can show it gave, so the row is labelled and both now say the same thing.
2026-09-12Red LionA second reading from a county history, and it dates the front rather than the frame. The Victoria County History of Hampshire (vol 3, edited by William Page, 1908) puts the Red Lion among Southampton's surviving medieval buildings in a single clause: other timber buildings, now brick-fronted, are the Nag's Head and Red Lion Inns in High Street. So in 1908 the Red Lion showed brick to the street, which is independent support for the mock-timber front being a later dressing of a genuinely old frame. The same account lists the town's stone-vaulted basements and names those at 91 and 111 High Street as in good condition, without attaching a vault to the Red Lion; it gives no date of 1148, and it does not place the trial of the 1415 plotters here. A second publisher therefore confirms the timber building and confirms nothing older than it.
2026-09-12Red LionNo publisher states this year: not the house, not CAMRA, not a listing, not a local historian. The evidence table said so and the line under the H1 still read "Claims", which credited the house with a date nobody can show it gave, so the row is labelled and both now say the same thing.
2026-09-12Green DragonA blank from an eighteenth-century county history, recorded so nobody spends the evening on it again. Francis Blomefield's Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk (vol 2, the hundreds of Grimshoe, Wayland and Forehoe, 1805) gives Windham — Wymondham — a long account of its manors, its abbey and its church, notes that it is a market town with a market every Friday, and names no inn, tavern or alehouse in the town at all; it does not mention the fire of 1615 either. So the 1310 still rests where it did, on the sign and the website, and the only published datings of the house remain Historic England's mid-15th-century frame and the Norfolk pub historians' trade from the sixteenth century. The grade stays C.
2026-09-12The Ship InnA second reading, from the national park's own record office rather than from the national list, and the two agree. The Exmoor Historic Environment Record enters the Ship as monument MSO10692: an inn of 16th- or 17th-century origins with a cross passage, altered and enlarged in the early to mid 19th century. The same record dates the houses on either side of it - an early 17th-century lobby-entry house at the Old Rose and Crown, a 17th-century post office, a late 17th or early 18th-century cottage - so the 13th-century date the pub advertises is three to four hundred years earlier than anything a surveyor has put on this street. The record adds an anecdote of Robert Southey confined here by summer rain and gives it a year that cannot be squared with the poet's own dates, so the anecdote is noted and the year is not repeated here. The Exmoor record was reached through the Know Your Place Somerset map service, which answers an ordinary request where several county registers do not. https://www.exmoorher.co.uk/Monument/MSO10692
2026-09-12The Coopers ArmsA blank from a second publisher, recorded so the ground is not walked twice. Edward Hasted's History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent (vol 4, Canterbury, 1798) treats the city parishes of Rochester at length — the two parishes that once stood within the walls and the two without, the churches, the manorial holdings, the monuments — and names no inn, tavern or alehouse anywhere in them, nothing in St Margaret's Street and nothing beside the cathedral precinct. The oldest county survey of Rochester therefore carries neither the Coopers Arms, nor the 1543 opening the house gives itself, nor the reign of Richard I.
2026-09-12The Chequers InnA second reading, in a county history rather than in another survey of the frame. Edward Hasted's History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, volume five (Canterbury, 1798), spends seventeen pages on Lamberhurst — the head of the Medway running through the parish and dividing Kent from Sussex, with the larger part of the parish on the Sussex side; the furnaces in the woods that cast the rails and the seven iron gates round St Paul's churchyard in London; the village, or town as he says it is sometimes called, forty miles from London; the ruins at Scotney — and he names no inn, alehouse or tavern in any of it. A blank rather than a denial, and nothing in it puts drink here in the fifteenth century. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol5/pp294-310
2026-09-12The George InnA second reading, and the two registers disagree. Historic England lists the George at Lacock as an inn of C16 or earlier date. The Wiltshire and Swindon Historic Environment Record, read through the Know Your Place map service on 12 September 2026, holds the same building as monument MWI34179 and assigns it to the medieval period, typed as an inn and a timber-framed building, with the coach house behind it recorded separately as MWI72598. The HER gives no description of its own and points to the listed building description and to the Wiltshire Buildings Record, which has not been read here; its period is a band rather than a dated survey, and medieval in that scheme runs from the Conquest to the 1540s, so it is not a vote for 1300. But it is a second surveyor putting this fabric earlier than the national list does, on a house whose own claim is 14th-century, and the dating printed on this page now carries both readings instead of one. Neither register says anything about when drink was first sold here.
2026-09-12Royal OakA second reading, in a county history rather than in another survey of the frame, and it dates the licence. The Victoria County History of Shropshire, volume ten (1998), names the Royal Oak among the timber-framed buildings of Cardington village of the late 16th and early 17th century, which agrees with the listing. On drink it is more precise than anything this page had: alesellers are recorded in the parish at Cardington, Lydley Hayes, Plaish and Willstone in the early 17th century; from the mid 18th only Cardington had alesellers or beer houses; and the Royal Oak was licensed about 1800 and still flourishing in the 1980s, cited to the county record office's file for the house and the return of licensed houses of 1901. The county history records a tavern at Enchmarsh in 1256 and names none earlier anywhere in the parish. So the earliest record of drink sold at this house is about 1800, three centuries after the century CAMRA gives it, and the reputation of being the county's longest licensed house has a Georgian licence behind it. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/salop/vol10/pp22-44
2026-09-12Ye Olde SwanA second reading from a county history rather than a second look at the listing. The Victoria County History of Surrey (vol 3, edited by H. E. Malden, 1911) names the Swan Inn next to the ferry at Thames Ditton and dates it by its company rather than its timbers: it remains, the account says, as it was in the days when the household of George II frequented it. One sentence, and no medieval date in it — which is the point, because a survey written for the county in 1911 had the occasion to call the inn 13th century and did not. George II came to the throne in 1727, so the county history sits with Historic England's two early 18th-century houses rather than against them, and the 13th century is left where it was, in the pub's own telling. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/surrey/vol3/pp462-467
2026-09-12George & DragonA second reading, in a trade directory rather than in a listing, and it gives this house its first dated record of the trade. Kelly's Post Office Directory of Essex, Herts, Middlesex, Kent, Surrey and Sussex for 1867, transcribed by Steve and Donna Pickthall, sets out Houghton as a parish of 1,455 acres and 165 people in Bury hundred, four miles north of Arundel, and lists nine people under Commercial: William Ayling, farmer; Edward and Mary Catchlove, grocer and blacksmith; Joseph Cooper and Henry Duke, grocers; Edward Elliott, farmer; Moses Goble, shoemaker; and Robert Cunningham, George. In Kelly's shorthand a name followed by a sign is the publican, so the George at Houghton was open, with a landlord, in 1867, and that year now stands as the earliest record of drinking here rather than nothing at all. The directory writes the sign as the George where the house is now the George & Dragon, which is worth knowing for anyone searching earlier records. It is six centuries later than the 13th century CAMRA gives the house. https://www.dands.uk/ssx1867/houghton1867/
2026-09-12Eight BellsAn honest blank from the county record. The Gloucestershire Historic Environment Record, queried through the Know Your Place map service for the ground around the inn on 12 September 2026, holds no entry for the Eight Bells. What it does hold on Church Street is a watching brief of 2002 at Mill Cottage, which recorded two post-medieval pits, and a record for the town, which dates the weekly market granted to the inhabitants of Campden to by 1247, held in the High Street and in decline by the 17th century. So the county's own archaeologists have written nothing about a 14th-century inn here, and the only medieval date they attach to this part of Campden is the market grant. The blank is not a disproof, and it is recorded because the next person to work this house should not spend the morning finding it again. https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=20910&resourceID=108
2026-09-12The White HartA second reading, from a county history rather than from CAMRA or the listing, and it lands on the later side of both. The Victoria County History of Surrey (vol 3, edited by H. E. Malden, 1911) gives the house one careful line: the White Hart Inn may be of 16th-century date, though it has been restored externally. That is a century later than Historic England's C15 hall house and two centuries later than the fourteenth century CAMRA gives, and it is the only inn the parish account mentions at all. Three publishers now read the frame as late medieval or Tudor, none of them dates drinking here to the 1300s, and the grade stays C.
2026-09-12Ye Olde Yew Tree InnA second reading, in a county history rather than in another reading of the listing. Edward Hasted's History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, volume nine (Canterbury, 1800), takes Westbere over seven pages — the marsh level of some 370 acres under the commission of sewers for east Kent, Somner's account of oysters and an iron anchor turned up deep in a well, the manors of Hersing and Hopland held of the abbot of St Augustine's, the Stour flooding three-quarters of a mile wide below the village — and names no inn, alehouse or tavern in the parish. A blank rather than a denial, and nothing in it touches the plague year of 1348. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol9/pp68-74
2026-09-12The Old BellA second reading, in a town history compiled from the borough's own records rather than in a listing. William Holloway's History and Antiquities of the Ancient Town and Port of Rye (London, 1847) prints the inhabitants charged in the town tax about the middle of the eighteenth century with their houses named beside them — Thomas Hovenden at the Bull Head, William Cooper at the George, Thomas Ward at the Fortune, Ann Beane at the Dolphin, Robert Cooper at the Lyon — and states that these were the inns of the town. No Bell appears there or anywhere else in the book, which returns to the Mermaid repeatedly and records a German staymaker falling sick at the Flushing Inn in 1744. A house absent from the town's own list of inns two centuries ago is not evidence against a medieval frame, but it leaves the fifteenth century entirely to reputation. https://archive.org/details/historyantiquiti00holliala
2026-09-12The King's WarkA second reading, in a Victorian history of Edinburgh and Leith rather than in an encyclopedia, and it moves the first record of drink here ten years earlier. James Grant's Cassell's Old and New Edinburgh (volume three, London, 1881-83) sets out the charter history of the King's Wark: an annuity granted out of it by James III in 1477, John Chisholm re-edifying the decayed buildings under Queen Mary's feu of 1564, use as a plague hospital in 1575, and then the grant to Bernard Lindsay in 1613, which licensed him to keep four taverns in the buildings together with the tennis court for catchpel. It stayed in that use until 1649, when the magistrates of Edinburgh took it for a weigh-house. So the permission to sell drink is in the grant itself rather than a decade after it, and the earliest record of drinking on this ground is now 1613 instead of 1623. Grant also quotes Campbell's History of Leith conceding that where in the complex Lindsay began tavern-keeping was not known, and Robertson dismissing the carved rainbow and half-effaced date on the house then pointed out as his — a caution this page now carries, because the year belongs to the ground and not to the standing bar. https://archive.org/details/cassellsoldnewed03granuoft
2026-09-12Prince of WalesA second reading, in a local history by a named author rather than in a pub guide, and it reverses the order this page had. Thomas Gray's The Buried City of Kenfig, published by T. Fisher Unwin in 1909, prints the notice of 9 September 1886 that wound up the corporation under the Municipal Corporations Act 1883, with the schedule of what the new trust took over: the public house called the Prince of Wales Inn, let with a garden, a pond and a field called the Croft to Mrs Yorath at ten pounds a year, together with the corporation's interest in 1,200 acres of Kenfig Common, its silver mace, cup, weights, seal and documents. Gray adds that the inn had in recent years become the town hall of the borough — a licensed house that took on the civic work, rather than a guildhall that later sold beer. His account of the medieval borough's own guildhall, with free prison above for burgesses and a cell below for strangers, belongs to the buried town half a mile away. The 1886 schedule is the earliest dated record of drink sold on these premises that this page can cite. https://archive.org/details/buriedcityofkenf00grayrich
2026-09-12Ye Olde King's HeadA second reading, from the most recent scholarship on the city rather than from the listing again. The Victoria County History of Chester (vol 5 part 2, the city of Chester: culture, buildings, institutions, edited by A. T. Thacker and C. P. Lewis, 2005) treats the Rows as a group and puts this house among the rebuildings that kept theirs: where there was reconstruction, it says, as at Leche House in Watergate Street in the late 15th century or the Old King's Head at nos 48-50 Lower Bridge Street in the mid 16th, the new buildings continued to contain a Row. So a modern county history dates the reconstruction to the middle of the sixteenth century, narrower than the C15-to-early-C17 range the listing gives, and names neither Peter the Clerk nor Randle Holme in connection with it. Nothing in it reaches 1208 or records drinking, and the house remains a house until the King's Head name arrives in 1717.
2026-09-12Osteria del SoleA second reading, in a museum catalogue rather than in the osteria's own history or an Italian trade magazine. The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds an impression of the print this page rests its earliest date on: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli's Gioco Nuovo di Tutte L'Osterie, an etching of 1712, catalogued under object 764865, accession 49.70.5, acquired through the Elisha Whittelsey Fund in 1949, with a plate of 31.9 by 49.2 centimetres and the artist given as Mitelli of Bologna, 1634 to 1718. That does not prove the Sole at Vicolo Ranocchi is the Sole in the game, and the page still says so. What it does is take the 1712 out of a single Italian retelling and put it in a catalogue anyone can check, which is what a second reading is for. The 1465 remains the osteria's own, resting on documents in the state archive at Bologna that nobody outside the house has cited.
2026-09-12Osteria del Solethe review happened and rejected every candidate; what is missing is a photograph, not a reviewer
2026-09-12Cantina Do Morithe review happened and rejected every candidate; what is missing is a photograph, not a reviewer
2026-09-12Old Bearthe review happened and rejected every candidate; what is missing is a photograph, not a reviewer
2026-09-12T & H Doolan'sthe review happened and rejected every candidate; what is missing is a photograph, not a reviewer
2026-09-12Plough & HarrowA second reading, in the Royal Commission's inventory rather than in another reading of the listing. The Commission's record for Monknash Grange quotes its own Inventory of Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan, volume three part two (1982), pages 262 to 266: a Cistercian grange of Neath Abbey established about 1130 on a grant from Richard de Granville, its remains a twenty-acre enclosure of banks and ditches with a smaller inner enclosure, the Nash Brook running through both, and it continued until 1533. The ruined barn and the listed dovecote have records of their own. Of the ten sites the Commission holds at Monknash — grange, barn, dovecote, forge, farmhouse, church, three barrows — none is an inn, so the 1383 the pub takes from the grange sits inside the grange's four centuries and belongs to nothing the Commission records as a house of drink. https://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/sites/19355
2026-09-12Kafana Znak PitanjaThis row was graded B for one reason, stated on its own page: the account of the house had been read in the Serbian encyclopaedia and not in the record the encyclopaedia rests on, and the heritage institute's entry could not be fetched. It was fetched on 12 September 2026, through Serbia's information system for immovable cultural property, and it says everything the encyclopaedia said and more. The register dates the house to 1823 and credits it to the chief merchant Naum Ičko, building for Prince Miloš, who gave it to Toma Kostić for the Second Serbian Uprising; it records ećim Toma opening a kafana on the ground floor in 1826; and it names the house Ećim-Tomina kafana down to 1878, then Kod pastira, then Kod Saborne crkve from 1892 — until the Belgrade protopresbyter threatened court over a name he said profaned the cathedral, the sign came down overnight, and a question mark went up in its place. Drink recorded within three years of the fabric is grade A, so the grade moves from B. Three reader-facing fields change with it: the listing line now carries the register number SK 10, the entry of 16 June 1981 and the protecting decision of 2 December 1946; the building date carries the register's description of a Balkan-type town house in bondruk framing with a doksat over the garden; and the note records that the register gives the address as 7 July Street 6, the name the street bore when the entry was written.
2026-09-12Holohan'sthe review happened and rejected every candidate; what is missing is a photograph, not a reviewer
2026-09-12U Krále BrabantskéhoEverything this page had about the date came from Czech tourism bodies, a regional daily and the Czech encyclopaedia. The second reading, on 12 September 2026, is documentary: Prague's own address directories in the Czech National Library's Kramerius. The city address book for 1901 lists Antonie Hrzanová as holding the innkeeping trade at the sign of the King of Brabant in Thunovská, and lists her again in its roll of innkeepers by house sign — the first primary record of drink sold under this sign that anyone here has read, seventeen years after the 1884 the page dates the trade from, which rests on a secondary history. It brought two corrections with it. The 1901 directory puts the licence at Thunovská 18, and the Protectorate trade address book of 1939 puts "U Krále Brabantského", kept by Václav Plic, at Thunovská 15, where the house trades now; whether the business moved or the street was renumbered cannot be settled from here, and the note says so rather than choosing. And a second house carried the same sign in Žižkov, in Husova ulice, listed there by the chronicle of royal Prague of 1903 — which is what anyone searching the name will find first.
2026-09-12In den Ouden VogelstruysA second reading of a different kind, 12 September 2026: the first came from the café and the Dutch encyclopaedia, this one from the state. The Rijksmonumentenregister's own entry for Vrijthof 15 — monument 27697, entered 30 June 1966, cadastral parcel Maastricht B 997 — turns out to protect the 1730 front and nothing older: a broad cornice façade with corner blocks, a Namur stone doorway, and the gable stone lettered IN DEN VOGEL STRUYS with that year. Two things in it are worth a reader's time. The register dates no fabric to 1309, the year the house counts from; and the original function it records for the building is a dwelling house, which is the same finding this page already had from the nineteenth-century occupants and now has from the state as well. The listing line carries the exact date of registration and the register's reading of the function, where it had only the year.
2026-09-12Zum Schwarzen KameelAustria's third entry had been read in the house's own pages, the City of Vienna's historical encyclopedia and German Wikipedia. The second reading of a different kind, on 12 September 2026, is the Viennese press in the Austrian National Library's archive, and it dates the firm's trade rather than repeating its founding year. The Fremden-Blatt of 19 December 1852, and again on 2 January 1853, carries the house's own advertisement headed Spezerei- und Wein-Handlung, Stadt, Bognergasse, zum schwarzen Kameel: a spice and wine business at the sign of the black camel. That is a wine trade documented in 1852 and it is a counter selling bottles, not a room to drink in, so nothing has been entered here as the start of drink-led trade and the note now says what the press does and does not show. Nothing in the archive puts a public drinking room at the sign, which is what both histories of the house would predict.
2026-09-12Zum Roten BärenA second reading, in a regional daily and a national library catalogue rather than in the house's own history and an encyclopedia. The Badische Zeitung reported on 20 January 2012 that carpenters were at work on the Gothic timber column in the Bären's cellar, whose foot had rotted and was being replaced with a stone plinth — so the column this page describes as said to have been cut in 1263 is dated to that year by a publisher with no interest in the house, and part of what a visitor sees under the glass panel is fourteen years old. The German National Library's record confirms the fullest published account of the house, Monika Hansen's Das Buch vom Roten Bären in Freiburg, 230 pages, Rombach, 2009, subtitled for its landlords and landladies from the Middle Ages to the present. Neither reaches the court document of 13 March 1387 in which Hanmann Bienger is called the landlord at the Red Bear. That document, still unread here, is where the house and its trade first appear in the same breath, and Hansen's book is where to go for it next.
2026-09-12The Angel and RoyalA second reading, and the two heritage bodies describe different buildings. Lincolnshire's historic environment record, already cited here, calls the origin a camera of the Knights Templar — an estate house of the order rather than a public inn — and dates the entrance arch no earlier than 1370 from the carved heads of Edward III and Philippa of Hainault. Historic England's list entry, made when the house was listed Grade I on 8 May 1950, opens by calling it one of the few remaining English medieval inns and dates the street front late 14th-century, with the original window, buttresses and panelled parapet, the demi-angel corbel carrying the oriel over the carriageway, and long late 18th-century brick ranges round the yard with rainwater heads dated 1776. It hedges the rest as tradition in the same words this page uses: the headstops are said to be Edward III and Queen Philippa, King John is said to have stayed here. So one register reads the origin as an inn and the other as a Templar house, neither reaches 1203, and the grade stays as tradition. https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=1062486&resourceID=5
2026-09-12Le ProcopeFrance's first entry had been read in English Wikipedia, the house's own pages, the Paris region's tourist service and the Ministry of Culture's register. The second reading of a different kind, on 12 September 2026, is the press itself: the Bibliothèque nationale de France keeps an album of cuttings about this café in its Arts du spectacle department, dated 1910 to 1959, and it does not agree with the house about the year. Five of its pages give 1686; eight give 1689, one of them pinning the opening to the year the Comédie-Française began playing opposite, and one rebuking another writer for not knowing the Procope was founded in 1689. Three years either way leaves the grade where it was, and the page now says that the year is not settled rather than implying it is. Two things in the cuttings are new here. They describe the bath house that stood on the spot in the seventeenth century, whose attendants brought bathers their warm gowns and pressed a collation on them, which is the building Procopio took. And they follow the closure: shut and sold at auction in 1872, the café passed to the baroness Thénard, who let it in 1893 to a cabaret-keeper called Théo Bellefonds.
2026-09-12St. Peter StiftskulinariumAustria's oldest claim had been read in two places only: the abbey's own chronology and German Wikipedia. The second reading, on 12 September 2026, is the Austrian press, in the National Library's digitised newspaper archive. It puts public use of the cellar a long way from 803. The earliest mention the archive holds of the name Stiftskeller St. Peter is in the Salzburger Chronik für Stadt und Land of 22 February 1867, where a society that had sat from nine until one went down to the Stiftskeller for a plain meal; the earliest of the cellar under any name is in the Salzburger Zeitung of 9 July 1863, reporting an arrangement made in the St Peter cellar rooms. Nothing in the archive reaches the eighth century, or the 1720 the abbey's chronology marks for outside custom, and the note now says where the printed record actually begins. The grade does not move: it was already tradition, because a poem praising a monastery cellar is not evidence of a public house.
2026-09-12Au Vieux Spijtigen DuivelThis page had a Belgian magazine saying that nothing proves the house older than the eighteenth century, and naming no archive for the statement. On 12 September 2026 the Brussels-Capital Region's inventory of architectural heritage was read instead, and it says the same thing with a register behind it: notice 26736 for chaussée d'Alsemberg 621 in Uccle dates the building to 1701–1800, types it as an auberge, calls its style rural architecture and names no architect. Two fields a reader meets change because of it. The listing line, which was empty, now records that the house has been legally protected since 22 April 2010 — a fact this page did not have at all. And the building date, also empty, now carries the register's eighteenth century, which is three hundred years later than the year on the sign. The claimed 1500 stays graded as tradition, and it is now tradition contradicted by the region's own dating rather than by a magazine alone.
2026-09-12Hadley's Orient Hotelremove the happy hour: rule 8, and it is not evidence of anything the rest of the sentence does not already prove
2026-09-12The Pirates' Housethe Herb House claim is one that is often made, and the sentence now says so instead of stating it
2026-09-12Cantina Do Spadethe review happened and rejected every candidate; what is missing is a photograph, not a reviewer
2026-09-12Gospoda Pod Modrym FartuchemPoland's oldest claim rested on the national heritage institute's record and two Toruń tourism pages, all of which take the 1489 from the same place. The second reading, on 12 September 2026, is the National Library of Poland's digital collections, and it is an honest blank worth having: the library holds one item under the house's name, a photograph of the Gospoda "Pod Modrym Fartuchem" taken in 1919 by Günter Reinert and indexed under taverns and restaurants, and nothing printed before the twentieth century. The only other thing under the sign is Maria Bogusławska's novel of 1922, a historical romance set in seventeenth-century Pomerania, which is about the house and is not evidence of it. So the 1489 still rests on the register citing a mention nobody here has seen, and the note now says that the national library was searched and did not produce it — which should save the next person the walk.
2026-09-12Al BrindisiAdded on the night of 12 September 2026 as Italy's fourth entry and its oldest claim, grade C. The lead had been held back twice on question one, whether a glass is served at this counter without a meal, and the enoteca's own front page answers it: it signs itself an "Enoteca con Cucina", opens Monday and Tuesday from eleven to four taking no bookings, and runs from eleven to eleven with continuous service the rest of the week, which is a room open through the afternoon when no kitchen is working. Estense, the Ferrara daily, describes what that counter does — wine poured by the glass out of a cellar able to serve six hundred labels — and Italy's national tourism service describes sipping wine there with snacks of cured meats. The 1435 is the house's own, lettered on its front page, and it comes from Guinness, which carried the entry from 1984 to 2002 and named no document behind it. Nothing else does either: a Ferrarese history of the house attributes the year to the city's 1435 statutes against wine fraud, and the earliest dated text that names the spot is Ariosto's La Lena, performed in 1528, which names the Gorgadello and not this house. So the year is published as a claim with no record set against it.
2026-09-12Al BrindisiA second reading, in a civic museum record and a published street history rather than in the enoteca's press cuttings. MuseoFerrara, run by the culture and tourism department of the city of Ferrara, keeps a record for the Osteria "Al Brindisi" written by Stefania De Vincentis. It gives 1435 as the opening year with no document behind it, which is the same year from the same tradition, but the rest of it is new to this page. It quotes Ariosto's second Satire naming the Gorgadello, which is earlier than the 1528 performance of La Lena this page had as its earliest dated text, and it quotes Ercole Bentivoglio's Satires of 1540, where the Gorgadello and the Chiucchiolino appear in one line — the second name is the one lettered on the enoteca's sign today. Its bibliography is of Ferrarese local history: Pazzi 1929, Frizzi, Renzi, Melchiorri. The second reading is sharper still. Melchiorri's study of the city's street names has Via Gorgadello formed only after the new cathedral went up in 1135, when the ditch that drained the new quarter north of it became a street, and a published history of the lane dates an osteria famous for its wine here from the sixteenth century. The house's English page says it was certainly open in 1100 to serve the cathedral's builders. On this reading the street was not there to stand in.
2026-09-12Al Brindisithe review happened and rejected every candidate; what is missing is a photograph, not a reviewer
2026-09-12Casa PedroAdded on the night of 12 September 2026, on the precedent set by the Taberna Antonio Sánchez: the evidence that there is a counter is real, and nobody states in words that a walk-in is served a drink at it, so the row carries the question rather than waiting for it. The Academia Madrileña de Gastronomía describes the house managing before the 1950s with a big counter and a small room that served as the dining room, and Libertad Digital in February 2026 says there is still a bar at the entrance. The dates are a three-way split and all three are on the page: 1702 from the family, whose earlier papers are said to have been lost in the Civil War; 1825 as the first written record of the house, in the city's tourism service and in the Academia alike, which is what the record column now shows; and the Catastro del Marqués de la Ensenada of 1750, which names three mesones in Fuencarral and which the family reads as naming an ancestor. It is out of the ranking because no publisher traced records drink-led trade here in any year.
2026-09-12Casa PedroSpain's second-oldest claim rested on Madrid newspapers, the city's tourism service and the gastronomy academy, all of them repeating the family. The second reading attempted on 12 September 2026 was the archive itself, and it is an honest blank. Spain's national archives portal returns no description of an inn or mesón at Fuencarral; and the Ministry of Culture's own site for the Respuestas Generales of the Catastro del Marqués de la Ensenada — the volumes the 1750 entry the family's researcher found would be in — answered every query that day with a database error, retried and still down. The note now says both things, so the next person knows the state catalogue has been looked at and that the one archive that could settle the 1750 was unreachable rather than unhelpful.
2026-09-12Jama MichalikaAdded on the night of 12 September 2026, the question that had kept it on the list of leads having been answered in words: a Kraków visitor guide tells readers to drop in for a drink at the bar, and the house's own English page offers traditional Polish alcohols. Two rulings travel with it. It is typed as a tavern because the type list holds no café and will not gain one for a single house — the same reading that types a Paris café, a Tokyo bar and a Seville taberna — and the words kawiarnia and café are in the writing instead, where a reader meets them. And it is out of the ranking because the 1895 dates the Cukiernia Lwowska, a confectioner's shop founded by Jan Apolinary Michalik, on the City of Kraków's own account, while nobody publishes a year for when drink began to be sold over the counter. The status is believed rather than confirmed: the freshest dated thing the house itself has published is a New Year's Eve poster uploaded in November 2025.
2026-09-12The QueensAdded on the night of 12 September 2026 by correcting the worst mistake in the data: the house was in the archive of lost pubs, and it is open. The archive entry rested on two absences — OpenStreetMap's survey of 10 January 2025, which records the door as a disused pub, and the old web address showing Hosting Expired by that October — and both had a cause other than an ending. The pub shut early in 2025 for a sale and a refit and reopened in July under Doherty Hospitality, at a new web address, which is why the old one lapsed. 98FM reported the reopening on 16 July 2025; the Revenue Commissioners' register of liquor licences renewed for 2025/2026, saved on 2 September 2026, lists Publican's Licence S0314 at 12 Castle Street held by Glebe Taverns Limited; and the pub's own site, copyright 2026, publishes hours from nine in the morning. The archive row has been withdrawn rather than deleted.
2026-09-12KindliSwitzerland had no entry on this site and no candidate names at all until 12 September 2026. The Kindli is the first of two admitted that morning. German Wikipedia's article, which follows the Zurich art monuments volumes, records wine sold in the house in 1409 and a drinking room reported from 1357, and the house's own pages claim 1474 for the pilgrim Hans von Waltheym's visit. It is out of the ranking because the drinking stopped: the house was a private dwelling from 1618 and licensed again only in 1876.
2026-09-12KindliBoth readings of this house came from the same place: German Wikipedia after the Zurich art monuments volumes, and the hotel's own pages. The second reading, on 12 September 2026, is a scholarly one from the ETH library's Swiss journal archive — Paul Leemann-van Elck on printing and the book trade in the canton of Zurich, in the transactions of the Antiquarian Society of Zurich for 1950–55. It matters because it covers exactly the years this page says the drinking stopped, and it finds the house full of booksellers: a printing works in the Kindli from 1725, a bookshop moved in in 1774, another out in 1798, another in in 1805 and out in 1809. The same author names a dozen Zurich taverns in those pages by the words Wirtshaus zum, and never the Kindli; across the archive's eleven million pages, Wirtshaus zum Kindli and Gasthaus zum Kindli return nothing. That blank is worth the room it takes, because it supports the break in trade between 1618 and 1876 rather than the unbroken line the sign suggests. One warning went into the note as well: the Haus zum Kindli at Rüdenplatz 8 is a different Zurich house, and the art-history writing about its Murer figure is not about this one.
2026-09-12Taverne zur KroneAdded on 12 September 2026 as Switzerland's second entry, in a country this research had never worked. The Krone's own history page and German Wikipedia, citing the city of Dietikon's 2010 book about the building, both date the first mention of a taverne on the site to 1259, when Wettingen Abbey owned it; German Wikipedia also explains that a taverne was the licence that allowed drink, food, beds and a sign. The charter behind the 1259 has not been read, which is recorded as an open question against the entry.
2026-09-12Taverne zur KroneA second reading, in a learned society's journal rather than in the house's own account or the city's. Karl Grunder's piece on the Taverne zur Krone in the Mitteilungen der Antiquarischen Gesellschaft in Zürich, volume 74 for 2007, is on the ETH Library's E-Periodica, and it disagrees with what the house and German Wikipedia say about 1259 in a way worth printing. The document is dated 17 October 1259 and it regulates the sale of Dietikon by the Habsburgs to Wettingen Abbey; the taverns of Dietikon and Schlieren are named in it beside the mills, and neither is described further. So 1259 is the year the abbey bought the village, not a year in which the abbey is recorded holding an inn it already had, and the page now says so. Grunder also supplies what nobody here had: named landlords. Jakob Bitterkraut gave up his claims on the tavern in 1332, a tavern charter of 1408 describes Konrad Schmid's house as four chambers, two stables and a threshing floor, a landlord Hurst appears in 1432, and Adelheit Stockerin is called the landlady at Dietikon in 1504. The grade A rests on a tavern named in a charter at the claimed date and is stronger for this, not weaker. The 1259 charter itself remains unread here, which the entry still records. https://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=mag-001:2007:74::76
2026-09-12Százéves ÉtteremHungary's first entry, added on 12 September 2026 in a country for which nobody had drawn up a list of candidates. Hungarian Wikipedia's account of the Péterffy palace, following the Budapest Lexicon, dates Hasslinger's inn in the building to 1831 and records that the rooms were refitted at the centenary in 1931 with a carved serving counter that is protected as applied art. The Hungarian monument register lists the palace under number 15429. Nothing published says whether a drink is served at the counter without a meal, which is recorded as an open question.
2026-09-12Százéves Étteremthe superlative is the house's own and the sentence now says so
2026-09-12City of London BarMalta's first entry, added on 12 September 2026. Guide Me Malta in August 2019 and Culture Trip in 2017 both date the bar to 1914 and name Karmnu Borg as its founder, with his son and grandson after him; neither cites a licence or a deed, so the year is graded as an account rather than a record. OpenStreetMap has it tagged as a public house, which answers the question of whether a drink is served without a meal. Nothing since 2019 confirms the doors are still open, so the page says the bar is believed trading.
2026-09-12City of London Barthe review happened and rejected every candidate; what is missing is a photograph, not a reviewer
2026-09-12Caffe CordinaAdded on 12 September 2026, and it is the correction that made it worth adding. Everything about Malta's most famous caffè repeats 1837, and Cordina's own history says the year belongs to the founders' shop in Cospicua, selling Italian goods from a horse and cart, not to these rooms: Cesare Cordina took them from the Casino Maltese in 1944, after a bomb closed the old shop, and the family's own account, published in 2021, says he rented them rather than bought them. The premises are part of the Casa del Commun Tesoro, built for the treasury of the Order of St John, and the entry is out of the ranking on the 1944 date.
2026-09-12KlötzlikellerSwitzerland's third entry, added on the morning of 12 September 2026 and the one that takes the country over the threshold for a page of its own. The house dates itself 1635; German Wikipedia's account of the Gerechtigkeitsgasse, after the Bern art monuments volumes, dates the cellar tavern 1632 and records that it is the last of more than two hundred such cellars in the city. Both numbers are printed here because they disagree. The house answers the question of whether it pours without a meal by inviting guests for an apéro.
2026-09-12KlötzlikellerSwitzerland's second entry had been read in two places, the house's own site and German Wikipedia. The second reading, on 12 September 2026, is Bernese scholarship in the ETH library's journal archive, and it takes the 1635 apart. Paul Schenk, writing on old Bernese inns in the Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Heimatkunde for 1945, says the 1635 is a figure cut into the door surround rather than a record of a founding, that the house was sold in 1652 by Hans Rudolf Zehnder of Worb to Wolfgang von Müline and stayed in that family until 1940, and that wine was probably being poured in the cellar before 1635 — his word, with no document named. The building report in the Zeitschrift für schweizerische Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte for 1942, written when 83,000 francs were voted for the restoration, records the lintel dated 1635 inside and a crossbeam in the courtyard dated 1534. The Berner Woche's illustrated piece of 1934 dates the house itself to 1545. Four dates from four publishers, and the building date and the chips beside the standfirst now say which is which.
2026-09-12Gleneagles BarMalta's third publishable house, which takes the country over the index gate, added on 12 September 2026. It was one publisher short on 12 September because both accounts of it were Wikipedia's. The second publisher is the Għajnsielem local council, whose own history of Mġarr harbour — read through the Internet Archive, the live page having gone — says the building was raised in 1732 as the port's barrakka, the cabin where passengers waited for the passage boats, under Grand Master António Manoel de Vilhena, and beside an osteria still standing at the time of writing. That settles what the 1732 dates, so the entry is published out of the ranking on the Caffe Cordina and Casa Morales pattern, with no year traced for the start of drink-led trade. A third publisher answers the drinking question: the Times of Malta's appreciation of the novelist Philip Nicholson, 14 July 2005, describes him at the counter. Nothing published since December 2024, when OpenStreetMap recorded the house as a café, has been traced, so the status is believed trading and the check stays open.
2026-09-12Gleneagles Barthe review happened and rejected every candidate; what is missing is a photograph, not a reviewer
2026-09-12Hortobágyi NagycsárdaHungary's second entry, added on 12 September 2026, and the house two questions had been left open on. Who publishes the 1699: the Hungarian monument register, entry 5333 under törzsszám 1851, which dates the building to 1699, records rebuildings in 1781 and 1830 and classes it as a commercial and hospitality building whose original type was a drinking house; and Hungarian Wikipedia's parish history, which has the csárda raised in the summer of 1699 at the bridgehead with its tavern-keeper charged by Debrecen to collect the toll. The 1781 some accounts give is the register's rebuilding date. Graded A on those two, with the note saying plainly that no primary document has been read and that the grade rests on the register's dating of purpose-built inn fabric. The drinking question is not answered in words by anything traced, so it is published with the question flagged, as the Taberna Antonio Sánchez was: what is published is a drinks list pricing wine by the decilitre and pálinka by the measure, and an opening hour of eleven.
2026-09-12Kondorosi CsárdaHungary's third entry, added on 12 September 2026, which takes the country over the index gate, and the question left open on it was whether a walk-in is served a drink. It is: the csárda publishes a drinks card of its own, valid from 25 November 2025, pricing draught beer by the fifth, third and half litre and pálinka at three and five centilitres. Graded C, because the claimed 1740s are local tradition — Hungarian Wikipedia has a first adobe-and-reed house in the early 1740s with no builder named, burned by men from Gyoma in 1783 — while the first record is the military survey of 1784, which is also the year the monument register gives for the standing baroque house. It is out of the ranking because the drinking stopped: the house was a store and then a party office after the war and worked as a csárda again only from 1955, under the local farming co-operative.
2026-09-12Pig and Whistle InnAdded 12 September 2026, South Africa's third house. The inn's own history dates the inn to 1832, a decade after the forge it stands beside, and that is the year recorded; English Wikipedia dates the building to 1821 and the national heritage agency lists it as a Provincial Heritage Site.
2026-09-12Tri ŠeširaAdded 12 September 2026, Serbia's second house. The 1864 is the kafana's own and Serbian Wikipedia's; no record behind it has been read. Whether a visitor is served a drink without a meal is not stated anywhere we can read, and the page says so.
2026-09-12Kafana LončićAdded 12 September 2026, Serbia's third house, on Radio-Television Vojvodina's report of December 2017 and the Serbian encyclopaedia. Marked believed trading rather than confirmed: the most recent reading is that broadcast and an OpenStreetMap record of 2024 that tags it a pub.
2026-09-12Ginjinha Sem RivalAdded 12 September 2026, Portugal's second house. Lisbon council's register of shops with a history dates it to the end of the nineteenth century and describes counter sale and pavement drinking; the Portuguese encyclopaedia gives 1890.
2026-09-12Ginjinha Sem Rivalthe review happened and rejected every candidate; what is missing is a photograph, not a reviewer
2026-09-12Cervejaria TrindadeAdded 12 September 2026, Portugal's third house, on the Portuguese encyclopaedia and the hall's own history. Nobody we can read says in words that a visitor may drink here without eating, and the page says so.
2026-09-12Bar CinzanoAdded 12 September 2026, Chile's second house. Spanish Wikipedia and La Tercera date the business to 1896 and describe it as a pulpería that worked occasionally as a bar, which is why it is published outside the ranking; Emol reported the reopening of September 2022.
2026-09-12Confitería TorresAdded 12 September 2026, Chile's third house, out of the ranking: the 1879 dates a confectionery and the rooms on the Alameda date from 1904. Whether a visitor is served a drink without a meal is not stated anywhere we can read.
2026-09-12Confitería TorresChile's oldest claim had been read only in Spanish Wikipedia and on the house's own site. The second reading, on 12 September 2026, is a newspaper: El Cronista of Santiago for Thursday 26 April 1979, page 38, in the scanned run the Universidad Diego Portales publishes through its Cenfoto archive. It reports the confectionery about to keep the centenary of its inauguration on the Saturday following, which puts the opening in late April 1879 and is the first thing outside the family's own telling to fix the year. It brings a disagreement with it, and the note now carries both sides: the paper names the founder Juan Domingo Torres, a mayordomo of a grand house, where the encyclopaedia says José Domingo Torres. The article is also the earliest description anyone here has read of what is actually sold — by 1979 the house was, in the paper's words, only a bar-restaurant, and its barman mixed the December cola de mono with a cherrywood stick he took home on the 31st.
2026-09-12Café de la Table RondeAdded 12 September 2026, France's second house. French Wikipedia and a local newspaper account of January 2023 date the café to 1739 and name the confectioner who opened it in a clockmaker's shop; the house prints the same year on its front page.
2026-09-12Café de la Table Rondethe review happened and rejected every candidate; what is missing is a photograph, not a reviewer
2026-09-12Au Chien qui FumeAdded 12 September 2026, France's third house. The Ministry of Culture's notice dates the building to the last quarter of the nineteenth century and describes the counter it protects; the 1740 in the French encyclopaedia has nothing cited behind it and the house does not claim it, which is why the row is published outside the ranking.
2026-09-12SkindbuksenAdded 12 September 2026, Denmark's second house. The house dates itself to 1728 as a tap room and Danish Wikipedia's street article records the same; the owner answers the question of whether a walk-in is served by saying it keeps no tables back for drinkers.
2026-09-12Weis' StueAdded 12 September 2026, Denmark's third house, on the listed-building record published through the national encyclopaedia and the owner's own pages. Out of the ranking: 1600 dates the frame, and the register's plainest statement of drinking here comes after the town's restoration of the 1910s.
2026-09-12Antigua Taberna QueiroloAdded 12 September 2026, Peru's second house. The taberna's own history, the Spanish encyclopaedia's article on the district and Infobae of January 2025 agree on 1880 and on the pulpería it began as, which is why it is published outside the ranking.
2026-09-12Ginza Lion Beer HallAdded 12 September 2026, Japan's second house. The Council for Cultural Affairs dates the building to 1934 and describes the beer hall it protects; Sapporo Beer's own history, through the Japanese encyclopaedia, dates the hall's opening to 8 April that year.
2026-09-12Piano Bar MúnichAdded 12 September 2026, Peru's third house. No founding year has been traced; the Spanish encyclopaedia's account of the salchipapa puts a bar in this room in the 1950s, and El Comercio in 2020 and Infobae in January 2025 report it still open.
2026-09-12Piano Bar Múnichthe review happened and rejected every candidate; what is missing is a photograph, not a reviewer
2026-09-12Daijin HontenJapan's third publishable house, which takes the country over the index gate. Japanese Wikipedia's article on 大甚本店 dates the izakaya to 1907 (Meiji 40) from printed Nagoya guidebooks and the Chūnichi Shimbun; the house's own chronology at daijin1907.com/overview gives the same year, the 1945 burning, the 1948 resumption once sake came off control and the 1954 rebuilding. Graded C because no record of the period has been traced. Published with no coordinate: OpenStreetMap has no node for the house, which an Overpass name query across Nagoya confirmed.
2026-09-12The QueensThe Isle of Man's second house. The Manx registered-buildings record, transcribed with its numbers and registration dates in the English Wikipedia list, gives Registered Building No. 201 as a public house built before 1826 and called the Queen's Hotel by 1854; Okell's own venue page confirms it trading, with opening hours that run three hours past the kitchen's, and OpenStreetMap tags it amenity=pub. Graded A on the 1854 record of inn use, with primary-record-1854 in needs because the register's notice itself answers 404 from this machine.
2026-09-12The CentralThe Isle of Man's third house. The Manx registered-buildings record, transcribed in the English Wikipedia list with its numbers and registration dates, dates Registered Building No. 176 to about 1797 as a private house for Thomas Mylrea and later the High Bailiff's residence; OpenStreetMap tags it amenity=pub and a free house. Grade B on the fabric, out of the ranking because the 1797 dates a house and no record of the start of drink-led trade has been traced, and status believed rather than confirmed.
2026-09-11The Old Ferry Boat InnCAMRA's entry for the Ferry Boat was updated on 16 February 2026 and gives daily hours from seven in the morning, with Greene King as freeholder, matching the Old English Inns page the pub trades under.
2026-09-11Ye Olde Fighting CocksChecked again in September 2026 because this is one of the best-known claimants on the site and it did stop trading in 2022. CAMRA's entry carries it as open, with a survey on 3 March 2026 and an update on 4 August 2026, and the pub's own site lists hours seven days a week. It reopened in April 2023 and has not closed since.
2026-09-11Ye Olde Fighting CocksThe page attributed AD 793 to the pub without citing the pub. Its own website makes the claim, so the claim is now recorded as the house's and the website is cited.
2026-09-11The White Lion InnSettled on two dated records. CAMRA surveyed the inn on 4 October 2025 and updated its entry on 27 February 2026, and that entry publishes opening hours six days a week. The Food Standards Agency last inspected the premises as a pub on 30 July 2025 and rates it 5.
2026-09-11The White Lion InnThe 1,200-year claim is the inn's, but it reaches us only at second hand, through a 2024 blog that attributes it to the house. The note now says so.
2026-09-11The White Lion InnThe address line published our own uncertainty inside it, which is a note for us and not an address. CAMRA's entry for the inn gives Llanelian-yn-Rhos, LL29 8YA and names no street — the house stands beside St Elian's church in a hamlet — so the hamlet and the postcode are now the address, and the note records that no street name has been traced. https://camra.org.uk/pubs/white-lion-inn-llanelian-yn-rhos-115819
2026-09-11The White Lion InnThe evidence note ended by saying that trading status was not confirmed, when two dated records had already settled it: CAMRA surveyed the inn on 4 October 2025 and its entry, updated on 27 February 2026, publishes hours six days a week, and the Food Standards Agency inspected the premises as a pub on 30 July 2025. The note now says the inn is trading, which is what the badge on the page has said since.
2026-09-11The Cridford InnThis page published our own doubt inside a fact, saying the inn was listed but that the grade was not confirmed. It is grade II, on Historic England's own register of listed buildings, entry 1146542, designated on 3 July 1986 — and the register spells the house Crideford Inn, which is worth knowing for anyone searching it. The date of designation carries a small point of its own: the building was listed four years after it stopped being a farmhouse, so the register has only ever known it as an inn and cannot be cited on how long it has poured. CAMRA's South Devon branch, whose entry was last updated on 25 February 2026, says the conversion happened in 1982 and that the house changed hands in August 2018, which is now the owner line in place of nothing. Teignbridge District Council inspected the inn on 22 July 2026 and rates it 5.
2026-09-11Sean's BarSearch suggestions pair Sean's Bar with the word closing, and the trail leads to one day. The Westmeath Independent reported on 23 October 2024 that the bar would shut all day on 24 October as a mark of respect after the sudden death of its owner, Phil Byrne. It has traded since: the same paper reported in May 2025 that it won Pub of the Year at the Irish Restaurant Awards under Cathy Byrne, and on 30 July 2026 listed it among the Athlone venues hosting sessions for Féile na Sionainne between 29 July and 2 August. Nothing indicates the bar is closing.
2026-09-11The Porch HouseThe Porch House's live site no longer prints 947; its own history page did until at least 2020, quoting a local history of 2000. The claim is the house's and is now cited to the archived page.
2026-09-11The Bush InnCAMRA surveyed the Bush on 11 February 2024 and updated its entry on 19 August 2026: open every day from noon, an asset of community value, and an interior of Delabole slate floors, flagged passages and stone fireplaces that CAMRA counts as historic. Cornwall Council inspected the premises as a pub on 22 April 2026 and rates it 5. CAMRA repeats the house's own story of a chapel and 950 without adding a record behind it, so the grade stays where it was.
2026-09-11The Bingley ArmsLeeds City Council inspected the Bingley Arms as a pub on 4 September 2025 and rates it 5, which is the most recent dated record that the doors are open: CAMRA has not surveyed it since July 2022. The inspection also settles the address at 37 Church Lane, LS17 9DR. Nothing found in September 2026 moves the 1738 datestone or turns the 953 into a record.
2026-09-11The Royal OakHistoric England lists the building Grade II and dates the frame to probably the fifteenth century, where we had recorded it as of uncertain date. The 1002 on the sign is a story about Queen Emma; the frame is four centuries later than that and older than the 1430 taverner.
2026-09-11The Church House InnSouth Hams District Council inspected the Church House as a pub on 17 March 2026 and rates it 5. CAMRA's entry, updated in May 2023, gives hours Tuesday to Sunday with Mondays closed, and still puts the listed building in the sixteenth century rather than at the 1028 of the church-builders' story.
2026-09-11Klosterschenke WeltenburgTwo checks. The Klosterschenke publishes its own 2026 season, which is worth having in front of a reader who might travel for it: open daily until 1 November, shut from 2 to 25 November, then weekends only until 20 December, with weekdays for booked parties. And the Bavarian monument list, transcribed with its reference numbers in the list of listed buildings at Kelheim, dates the abbey brewhouse to 1718/19 with a storey added in 1734 and the courtyard ranges to 1724/25, and records that the abbey was dissolved in 1803 and re-established in 1842. So the 1050 the abbey advertises is a claim about brewing on the hill, with an interruption of thirty-nine years in the middle of it, and the fabric a visitor drinks in is early eighteenth century. The official Bavarian register would be the better citation and is not reachable from here.
2026-09-11The Old InnThe claim is "11th century" and names no year, so the ranking sorts it from 1000, the century's first year, rather than 1050. Nineteen pubs were already sorted that way and ten, including this one, were entered fifty years later, which put houses making the same claim fifty places apart. The claim, the grade and the evidence are unchanged. Ruled on 11 September 2026.
2026-09-11The Old InnThe claim is the pub's own, and its about page also dates its trade as a public house only from the 15th century — a distinction the tourism lists drop.
2026-09-11Moulin de LecqCAMRA's Channel Islands branch surveyed the Moulin on 23 February 2025 and updated its entry on 9 August 2026: eleven in the morning to ten at night every day, a free house in the Good Beer Guide, with its own Jersey-brewed pale ale on the bar. Those hours matter here, because the house's own site publishes only its kitchen times and reading them alone would suggest a drink waits on a meal. The branch also names the freeholder, the Edwin Group, which the page had not recorded and which is the same group that holds the Old Smugglers at Ouaisné. On the age: the house's own account, read on 11 September 2026, says the mill worked by water alone until 1929 and then became a private home, so the reason this page keeps the Moulin out of the ranking is now that plain fact rather than a vague gesture at the modern era.
2026-09-11The Skirrid InnThe Skirrid reopened in 2023 after four years shut, and the question was whether it had stayed open. CAMRA surveyed it on 2 March 2025 and updated the entry on 4 June 2026, giving hours six days a week and naming Punch Pubs & Co as freeholder; the inn's own site lists the same hours.
2026-09-11The Olde BellThe 1135 is printed on the hotel's own history page, which the entry had not cited.
2026-09-11The Old House 1147CAMRA updated its entry for the Old House on 11 June 2026 — open from eleven in the morning every day, with food at set hours, so a drink does not depend on a meal — and quotes the Grade II listing putting the building in the later seventeenth century, five centuries after the 1147 in its name. The same entry records a three-year rebuild, after which the house reopened in May 2019. Bridgend County Borough Council last inspected the premises on 18 March 2025 and rates it 5.
2026-09-11The Red LionEast Hampshire District Council inspected the Red Lion as a pub on 9 December 2025 and rates it 4. CAMRA's entry, updated on 31 October 2024, has it open seven days under Fuller, Smith and Turner, and describes the thatched building as twelfth century without citing anything for the date — which is the same tradition the page already reports rather than a second record of it.
2026-09-11The Oxenham ArmsThe claim is "12th century" and names no year, so the ranking sorts it from 1100, the century's first year, rather than 1150. The 1477 licence in the label is the first record and not the claim; it stays where it is. The claim, the grade and the evidence are unchanged. Ruled on 11 September 2026.
2026-09-11The Oxenham ArmsThe 12th century and the 1477 licence are both printed on the inn's own history page, which the entry had not cited.
2026-09-11The Crown InnThe claim is "12th century" and names no year, so the ranking sorts it from 1100, the century's first year, rather than 1150. It had been sitting seven places below the Old Inn at St Breward, whose claim is a century older and rests on the same church-builders' tradition. The claim, the grade and the evidence are unchanged. Ruled on 11 September 2026.
2026-09-11The Crown InnThe pub publishes no date; the 12th century is CAMRA's, so the page now says so instead of putting it in the licensee's mouth.
2026-09-11The Pied BullThe address line said 'full address not verified' to the reader instead of giving one. CAMRA's entry for the house puts it at 57 Northgate Street, Chester CH1 2HQ. https://camra.org.uk/pubs/pied-bull-chester-137130
2026-09-11The Mermaid InnRother District Council inspected the Mermaid as a pub on 30 January 2026 and rates it 5, which answers the question the inn's own history raises: it was a club from 1913 and a hotel from 1945, and held no full licence until 1955. CAMRA's entry, updated on 21 May 2026, records the separate bar, its counter of overlapping planks put in at that 1955 reopening, and the thirteenth-century stone vaulted cellar.
2026-09-11The Lamb InnThe address named a street and not a house. CAMRA's entry and Eastbourne Borough Council's food hygiene register both put the Lamb at 36 High Street, Old Town, BN21 1HH, so that is the address now, and the listing and the brewery it is tied to are recorded with it. CAMRA surveyed the pub on 12 February 2026 and updated the entry on 23 February: open seven days as a Harvey's house, Grade II listed, and its medieval undercroft given a place on CAMRA's inventory of pub interiors of special national historic interest. The council inspected it as a pub on 7 October 2025 and rates it 5.
2026-09-11Ye Olde Trip to JerusalemThe Trip's own page states that its doors first opened in 1189, so the claim is cited to the house rather than asserted on its behalf.
2026-09-11The Brazen HeadTwo registers read on 11 September 2026 rather than another retelling. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage records the house at 19-20 Bridge Street Lower under reg. 50080525, repeats the tradition of a public house here since 1198, and sets one document beside it: a grant in 1703 to James King of the large timber house called the Brazen Head, the present building having been rebuilt in the middle of the eighteenth century. Revenue's register of renewed liquor licences, current to 2 September 2026, carries a seven-day publican's licence at that address under ref S1475, held by Bridge Street Taverns Limited trading as the Brazen Head. Our address gave one house number where both registers give two. The 1198 is the house's own, stated on its story page — the same page that dates its earliest document to 1653 where we have 1613.
2026-09-11Llindir InnThe inn's own hours were the only thing behind this before. CAMRA surveyed it on 28 January 2025 and publishes hours seven days a week, and the Food Standards Agency inspected Llindir Inn Ltd on Llindir Street as a pub on 8 August 2025. Two records outside the inn's own account of itself.
2026-09-11Llindir InnThe address line said 'full address not verified' to the reader instead of giving one. CAMRA's entry for the inn puts it on Llindir Street, Henllan LL16 5BH. https://camra.org.uk/pubs/llindir-inn-henllan-136359
2026-09-11Old Smugglers InnCAMRA's Channel Islands branch surveyed the Old Smugglers on 10 March 2024 and updated its entry on 4 March 2026: open eleven in the morning to eleven at night every day, Sunday to ten, with food at set hours either side of the afternoon, so a drink here does not wait on a meal, and up to four real ales. The branch names the freeholder as the Edwin Group, which this page had not recorded. On the thirteenth century it repeats what the house says — granite fishermen's cottages on foundations reputedly that old — and puts no document behind it.
2026-09-11The Black Bull InnCAMRA surveyed the Black Bull on 30 January 2026 and updated its entry on 22 June 2026, with hours every day of the week. The Food Standards Agency inspected it as a pub in St James Square on 14 April 2025. The house has no website of its own, so these are the two records a reader can open.
2026-09-11The Black Bull InnThe pub's website has gone; the 13th-century date is CAMRA's branch entry, so the page credits CAMRA.
2026-09-11The Black Bull InnThe pub's old address has lapsed and is now a parking page: it answers, but with its own domain as the title and nothing about the pub. Dropped as a citation, and the row no longer describes an official website it does not have. Four independent sources remain, including CAMRA and a Food Standards Agency inspection: https://camra.org.uk/pubs/black-bull-inn-boroughbridge-181415
2026-09-11The Black Bull InnThe address described the market square in words and then admitted it could not name it. CAMRA's entry gives the corner: 6 St James Square, Boroughbridge YO51 9AR. https://camra.org.uk/pubs/black-bull-inn-boroughbridge-181415
2026-09-11The Royal Standard of EnglandThe 1213 and the Saxon alehouse are printed on the pub's own history page, which the entry had not cited.
2026-09-11Café Den TurkNeither Ghent's visitor guide nor the beer press gives a year, and the café publishes only on social media, so the 1228 has no source we can show.
2026-09-11The Turks Headhttps://turksheadpenzance.co.uk/ redirects to itself indefinitely on 11 September 2026 — fifty redirects and no page, with and without cookies. Link removed; restore it when the loop is fixed.
2026-09-11The Turks HeadThe 1233 came from the pub's own website, which has gone offline; the claim is now cited to the archived page, and the note records that the sign outside gives no year.
2026-09-11Ye Olde Salutation InnThe 1240 is painted on the front of the pub, which CAMRA's heritage description records while dating the fabric three centuries later. The claim is the house's, and the note now says where it is written.
2026-09-11The Bear InnOxford City Council inspected the Bear as a pub on 12 December 2025 and rates it 5, which dates the trading of the house on Alfred Street. It does not touch the 1242: that belongs to the medieval Bear on the High Street, which closed in 1801, while this building is recorded as the Jolly Trooper from 1774.
2026-09-11Adam and EveThe 1249 is printed on the pub's own history page, which the entry had not cited.
2026-09-11The King's HeadThe claim is a 13th-century building and names no year, so the ranking sorts it from 1200, the century's first year, rather than 1250. The evidence note said the same thing by naming a field in the data, which reads as a message somebody forgot to delete; it now says it in English. The claim, the grade and the evidence are unchanged. Ruled on 11 September 2026.
2026-09-11The Pandora InnThe claim is "13th century" and names no year, so the ranking sorts it from 1200, the century's first year. It had been sorted at 1250, which is neither the century's first year nor a date anybody publishes. The pub's own website gives 1352 instead, and which of its two published dates is the claim this site should record is not settled; the grade is C either way, because neither is backed by a cited record. Ruled on 11 September 2026.
2026-09-11The Pandora InnThe label cited a website figure of 1352 that the inn's site no longer gives anywhere, and nothing recorded that its own 13th-century claim is for a farm rather than an inn. Its page also carries a dated record we had missed, the Restronguet Estate Accounts of 1488: https://www.pandorainn.com/the-pandora/
2026-09-11Ye Olde Man & ScytheThe note said the pub says 1251; nothing published by the pub says it. The figure is Bolton's local history site's, and the sign outside carries no date.
2026-09-11Kyteler's InnRevenue's register of renewed liquor licences, current to 2 September 2026, carries a seven-day publican's licence on Kieran Street in Kilkenny under ref KKP0794, held by Kytelers Inn Limited with Nicky Flynn named as its nominee — the same Nicky Flynn the inn's own history says took the house on in 1986. The 1263 is the inn's own wording, dating itself to Dame Alice de Kyteler rather than to a record, and it is credited to the house here now. No record of an inn on the site earlier than 1639 has been traced, three centuries after the year in the name.
2026-09-11The Tinners ArmsCornwall Council inspected the Tinners Arms as a pub on 25 July 2025 and rates it 5, which is a dated record that the house at Zennor is open. Nothing found in September 2026 puts a record behind the 1271 and the masons of St Senara's, and CAMRA's survey of the listed fabric still reads early eighteenth century.
2026-09-11Piwnica ŚwidnickaChecked on 11 September 2026 against the city of Wrocław's own news service rather than the operator alone, and it dates a gap this page could only describe. The restaurant stopped trading in 2017; the cellar reopened on 2 July 2022, five years later, with a brewery built into the vaults that was not yet pouring its own beer that day. The operator's history page gives hours from eleven or noon to midnight or later every day, dates the house to the thirteenth century and calls it the oldest representative city inn in the world, so the 1273 over the door is credited to the house rather than left with no mouth behind it.
2026-09-11The GeorgeThe address gave a street and no postcode, which is not enough to find a house with. Tunbridge Wells Borough Council's food hygiene register puts the George at Stone Street, Cranbrook TN17 3HE, and that is the address now. The same register records an inspection on 3 February 2026, rated 5, which dates the inn's trading; the c.1300 remains Shepherd Neame's dating and the royal visits remain stories about the town.
2026-09-11The Old Bridge InnCAMRA surveyed the Old Bridge on 31 January 2026 and updated its entry on 18 February: open seven days, in one family's hands since 1963, and a building it calls mainly mid-eighteenth century with earlier features — the same reading as the listing. Calderdale Council inspected the premises as a pub on 6 March 2026 and rates it 4. The 1307 belongs to the owners of the site, not to a house serving drink on it.
2026-09-11The Sloop InnCornwall Council inspected the Sloop as a pub on 28 April 2025 and rates it 5. The 1312 is still a reputation rather than a record: it is repeated by the inn and by CAMRA, and the building on the Wharf is largely a seventeenth- and eighteenth-century rebuild.
2026-09-11Scotch Piper InnCAMRA surveyed the Scotch Piper on 12 March 2024 and updated its entry on 10 December 2025: open from ten in the morning every day, Admiral Taverns as freeholder, and an interior it counts of outstanding national historic importance. Sefton Council inspected the premises as a pub on 14 August 2024 and rates it 4. The brewery is recorded plainly now rather than as the owner at the time of the fire repair, because it is still the owner; the house reopened in April 2017 after the thatch fire, and the timbers dated after the earlier fire of 1985 came out at about 1550.
2026-09-11The Cott InnSouth Hams District Council inspected the Cott as a pub on 14 August 2026 and rates it 5, which is the freshest dated record the house has: CAMRA has not surveyed it since June 2019. That entry names Greene King as freeholder and repeats the c.1320 and the story of Johannes Cott as the inn's own account of itself.
2026-09-11The Bell InnCAMRA surveyed the Bell on 20 February 2026 and updated its entry eight days later, and the Food Standards Agency inspected it in Bell Lane on 23 June 2026. Both are within six months, which matters for a pub that keeps short hours and no website.
2026-09-11The Old InnThe claim is "14th century" and names no year, so the ranking sorts it from 1300, the century's first year, rather than 1350. Four other pubs claiming the same century were already sorted at 1300 and this one sat fourteen places below them. The claim, the grade and the evidence are unchanged. Ruled on 11 September 2026.
2026-09-11The Angel InnThe pub and CAMRA both say '14th century'; the year 1350 is KentOnline's, so the page now credits the press for it.
2026-09-11The Barley MowCAMRA's survey here is old, from 16 March 2022, but the entry was updated on 9 October 2025 and gives hours every day under Chef & Brewer. The Food Standards Agency inspected the Barley Mow on 20 March 2025. The freeholder is Greene King, which lists it among its trading houses.
2026-09-11The Barley MowThe 1352 comes from a dated panel on the front of the pub, recorded in the listing. The listing does not itself date the frame to 1352, and the note now separates the two.
2026-09-11The Sheep Heid InnTwo things settled in one evening. CAMRA updated its entry on 18 November 2025 — open seven days, cask ale, the skittle alley of the 1880s still hired out, and drinkers welcome without a meal, which is the question that matters for whether a house is still pouring. And Historic Environment Scotland, which listed the building category B on 12 December 1974, itself repeats the 1360 in its statement of special interest, saying the first inn on the site is recorded then without naming the record. So the date has a second mouth and still no document behind it, and the listing's own reading of the fabric is an eighteenth-century core.
2026-09-11The Old CrownThe Food Standards Agency inspected the Old Crown at 188 High Street as a pub on 22 July 2026, two months ago, and rates it 5. CAMRA's entry was updated on 25 December 2025 and gives hours every day. The survey behind that entry dates from 14 May 2022.
2026-09-11The Old CrownThe 1368 is the pub's own, counted out in its 655th birthday of September 2023, and is now cited to the pub rather than left unattributed.
2026-09-11The Old CrownThe words under the first photograph called the Old Crown the oldest secular building left in Birmingham, where the page itself says among the oldest — the pub claims 1368 and its frame is dated to the later 15th century. The caption is not printed on the page today, but it travels in the open data anyone may download, so it now says the same as the page.
2026-09-11The ParrotThe 1370 dates the hall and comes from a regional heritage blog, not from the pub, which publishes no date and has only been a pub since 1987.
2026-09-11The Brocket ArmsThe pub claims the 14th century, not 1378. The precise year appears in none of the sources, and the page now says so.
2026-09-11The Blue Anchor InnCAMRA surveyed the Blue Anchor on 13 February 2026 and updated its entry on 11 March: open every day, in one family's hands for about seventy-five years, Grade II* listed, and a mid-sixteenth-century building extended in the early 1960s with beams replaced in the front lounge after the fire of 2004. The Vale of Glamorgan Council inspected the premises on 20 February 2026 and rates it 4. The Est. 1380 on the sign is still the inn's own, and Cadw still dates the house two centuries later.
2026-09-11The Cherub InnThe page said flatly that this is Dartmouth's oldest building while the line of facts beside it said the pub is believed to be. CAMRA's entry uses the same hedge, and the pub's own history page says the house is believed to have been built around 1380, so the standfirst now matches both.
2026-09-11Turf TavernRecorded Salter’s c. 1790 as the earliest documented date. It was already cited in the notes, so the pub’s page said one thing and its badge said "no record found" — the site was publishing the harsher of two figures it held.
2026-09-11The Crown InnRegraded C to B. The inn is listed Grade II* and Historic England dates the six-bay wealden frame to the fourteenth century, which is fabric of the age the inn claims. No record of drinking here in the 1380s has been traced, so it is not grade A.
2026-09-11The George InnThe address named a village and a county and no street, so a reader could not have found the door. Somerset Council's food hygiene register puts the George on the High Street at Norton St Philip, BA2 7LH, and records an inspection of the premises as a pub on 13 March 2024, rated 5. Nothing in that touches the tree-ring dates of 1430 to 1432, which are what the grade rests on.
2026-09-11The Lad in the LaneRe-checked in September 2026 and still closed. The closure note now records the fire of 7 November 2024, which West Midlands Fire Service put out and believed had been set deliberately, and cites the local report of it rather than resting on the CAMRA entry alone.
2026-09-11George & DragonCadw's listing was read for the first time, and it contradicts the 1410 rather than supporting it: the record, made on 23 September 1950 at Grade II*, dates the house to probably 1610 from a date found on a roof truss in the 1930s, and describes the 1410 as raised letters on a rendered band across the front — an inscription, not a dating. The grade moves from building dated to tradition on that, the listing grade is corrected from the Grade II a secondary source gave us, and the claim is recorded as the house's own, cited to the page that reports the lettering. Anglesey County Council inspected the premises as a pub on 6 February 2026 and rates it 5, so the house is trading.
2026-09-11The Three ChimneysBoth its links went to one organisation's website. The Historic England listing supplies an independent second and contradicts the date: 16th-century fabric with 18th-century alterations, and a cottage before it was a public house, where the claim and our building year both said 15th century. The claim is left as the pub and CAMRA make it; the record beside it now says something different.
2026-09-11The Three ChimneysThe circa 1420 is printed on the pub's own history page, which the entry had not cited.
2026-09-11Cittie of YorkeThe 1430 is on the pub's sign rather than on any website, and On London records the wording, so the claim can be attributed to the house and shown.
2026-09-11The Bell InnThe Bell's own site carried the 1437 until it was replaced by the pubco's pages; the claim is cited to the archived copy.
2026-09-11The Luttrell ArmsThe 1443 conveyance is the hotel's own published claim, cited here to the archived history page the present site dropped.
2026-09-11Ye Olde George InnThe claim is "15th century" and names no year, so the ranking sorts it from 1400, the century's first year, rather than 1450. Four pubs claiming the same century were already sorted at 1400. The claim, the grade and the evidence are unchanged. Ruled on 11 September 2026.
2026-09-11The Old Court House InnThe 1450 is Visit Jersey's figure; the operator claims only the 15th century, so the page no longer puts the year in the inn's mouth.
2026-09-11The Golf TavernThe weakest of the British ones and now settled. The tavern's own site was last changed on 13 August 2026. CAMRA lists it at 31 Wrights Houses with hours seven days a week, though its survey goes back to February 2019, and the Food Standards Agency record for the same address dates from September 2023. The recent date is the pub's own, so it is named as such.
2026-09-11Café De PresseThe 1459 belongs to a press report about the façade and the first Manneken Pis, not to a claim the café publishes.
2026-09-11U MedvídkůCzech Wikipedia's account of the house, read on 11 September 2026, is more exact than ours and moves the earliest record of drink-led trade later rather than earlier. The 1404 entry is about a burgher's house whose next occupants were probably soap-boilers; malting and the brewing right arrive in 1433 and beer is brewed from 1438, so 1438 is the earliest record of beer made and sold on these premises that this page can now cite, in place of 1404. The 1466 stays as the claim, because it is the year the house itself gives on its own English page. The building date changes with it: 1404 was a document rather than fabric, and the page had it down to fabric. The one year cut into the building is 1614, beside the two chained bears on the stone portal, marking the Renaissance rebuilding, and that is the year the page now gives, with the thirteenth-century cellar vaults in the prose where they belong. The Czech business register also names who runs the place — O.G., spol. s r.o., active for trade and for value added tax, its entry last touched on 11 July 2026 — where this page had only a description of the premises.
2026-09-11Café 't RozenhoedjeThe house is in the Dutch national monuments register as number 26812, entered on 30 June 1966, and the register dates the front to the early eighteenth century — three centuries after the 1466 the café claims and the 1486 painted on its door. That is a statement about the building and not about the drinking, which is the distinction this row already made; what it adds is a traced record where we had none, and the register also classes the original use as a dwelling house.
2026-09-11Ye Olde Bulls Head InnThe best-dated record in this pass. The Food Standards Agency inspected the house, which the register and its new owners both call the Bull, at 12-14 Castle Street on 28 August 2026 - a fortnight ago - and rates it 5. CAMRA lists the same address with hours every day.
2026-09-11Ye Olde Bulls Head InnThe page printed the 1472 as the inn's own claim, and the inn has not been reachable to check: its old domain no longer completes a secure connection. Visit Wales is who publishes the year, so that is who the page credits now. Reading Cadw's listing at the same time settled three things the row had left open — it is Grade II*, not the Grade II a secondary source gave us; Cadw puts the house in the seventeenth century, with a painted sign that once read 1617 and a rebuilding of 1766 lettered on a rainwater head, so only a stair of anything earlier survives; and the operator is recorded plainly as the Inn Collection Group rather than a previous company with our own doubt written beside it.
2026-09-11Old Queen's HeadThe c.1475 is the listing's dating of the timber-framed house, not a claim the pub makes.
2026-09-11Old Queen's HeadThe page credited Historic England with calling this Sheffield's oldest domestic building. Its list entry, 1247088, says nothing of the sort — it describes a house, now a public house, of about 1475, and dates the fabric, which is what we cite it for. The superlative is the one the Pevsner city guide to Sheffield is quoted for and the local press repeats, so the page now says the building is usually called that, and leaves the list entry to date it.
2026-09-11U FlekůThe brewery's own history page, read on 11 September 2026, says in its first line what our page had only implied: the 1499 is the year a maltster bought the house, not a year anybody was licensed to sell drink in it, and the house has been brewing since without a break. Czech Wikipedia, read the same day, adds the earlier mention of 1430 for the house itself, the Gothic masonry in three cellars and fourteenth-century brewhouse beams, and the alterations of 1900-1910 that made the eight halls a visitor walks through now. That last point is why the building date on this page has gone: 1762 is the year Jakub Flekovský bought the business and gave it his name, and the page was printing it as the age of the fabric. The fabric is three hundred years older than that and cannot be pinned to a year, so the prose says so and no year is claimed. The Czech business register confirms the company that trades here is active for trade and for value added tax, its entry last touched on 19 May 2026.
2026-09-11The Pickerel InnCAMRA surveyed the Pickerel on 16 February 2026 and updated its entry on 17 August: open every day, run as a Taylor Walker house on a Greene King freehold, and described as one of several claimants in Cambridge, first licensed in 1608. Cambridge City Council inspected it as a pub on 16 December 2024 and rates it 5. The 1608 licence is still the earliest date anyone publishes a record for.
2026-09-11The Golden Fleecehttps://www.thegoldenfleeceyork.co.uk/ resets the connection on 11 September 2026, tried twice with a browser user agent. Link removed; restore it when the host answers again.
2026-09-11The Golden Fleecehttps://www.thegoldenfleeceyork.co.uk/ reset the connection on 11 September 2026, and when it answered again that evening it only redirected to an unrelated domain, so it is no longer the pub's address. The pub is open: CAMRA updated its entry on 21 August 2026 with hours of 11am to midnight every day, Ghostly Inns Ltd as the operator and Stonegate as the freeholder, and gives the pub's website as Stonegate's Pubsmiths page, which answers. The button points there now, and the operator line, which said free house on Wikipedia's word, says what CAMRA records. https://camra.org.uk/pubs/golden-fleece-york-123355
2026-09-11Café VlissingheFlanders' heritage inventory holds this house as Herberg Vlissinghe, object 83240, a protected monument since 9 June 1998, and gives 1515 as its oldest mention, from Bruges' register of the sixteenths — so this page can now say it is protected where it had traced no designation at all. Dutch Wikipedia's account, read on 11 September 2026, says what that mention actually is, and it is the best kind for us: in 1515 the owner is described for the first time as a tavernier, an innkeeper, which is drink-led trade and not a building. It also carries the 1648 deed calling the place a house and inn, and the inventory of tables and benches from the 1570s. The café's own site claims 1515 in its first sentence and gives its hours as eleven in the morning to nine at night every day, with bookings taken only for parties of ten or more, so nobody here has to order food to be served.
2026-09-11The White Hart InnReading the listing itself rather than a site that copies it changed what this page can say. Historic Environment Scotland designated 30-40 Grassmarket, the White Hart included, on 14 December 1970 at category B and last updated the entry's supplementary information on 8 October 2024; read on 11 September 2026, it dates the tenement to about 1740 by the builder James Lithgow and states that records of the inn go back to 1516. This page had the 1516 down as the pub's own assertion with nothing behind it. It is still nobody's document — the listing names no source either — but it is now a national heritage body saying it as well as a licensee, and the note says exactly that. Two dated checks on the doors came with it: CAMRA's Edinburgh branch surveyed the bar on 15 August 2023 and updated its entry on 26 November 2025, giving noon to midnight every day with food until nine, and the city council inspected it as a pub on 25 September 2024, where it passed.
2026-09-11Black Boy InnCadw's own listing, read on 11 September 2026 under reference 3905 and designated on 31 March 1983, settles the fabric: a seventeenth-century house built in several phases, all probably of that century, listed as a rare survival of its date inside Caernarfon's walls. That leaves the 1522 about a hundred years ahead of anything the register can see, which is what this page already said and now says on the register's authority rather than on a summary of it. CAMRA's Gwynedd a Môn branch, whose entry was last updated on 8 March 2026, adds something the page had missed entirely: the interior carries one star on the national inventory of historic pub interiors, for two bars barely altered since the inn was done over in 1954. Its hours are eleven in the morning to eleven at night on weekdays, and Gwynedd Council inspected the inn on 16 July 2026 and rates it 5.
2026-09-11The Sun InnThis page said the pub dates itself to about 1530. It does not. Its own history page, read on 11 September 2026, argues the other way: it quotes the Royal Commission's finding that no timber-framed building in Beverley survives from before 1400, Pevsner's 'possibly of 16th-17th century' for the jettied front, and the joists laid on edge rather than flat, which would put the earliest possible date at 1600 — and it suggests the house was the Tabard, an inn named in sixteenth-century Minster-lands documents. The 1530 belongs to CAMRA's Hull and East Yorkshire branch, which is who this page now credits with it. Two more things came out of the same hour. Historic England listed the building grade II on 2 July 1969 as probably sixteenth century, so the grade II no longer rests on the pub saying so. And Historic England had the ground-floor and roof oak sampled for tree-ring dating, publishing the result in 2020: nothing could be securely dated, which is the most honest sentence available about this building's age and is now on the page. The owner line went, because nobody we can read names one — CAMRA's branch records both freehold and leasehold as unknown. The branch surveyed the pub on 14 February 2026 and updated its entry on 31 May 2026, giving noon to half past eleven every day and no food service, and East Riding of Yorkshire Council inspected it as a pub on 6 March 2025.
2026-09-11Hand & ShearsThe 1532 is the pub's own claim, printed on its website, which the entry had not cited.
2026-09-11Ye Olde Cheshire CheeseThe 1538 is printed on the pub's own about page, which the entry had not cited.
2026-09-11The Chequers InnThe address line said 'full address not verified' to the reader instead of giving one. CAMRA's entry for the inn puts it on Claypit Lane, Ledsham LS25 5LP, close to All Saints church. https://camra.org.uk/pubs/chequers-inn-ledsham-177232
2026-09-11The George InnThe George's own page claims the 16th century and no year. The 1542 is Historic England's, published in its public history writing.
2026-09-11Ye Olde MitreThe 1546 is printed on the pub's own about page, which the entry had not cited.
2026-09-11Ye Olde White HarteCAMRA's Hull and East Yorkshire branch, surveyed on 3 February 2025 and updated on 7 January 2026, contradicts a sentence this page was printing as fact. The upstairs Plotting Parlour cannot have held a Civil War plot, because the house went up about twenty years after the war; the branch ties the room to 1688 instead, and to the mayor and aldermen conspiring against the Catholic governor James II had put over Hull. The page now tells it that way round. The same entry gave two things the row lacked: the freeholder is Heineken UK, where we had nobody, and the interior carries three stars on the national inventory of historic pub interiors — outstanding national historic importance — for an 1881 remodelling by the Hull architects Smith & Brodrick that dressed a merchant's house as an old English inn, fireplaces and all. On the doors: noon to eleven daily, and Hull City Council inspected the pub on 13 September 2025 and rates it 5.
2026-09-11The MayflowerThe label explained the claimed date with a pub name that no source dates to it: CAMRA has the Shippe opening in 1780 and Historic England dates the earliest fabric to the 1780s under a third name. https://camra.org.uk/pubs/mayflower-rotherhithe-158608
2026-09-11The MayflowerThe page said the Mayflower claims 1550 and the standfirst said the pub claims descent from a sixteenth-century Shippe. Its own website and history page name no year at all, so the claim is now attributed to History Hit, which does state 1550, and the standfirst says the date is widely given rather than the pub's.
2026-09-11The Church House InnThe claim is "16th century" and names no year, so the ranking sorts it from 1500, the century's first year, rather than 1550. Seven pubs claiming the same century were already sorted at 1500, and this one was twenty places below them among the pubs held in reserve behind the Top 100. The claim, the grade and the evidence are unchanged. Ruled on 11 September 2026.
2026-09-11Abbey TavernThe claim is a 16th-century building and names no year, so the ranking sorts it from 1500, the century's first year, rather than 1550. The evidence note said the same thing by naming a field in the data, which reads as a message somebody forgot to delete; it now says it in English. The claim, the grade and the evidence are unchanged. Ruled on 11 September 2026.
2026-09-11Clachaig InnThe claim is "16th century" and names no year, so the ranking sorts it from 1500, the century's first year, rather than 1550. The evidence note said the same thing by naming a field in the data, which reads as a message somebody forgot to delete; it now says it in English. The claim, the grade and the evidence are unchanged. Ruled on 11 September 2026.
2026-09-11Clachaig InnThe page said Clachaig claims 1500. The inn claims no such thing: its about page claims over three hundred years, which sorts from 1726, and the 16th century was Wikipedia's unsourced sentence. The same page transcribes an 1866 marriage register naming an innkeeper at Clachaig, which is now the earliest record we hold.
2026-09-11The Castle InnThe web address we held for it no longer resolves, so no website is listed.
2026-09-11The Castle InnThe row described having an official website while recording none, so it claimed something that is not there. Cleared.
2026-09-11The Castle InnThe 1550 is the island visitor board's figure, not a claim the inn makes anywhere we can show.
2026-09-11The Old InnThe claim is "16th century" and names no year, so the ranking sorts it from 1500, the century's first year, rather than 1550. The claim, the grade and the evidence are unchanged. Ruled on 11 September 2026.
2026-09-11The Old WellingtonThe page said the pub is Manchester's oldest building of its type on the word of the company that runs it, about a frame that was taken down and rebuilt a hundred metres away in 1998. Nicholson's does say it, on the pub's page, so the claim is now in its name rather than ours.
2026-09-11The Old WellingtonThe address offered the reader two streets and a note that neither had been checked. CAMRA's entry settles it at 4 Cathedral Gates, Manchester M3 1SW. https://camra.org.uk/pubs/old-wellington-manchester-137520
2026-09-11The Lion InnBoth its links were to the inn's own website. The BBC's 2010 report of a week-long snow lock-in is an independent record of the house trading, and a search of the national heritage list around Blakey Ridge finds boundary stones and guide stones but no entry for the inn, so nothing yet dates the fabric and the 1553 or 1558 stays tradition.
2026-09-11Quinten MatsijsThe café's own site, read on 11 September 2026, gives its hours — closed Monday and Tuesday, from noon to eleven on Wednesday and Thursday, to midnight on Friday and Saturday and to ten on Sunday — and a beer list priced by the glass, which answers the question of whether you can drink here without eating. It also says, in its own words, that the house was built in 1565 and has been an inn ever since, and that it was first called 't Gulick after the county its merchant guests came from. That is who claims the year, and the page now credits the house rather than leaving it unattributed. What it does not have is a second publisher: Flanders' heritage inventory holds an entry for the house and served nothing but a gateway error all evening, so the building date still rests on the café's own account and the note says so.
2026-09-11Quinten MatsijsThe heritage entry this page cited was the wrong building: object 11110 is Huis Quinten Matsys on the Cogels-Osylei, an art nouveau house designed in 1904 by Jacques De Weerdt and named after the same painter, in the Zurenborg quarter and about two kilometres from the tavern. The entry for the tavern is object 4389, 't Gulick, Moriaanstraat 17, and read on 12 September 2026 through the Internet Archive — the inventory itself was still returning a proxy error — it dates the core of the house to the second half of the 16th century and records the gable stone that gives the house its 1565. So the date no longer rests on the café's own account, and the grade B stands with a second publisher behind it. The wrong citation has been removed. The inventory also shows how little is documented about the drinking: it files the house as a town house and the only trade it dates is the café interior of 1946.
2026-09-11The Fox InnThe grade B on this row meant we had accepted a sixteenth-century building as documented, and the document says otherwise. CAMRA's East Dorset branch calls the Fox a charming sixteenth-century free house and cites Historic England list entry 1278386 in the same breath; that entry, designated on 20 November 1959, describes a small inn in a terrace of the eighteenth century, in rubble stone under a stone slate roof, with added wings behind. Read on 11 September 2026, it contains nothing sixteenth-century at all. So the grade goes to C, contradicted, and the page says who says what rather than blending the two. The 1568 that circulates in lists of old Dorset pubs is traceable to no document we can find, and the house itself claims only the sixteenth century. The branch surveyed the pub on 18 January 2026 and updated its entry on 26 February 2026; the house publishes bar hours of noon to eleven with the kitchen closing earlier, so a drink here does not wait on a meal, and Dorset Council inspected it on 10 October 2024 and rates it 5.
2026-09-11Brauerei-Gasthof HeroldRe-checked in September 2026. Nothing has changed since the Gasthof and brewery closed at the end of August 2025, and no reopening under new hands has been reported.
2026-09-11Ye Olde BeverlieIts grade B rested on two pages of one organisation's website, which is not two independent sources. The Historic England listing supplies the second and narrows the claim: the listing says only the crow-stepped west gable looks to be of 1570 and the front is Georgian, so the building year now says that instead of dating the whole house to 1570.
2026-09-11Ye Olde BeverlieThe diamond cited "Building fabric" for 1570, which overstated what the listing says: it gives the date as reported rather than established, and only the west gable is of that period. Same year, honest citation: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1065785
2026-09-11Ye Olde BeverlieThe 1570 belongs to CAMRA and the listing, which date the house Sir Roger Manwood built, not the inn — the inn is recorded from 1740.
2026-09-11The Groes InnThis row had no listing traced and no record behind it, and Cadw had both. Read on 11 September 2026, Cadw's full report for reference 3198 — grade II, designated 13 October 1966 — begins with a document: the house was already an inn in 1578, when a court order names the 'tavarne y Groes', with a second mention under that name in June 1580. A cited record of an inn here, five years after the 1573 the press gives it, is what grade A means on this site, so the grade moves from C to A and the earliest record on the page becomes 1578. Two other things came out of the same report. Cadw dates the fabric largely to the late seventeenth century, with the possible late sixteenth-century core in the inglenook, and it says of the painted 1400 on the front that it is an inaccurate late nineteenth-century pseudo-historical addition, which is worth telling a reader who will see it from the road. And the 1573 is not the inn's own: its pages claim to be the first licensed house in Wales without naming a year, so the year is credited to the newspaper that publishes it. Conwy Council inspected the inn on 6 August 2024 and rates it 5; the house gives its bar hours as noon to eleven, with food until nine.
2026-09-11The Lion InnThe address line said 'full address not verified' to the reader instead of giving one. CAMRA's entry for the inn puts it on Church Street, Trellech NP25 4PA. https://camra.org.uk/pubs/lion-inn-trellech-161704
2026-09-11Old George InnHistoric England's register, read on 11 September 2026, gives this house entry 1024823, grade II, designated on 6 September 1977, and dates it early seventeenth century or earlier with heavy alteration in the eighteenth and early nineteenth. That is the first thing on this page about the building's age that does not come from the pub or from CAMRA repeating it, and it brackets the claimed 1582 without documenting it, so the grade stays where it was. The page had traced no listing at all. CAMRA's Tyneside and Northumberland branch surveyed the pub on 12 September 2023 and updated its entry on 10 February 2026, giving eleven in the morning to eleven at night, and Newcastle City Council inspected it as a pub on 7 January 2026 and rates it 5.
2026-09-11The GrapesThe 1583 is printed across the pub's own website, which the entry had not cited.
2026-09-11Café De DruifThe 1585 belongs to a distillery and is published by the local press; the café's own drink trade is documented far later.
2026-09-11Spaniards InnThe Spaniards publishes no date; the 1585 is CAMRA's, with CAMRA's own caution that the house may not have started as a pub.
2026-09-11The Man O'WarThe 1595 is Visit Dublin's, and the deeds it rests on have never been published.
2026-09-11The Garrick InnThe c.1596 is Historic England's dating of the building, so the listing is named and cited.
2026-09-11Café De KarpershoekThe 1606 is asserted by an Amsterdam magazine; the city history project calls it possible but unproven.
2026-09-11Bruce InnThe house opposite Falkland Palace with 1607 cut into its front is the building Historic Environment Scotland lists as the Falkland Arms Hotel and which traded latterly as the Bruce Inn, and it has not served a drink since 1 March 2024. CAMRA records it closed with its future uncertain, the premises were offered to let with vacant possession into 2026, and the pub's own web address has gone. Recorded as closed, not temporarily closed.
2026-09-11The Globe InnTwo registers read on 11 September 2026, and between them they turn a row that had traced nothing about this building into one with a firm answer. Historic Environment Scotland designated the Globe on 11 July 1961 at category A, its highest grade, and dates it mid eighteenth century with alterations; the only early year on the fabric is a datestone of 1696 that has been re-set, which is to say moved here from elsewhere. The inn claims 1610, so the claim now stands contradicted by the register rather than merely unsupported, and the page says which. CAMRA's Dumfries and Stewartry branch, surveyed on 22 February 2020 and updated on 24 November 2025, adds two stars on the national inventory of historic pub interiors for the panelled snug and its old gantry, and records the Burns windowpane etchings upstairs as authenticated. The branch also warns that the Globe is sometimes given over to functions, so a visitor should check before setting out.
2026-09-11Grace Neill'sThe bar's own domain has stopped working: it presents a security certificate that expired on 5 August 2026 and was issued to an unrelated business, so a browser now refuses the page. The link here goes to Grace Neill's Facebook account instead. CAMRA lists the bar with hours seven days a week but last updated the entry in August 2023, and we found no dated report from 2025 or 2026, so the page says believed trading.
2026-09-11Durty Nelly'sChecking this one meant reading a register rather than another list of Ireland's oldest pubs. Revenue's register of renewed liquor licences, current to 2 September 2026, carries a seven-day ordinary publican's licence at Bunratty under reference LIP0831, held by Clare Taverns and trading as Durty Nellys — so the doors are confirmed open by the state that licenses them, and the page can name who holds the licence where it had nobody. On the age, the search came back empty, and an empty search is still a finding: the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage surveyed Bunratty Castle, Bunratty House and the Bunratty Castle Hotel, all within a few hundred metres, and has no entry for this house, so there is still nothing architectural behind the 1620. The page also cited the pub's own site twice, once with the www and once without, which made our evidence look broader than it was; the duplicate has gone.
2026-09-11Augustiner Bräu Kloster MüllnThis row rested on the brewery's own site and a Wikipedia list of old companies, which is thin for a grade A. German Wikipedia's article on the house, read on 12 September 2026, supplies what was missing and one thing we had not been told. The brewery was founded in 1621 by Augustinian hermits who had taken the friary over in 1605, and the monks sold the beer at the gate before they bought inns to sell it in, which is what makes 1621 a date for drink sold here and not only for beer made here. The thing we had not been told is that the trade stopped: the serving of beer was banned in 1940 and the whole business had to close in 1944, reopening after the war, so any sentence about pouring without a break needs that qualification. The article also names the company that runs it today, half owned by the Benedictine abbey of Michaelbeuern, and records that the whole friary ensemble is a protected monument, where this page had traced no protection at all.
2026-09-11Café ChrisAmsterdam750 names the café as the source of the 1624, so the claim is recorded as the house's own and the city history is cited for it.
2026-09-11White's TavernReading the planning record for the premises, on 12 September 2026, turned a page with nothing established about its building into one with a documented sequence — and the sequence disqualifies the row from the ranking. The building is largely the wine merchant Valentine Jones's rebuild of about 1790, known historically as Washington House; Neil & White kept it as a wine and spirit warehouse in the middle of the nineteenth century, with part of it the Oyster Rooms of the fishmonger John Walker; the premises became a public house only in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century; and the name White's Tavern dates from 1962. Our own rule says the ranking is of drink-led use documented from, not of the age of the walls, and a wine warehouse selling by the case is the example the rule gives. So the row keeps its page, its pin and its story, and leaves the eligible list with the reason written where a reader can read it. The 1630 licence is still nobody's document: the planning record calls it local tradition, which is what this page already said. The same record also gives the full address, from 14-18 High Street round to 2-4 Winecellar Entry.
2026-09-11Lion & UnicornCAMRA's Forth Valley branch surveyed the Lion & Unicorn on 23 February 2022 and last updated its entry on 2 November 2023: a separate public bar with a large games annexe, three open fires, local and national ales, and food served through the lounge and restaurant. That separate bar is the answer to the question this page most needs to settle for a village hotel, which is whether a passer-by can have a drink without taking a table. Stirling Council inspected the premises on 7 August 2025 and it passes. On the age, the search was empty in a way worth saying: the branch dates the coaching inn to 1635 and cites nothing, the inn's own history page cites nothing, and no listing entry for the building could be traced, so the note now says we looked rather than leaving the silence to speak.
2026-09-11Morahan's BarMorahan's has no site of its own beyond a Facebook page, which lists the bar in Bellanagare with a phone number and an address and gives no sign of a closure. Nothing on it carries a date we could read, and no Roscommon paper has written about the bar since Boyle Today called it the county's oldest business in October 2015, so the page says believed trading. The bar also has no position on OpenStreetMap and none in the sources checked, so it waits for a coordinate before it gets a page.
2026-09-11Morahan's BarRevenue's register of renewed liquor licences, the list of licences valid for 2025/26 and current to 2 September 2026, holds licence SLP053, a seven-day publican's licence at Bellanagare in the name of Bernard Morahan, trading as B J Morahan. It is the first dated public record of the bar since a Boyle Today piece in October 2015, and the only licensed public house the register puts in the village. A licence is not the same as an open door, but it is a good deal more than the page had. The bar still has no position we can publish: Roscommon's record of protected structures lists a church, a bridge and a cast-iron water pump at Bellanagare and no public house at all, and the state valuation list has two rated licensed premises eighty metres apart in the village without naming who occupies either, so nothing yet says which of them is Morahan's.
2026-09-11Café 't PapeneilandGrade B rested on two pages of the cafe's own website, which is exactly what the two-source rule exists to prevent. The Dutch national monuments register dates the corner house to 1641 and records its first use as a dwelling, so the grade now stands on a source with nothing to sell, and the building year follows the register rather than the house.
2026-09-11Café 't PapeneilandThe diamond was drawn at 1642, the cafe's own figure, while the note beside it said the national monuments register gives 1641. The register is the independent source and the one the grade rests on, so the diamond and its citation now match the prose: https://monumentenregister.cultureelerfgoed.nl/monumenten/718
2026-09-11The Coylet InnThe inn's own site gives no date; the 1650s is the Scotsman's.
2026-09-11The Hawes InnThe claim is "17th century" and names no year, so the ranking sorts it from 1600, the century's first year, rather than 1650. The evidence note said the same thing by naming a field in the data, which reads as a message somebody forgot to delete; it now says it in English. The claim, the grade and the evidence are unchanged. Ruled on 11 September 2026.
2026-09-11The Hawes InnCAMRA updated its entry for the Hawes on 18 November 2025 and gives hours every day under Mitchells & Butlers, whose Vintage Inns brand runs it; its survey is older, from June 2021. The Food Standards Agency inspected 7 Newhalls Road as a pub on 24 January 2024.
2026-09-11The Hawes InnThe page said the Hawes Inn claims the 17th century, which came from Wikipedia's article on South Queensferry rather than from the inn. Historic Environment Scotland's Category B listing is where the dating is published, so the claim is attributed to the listing and the listing's own description of the fabric replaces a secondhand one.
2026-09-11The Hole in the WallThe 1651 reaches us through Dublin's visitor guide rather than from the pub.
2026-09-11The Crosskeys InnThe inn brands itself as established in 1654. Its old web address now offers the domain for sale, so the link has been taken off the page rather than left to mislead.
2026-09-11Stara Karczma w JeleśniThe 1655 is a legend relayed by the travel press; the only date on the building itself is 1774 on a beam.
2026-09-11Gaststätte RöhrlThis page said the house was a listed monument 'per Wikipedia', which is our own uncertainty printed where a fact belongs. It is D-3-75-199-22 in Bavaria's list of architectural monuments, and the official description, read on 12 September 2026, is worth more than the label: an eighteenth-century mansard hipped-roof building with a hoist dormer, the core probably older, inscribed 1665, remodelled about 1839 and lengthened by a gabled range, the taproom keeping fittings from the first half of the twentieth century, with a function room of 1902 alongside. That also mends the year the page shows for the building, which was down to fabric when it is a date cut into the wall. And the same entry gives the street address, Regensburger Straße 3, where this page had only the village and a direction to the parish church.
2026-09-11The Old Thatchhttps://www.theoldthatch.ie/ does not complete a TLS handshake (certificate error, then an error page) on 11 September 2026, tried twice with a browser user agent. Link removed so the button does not send a reader to a security warning; restore it when the certificate is renewed.
2026-09-11The Old ThatchThe 1667 was credited to the house on the strength of a page nobody can open: theoldthatch.ie stopped completing a secure connection when its certificate expired in December 2025. The Internet Archive has it, and what it says is that the trade goes back as far as the 1600s — no year at all. IrishCentral is who publishes 1667, so the page credits IrishCentral, and the dead link is replaced by the archived copy that can actually be read. The year is two hundred years before the 1867 licence hearing, which is where it comes from rather than from any record of a house opening.
2026-09-11The Old ThatchThe Old Thatch has no site of its own that will open, so the doors were checked in a register instead. Revenue's list of renewed liquor licences, current to 2 September 2026, carries a seven-day publican's licence at Killeagh under ref CXP099, held by The Old Thatch Bar & Restaurant Limited with Deborah Walsh as its nominee. That is the first dated record on this page that the house is trading which does not rest on a page nobody can open.
2026-09-11The '76 HouseThe New York State Liquor Authority's register of current active licences, read on 12 September 2026, carries an on-premises licence for 110 Main Street, Tappan under number 0340-23-230847, held by Historic Tavern Inc and trading as the Old 76 House. It was issued on 27 August 2025, took effect on 1 September 2025 and runs to 31 August 2027, which is a firmer answer on whether the doors are open than any amount of press. It also names the licensee, so the owner line on this page is now a company as well as a family. The register calls the house the Old 76 House, with the definite article and the Old, which is how the sign reads and how a reader will find it.
2026-09-11Café HoppeHoppe's website lists hours from nine in the morning and names the two publicans who run it, Jan-Wieger van der Linden and Pepijn Zonneveld. The notice welcoming drinkers back, and the beer-and-food box for collection beside it, are left over from the pandemic and carry no year, and we found no Dutch report from 2025 or 2026 about the café, so the page says believed trading rather than claiming a check.
2026-09-11El RinconcilloSpain keeps no register we can point a reader at, so this rests on the tavern's own site carrying a date rather than simply being live. It published a piece on 5 March 2026 about the poster its Holy Week circle had chosen for 2026, a group that meets at the bar. The site takes reservations and is still standing today.
2026-09-11El RinconcilloThe hedge was on the wrong half of the sentence: the page said El Rinconcillo is Seville's oldest bar and that the 1670 was its own reckoning, when both halves come from the house itself and neither has been traced to a record. Its website states plainly that it is the oldest bar in Seville, and the page now presents the whole claim as the tavern's.
2026-09-11White Horse TavernThe nomination form behind the National Register listing turns out to be readable in full, and it is a better source than anything else on this page. Written by Antoinette Downing for the Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission on 25 July 1971 and entered on 3 February 1972, it says the house was probably built before 1673, was bought that year by William Mayes, served first as a private residence and soon became an inn, and that Mayes held a liquor licence as early as 1687; the White Horse sign was first hung by Jonathan Nichols, who had the tavern in 1730. Two things follow. The claim of 1673 is the house's own and is now credited to it, and the building date on this page no longer asserts a 1652 house for Francis Brindley that the nomination does not mention. The other finding is about today rather than 1673: the tavern opens at five in the evening, takes reservations weeks ahead and has a dress code, and a reader would be right to wonder whether a drink is possible without dinner. Its own guidance says there is a small bar and three tables on the ground floor seated first come, first served, so a walk-in can drink; standing at the bar is not allowed under fire rules. That sentence is now on the page.
2026-09-11King George II InnThe note credited the inn's own history for the 1681 ferry-house date; the inn publishes no year, and Wikipedia is the only place the figure was traced.
2026-09-11King George II InnThe page said the inn claims 1681 while our own note recorded that its website gives no year. The Pennsylvania Independent's account of the house is where the 1681 and Samuel Clift's ferry are published, so the claim is attributed to the press instead.
2026-09-11Au Bon Vieux TempsThe page attributes 1695 to the café, which publishes nothing, and no other publisher states it either: BRUZZ ties the year to the bombardment the café is named for rather than to a founding, and the Brussels heritage inventory gives the alley no date at all. The note now says that, and the row keeps its warning rather than borrowing a claimant it has not got.
2026-09-11Au Bon Vieux TempsTravellers reported the café shut in March 2025 and again in January 2026, one of them saying a fire had closed it, and no Belgian publisher says anything either way. BRUZZ has written nothing about it since 2007, a search of the Brussels press in French and Dutch found no fire in the Impasse Saint-Nicolas, the café publishes nothing of its own, and the last survey of its door on OpenStreetMap was September 2024. Against that, visit.brussels still listed it among the city's oldest bars in May 2026. A closure needs a publisher and a year, and there is neither, so the page now says believed trading instead of trading, checked.
2026-09-11The Drovers InnStirling Council inspected the Drovers on 21 August 2026, three weeks ago, and it passes; the register carries it as a hotel, which is why the second check mattered. The inn's own calendar, read on 12 September 2026, lists live music on the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth of this month and says the bar is open to dogs as well as to residents, so the doors are open to a passer-by who wants a drink and not a room. On the age, nothing has changed and nothing should: Historic Environment Scotland has the core in the eighteenth century, the inn on a map of 1776, and a suggestion that it began as barracks for the military road of 1748-53, none of which leaves room for 1705. The owner line went, because it named nobody.
2026-09-11McHugh's BarThe Food Standards Agency register covers Northern Ireland, and it inspected the business at 29 Queen's Square on 12 November 2025, rating it 5. CAMRA surveyed the bar on 3 November 2023 and updated the entry on 17 July 2025, with hours every day and Eagle Glen Ltd as leaseholder.
2026-09-11McHugh's BarThe 1711 dates the building and reaches us through the travel press, not through anything the bar publishes.
2026-09-11McHugh's BarFour words beside the photograph said this is Belfast's oldest known building, where the paragraph below it said what is thought to be. The 1711 and the superlative both come from the travel press rather than from a survey we have read, so the short line now says it is reported, like the long one.
2026-09-11Longfellow's Wayside InnThe grade A on this row rested on Wikipedia. It now rests on the document: the National Register nomination for the Wayside Inn Historic District, entered on 23 April 1973 under reference 73000307 and read on 12 September 2026, records that David Howe was granted a licence for innkeeping by the Concord Court in 1716 and kept Howe's Tavern until 1746. The same form corrects the building date this page was showing. It has Samuel Howe beginning the inn about 1700 with two rooms, a taproom below and a chamber above, not a house of 1686; and since the inn was gutted by fire in December 1955 and rebuilt, a single year for the fabric would mislead whichever year was chosen, so the page now carries the sequence in words and no year. The nomination adds the detail that the Red Horse only became the Wayside Inn after Longfellow's Tales appeared in 1863.
2026-09-11Kelly's CellarsThe 1720 is lettered on the pub's own fascia, which a photograph of Bank Street shows, so the claim is the house's and can be seen.
2026-09-11Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop BarThe 1722-32 comes from the bar's own about page, which the live site no longer serves in a form a reader can open, so the archived copy is cited.
2026-09-11The Locke BarThe trading rests on the city and, since 18 September 2026, on the state as well. Limerick City and County Council's own listing gives the bar's full hours, and in August 2026 the council added a new photograph of the Big Limerick Seisiun at the Locke Bar to that page. The bar's own site is live and taking bookings. The Revenue Commissioners publish every liquor licence renewed for 2025/2026 as a workbook anyone can download, standing as at 2 September 2026, and it carries this house at 3 George's Quay under reference LIP0433. (This entry first said that Ireland keeps no register of licensed premises anyone can search. That was wrong, and the register is now cited on the page.)
2026-09-11Settle InnThe Food Standards Agency inspected the Settle at 91 St Mary's Wynd as a pub on 25 March 2026. CAMRA surveyed it on 15 February 2025, updated the entry on 6 November 2025, and gives hours seven days a week.
2026-09-11Settle InnThe 1733 and the title of Stirling's oldest pub are CAMRA's, not the inn's, which publishes nothing.
2026-09-11The Clachan InnTwo dated checks where there had been none. CAMRA's Forth Valley branch surveyed the Clachan on 4 February 2025 and updated its entry on 8 June 2026: in the Good Beer Guide, licensed from eleven in the morning Monday to Saturday and half past twelve on Sunday, two handpumps of Loch Lomond beers, a free house in individual hands. Stirling Council inspected the premises on 17 June 2026 and it passes, which matters because the register carries the Clachan as a hotel rather than a pub. On the 1734, nothing new: the licence everybody cites has still not been produced by anybody, and no listing entry for the building could be traced.
2026-09-11Crown & Anchor InnTwo records from this year. CAMRA surveyed the inn on 4 March 2026 and updated the entry on 17 March, naming Heineken as freeholder, and the Food Standards Agency inspected 44 Findhorn as a pub on 17 June 2026.
2026-09-11Crown & Anchor InnThe page said the Crown and Anchor claims 1739, a date our note traced to Wikipedia's article on Findhorn. The year is cut into the building and published in the inn's Category C listing, which is now cited for it and for the fabric the grade B rests on.
2026-09-11Ma Cameron'sCAMRA's Aberdeen, Grampian and Northern Isles branch surveyed Ma's on 2 April 2022 and updated its entry on 29 February 2024, and its heritage data answers two questions this page had left open. CAMRA's heritage record for the pub gives no listing for the building, which is worth saying plainly instead of leaving a silence a reader might take either way. And the interior holds one star on the national inventory, for a snug with bare bench seating, a service hatch and two perforated bentwood seats, separated by a partition from a public bar that keeps its old fittings; when the snug was done over in October 2015 the structural work planned for it was abandoned after complaints. The same entry gives the street number this page lacked and the earlier name, Cameron's Inn. Aberdeen City Council's own sites record adds that the ground under an extension was dug in 1980 and published in the city's medieval burgh volume. One dated check is less reassuring than the rest: the city last inspected the pub for food hygiene on 10 September 2019, seven years ago, so the freshest evidence that the doors are open is CAMRA's.
2026-09-11The Split CrowDiscover Halifax, the city's own visitor organisation, carries the Split Crow's story and confirms the address on Granville Street, read on 12 September 2026. It adds nothing documentary to the licence of 17 July 1749 — it retells what the pub says — but it does add the sequel, which belongs on a page about a 1749 tavern: on 26 August that year Peter Cartcel stabbed Abraham Goodsides after an argument there, and the trial is described as the first jury trial in Canada under British law, with Cartcel hanged two days later. The page now says that the corroboration is a retelling rather than a second source, which is the honest description of it, and the address carries its street number.
2026-09-11Middleton TavernThe Maryland Historical Trust's architectural survey file for 2-6 Market Space, read on 12 September 2026, turns a page that carried a tradition into one with a documented chain of use, and the chain decides the ranking. The house was built about 1754 as a tavern and boarding house on the Ship Carpenters Lot and known as the Inn for Seafaring Men; John Randall bought it in 1793 and made it his store and dwelling; it was the Marx Hotel in the 1860s; Thomas Tydings turned it into two shops with rooms above in the 1870s; by 1939 it was the Mandris Restaurant; and Middleton Tavern opened in 1968, when Jerry and Bo Hardesty leased the building from the Apostols and named it for Horatio Samuel Middleton. Our rule counts drink-led use documented from, and here that is 1968, which is why the row leaves the eligible list and keeps its page, its pin and its story. Three smaller things came out of the same file: the building is about 1754 rather than 1750, with its brickwork in English bond to the front and Flemish to the sides; it has been under a state easement and architectural covenant since 1971 and carries the survey number AA-1817; and the Hardestys have been the tavern's operators rather than the building's owners, which is what the page had said.
2026-09-11Fraunces TavernNew York State Liquor Authority's register of current active licences, read on 12 September 2026, carries licence 0370-24-134050 at 54 Pearl Street in the name Fraunces Tavern, held by Broadwater & Pearl Associates LLC, with two further endorsements for additional bars; it was issued on 31 October 2024, took effect the next day and runs to 31 October 2026. That is the state saying the doors are open and who is behind the counter, where this page had named only the building's owners. The listing line was vague as well, and there are two National Register entries rather than one: the Fraunces Tavern Block district was entered on 28 April 1977 under 77000957 and the tavern itself on 6 March 2008 under 08000140, alongside the city landmark designation of 1965.
2026-09-11Jean Bonnet TavernThe Jean Bonnet's own site refuses an automated reader, so its published hours were checked on 12 September 2026 through what it publishes elsewhere: eleven in the morning to nine at night Monday to Saturday, closed on Sunday, with the tavern staying open later than the kitchen. That last clause is the one that matters for a house whose licence and menu are both restaurant-shaped. The account of the building is unchanged and now stated in the right order: about 1762 by the Indian trader Robert Callender, who sold it in 1779 to Jean Bonnet and his wife, which is where the documented inn begins and why the year on the page for the fabric is credited to the National Register listing rather than to fabric in general.
2026-09-11The Horse You Came In On SaloonThe 1775 is published in a preservation magazine rather than by the saloon, and our note credited the bar for a claim we could not show it makes.
2026-09-11The Griswold InnThe inn's own site will not serve a page without a browser, so the check on 12 September 2026 went through Connecticut's state tourism listing and what the house publishes there: the Tap Room open daily from half past eleven, food until eight, music several nights a week until eleven. A tap room open to walk-ins is the answer this page needs for a house that is also a restaurant and a hotel. Two things follow for the record. The owners have a name now, the Paul family, about thirty years in, where the page had only the count of six families. And the inn is preparing to mark its 250th year in 2026, which dates the tradition of 1776 precisely as a tradition the house is keeping rather than a record anybody has produced.
2026-09-11Old Talbott TavernThe nomination form behind this building's National Register listing, entered on 30 October 1973 and read on 12 September 2026, is unusually frank and supports the grade this page already gave. Its statement of significance is a procession of tradition and legend — George Rogers Clark's munitions in the cellars 'according to local tradition', Louis Philippe's arrival in October 1797 as what 'legends say' — and it closes the case itself: 'According to tradition, since the first guest arrived in 1779, the Tavern has never been closed.' A national register saying so is a better citation for the claim's status than another list of old American bars. The same form describes the fabric properly, which this page had only in outline, and lists the seven other names the house has traded under, including Talbott Tavern only from 1885.
2026-09-11Warren TavernThe tavern's own site, read on 12 September 2026, is where the 1780 and the claim to be the oldest tavern in Massachusetts are published, so the page credits the house rather than leaving the year unattributed. The same site answers the question that matters for a house with a full dinner menu: it invites a visitor to pull up a seat at the bar for a pint, which is the test this site applies before admitting anywhere. The owner line gains the restoration that put the tavern back: the Boston Redevelopment Authority saved the building in 1971 and it reopened as a tavern in 1972, after more than a century as a bakery, a club and a warehouse. No listing entry for the building could be traced, having looked.
2026-09-11Albion House TavernThe 1780 date is CAMRA's rather than the house's own, and the page now says so. Two publishers beyond CAMRA were added: the Priaulx Library's reprint of 1860s recollections, which puts the Albion Hotel on Church Square eighty years after the claimed date, and the Brewery History Society's list of Guernsey Brewery houses, which records it as Albion House, formerly the Kosy Korner.
2026-09-11Albion House TavernThe address line said 'full address not verified' to the reader instead of giving one. CAMRA's Guernsey entry for the tavern gives Church Square, St Peter Port GY1 2LD, which is also the square the Priaulx Library's 1860s recollections place the house on. https://whatpub.com/pubs/GUE/20/albion-house-tavern-st-peter-port
2026-09-11The MitreThe 1780s dating comes from the Isle of Man's newspaper, reporting the 1785 map, not from the pub.
2026-09-11The Olde Angel InnThe inn's own site, read on 12 September 2026, is running a month-by-month events calendar through to 2028 and taking bookings for rooms, cottages and live music, which settles the doors. It also gives the postal code this page's address was missing. On the building, the change is in what the page credits: the year it shows for the fabric was down to fabric in general, and the fabric in question is specific and better told — the hand-hewn beams and thick plank floors laid in John Ross's rebuilding of 1815, after the Americans burned the town. The 1789 remains the inn's own, hedged by the inn itself as a belief, and no heritage designation for the property could be traced.
2026-09-11Bell in Hand TavernThe 1795 is the tavern's own line, 'First Pour 1795', cited from an archived copy of its website.
2026-09-11Woolpack HotelTwo questions, answered on 12 September 2026. The State Heritage Register has no entry for the Woolpack — the search returned nothing for the name or for any hotel in the Parramatta local government area — which is worth saying outright on a page that had traced no listing and left the reason unstated. And the hotel's own front page is where the 1796 is published, so the year is credited to the house rather than left unattributed; the same page shows a recently refitted main bar with a cocktail list, a sports and betting bar with a courtyard, and a grill kitchen open seven days from half past eleven until half past nine. Nothing new was found for the licence, and the difficulty stands: the sources cannot agree which governor granted it, and one of the two candidates had left the colony four years earlier.
2026-09-11The Golden LambThe page said, as a plain fact, that the Golden Lamb is Ohio's oldest inn. Its own website makes no such claim, so we have attributed the superlative to the people who do: a marker put up outside in 1940 by the Turtle Creek chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, which names it the oldest hotel in Ohio and dates its hospitality from 1815. The 1803 licence to Jonas Seaman is separately recorded and unchanged.
2026-09-11The Mansion HouseThe bar's own front page, read on 12 September 2026, is running weekly specials and an event calendar, so the doors are open, and it repeats in its own words the sequence this page records: Merritt's house and store of the early 1800s, a hotel from 1826, and a pandemic refit aimed at something more upscale. That last point is now said on the page rather than buried, because the words tavern and 1806 together would lead a reader to expect an old bar room and what is there is a cocktail list and a kitchen. Nothing new was found for either date, and no heritage designation for the property could be traced.
2026-09-11Hope and Anchor TavernThe tavern's own front page, read on 12 September 2026, gives the plainest thing this page lacked: open seven days from noon, at 65 Macquarie Street on the corner of Market Place, with Hobart Brewing Co running it and Guinness and its own Harbour Master on the bar. The address line now carries that corner. On the date, nothing has changed and the page says why: Knopwood's diary entry of 25 July 1807 records a public house at the Sign of the Whale Fishery, the ABC has reported doubt about whether it was this site, and the reason the premises went on the Tasmanian Heritage Register in 1998 was archaeological rather than architectural. The closures from 2008 to 2014 and in the 1980s still stand between the house and the word continuously.
2026-09-11Hope and Anchor TavernThe tavern has a position at last. The two passes that failed were searching for "Hope and Anchor Tavern", and OpenStreetMap spells it with an ampersand, so the node was there the whole time: node 3956319557, tagged as a pub and linked to the tavern's own Wikidata item. Three things say it is the right corner rather than the other side of the street. Nominatim's reverse lookup on the point returns Market Place, Hobart, which is the corner the tavern's own site gives for 65 Macquarie Street. The numbered buildings on that side of Macquarie Street run 57-63, the City Hall, and then 81, so number 65 is this frontage and not the museum side. And the Commons photograph on this page was taken from a spot about 20 metres along the street, which is where a photographer stands to get that façade. The sentence saying no openly licensed coordinate existed has gone with it: it was a statement about our searching, and the searching has since succeeded.
2026-09-11Old Absinthe HouseOur year was 1807 and the nearest published date is 'approximately 1806', from New Orleans Historical. Nobody states 1807, and the page now says that.
2026-09-11Old Absinthe HouseThe page claimed 1807 on the pub's behalf and our note said nothing found stated 1807. The bar's own page states 1806, and New Orleans Historical gives about 1806, so the claim is now the year the house actually publishes, cited to it.
2026-09-11Perseverance TavernThis row had no dated check at all and its only own-published source is a social media page. The Western Cape tourism directory's entry, read on 12 September 2026, gives the address as 83 Buitenkant Street in Gardens, opposite the Iziko Rust en Vreugd, and hours of noon to ten Monday to Saturday, with food until ten. It also disagrees with this page about the brewery: Ohlsson's, the forerunner of South African Breweries, owned the pub until 1952 by this account and 1956 by the one we had, so the page now names the company and leaves the year to the disagreement rather than asserting one. Three details are worth the room they take: the bar counter is said to be built from old wine casks, the oldest vine in the country is said to have grown in the garden until the 1990s, and the tavern won the first South African Pub of the Year award in 1985 against 170 rivals. No heritage register entry could be traced, although the building is widely described as listed.
2026-09-11The Plough InnRecorded as closed rather than temporarily closed. Guernsey's oldest pub has not served since the start of July 2025; CAMRA has carried it as closed long term from that date, and by June 2026 its owner was advertising it for sale as a development opportunity rather than as a pub. If it pours again we will say so.
2026-09-11Macquarie Arms HotelThe State Heritage Register entry for the Macquarie Arms, listed on 2 April 1999 as item 00041 and read on 12 September 2026, holds the document behind the date rather than a retelling of it: the newspaper notice that the inn, kept by Thomas Ranson, who had been an innkeeper in England, would open to the public on Monday 31 July 1815. It also quotes Macquarie's own diary on the condition he set Richard Fitzgerald, a handsome commodious inn of brick or stone at least two storeys high, built at once. And it fills two blanks: the registered owner is Tankstream Capital Pty Ltd, where this page named nobody, and the officers' mess period has a date attached, the name Mess House appearing on Armstrong's map of the town in 1842, with the Bushells running it as a hotel again from 1872.
2026-09-11The Bush InnThe inn's own site, read on 12 September 2026, gives its hours as seven days from eleven in the morning and its address as 51 Montagu Street, which is the number the page now carries rather than a range. It also states the claim in the house's own words, the oldest pub in Tasmania and the newest pub in New Norfolk, alongside the 1815. The operator line came off: it had recorded that the lease changed in April 2023 and then admitted in the same breath that the current operator was not confirmed, which is a note about our research standing where a fact belongs. What is unconfirmed is now said in the evidence note instead, where it belongs, and the contradiction found in the newspapers still stands against the claim of unbroken licensing: the inn was a private residence between about 1874 and 1877.
2026-09-11The Ear InnNew York City's health department inspected the Ear Inn at 326 Spring Street on 15 April 2025 and graded it A, which is the nearest thing the city keeps to a register of open bars. The bar's own history page gives hours every day until four in the morning.
2026-09-11Central HotelIts grade A stood on two links to one pub-history blog. The Tasmanian Heritage Register lists 73 Collins Street separately, as the Ship Hotel, permanently registered, which puts an early colonial public house on the premises from a source with no interest in the claim. The 1818 licence date still rests on the pub historian alone, and the note now says so, along with the two accounts of the fabric that do not agree.
2026-09-11Central HotelThe 1818 licence is one pub historian's reading of the Hobart records, and the page now says so rather than crediting the hotel.
2026-09-11Duke of Marlborough HotelThe hotel's own history page, read on 12 September 2026, is where the claim lives and it is franker than most: it runs the story from Johnny Johnston, an ex-convict well regarded locally, to the Meins who host it now, which is a name where this page had only private owners since 2010. Searching the New Zealand Heritage List for the building produced nothing, which is worth saying on a page whose listing line was empty. The rest of the note is unchanged because the facts are awkward and should stay visible: this building was put up in 1875 at Cable Bay for telegraph workers and dragged onto the site by traction engine in 1932, so it is a century younger than the claimed founding and was not built as a pub.
2026-09-11Fortune of War HotelThe State Heritage Register entry for the Fortune of War, listed on 10 May 2002 as item 01547 and read on 12 September 2026, turns a summary into a chain of named licensees. Samuel Terry built a terrace of three here, finished in the mid to late 1820s and built as a public house of this name; John Boreham, a former miller transported in 1815, was the first recorded licensee in 1830 for wines, malt and liquor; Walter Nottingham Palmer kept it from 1833 to 1839; Robert White Moore held the licence from 1842 and had a midnight licence. One detail deserves care rather than enthusiasm: the register places Terry's terrace at today's 139-143 George Street, while the hotel now stands at 137, so a reader should not be told the present door is the old one. The register also shows who owns the ground, Place Management NSW, the state body for The Rocks, which makes the pub's operator a licensee rather than the owner this page implied.
2026-09-11Horeke HotelLooked at again on 11 September 2026 and nothing recent enough was found, so the page now says believed trading rather than claiming a check. The only source that presents the hotel as open is the Bay of Islands tourism listing, and that listing was published in June 2024 and has not been changed since. New Zealand's alcohol licence register cannot be searched from outside, and the hotel has no site of its own.
2026-09-11Horeke HotelThe 1833 is the hotel's own claim, reported as such by the New Zealand Herald, which also points out that no licence existed then.
2026-09-11Surveyor General InnThe inn's own site, read on 12 September 2026, publishes the claim and the fabric together: built in 1834 for James Harper of local sandstone and rendered sand stock brick under a shingle roof, put up with convict labour in a village then new on Thomas Mitchell's southern road, and licensed a year later. So the year is credited to the house, and the description of the building is now the house's own rather than a bare date. Searching the State Heritage Register produced an absence that is itself a finding: Berrima has four inns on the register — the White Horse, the Victoria, the Berrima and the Coach & Horses, all listed on 2 April 1999 — and the Surveyor General is not among them. The lapse of the licence between 30 June and 17 October 1895 still stands against the claim of unbroken licensing, and the front bar still runs trivia on Tuesdays.
2026-09-11Knickerbocker SaloonThe saloon's own page, read on 12 September 2026, is the whole of the evidence for its date, so that is who the page credits with it. It gives its hours as four in the afternoon to three in the morning, seven days, with cocktails, beers and wines and no mention of a kitchen, which settles what kind of house it is. It also gives the claim away a little: the same paragraph says established in 1835 and says the saloon has been in business 180 years, and those two cannot both be counted from today. No record of a founding and no listing entry for the building could be traced.
2026-09-11Edinburgh Castle HotelThe hotel prints 1837 across its own website, and the city heritage sheet dates the licence to 31 May that year.
2026-09-11German Arms HotelBoth its links were to the hotel's own website. South Australia's heritage register confirms the present house as a State Heritage Place and shows that an earlier German Arms stood at 84 Mount Barker Road, so the 1839 describes a business that has moved rather than these walls. The register carries no construction date, so the grade stays at tradition.
2026-09-11The Queen's InnThis page told readers to check the hours before travelling because the inn's site had carried a reopening notice. Read on 12 September 2026, that notice now says the Queen's Inn has officially reopened, and gives the hours: the restaurant and bar from noon to ten Monday to Saturday and to eight on Sunday, with the hotel open Wednesday to Saturday. So the warning comes off the page and the hours go on, and the two bars inside the hotel, Coppers Pub and the Sports Tap & Grill, are named where a reader can see them. Nothing new was found for the 1839, which is still the inn's own and still without a record, and no heritage designation for the building could be traced.
2026-09-11Thistle InnThe page said the Thistle is Wellington's oldest surviving tavern on its original site. The strongest version of that claim belongs to the Dominion Post, whose 2015 feature on the inn's 175 years calls it New Zealand's oldest watering hole — and that article was not among the links we listed for readers to check. It is now, and the sentence is in its name; what we can show ourselves is a tavern of 1840 rebuilt on the same site after the fire of 1866.
2026-09-11The BritanniaThe Channel Islands branch of CAMRA carries the Britannia as a working locals' bar on Trinity Square, and it is not among the Guernsey pubs the branch flags as closed. The entry was last updated in March 2015, though, and the bar's Facebook page gave us no post we could put a date to, so the page says believed trading rather than claiming a check it did not get.
2026-09-11Lord Nelson Brewery HotelThe State Heritage Register entry for the Lord Nelson, listed on 2 April 1999 as item 00509 and read on 12 September 2026, is firmer than anything this page had on either date. It gives the Crown grant to the plasterer William Wells of 14 May 1836 for the land, has Wells living here until the liquor licence was granted in June 1842, and calls the house the oldest working licensed hotel in the city on the strength of that licence — a year later than the 1 May 1841 the pub gives itself, which is the disagreement the page now sets out plainly. Three details come with it: the sandstone is believed to have been quarried at the foot of Observatory Hill, the hotel was one of only two in Millers Point that the Sydney Harbour Trust kept when it resumed the area during the plague of 1900, and it is one of just three hotel buildings in the city in the Old Colonial Regency style.
2026-09-11Rose & Crown HotelThis page said the heritage documentation had not been consulted. It has been now, on 12 September 2026, and it is worth the trip. Western Australia's Heritage Council holds the Rose and Crown as place 02481, on the State Register since 7 October 1997, classified by the National Trust since 1984 and graded of exceptional significance in the municipal inventory. Its history says Thomas Jecks came to Guildford in 1839 to open a general store and extended it into an inn named the Rose and Crown in 1841 — the claimed year, asserted by the state without a licence cited, which is why the grade does not move. Its description of the fabric is the more useful correction: the two-storey Georgian block is about the 1850s, the east wing and stables the 1880s, and only the single-storey range at the back is believed to be Jecks's, so the beam markings this page mentioned are a smaller part of the story than the register is. The cellars keep a well whose water was reputedly used for brewing, and the register notes drily that the tunnel story could only be settled by excavating under the verandah.
2026-09-11Gordon HotelThe 1842 is a pub historian's; the hotel's own site says 1840 for the inn it replaced, and the page no longer puts the researcher's year in the licensee's mouth.
2026-09-11Hero of Waterloo HotelThe State Heritage Register entry for the Hero of Waterloo, listed on 2 April 1999 as item 00633 and read on 12 September 2026, agrees with this page on the licence of 1845 and adds the sequence around it: Clarke sold the land to the builder George Payten in 1840, Payten built the Garrison Church in 1842 and the hotel in 1843-44, and the stone for both probably came from the Kent Street quarries, the earliest in Sydney. It also answers something this page asserted without explaining — that the pub is little altered since 1928. The reason is that the main bar was two rooms until the dividing partition came out in that year, which is a change rather than a lack of one. The register gives the address as 81-83 Lower Fort Street, where the page had only 81, and records the current use as pub, bar and restaurant.
2026-09-11Caledonian InnThe grade on this row was C because nobody had published a licensing record for the 1844. The Victorian Heritage Register has one. Its report for the house, downloaded and read on 12 September 2026 under number H0247, records that the Scottish-born David McLaws took a lease on the corner of Bank and James Streets in 1844 and is first recorded as the licensee of the Caledonian Hotel in the same year, holding the licence for most of the time until about 1860 and leaving the house in his estate until 1887. A state register naming a first licensee in the year claimed is a record of drink sold on the premises at the claimed date, so the grade goes to A and the earliest record on the page becomes 1844. The same report supplies the rest: rubble stone with attic bedrooms under dormers, built in stages, with the attic interior on the James Street side never finished because the workmen went to the goldfields; the acre bought from James Atkinson in 1850 for £200; horse sales including those of the novelist Rolf Boldrewood. The registered address is 41-43 Bank Street, where this page had 41. And the house's own site, read the same day, gives the bar hours as eleven in the morning to one at night, well beyond the bistro's, so a drink here does not wait on a meal. The claim to be continuously licensed still needs its qualification: the pub closed until further notice in September 2023 and reopened that December.
2026-09-11Customs House HotelIts page stood on the hotel's own website cited twice, which the gate counted as two sources. The Tasmanian Heritage Register lists 1 Murray Street as the Customs House Hotel and describes the building independently, so the page now has a source with no interest in the date. The 1846 is still the hotel's own figure and the grade stays at tradition.
2026-09-11The Village TavernThe tavern's own front page, read on 12 September 2026, is where the 1847 comes from and is now credited, and it is also the best evidence that the doors are open: the Long Grove Apple Fest on 25 to 27 September 2026 and a Hallowe'en night on 8 October are on its calendar, there is open-mic on Mondays and named musicians on Wednesdays and Fridays, and the billiard room downstairs keeps its own hours. The wording of the claim is worth repeating exactly, because the page had softened it: the house says oldest restaurant in continuous operation in Illinois, which is a claim about a kitchen and not about a licence. Nothing documentary was found for 1847, and no listing entry for the property.
2026-09-11The Wheat Sheaf TavernCalling the Wheat Sheaf Toronto's oldest bar under its original name was a qualifier doing quiet work: it excluded the Black Bull, a rival this site never mentioned. blogTO, which we already cite, says the Wheat Sheaf has generally been considered the city's oldest although the Black Bull opened more than a decade earlier under a different name, and that the Bull closed in 2024. Both facts are now on the page, in blogTO's terms.
2026-09-11Moutere InnThe address line said the street address had not been verified instead of giving one. Nelson Tasman's visitor guide puts the inn at 1406 Moutere Highway, Upper Moutere 7175. https://www.nelsontasman.nz/eat-drink/the-moutere-inn/
2026-09-11Moutere InnThe inn changed hands. OneRoof reported on 17 April 2026 that Jane Cunliffe and John Slotemaker had bought it for an undisclosed sum against an asking price of NZ$1.2m from Andrew Cole and Dave Watson, who had held it for seventeen and a half years, and that they planned a full renovation and the return of the accommodation that closed eight years ago. The house trades as The Moutere 1850 and publishes hours of noon to 9pm from Wednesday to Sunday at themoutere.co.nz; moutereinn.co.nz is the old owners' site and stays in the citations for the history on it. The page now names the new owners and the new sign. https://www.oneroof.co.nz/news/how-nzs-oldest-pub-was-saved-from-the-scrapheap-beer-fans-shelve-retirement-to-buy-historic-inn-49312
2026-09-11Grand View HotelThe 1851 build is the trade press's figure, and the same article says the house did not trade until 1855.
2026-09-11The Iron Door SaloonThe saloon's own site, read on 12 September 2026, publishes the claim this page reports, serving you since 1852, so the year is credited to the house. It also answers the question that decides whether a place belongs on this site at all, and answers it in as many words: the saloon remains open after the kitchen closes. That sentence is now on the page. The evidence for the age is unchanged and remains awkward for the claim — the granite building is about 1852 and was the Granite Store, and the drinking house begins in 1896 as Jake's Place under Giacomo DeFarrari, with the Iron Door name only from 1937.
2026-09-11Duke of Wellington HotelThe register report, downloaded and read on 12 September 2026, shows this page had understated the protection and misread the address. The Duke of Wellington is on the Victorian Heritage Register as H1175, not merely present in the heritage database, and the registered address is 142-148 Flinders Street rather than 146. The statement of significance, last revised on 29 November 1996, also supplies the names behind the building: the architect Richard Dalton drew it in 1850 for the carpenter and businessman Timothy Lane, Lane's licence applications of 1850 and 1851 both failed, a Mrs Smith ran the place as a boarding house until 1853, and the licence then went to Dalton himself. And it is candid about what a visitor sees: the original facade detail was removed or rendered over in 1969, and the register says the exterior treatment and interior are far from representative of a building of the 1850s.
2026-09-11Genoa Bar and SaloonThe 1853 is a magazine's, and the marker on the building itself says 1863 — worth the reader knowing which is which.
2026-09-11McSorley's Old Ale HouseNew York State Liquor Authority's register of current active licences, read on 12 September 2026, carries licence 0138-21-123999 at 15 East 7th Street in the name Mc Sorleys Old Ale House, held by Mc Sorleys Old Ale House Inc, issued on 3 April 2025 and running to 30 June 2027. The page had the Maher family as operators without a company behind the bar, and the register supplies it. Nothing new on the date: the 1854 over the door is still the house's own, and the historians' objection stands, that the site was an empty lot in 1860-61, that the building can be no earlier than 1858 and that John McSorley appears in the city directories only in 1862.
2026-09-11Six Mile Pub & EateryRegraded B to C. Grade B means the building has been dated to the age the pub claims, and no description or survey of this building has been found at all, so the grade was asserting something we do not hold. The founding date itself is unchanged.
2026-09-11Six Mile Pub & EateryThis page said plainly that the Six Mile is British Columbia's oldest pub, a few lines above our own note that it shut during Prohibition and was remodelled afterwards. The claim belongs to the pub — its website carries it under the date 1855 — and the page now says so, and says in the same breath that the pouring stopped.
2026-09-11Old Canberra InnThe 1857 dates a slab hut and comes from the travel press; the licence is 1876.
2026-09-11Old Canberra InnThe address line said the street address had not been verified instead of giving one. The inn's own site gives 195 Mouat Street, Lyneham ACT 2602. https://www.oldcanberrainn.com.au/
2026-09-11The RiverheadBoth its links were to the pub's own website. Auckland's district plan schedules the historic part of the tavern at 33 York Terrace as Foresters' Arms (former) and Riverhead Hotel, category B, which is an independent record of an old drinking house on the site under an earlier name — and still no date for 1857.
2026-09-11Bushranger HotelThe 1860-61 build is the state heritage register's, not the hotel's own claim.
2026-09-11McGillin's Olde Ale HouseRegraded B to A. The bar opened in 1860 and its framed liquor licences run from 1871, eleven years later, which is a record of drinking here within a generation of the claimed date. It had been graded B, which means the building has been dated, and nothing has dated the building.
2026-09-11McGillin's Olde Ale HouseThe page said in our own voice that McGillin's is Philadelphia's oldest continuously operating tavern. That is the bar's own wording, from its own website, and no record of the 1860 opening has been traced further than the framed licences on its walls, which begin in 1871. The sentence now says whose claim it is.
2026-09-11Young and Jackson HotelThe register report, downloaded and read on 12 September 2026, agrees with this page that the hotel opened in July 1861 and adds the licensee's name, John T Toohey, which is the sort of detail that turns a date into a record. It also explains what the building actually is: an amalgamation of five buildings, the 1853 bluestone corner among them, united behind a single facade in 1921 by the hotel architect Richard B Whittaker, who added the red glazed tile dado to fight the street grime. The registered address is 1-7 Swanston Street, where the page had 1. And the story of Chloe now has its dates, bought by Henry Young in 1908 after the outcry over her arrival for the International Exhibition of 1880-81.
2026-09-11Cardrona HotelThe New Zealand Heritage List entry for this hotel, read on 12 September 2026, is more specific than anything this page had, and less flattering. What is listed is the false front alone, entry 2239, Category 2, entered on 15 December 2011 — and the entry says in as many words that the front now conceals modern premises built behind it. So a reader should not be told the gold-rush building survives. The entry also gives the house its earlier name, the Empire Hotel, after a nearby gold claim, with the Cardrona name only from 1926; dates the building to the 1860s rather than to 1863; and spells the legendary publican James Paterson, with the licence from 1926 to his death at 91 in 1961. The registered address is 2312 Cardrona Valley Road, where this page gave the Crown Range Road.
2026-09-11Farmers Arms TavernQueensland publishes no licensed-premises register a reader can search, so this rests on the pub's own site, which sets out its hours as Wednesday to Saturday until ten and Sunday until three. Those hours were on the page when it was read today, 11 September 2026, four years on from the report by the ABC that the entry already cites.
2026-09-11Bar El FederalThe page no longer claims a check. Buenos Aires city tourism does list the bar as operating at Carlos Calvo 599, but that page was last changed in October 2018, so it says nothing about this year. Unlike the Britanico, which the same authority updated in March 2026, El Federal has nothing dated behind it and no site of its own.
2026-09-11Bar El FederalThe city guide dates El Federal only to the 19th century; the 1864 rests on Wikipedia alone.
2026-09-11Bar El FederalThe page said El Federal claims 1864 while our note recorded that only Spanish Wikipedia published the year. La Nación and Perfil both state it, and both call the original trade a pulpería rather than a grocery, so the claim is attributed to the press and the note says what was sold.
2026-09-11Pete's TavernNew York State Liquor Authority's register of current active licences, read on 12 September 2026, carries licence 0340-22-107833 at 129 East 18th Street in the name Pete's Tavern, held by 66 Irving LLC, issued on 7 April 2025 and running to 30 November 2026. The class recorded against it is the state's restaurant class, which is worth saying on a page about a tavern, and worth saying carefully: it describes the licence, not the room, and the room has a long front bar that serves drinkers. The page had no operator at all, and now has the company that holds the licence.
2026-09-11Scholz GartenThe Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission's licence file, read on 12 September 2026, carries an active mixed beverage licence numbered 105261369 at 1607 San Jacinto Boulevard under the trade name Scholz, held by HDCB Scholz LLC, first issued on 1 June 2017, renewed on 15 May 2025 and running to 31 May 2027. That is the state confirming the beer garden is trading and naming the company that runs it, where this page said only that private leaseholders did. The listing line also gains its dates: a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark since 1967 and on the National Register since 27 July 1979 under reference 79003015. The 1866 is the Texas Historical Commission's and the National Register's rather than the business's own, which is now what the page says; the Texas marker's point stands, that the present main building replaced the original about 1900, so the trade is older than the walls.
2026-09-11Garrick's Head PubThis row gave a square for an address, cited an Ontario pub magazine for a British Columbia pub, and named nobody as its operator. The province's own register of liquor-licensed establishments settles all three: a Liquor Primary licence, number 115527, at 1140 Government Street, Victoria, under the establishment name Bedford Regency, held by Garricks Pub Ltd. and running to 30 June 2027, with a second Liquor Primary licence at the same address for the Churchill. Liquor Primary is the province's drink-led class of licence, which is a better answer to whether you can walk in for a pint than any description. The pub sits on the ground floor of the Bedford Regency with its door on Bastion Square, which is why the two addresses both appear on the line now. The 1867 is still the pub's own, with nothing behind it.
2026-09-11Mitre TavernThis page said the Mitre was classified by the National Trust, and missed that it is on the Victorian Heritage Register as H0464. The register report, downloaded and read on 12 September 2026, corrects three things at once. The tavern was established in 1867 with Henry Thompson as first publican, which is a year earlier than the licence of 3 April 1868 this page carried, so both are now set out rather than one. The building probably dates back to before 1850 — the register's own hedge, and more careful than the 1837 that circulates, which is the year Charles Ebden bought the land. And a reader expecting an old room should know that most of the interior was removed and replaced in 1971, and that the faintly medieval outside, shutters and half-timbered gables and Marseille tiles, is early twentieth-century dressing. The registered address is 5-9 Bank Place.
2026-09-11Bar La ÓperaRegraded B to A. The cantina is recorded at 5 de Mayo from 1895, nineteen years after the 1876 the house claims, which is within a generation. B was wrong because nothing has dated the building; the nuance the grade cannot carry — that the 1876 business was a pastry shop at another address — is in the notes.
2026-09-11The Palace Restaurant and SaloonThe 1877 is the city's own marker, which says plainly that the saloon's exact age is a puzzle and that 1877 is the first reliable record.
2026-09-11The Palace Restaurant and SaloonA four-word line beside the photograph said this is Arizona's oldest bar, with nobody named as saying it. The marker the City of Prescott put up outside, which is where our 1877 comes from, makes no such claim: it opens by calling the saloon's exact age a puzzle and gives the Weekly Miner notice of 21 September 1877 as the first reliable documentation. The superlative is the one Wikipedia and the business press carry, so the line now says it is reported.
2026-09-11Puhoi Pub & HotelThe pub's own site, read on 12 September 2026, confirms the doors and the hours — daily, from eleven Monday to Thursday and from ten at the weekend, at 5 Saleyards Road — which is the first dated evidence on this page that the house is trading. Searching the New Zealand Heritage List for the building turned up nothing, so the protection this page can point to remains the Puhoi Historic Village Zone of 1976 and not a listing of the pub itself, and the note now says so rather than leaving the difference unstated. The licence of 1879, under the name German Hotel, is unchanged and still rests on one account.
2026-09-11Kamiya BarThe bar's own address cannot be reached - its certificate does not match its host - so the status rests on the Good Luck Trip guide, whose entry for Kamiya Bar carries its own date of last change, 4 June 2026, and gives hours of eleven to eight, closed on Tuesdays. It records no closure.
2026-09-11Kamiya BarThe founding year is on the bar's own website and in its own chronology, which the entry had not cited.
2026-09-11Kamiya BarThe address line said the street address had not been verified instead of giving one. Good Luck Trip, already cited on this house, gives 1-1-1 Asakusa, Taitō-ku, Tokyo 111-0032, by the Azuma bridge a minute from Asakusa station. https://www.gltjp.com/en/directory/item/14486/
2026-09-11White Horse TavernRegraded B to C. Grade B means the building has been dated to the age the pub claims, and no description or survey of this building has been found at all, so the grade was asserting something we do not hold. The founding date itself is unchanged.
2026-09-11Hussong's CantinaIts website’s security certificate had expired when we checked, so browsers warn before opening it. No website is listed until that is renewed.
2026-09-11Hussong's CantinaThe row described having an official website while recording none, so it claimed something that is not there. Cleared.
2026-09-11Hussong's CantinaThe 1892 licence is reported at second hand; nothing the cantina publishes could be read, and the note now says where the year comes from.
2026-09-11Hussong's CantinaThe page said the cantina claims 1892 while our note recorded that it publishes almost nothing. Its own history page states the 1892 licence and its Instagram account, its only channel, runs 'Desde 1892', so the claim is cited to the house.
2026-09-11La PiojeraRegraded B to A. The bar is recorded operating by 1896 and was bought in 1916 by Carlos Benedetti Pini, whose family still runs it — a record of drinking use within a generation of the claim. B asserts the building has been dated, and nothing has dated it.
2026-09-11La PiojeraThe bar is open on Aillavilú, and the stories about it leaving the centre of Santiago are about a second venue rather than the first. Meganoticias reported on 24 September 2025 that La Piojera answered the question of when the central bar would shut for good with one word, never, and that Aillavilú 1030 was then its only premises. On 29 June 2026 the same outlet reported custom at that bar running at about a third of its level before 2019, and a larger second Piojera due to open in a shopping centre in Independencia in August 2026.
2026-09-11La PiojeraAlready settled here on 11 September 2026 and the flag on it was simply left behind. Meganoticias reported on 24 September 2025 that Aillavilu 1030 was then the bar's only premises and would not be shutting, and on 29 June 2026 that it was trading at about a third of its custom before 2019 while a second and larger Piojera opened in Independencia. The talk of leaving central Santiago is about that second house.
2026-09-11La PiojeraThe bar's own site dates it from 1922 and its family's ownership from 1916, while our 1896 rests on one uncited line in Spanish Wikipedia. The page now says so.
2026-09-11La PiojeraOur note quoted the bar's website for 1922 without saying where that could be read; the live site has since been cut back to an ordering page. The two archived copies from December 2024 are now cited, and they show the bar naming 1922 for its name and 1916 for the family, not for a foundation.
2026-09-11Bar CordanoRegraded B to C. Grade B means the building has been dated to the age the pub claims, and no description or survey of this building has been found at all, so the grade was asserting something we do not hold. The founding date itself is unchanged.
2026-09-11Bar CordanoBelieved trading, and honest about the gap. The newest source is Infobae of 16 January 2025, on the historic bars of central Lima still going, which has Cordano open on jiron Ancash; separate coverage marked its 120th year that same month. Twenty months is long enough to matter for a bar that shut once during the pandemic, and Peru keeps no register to check it against.
2026-09-11Bar CordanoThe 1905 is published by the Lima press and dates a bazaar; when it became a bar is still not established.
2026-09-11Salón TenampaRegraded B to C. Grade B means the building has been dated to the age the pub claims, and no description or survey of this building has been found at all, so the grade was asserting something we do not hold. The founding date itself is unchanged.
2026-09-11Bar BritánicoRegraded B to C. Grade B means the building has been dated to the age the pub claims, and no description or survey of this building has been found at all, so the grade was asserting something we do not hold. The founding date itself is unchanged.
2026-09-11Bar BritánicoThe city of Buenos Aires keeps the Bares Notables list, and its tourism entry for the Britanico was last changed on 12 March 2026. It gives hours of nine in the morning to three the next, every day, at Avenida Brasil 399. That is a public authority's own dated page, which is what was missing before.
2026-09-11Bar BritánicoThe 1928 is published by the city of Buenos Aires in its guide to the notable bars.
2026-09-11The Radium BeerhallBelieved trading. The strongest source remains ShowMe of 27 February 2025, which set out that the beerhall had not shut at the end of 2024 as had been rumoured, with Lina Cabeleira still running it. Nineteen months on, nothing newer has been found: the beerhall's own address answers only with a challenge page, and South Africa publishes no liquor register that can be searched.
2026-09-11The Radium BeerhallThe 1929 is the local press's and dates the tea room that came before the bar.
2026-09-11New InnThe first record was 1450 and no source gives that year — Historic England says mid-15th century without one, and the figure reaches us through a 1994 local history. Added the Victoria County History of Gloucestershire, which independently describes it as an inn built in the mid 15th century, and said plainly in the note that the century is documented and the year is the inn's own: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol4/pp63-72
2026-09-11The Haunch of VenisonThe Haunch has a website the entry had not found; its history page is where the 1320 is published.
2026-09-11George & DragonThe George & Dragon publishes only '13th century'. The precise 1212 is CAMRA's and the Dover Kent Archives', so the attribution moves off the pub.
2026-09-11Ye Olde Dolphin InneThe note said the pub gives 1530; nothing the pub publishes could be found. The figure is Visit Derby's.
2026-09-11Ye Olde Bell & SteelyardThe 1540 is CAMRA's. Our note also said the inn uses the date, and nothing the inn publishes could be found to show that, so the sentence has gone.
2026-09-11The AngelStill shut, and for a reason with an end date. The Angel's own site, run by Charles and Harriet Buckle of the Nedging Hall Estate, says there is a considerable amount of work to do before the doors open again, and CAMRA records the inn closed from 3 March 2026 with a return expected on or before 14 December 2026.
2026-09-11The New InnThe 1311 is Pembridge's village history site's, not the inn's — the inn publishes nothing — so the page now says it is locally dated.
2026-09-11Hanbury ArmsThe 16th century is CAMRA's; the year 1565 is only Wikipedia's, and the note said Caerleon dates the house without saying who in Caerleon.
2026-09-11Hanbury ArmsThe page said the Hanbury Arms claims 1565, a year our note had traced only to Wikipedia. HistoryPoints, a Welsh local-history project, publishes the c.1565 dating, so the claim is attributed to it; the note also records that HistoryPoints dates inn use to the 17th century where Wikipedia dates it to the 1750s.
2026-09-11Osteria del SoleAdded as Italy's first entry, grade C. The 1465 claim is the osteria's own (https://osteriadelsole.it/storia/), which credits documents recovered from the Archivio di Stato di Bologna by Alessandro Molinari Pradelli in 1978; no independent citation of them was found, so the grade stays C. Earliest document we can name is Mitelli's 1712 game of Bologna's osterie, which lists the Sole and supplies the pub's sign, described in Sala&Cucina, 28 January 2025. Trading: the same article writes about the house and the Spolaore family in the present tense, and the official site was live on 11 September 2026 with opening hours and a booking number.
2026-09-11Cantina Do MoriAdded as Italy's second entry, grade C, and the claim credited to the press rather than to the bacaro itself: the 1462 date comes from Dissapore's review of October 2019 and Paesi del Gusto of 1 July 2025, not from anything the bacaro publishes, and no document for it was found. Both sources describe it as founded as a wine cellar with the food and counter trade arriving in the twentieth century, which its page says. Trading: Paesi del Gusto describes it open and busy in July 2025, OpenStreetMap carries current opening hours, and an Italian news search turned up no closure.
2026-09-11Cantina Do MoriThe Top 100 rule excludes a house whose drink-led use begins after 1750, and our own evidence note on its page already said that unbroken use as a drinking house since 1462 is not established. A pub at rank 90 whose page says the drinking cannot be traced to its claimed date is the site contradicting itself on one screen. It keeps its page, its Venice and Italy pins and its Italian rank; the next pub held in reserve takes the ranked place, which is what the reserve is for. Ruled on 11 September 2026.
2026-09-11Old BearResearched on 11 September 2026 and added as The Gateway/Old Bear, Cork, claiming 1698, grade C. The 1698 claim is the bar's own (https://www.oldbear.ie/) and is reported as the local belief by Yay Cork, 22 May 2024; no record for it was found, so C. Yay Cork, 29 May 2024, also records the finding that the first name over the door was Old Bear rather than The Gateway. Trading: the official site was live on 11 September 2026 with current opening hours and a reservations number, and no closure has been reported since the May 2024 reopening.
2026-09-11Thomas Moore TavernResearched on 11 September 2026 and added, grade C. The claim is the tavern's own, from its About page as archived on 17 January 2024: the house dates "back to the 1700s when it was known as the King's Arms". No year and no record, so we record the claim at the first year of that century, as we do with every claim given only as a century, and the grade is C. Its own domain, thomasmooretavern.com, lapsed before September 2026, so we show no website for it; Wexford Weekly's live-music listing of 4 September 2026 shows the tavern open, with a singer on the Friday and a trad and ballad session on the Sunday.
2026-09-11T & H Doolan'sAdded on 11 September 2026 with the 2014 closure checked, as grade B and with its trading recorded as unclear. NIAH reg. 22501100 dates the building 1680-1720 with original use as a public house, which supports the claimed 1710 as fabric; the year and the "1400s" tradition are unrecorded, hence B rather than A. Patrick Comerford's account of September 2018 sets out the closure of January 2014, the March 2014 auction to the Watchorn family and the pub still being shut four years later. The Waterford News & Star of 23 October 2024 has the proprietors of Doolan's before councillors about footfall and a councillor saying "if T&H's was open" in the same meeting, which is why the status is unclear rather than trading or closed.
2026-09-11T & H Doolan'sRecorded closed, 2014, after four lines of evidence agreed. Waterford's local radio reported in September 2022 that the house had been shut and falling into disrepair since it was auctioned in 2014, with a heritage grant spent on the shopfront and hope of a reopening at some stage; an OpenStreetMap surveyor marked it abandoned the same month; a councillor told a Waterford meeting in October 2024 that neighbouring traders would be helped if Doolan's were open; and the only trade reported since 2014 is one season of outdoor service in 2020. The page had said the question could not be answered, and the words about it have been rewritten to say what the record shows.
2026-09-11Plough & HarrowBacklog candidate resolved 11 September 2026. CAMRA surveyed it open on 29 January 2026. The 1383 is the pub's own and is inherited from the grange; Cadw dates the standing building early C17.
2026-09-11The Harp InnResearched on 11 September 2026. The candidate reached us with a 15th-century claim; the pub's own site claims the 16th, so the date we record as its claim follows the pub. CAMRA records it open, last updated 9 November 2024, and the pub's site carries a 2026 copyright but no hours, so the status is marked unconfirmed.
2026-09-11Church House InnAdded 11 September 2026, having been wrongly carried in our archive of lost pubs as closed. CAMRA lists hours seven days a week with no closure notice, so the January 2025 closure ended. Wikipedia's Stoke Gabriel article supplies the church-house origin and the stocks.
2026-09-11Black Bull InnAdded 11 September 2026. The inn's own history page claims 1568; the category B listing LB37883 dates the building to probably the 18th century on the site of an earlier inn and calls 1568 a claim, so the record is graded C. CAMRA's branch entry, updated 15 July 2026, and the inn's live booking pages show it trading.
2026-09-11Black Bull InnThe house trades as a hotel with a bistro as well as a bar, and CAMRA records it closed from late November to March, which a reader planning a visit needs before the history.
2026-09-11Old Ship InnAdded 11 September 2026. The pub claims 1665 and CAMRA's Tayside branch repeats it; nothing documentary has been traced, so the grade is C. CAMRA's entry, updated 29 August 2026, records a refurbishment in early 2026 and four consecutive city Pub of the Year awards, which settles trading.
2026-09-11Cramond InnAdded 11 September 2026. Graded B on the listing: LB28603 dates the north block to about 1670, which is the date attached to the inn, while no record of drinking use at that date has been traced. CAMRA's entry of April 2025 reports it reopened under new managers, still owned by Samuel Smith's, and the City of Edinburgh inspected the premises as a pub in October 2024.
2026-09-11The Original Rosslyn InnAdded 11 September 2026 to separate this inn from the one it is often confused with. Its own site dates the business to 1837; LB44175 dates the building to 1857. The 1660 Roslin Inn that Johnson, Boswell and Burns visited is Collegehill House, listed separately as the former Old Inn. Its own events listings run to October 2026, which settles trading.
2026-09-11Hole i' the Wa'Added 11 September 2026. The 1620 date belongs to CAMRA's Dumfries and Stewartry branch, and LB26236 dates the inn behind the High Street block to the mid 18th century, so the record is graded C. It is badged as not confirmed: the freshest evidence that it trades is its presence on the Food Standards Agency register in September 2026 and an OpenStreetMap edit of March 2026, with no survey since 2015.
2026-09-11Hole i' the Wa'The 1620 was recorded as CAMRA's because no statement by the pub had been traced. The fascia over its own entrance reads "HOLE I' THE WA' INN · EST · 1620", which is the pub making the claim itself, and the licensed photograph now on its page shows it. From 11 September 2026 the claim is credited to the pub itself rather than to CAMRA.
2026-09-11Ship InnAdded 11 September 2026. The 1595 building date is CAMRA's Ayrshire and Wigtownshire branch note and Wikipedia's harbour article gives 1596; no listing or survey was traced, so the grade is C. Both sources date the licence to 1754, which puts it outside the Top 100. A North Ayrshire Council inspection of 28 January 2026 shows the premises operating, but it is registered as a restaurant or cafe and its own website has lapsed, so the status is badged as not confirmed.
2026-09-11Ship InnOur first test asks whether the public can be served a drink here today without a meal or a booking. CAMRA describes a bar with handpumps and a mast built into the counter, while North Ayrshire Council registers the premises as a restaurant or cafe, so the page says both.
2026-09-11Kenmore HotelAdded 11 September 2026 as temporarily closed. CAMRA records the hotel shut on 31 March 2022 for renovation with its future uncertain, OpenStreetMap marked the premises disused in February 2026 and kenmorehotel.com no longer resolves. The 1502 tavern and 1572 inn are CAMRA's and Wikipedia's dates; LB12122 identifies nothing 16th-century in the fabric, so the grade is C.
2026-09-11Kenmore HotelApplying the Top 100 rule as it now stands: the claimed date has to date public, drink-led trade on the premises. For the Kenmore it dates a tavern said to have stood here, which no source we can read documents, so the hotel keeps its record and stays out of the ranking.
2026-09-11A GinjinhaAdded 11 September 2026, Portugal's first entry, under the ruling on what counts as a pub. Trading: its own site takes orders and tells its story at the counter. 1840 puts it far outside the Top 100, which is the right place for it.
2026-09-11GriechenbeislAdded 11 September 2026. Trading: its own site lists hours seven days a week. The claim is its own "550 years"; the 1447 is the encyclopedia's first documentary mention, which is earlier than the claim.
2026-09-11GriechenbeislThe note sent the reader to a document in this repository and to the name of a field, in prose printed on the pub's own page. Same two facts, in English: the test is whether the public can be served a drink without ordering a meal, and no source we have traced answers it. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griechenbeisl
2026-09-11Kafana Znak PitanjaAdded 11 September 2026, Serbia's first entry. Trading confirmed from its own site, which lists hours seven days a week and carries an April 2026 page date.
2026-09-11The NorsemanResearched on 11 September 2026 and added, grade C. The 1696 "first licenced" date and the 1500s Wooden Man Tavern are both the pub's own, on norseman.ie, and neither is traced to a record. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage record, reg. 50020101, read through an Internet Archive snapshot of 12 August 2022, dates the building to about 1900, records its original use as a public house, and cites Thom's Directory of 1862 describing the two houses then on the site as one tenant's vintner's — that is the earliest document, so 1862 is our first record of drink sold here. The same record dates the opening of Essex Street to 1674, which the 1500s claim has to get past. Trading: the pub's own site was live on 11 September 2026 with menus, room rates and a reservations line, and the OpenStreetMap record of the building carries a surveyor's check date of 19 October 2025.
2026-09-11The Bleeding HorseResearched on 11 September 2026 and added, grade C. The claim is the pub's own — "at least back to the 17th century" on bleedinghorse.ie — and it is recorded here as a century rather than as the 1649 that listicles print, because 1649 is offered on the same page only as an explanation of the name. The pub's history text is identical to the Wikipedia article's, so the two are not independent. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage record, reg. 50110427, read through an Internet Archive snapshot of 17 March 2025, dates the building 1865-1875, records the 1871 rebuilding for Andrew Wren to R.J. Stirling's designs, and places it on the site of an earlier inn that it does not date; that purpose-built public house of 1871 is the earliest drinking-house date we can cite. Trading: the pub's own site was live on 11 September 2026 with opening hours to half past two on Friday and Saturday nights, a booking line and a 2026 copyright.
2026-09-11The SpaniardResearched on 11 September 2026 and added, grade C. The claim is the house's own: its history page says the pub was built on the ruins of a castle in or about 1650 and was first the Castle Bar, under the Coleman family of Scilly. No record has been traced for that, and no National Inventory of Architectural Heritage entry has been traced for the building, so nothing dates the fabric independently of the pub. The present name is the 1960s work of later owners, after the Spanish commander at Kinsale in 1601, so it is no guide to the age of the house. Trading: an Internet Archive snapshot of 6 June 2026 carries bar hours of 10.30 to 23.30, later at weekends, and the building is mapped as a pub in OpenStreetMap with an edit in January 2026.
2026-09-11The SpaniardThe pub's own history page, where its 1650 comes from, now serves an expired certificate and fails in a browser. Cited through the Internet Archive's copy of 6 June 2026, which still reads "It was built on these ruins in or about 1650": https://web.archive.org/web/20260606110421/https://thespaniard.ie/home/history
2026-09-11Holohan'sResearched on 11 September 2026 and added, grade C. The claim is the pub's own and is unusually well argued: a research paper published on holohans.ie in January 2025 concludes the Bear Inn existed here by the 1740s, citing the inn's appearance in reports of the 1743 Annesley case and in evidence to the 1793 select committee on the Enniscorthy election. Those originals have not been read here, and only the pub ties that inn to these premises, so no first record is entered for it. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage record, reg. 15603108, read through an Internet Archive snapshot of 14 October 2023, dates the house 1765-1785, gives its original use as a house and its pub front as about 1975, so the fabric is later than the claim: C on both counts. Status is recorded as believed trading rather than verified — the pub's own site was live on 11 September 2026 and the building is mapped as a pub in OpenStreetMap with an edit in February 2026, but no dated 2025 or 2026 account of the bar serving was found.
2026-09-11The Chapel InnAdded on 11 September 2026 as a candidate for the Top 100, the .co.uk address we had for it no longer resolves, and its history page is now at thechapelinn.com. The pub's claim is 1554, the year its history page says the house became a legally licensed premises, and that is the date recorded here: the page's 1256 is a chapel and a market charter and its 1376 is a private house, so neither dates drink-led trade. Historic England list entry 1337968 lists the building Grade II* as Chapel Hotel, 4 Market Hill: a house, now hotel, of late C14 date altered in the C16, C18 and C19, citing Beaumont's 1890 history of Coggeshall for the Sewall connection and the later house names Ayworth's and Edgeworth's. Grade B, because the fabric is documented older than the claim while the 1554 licence has not been traced to any record; we enter no first record of drinking rather than borrow the 1966 list entry, which evidences a hotel name and not drinking. It is still pouring, on two independent dated sources: CAMRA's entry (pub 186125, Star Pubs house, four changing cask beers, Cask Marque, opening from noon) and the Food Standards Agency register, which classes 4 Market Hill as Pub/bar/nightclub and rates it 5 at an inspection of 10 September 2025. At the current cut-off of 1500 for the hundredth eligible pub, 1554 puts it outside both the Top 100 and the twenty-five places held in reserve behind it.
2026-09-11The Black SwanAdded on 11 September 2026 as a candidate for the Top 100, from its own history page at blackswanyork.com, which earlier attempts had not been able to read. The pub claims 1417, the year it says the house was built for William Bowes, merchant and Sheriff of York. Historic England list entry 1256886 dates the fabric to the late C16 with C17 extensions and describes a house, now public house; York Civic Trust's plaque record, read through an Internet Archive snapshot of 20 January 2021 because the page is now a 404, puts the rebuilding at 1560 under Sir Martin Bowes and says the house has been a public house since the late eighteenth century; CAMRA says turned into a pub in the eighteenth century. Grade C, because 1417 dates neither the fabric nor drink-led trade — the pub's own page calls the fifteenth-century building a private house. It is therefore out of the Top 100, with the reason set out on its page, and we record no year for the change of use, because no source gives one. It is still pouring: CAMRA records a public bar, Timothy Taylor Landlord as the regular beer and opening from noon, with the entry updated on 1 August 2025, and the Food Standards Agency register classes Peasholme Green as Pub/bar/nightclub at an inspection of 1 August 2025.
2026-09-11The Black SwanRewrote why the Black Swan is outside the Top 100 so that it reads as English: it says drink-led trade begins after the line the ranking draws, and that nobody has yet traced the year the house became a pub. York Civic Trust dates its use as a public house to the late eighteenth century: https://www.yorkcivictrust.co.uk/heritage/civic-trust-plaques/the-black-swan/
2026-09-11The Black SwanThe last line of this pub's evidence note explained why it is outside the Top 100 by naming two fields in the data and one of them as empty, which on a page a reader is reading is a note somebody forgot to remove. It now says the same thing in English: no year has been traced for the change of use, only the fact of it. Nothing about the evidence or the ranking changes.
2026-09-11Brauerei SpezialAdded 11 September 2026. The 1536 is the brewery's own, from its history page, and Bamberg's tourist office repeats it; the Bavarian list of monuments dates the half-timbered front house to the sixteenth or seventeenth century, which is what the grade rests on. Drink served here is first accounted for in 1631, when Nikolas Delscher held the brewery tavern. Trading: notices on its own site dated 11 March, 28 April and 22 May 2026, and hours from nine in the morning with the kitchen opening at half past eleven.
2026-09-11Zum UerigeAdded 11 September 2026. The 1862 is the house's own, from its history page, and the German Wikipedia article and the city magazine Duesseldorf-Magazin give the same date of 4 January 1862 for Wilhelm Cürten taking over the Bergischer Hof. The record of drinking here is older than the claim: a guest house called the Heidelberger Fass is recorded by 1755. Trading: its own pages carry opening hours seven days a week and the next four dates of a monthly cabaret, in September, October, November and December 2026.
2026-09-11Brauerei zum SchiffchenAdded 11 September 2026, shut rather than trading, so it has no page. The 1628 ducal grant to Wilhelm Hütten to brew and keep an inn is recited by the German Wikipedia article and the date repeated by the city's tourist office and by the Düsseldorf news site Vier Null. Closed since autumn 2024 for a refurbishment: Vier Null reported in March 2026 that the reopening had moved to the end of the year, OpenStreetMap has the premises closed until further notice, and the old domain now serves a hosting placeholder.
2026-09-11The GreyhoundAdded 11 September 2026. The open question was who publishes a date for this bar: Yay Cork dated its serving to 1690 in November 2020 and called it the oldest in Kinsale, and the travel publisher The Irish Road Trip gives 1690 as a licence year. Neither names a record, so the grade is tradition. Believed trading rather than confirmed: the map still carried the premises as a pub, with the postcode, on 9 January 2026, and nothing later has been found.
2026-09-11U Krále BrabantskéhoAdded 11 September 2026 on the Czech country-coverage pass. The 1375 is the house's own, from krcmabrabant.cz, and CzechTourism's Kudy z nudy repeats it; Pražský deník of 8 May 2021 calls it the year traditionally given, which is what makes it a C. The Czech register of cultural monuments (39185/1-653) dates the house to a rebuilding after the mid-sixteenth-century fire and to 1629–1633, and the Czech Wikipedia account after Lukáš Berný has the inn itself starting at the end of the nineteenth century, with Václav Petráň buying it in 1884 and murdered in December of that year — so drinking there is recorded only from 1884 and outside the Top 100. Trading: the pub's own site says open every day, OpenStreetMap carries hours of 11:00–23:00 on a node edited 17 April 2026, and Prague City Tourism prints the same hours.
2026-09-11In den Ouden VogelstruysAdded 11 September 2026 on the Netherlands country-coverage pass. The claim is the house's own, from its Over de Struys page: the front is of 1730, the oldest reports of the building are of 1309, and it counts more than 700 years. The 1309 deed of the St Servaas chapter describes a stone house, not a tavern, and the Dutch Wikipedia account says plainly that the claim to be Maastricht's oldest café is unsupported and that the oldest mention of a café here is nineteenth-century — a koffiehuis kept by the widow Schiffelers-Thijssen from about 1840. So grade C, with drinking there recorded only from 1840 and outside the Top 100. Rijksmonument 27697. Trading: its own site is selling terrace packages for the André Rieu concerts of 2027 and advertising five vacancies, and OpenStreetMap records the pub as last surveyed on 11 June 2024.
2026-09-11The River InnAdded on 11 September 2026 as Derry's first entry, grade C. The 1684 is the house's own, printed on riverinn1684.com with an account of an inn's licence for punch, beds and stabling, and repeated by Visit Derry; no licence, deed or directory entry behind it was traced, and no earlier record of drink sold at 34-38 Shipquay Street. The Northern Ireland register of historic buildings lists neighbours at 28, 30, 31-33 and 35-37 and nothing at these numbers, so the building is undated here. Open: the Food Standards Agency inspected the bar on 26 March 2026 and Visit Derry publishes its hours. The pub's own site answers only over an insecure connection, so it is cited but not linked as the official website.
2026-09-11Tomney's BarAdded on 11 September 2026, grade C. The 1765 is published by Mid Ulster District Council's business directory in wording that repeats the bar's own copy, and the bar's website gives no year at all; the Belfast papers that use the date sit behind rules we do not crawl. No document for 1765 was traced. The chapter in Pubs of the North reprinted by Beer Bore calls the bar at least three hundred years old and dates the last refit to 1946, and the Department for Communities lists the house at grade B2 as a public house without dating it. Open: the Food Standards Agency inspected it on 15 October 2025 and the Tyrone Courier reported council approval for a garden room on 13 September 2024. The coordinates come from the listing register's own point for 9-10 The Square, because neither the bar nor its neighbours are mapped in OpenStreetMap.
2026-09-11Los 36 BillaresAdded on 11 September 2026 as Argentina's third entry, grade C. The 1894 is the bar's own, printed at the head of the counter menu on its website; the city's tourism service repeats it and the Spanish Wikipedia article credits Horacio Spinetto's history of the city's cafes, published by the heritage directorate in 2008. No licence, deed or directory was traced, and the block the bar occupies was only built in 1914, so the claim is older than the walls. It is in rather than among the restaurants we leave out because the counter menu it publishes serves coffee, wine by the glass and beer with no meal attached, and the city's own register of cultural spaces classes the house as a bar in the notable category. Trading: the city's tourism listing carries current opening hours and the bar's own site was live on 11 September 2026 with counter, dining-room and delivery menus.
2026-09-11Zum Schwarzen KameelAdded on 11 September 2026 as Austria's third entry, grade C, and out of the ranking. The 1618 is the house's own and dates a spice and grocery shop opened by Johann Baptist Cameel, a merchant from Brno; the City of Vienna's historical encyclopedia dates that to 1619 instead. Both agree the wine room came later, after Joseph Stiebitz took the business on in 1818, so drink-led trade here is nineteenth-century and the house is not eligible for the Top 100. The building was put up new in 1901 with the Jugendstil fittings it still has. It is admitted because its own pages say the ground-floor bar pours wine, cocktails and coffee from eight until midnight with no booking, which answers the first question this site asks of a house. Trading: those hours were read on its site on 11 September 2026, and a surveyor checked its Naglergasse garden on 27 June 2025.
2026-09-11Zum Roten BärenAdded on the night of 12 September 2026, grade B. It had been struck from the ruled-out list on 10 September as a hotel-restaurant rather than a drinking house, in a row that then recorded landlords documented in 1311 and 1387 and called the decision an editorial judgement. Both questions are now answered. The house's own pages describe a bar you can lean against for an espresso, an aperitif or a glass of wine, and its hours run four hours longer each side than its kitchen. The 1120 dates the foundations and the cellar, which German Wikipedia and the city's tourist service trace to the Zähringer manor house that stood here before Freiburg was founded, so the fabric is of the claimed age and the drink is recorded later: Johann Bienger in a convent land record of 1311, and Hanmann Bienger in a court document of 13 March 1387 as the landlord at the Red Bear. Trading: its own hours page carries dates through Christmas 2026 and New Year 2027.
2026-09-11The Angel and RoyalAdded on the night of 12 September 2026, grade C. It had been struck from the ruled-out list on 10 September as a 29-room hotel whose bar is incidental, which is not a reason: a hotel with a public bar anyone may use is in scope, and the Grantham branch of the Campaign for Real Ale lists this one with two handpumps in the main hotel bar and updated the entry in March 2026. The 1203 is the hotel's own, printed on its front page. It is graded C because nothing traced dates a drinking house to that year: Lincolnshire's historic environment record calls the origin a camera of the Knights Templar, an estate house rather than an inn, and dates the entrance arch to no earlier than 1370 from the carved heads of Edward III and Philippa of Hainault. Trading: the food hygiene register records an inspection on 4 June 2026 and a surveyor checked the premises on 12 July 2026.
2026-09-11Le ProcopeAdded on the night of 12 September 2026, grade A, and France's first entry. It had been struck from the ruled-out list on 10 September as a "Restaurant (named exclusion in brief)", citing a field guide that had already been rewritten; with La Couronne at Rouen it was one of only two French candidates this research has ever found, so a category judgement had left the country off the site. Both questions are answered. Its own site says the coffee room opens without a reservation from three to six on weekdays and prices its drinks by the glass, and the 1686 dates a coffee house on these premises rather than a building or a shop. It is out of the ranking because the drinking stopped: the original café closed in 1872 and the rooms were a club, a restaurant and another café before the name came back, with the present house dated to 1957. The French register of historic monuments inscribed the premises in part on 20 January 1962.
2026-09-11Auerbachs KellerAdded on the night of 12 September 2026, grade A. It had been ruled out on the words "historic wine cellar dining", which describe a menu. Both questions are answered. The operator publishes separate hours for the Mephisto bar, with last orders half an hour before closing, so a glass is served without a meal; and the 1525 the house dates itself from is a wine tap rather than a building. German Wikipedia and the Leipzig-Lexikon both record a wine tap mentioned on this ground in 1438, nearly a century before the claim, and neither names the document, so the grade rests on two accounts. The Faust barrel ride of 1525 is the legend behind the date, and the house kept its five-hundredth birthday in 2025. Trading: its own published hours for both rooms and a survey of the premises in March 2026.
2026-09-11Bremer RatskellerAdded on the night of 12 September 2026, grade A, and it enters the ranking. It had been ruled out as a "wine cellar restaurant", which names what is on the tables. Both questions are answered. The 1405 is the operator's own and dates the trade rather than the room: with the building of the town hall that year the city's wine cellar moved into its vaults to supply the citizens, pouring the common and the better Rhine wine at two prices, and German Wikipedia traces the privilege behind it to 1330 and the ordinance appointing the council's wine lords to 1342. No charter naming 1405 was read. A glass without a meal is answered by its own drinks card, which prices German wine by the fifth of a litre and lists beer from the tap, and by a survey that has the house open before the kitchen opens and after it closes. The hall above was inscribed as a World Heritage site in 2004.
2026-09-11Bremer RatskellerThe brass diamond on this page prints the source of the building's date beside it, and what it printed was a bare link. The year is the town hall's, begun in 1405 and finished about 1410, and the source is German Wikipedia's article on the cellar rather than any survey of the vaults, so the line now says so. No survey of the cellar's own fabric has been read here.
2026-09-11Bratwurst RösleinAdded on the night of 12 September 2026, grade C. It had been ruled out as a "restaurant" with a list of the world's oldest companies as its only source. The date question is answerable from the house's own chronology, which names a beer-tap house called the Waizenstüblein in old house deeds of 1431 and still calls its oldest room the Waizenstube, while the front page claims 1493 and the chronology explains no such year. The grade is C because a Nuremberg local history citing Konrad Nopitsch dates the beer house to some time before 1801 and records that a city guide of about 1850 listed it among neither the beer houses nor the sausage kitchens. The building is post-war: bombing destroyed the timber-framed house on 2 January 1945. Drink without a meal is answered by its own beer-garden page and by the city tourist office's description of the garden in the courtyard. Trading: its own daily hours and a survey of the premises in December 2025.
2026-09-11St. Peter StiftskulinariumAdded on the night of 12 September 2026, grade C and out of the ranking. It had been ruled out as a "restaurant (named exclusion in brief)", a reason that cited a rule already replaced. Both questions are now answered, and the second is answered against the claim. The 803 rests on a poem by Alcuin of York praising the cellar of St Peter's abbey and its beer, which German Wikipedia cites from the Monumenta Germaniae Historica; a monastery cellar in a poem is not a public drinking house. The abbey's own chronology says a Buschenschank became a Gaststätte little by little, marks 1720 as the year nobility, townspeople and clergy came in, and dates the right to sell beer to 1803. Drink without a meal is answered by its own cocktail bar in the courtyard, open Wednesday to Sunday from three until eleven. Trading: its own hours, its Christmas and New Year pages for 2026 and a survey of the premises in February 2026.
2026-09-11EsterházykellerAdded on the night of 12 September 2026, grade C and out of the ranking, which settles a Vienna row left open on two counts. The date question is answered against the house: the City of Vienna's historical encyclopedia has the cellar opening in 1808 and selling nothing under five Maß of wine until 1828, when it was first poured by the glass, while the house dates itself from the wine given to Prince Esterházy's men at the siege of 1683. The trading question is answered as well. The cellar's own page has it closed from 12 January until further notice; the Stüberl beside it, the same business at the same address and telephone, opens daily, and the Vienna weekly Falter lists the house eleven to ten with the kitchen stopping at nine, which is the hour in which a drink comes without a meal. A Vienna daily reported in April 2026 that two restaurateurs had taken the house on after its insolvency.
2026-09-11Zur letzten InstanzAdded on the night of 12 September 2026, grade C. It had been ruled out as a restaurant in a row whose own last clause said a spirits room of 1621 is documented, which is exactly what this site ranks. The 1621 is the house's own, printed on its front page and retold by Berlin's official tourist board, and nobody names the record behind it, so the grade is C; what is dated afterwards is the tap house called Zum Bierstübchen am Glockenspiel about 1715, an address book entry of 1822 and a landlord named Runge in 1861. The reconstruction is recorded as what it is: East Berlin took numbers 14 to 16 down to their foundations and reopened them as one ensemble in January 1963, keeping the tiled stove. Drink without a meal is answered by its own beer garden and its own wine list for spring 2026, a dozen wines by the glass. Trading: its published hours and that spring 2026 card.
2026-09-11Au Vieux Spijtigen DuivelAdded on the night of 12 September 2026, grade C. It had been ruled out as "primarily a restaurant", with a real finding about the date attached to the same row: the earliest proof is eighteenth-century. Both questions are answered. The operator publishes brasserie hours from half past eleven until midnight and food service that stops at three and starts again at six, so a drink is served in the afternoon when the kitchen is shut, and the house keeps separate lists for its wines and its Belgian beers. Paris Match Belgique reported in January 2026 that the oldest proof of the house dates from the eighteenth century and that the 1500 is legend, naming no archive for either, which is why the claimed year is entered as the magazine's and nothing is entered as documented. Its own pages say Charles V stopped here when this was a posting inn.
2026-09-11Buckhorn ExchangeAdded on 12 September 2026, grade B. It had been struck off as a steakhouse in a reason that refuted itself by naming the saloon bar and Colorado licence number one. Both are real: the National Trust for Historic Preservation records that new owners opened the second floor as a drinking room in 1978 and installed the 1857 oak bar there, and Visit Denver describes the licence on the wall and the bourbon and apple juice poured under it. Grade B rather than A because the fabric is dated and the drink is not: the National Register nomination of 1983 gives the specific date 1893 and describes the surviving doors, ceiling and floors, but its own oldest source for the opening is a Rocky Mountain News series of 1936, and the earliest dated drink record traced is the 1933 licence. Colorado Historic Newspapers and the Colorado Encyclopedia both refuse automated requests, the second because it blocks this country outright.
2026-09-11Union Oyster HouseAdded on 12 September 2026, grade C and outside the ranking, having been struck off as a restaurant with a historic oyster bar — and an oyster bar is a counter. The National Historic Landmark nomination of 2003 dates the oyster house to 7 October 1826 and the building to about 1716, and its account of the trade is what settles the grade: a dwelling, then a shop from 1742, then a restaurant, with drink appearing in an 1854 advertisement that prices the house's liquors by the gallon and a bar room, The Union Bar, opened in August 1983. Drinking here today rests on Boston's own licence register, which lists an active all-alcohol licence for the house with none of the conditions requiring a full menu that the board attaches to some restaurants, and on Boston.com's visit for the bicentenary in July 2026.
2026-09-11The Inn at HancockAdded on 12 September 2026, grade C. It had been struck off as a hotel whose bar is incidental, which is not one of the things that closes a door; the operator's own dining page settles it, describing the Hunt Bar and Scullery as open daily from four to nine for drinks and canapés and welcoming local patrons as well as residents. The claim of 1789 is the inn's own, published in its reopening announcement and repeated by Boston.com. It is graded C on the National Register nomination for the Hancock Village Historic District, which says the house was built as a tavern for Noah Wheeler and that 1789 is the traditional date but the building may be somewhat later; the same nomination gives the earliest dated record found, Jedediah Fox's sale of the inn in 1828. Trading again since 1 May 2026 after three years shut.
2026-09-11Albany HotelAdded on 12 September 2026, grade C, and marked believed trading rather than confirmed. It was on the ruled-out list although its own row called it a candidate, and neither question is open: the Albany visitor service describes a traditional main bar and a rear beer garden, and the Heritage Council of Western Australia's record gives its present use as hotel, tavern or inn. The 1836 licence is the press's, from the Albany Advertiser and the agents selling the freehold, and the ABC quoted the researcher Suzanne Thompson for it in 2022 with the caveat that the records are patchy; the heritage record mentions no 1836 and dates the first hotel here to 1852 and the standing building from 1890, so 1852 is the earliest drinking house anything cited supports. The status is unconfirmed because the proprietor of nearly a decade pulled his last pint in mid-2026, a new tenant took the lease in July and the freehold is separately for sale, and no dated publisher has been traced since.
2026-09-11Victory HotelAdded on 12 September 2026, grade A, and marked believed trading rather than confirmed. Two doubts had been left hanging over it and neither was ever really open: it is a public bar, and the Brisbane Heritage Register citation has the document the grade needs, a publican's licence granted to Michael Costello for the Prince of Wales Hotel on 4 September 1855, with his first advertisement in the Moreton Bay Courier and an 1862 panorama showing the same building. ALH closed it in February 2023 and Athena Hospitality reopened it that March. The status is unconfirmed because a refurbishment into four venues has been approved with works reported as starting in the second quarter of 2026, and no publisher says whether the pub has shut while they are done.
2026-09-11Merrijig InnAdded on 12 September 2026, grade B and outside the ranking. It had been struck off as a boutique inn and restaurant rather than a pub; its own drink page answers that, giving front and garden bars open from three until six, before the kitchen opens at six, with wine by the glass, beer, spirits and bar snacks. The Victorian Heritage Register entry H0248 dates the building to a lease of September 1845 and the trade to 1847, and separates this house from the earlier Merrijig Inn that Archibald McNeill built nearer the Moyne River, whose 1842 licence is what other publishers quote. The ranking leaves it out because the hotel closed in 1852 and the government used it as police barracks, courts and offices, after which it was a boarding house; the register says it reopened as a small private hotel in the 1980s and gives no year.
2026-09-11Hadley's Orient HotelAdded on 12 September 2026, grade C. It had been struck off as a heritage hotel whose bar is incidental to accommodation, with no source on its row at all; the hotel's own page for the Art Bar answers question one, opening daily from four with cocktails, beer and wine, a happy hour until six and a pianist on Saturdays. The two dates in circulation are its own 1862, as Webb's Family Hotel, and the 1834 that the state tourism service and the booking sites print. The Tasmanian Heritage Register datasheet for place 2534 supports neither and describes a rare surviving large-scale nineteenth-century accommodation house and a multi-storey Victorian commercial building, so the site records the hotel's own year and grades it C. The datasheet was read through the Heritage Tasmania report handler, and the register's site boundaries are queryable through the LIST map service, which is how the address was confirmed.
2026-09-11Long BarAdded on 12 September 2026 as Singapore's first entry, grade C and outside the ranking. It had been struck off as a hotel cocktail bar and not a pub-type drinking house, which is a category rather than a finding, and the hotel's own page closes question one in a sentence: the Long Bar is open to walk-ins only, eleven in the morning until late, taking no reservations. Question two is the hard one and the answer is honest rather than tidy. Raffles dates the Singapore Sling to 1915 and to Ngiam Tong Boon at this bar, no dated document has been traced for it, and the bar has moved: the hotel puts the planters' Long Bar along Cad's Alley, and English Wikipedia records the move from the lobby to the new arcade in the restoration that reopened the hotel on 16 September 1991. So the date and the room are not the same thing, which is what the ineligible reason says.
2026-09-11The Pirates' HouseAdded on 12 September 2026, grade C and outside the ranking. It had been struck off as a themed dining complex rather than a bar, which describes the trade and settles nothing; the house's own FAQ says reservations are not required and that it keeps a full service bar with rum flights and draught beer, so a visitor can be served a drink here. The 1753 is its own and is reasoned rather than cited — its history page says that as Savannah became a seaport one of the first buildings on the old Trustees' Garden was naturally an inn for sailors. Wikipedia dates the Herb House in the group to 1734 as the garden keeper's house and the restaurant to 1953, when Herb Traub and James Casey opened a tea room, which is where the drink-led trade starts. Its website answers no automated request, so both pages were read through Internet Archive snapshots.
2026-09-11Cantina Do SpadeAdded on the night of 12 September 2026 as Italy's third entry, which takes the country over the index gate, grade A. The 1448 is the house's own and it names its source: Tassini's Curiosità veneziane of 1872, citing Carle de Zuane, hosto all'insegna delle Spade. Two Italian publishers report the same citation, and both carry the 1488 record of the same man as gastaldo of the Venetian innkeepers' confraternity and the 1566 cadastral entry naming the osteria delle do spade at San Matteo. Grade A rests on those rather than on the house. The identification is the soft part and the note says so: the records date a sign, and what ties them to San Polo 859/860 is the calle, sottoportego and bridge that still carry the name. Question one needed no argument — wine by the glass at a high counter, with the room in front of it used standing.
2026-09-11Cantina Do SpadeThe Storie Enogastronomiche article on the bacaro was cited over plain http and answers over https, so the citation now points at the secure address.
2026-09-11Gospoda Pod Modrym FartuchemAdded on the night of 12 September 2026 as Poland's third entry, which takes the country over the index gate, grade A. The claim and the record agree: the house says "tradycyjnie od 1489 r." and the Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa record for Rynek Nowomiejski 8 says the first confirmed mention of an inn on the spot is of 1489, dating the surviving cellars to perhaps the 1420s, the baroque front to the early eighteenth century and a restoration to 1955-59. Question one is answered by what the house sells: three hundred regional and craft beers by its own count, two hundred by Toruń's tourism service, poured in the evening in the room it calls Krajina Piva. The closure it announced during the pandemic and the rescue that followed are known only from headlines, because both Polish titles that carried them refuse an automated request, so the trading evidence here is the live site, its booking page and hours from noon, matched by OpenStreetMap.
2026-09-11Casa AlbertoAdded on the night of 12 September 2026 as Spain's second entry, grade C. The 1827 is the house's own, on its history page and on a plaque at the door it says Madrid city council put there, and the city's tourism service prints the same year; nothing behind it — licence, deed or directory — was traced, so the grade stays C. Question one is answered by the house's own hours, which separate the two trades: the taberna runs from noon to eleven while the restaurant serves in two sittings inside that, and the counter is the onyx slab with the five-tap vermouth font on it. The sixteenth-century building the house mentions, where Cervantes is said to have lodged, was a predecessor on the plot and is not the standing fabric, which is undated here.
2026-09-11Taberna Antonio SánchezAdded on the night of 12 September 2026 as Spain's third entry, which takes the country over the index gate, grade A. The 1787 is not the house's own claim but a historian's: Antonio Pasies published it in 2018, and the City of Madrid's tourism service gives the reasoning — a notice in the Diario Curioso, Erudito, Económico y Comercial of February 1787 transferring the premises as a wine business, and the 1749 cadastral survey showing the same building with the tavern's space unchanged. The grade rests on that dated publication about this address rather than on a licence, and the note says both that we have not read the notice and that it records a wine trade rather than the word taberna. A competing 1830, under the name Taberna de Álvaro de la Virgen, is published by an association of Madrid's old restaurants and is recorded here beside the earlier date. Question one has no answer in words from any source traced; what is recorded is the tin counter in use, wine on the list, and three publishers calling the house a taberna, so it is published with the question flagged rather than treated as settled.
2026-09-11Casa MoralesAdded on the night of 12 September 2026 as Spain's fourth entry, grade C and out of the ranking. The 1850 is the house's own and Seville publishers repeat it with no document; the founder is named as Leocadio Morales Prieto of the Valdepeñas bodegas. It is out of the Top 100 for the reason Cantina Do Mori in Venice is: the claimed year dates a shop selling wine in bulk, drinking on the premises is described as beginning gradually afterwards, and no year for that has been traced, so nothing dates drink-led trade to 1850. Question one is not in doubt — the fascia name Hijos de E. Morales is recorded in OpenStreetMap as a bar at this doorway, and the tinajas in the back room carry the day's drinks in chalk. Food is the recent part of the business, from about 2000.
2026-09-11Casa MoralesThe Seville taberna history that records the bodega's start as a bulk wine shop was cited over plain http and answers over https, so the citation now points at the secure address.
2026-09-10Ye Olde Fighting CocksNoted for the record: the Guinness World Records listing for this pub was withdrawn from consideration in 2000 as unverifiable, and Guinness no longer maintains an oldest-pub category.
2026-09-10The White Lion InnCAMRA WhatPub shows it open Tue-Sun with hours, and quotes the Cadw Grade II listing of July 1998: "its special interest as a first-half C19 inn with earlier core". That contradicts the 1,200-years and AD 800 stories outright, so grade C is right and the building date is now sourced.
2026-09-10The Porch HouseCorrected: our notes stated the 1970s radiocarbon test as fact. Triskele Heritage (James Wright, 2 Jan 2025) reports the county archaeologist has no record of samples being taken and no report was ever published, and that Guinness no longer maintains the category. The claim is now described as untraceable rather than supported.
2026-09-10The Pied BullCAMRA WhatPub lists it open daily with hours. It repeats the pub’s own "11th-century coaching inn" and "oldest continuously licensed premises in Chester" wording without citing a record, so the 1155 claim stays grade C.
2026-09-10Gasthaus Zum RiesenGraded A on a claim of 1158 with a first record of 1411, 253 years outside the rule. Nothing survives at 1158: the pub's own history page (https://riesen-miltenberg.de/geschichtedesriesen/) attributes the twelfth-century date to Dr Ph. Madler's pamphlet of 1865 and states that the documents Madler used are no longer extant, and it describes a Hof rather than an inn; the earliest surviving mention it accepts is the Miltenberg court book of 1411 naming the Riesen-Wirt Conrad Trestram, which de.wikipedia also reproduces. The Bavarian Denkmalliste for Hauptstraße 99 tree-ring dates the main frame to 1590 and the oldest range in the complex to 1481/82, so there is no fabric of the claimed age either, and Miltenberg is first documented only in 1226 (de.wikipedia, from Archbishop Siegfried II's visit). Tradition with nothing surviving behind it and no fabric of the claimed age is C, not A or B. The first record stays 1411, the building dates gain the tree-ring figures from the heritage register, and the link to the pub moves to the address its own site settles on (the www form redirects there).
2026-09-10Lord Crewe ArmsCAMRA WhatPub lists it open 11:00-23:00 daily, records the building as Grade II* incorporating the west cloister of Blanchland Abbey, and states it has been the village pub and hotel since the 18th century - independent support for grade B, with drinking use Georgian rather than 1165.
2026-09-10Lord Crewe ArmsCAMRA's pub record lists it open from 11am to 11pm daily, records the Grade II* building as incorporating the west cloister of Blanchland Abbey, and says it has served as the village pub and hotel since the 18th century. That is independent support for the building's age, with drinking use Georgian rather than dating from 1165, so the grade stands at B.
2026-09-10Llindir InnThe inn’s own site, found in this pass, shows current hours (Wed-Sun) confirming it trades, and states it has been "a freehouse, serving the Vale of Clwyd since 1229". That is the pub’s claim, not a record, so grade C stands.
2026-09-10Llindir InnThe inn's own site, traced in this pass, gives current hours from Wednesday to Sunday, so it trades, and says it has been a free house serving the Vale of Clwyd since 1229. That is the pub's claim rather than a record, so the grade stays C.
2026-09-10The Black Bull InnCAMRA WhatPub shows it open with hours and describes "a 13th Century building, Grade II listed" - the first heritage-flavoured source we have for the date, though still not a document, so grade C stands. Its former web address is now a parked domain, so no website is listed for it.
2026-09-10The Black Bull InnCAMRA's pub record shows it open with full hours and describes a 13th-century building, Grade II listed: the first heritage-flavoured source for the date, though still not a document, so the grade stays C. Its old web address now leads to a parked domain offered for sale, so no website is shown here.
2026-09-10Jaškovská krčmaThe earliest cited record is a ducal charter confirming a taberna at Těrlicko in 1268 (Prasek 1894, reported by cs.wikipedia and the heritage site hrady.cz) — drinking use at the claimed date, so A, with the site-continuity caveat kept in the notes.
2026-09-10The Tobie NorrisOperator Knead Pubs shows it open daily from noon with food times, and confirms the 13th-century building dated to 1280 and the Norris family of bell founders. It does not date the conversion, so 2005 stands as the year the building became a drinking house, on the evidence of CAMRA.
2026-09-10The Bell InnCAMRA WhatPub shows it open Tue-Sun noon-20:00, and records a building that "started as a cruck-framed hall", Grade II listing, a three-star heritage interior with a 1650 fireback and 1902 handpumps, and the same Hunt/Macauley family since the 18th century. Supports our note that 1340 is undocumented and the fabric is 15th century or earlier.
2026-09-10The Tower InnThe inn’s own site says its doors are open again after Covid and a serious fire; CAMRA records it reopening in March 2022 after the February 2021 kitchen fire. Neither gives a document for 1347, so grade C stands.
2026-09-10The Barley MowCAMRA WhatPub shows it open daily under Chef & Brewer (Greene King), last surveyed March 2022 and updated October 2025. It attributes the 1352 date to a panel on the road-facing wall and cites NHLE 1047903 with 19th- and 20th-century alterations - so the date is an inscription rather than a dendro or documentary date, which is worth saying alongside grade B.
2026-09-10The Old CrownCAMRA WhatPub shows it open noon-23:30 (later at weekends) and describes a Grade I listed, timber-clad building "reportedly" Birmingham’s oldest pub and oldest secular building - the hedge is CAMRA’s own. Supports keeping 1368 as tradition (grade C) against the documented 1626 inn use.
2026-09-10The Cherub InnThe pub’s own history page says the building "reopened in the 1950s as a private members’ club" and "became a free house and restaurant in the 1970s". Public drinking use therefore begins long after 1750, so it is not ranked among the hundred oldest. The c.1380 building date and Grade II* listing are unaffected. Its own site is live and confirms it is trading.
2026-09-10The Cherub InnThe pub's own history says the building reopened in the 1950s as a private members' club and became a free house and restaurant in the 1970s. Public drinking here therefore begins long after 1750, so it is not ranked among the hundred oldest, and 1970 is recorded as the year it became a pub. The c.1380 date of the building and the Grade II* listing are unaffected. The site is live and shows it trading.
2026-09-10The Lad in the LaneCLOSED. CAMRA WhatPub carries "This Pub is Closed Long Term", recorded as "Closed, future uncertain" from 01/09/2019 and last surveyed 31/10/2023; West Midlands press reported a deliberate fire in the empty building on 6 November 2024. Closure year set to 2019 on CAMRA’s record - some listicles say 2022, so the year deserves one more check before it goes to Lost Old Pubs. The dendro-dated late-14th-century fabric and 1780s conversion to a pub are unaffected.
2026-09-10The Fleece InnThe National Trust, which owns it, states plainly "The Inn was first licensed in 1848" and describes a half-timbered medieval farmhouse - independent confirmation both of our first record and of 1848 as the year the farmhouse became a licensed drinking house. CAMRA shows it open 11:00-23:00, dates the fabric to the 15th century, records the 1977 bequest by Lola Taplin and a three-star heritage interior. The National Trust’s page is the closest thing it has to an official site.
2026-09-10The Fleece InnThe National Trust, which owns the inn, states that it was first licensed in 1848 and describes a half-timbered medieval farmhouse: independent confirmation of both the first record and the year it became a pub. CAMRA lists it open from 11am to 11pm, dates the fabric to the 15th century, records Lola Taplin's bequest of 1977 and rates the interior three-star.
2026-09-10Schlenkerla1405 records the division of a house, not a tavern; the house chronicle dates the brewhouse with its brewing and serving rights to 1677/78, so B stands and the first record of drinking here moves from 1405 to 1678.
2026-09-10Cittie of YorkeBoth sources confirm the present building is a 1923-24 rebuild, Grade II listed, with a cellar of at least the 1600s, and that the 1430 date rests on the pub’s own fascia inscription ("Established as the site of a public house in 1430") rather than a record - grade C confirmed. Trading was not re-checked in this pass, so the date we last confirmed it open is unchanged; it is due a fresh check of the news.
2026-09-10The Luttrell ArmsExmoor National Park’s Historic Environment Record reproduces NHLE 1057611: Grade II*, "Late 15th century/early 16th century with 17th and 18th century and late alterations". Independent confirmation of the late-15th-century fabric behind the 1443 claim, so grade B holds. Trading not re-verified here.
2026-09-10Ye Olde George InnStonegate’s Social Pub & Kitchen page shows it open 11:00-23:00 with food to 21:00 and a 2026 copyright line, confirming Stonegate as operator. It gives no history, so the 15th-century dating still rests on CAMRA and the Grade II listing.
2026-09-10The Golf TavernThe pub’s own site is live with a 2026 copyright line, bookings and private hire, confirming it trades, and carries the strapline "Best in Bruntsfield, since 1456". That is marketing, not evidence, so the legend reading and grade C stand.
2026-09-10Ye Olde Bulls Head InnNow confirmed trading under a new owner. The Inn Collection Group’s page takes bookings and describes a Grade II listed inn "dating back to the 15th century"; North Wales Live reported the sale to the group when David Robertson retired after 35 years. The old operator field (Rothwell & Robertson) and the website are out of date - bullsheadinn.co.uk now fails its TLS handshake - so website is repointed at the operator page.
2026-09-10Stadsbierhuys De WaagThe 1478 evidence is the civic lease carrying the monopoly on foreign beers — selling drink to the public, not just a building — and it is reported by four sources independent of the business, so A rather than B; the notes say plainly that the lease document is not published.
2026-09-10The ChequersCAMRA WhatPub shows it open, Grade II, parts dating from the 15th century, a money-lender’s house rebuilt as a tavern in the early 1500s - and, usefully, that the name Chequers is first recorded in 1605. That is the earliest cited record of drinking use on the site, so 1605 becomes our first record; the 1500 claim and the widely quoted 1260 house date remain unevidenced, so grade C stands.
2026-09-10The Golden FleeceThe 1503 mention is a record of who owned the property, not of an inn; the first drinking-use record is the 1668 licence (inn use from 1656 per York Archaeological Trust), so B stands and the first record of drinking here moves from 1503 to 1668 — a gap of 165 years from the claim.
2026-09-10Prospect of WhitbyRestored Historic England’s own hedge: their wording is "may have been related to a marketing campaign", not a finding that the date is marketing.
2026-09-10Café In de Blaauwe Hand1542 is the date of the cloth hall's rebuilding, not of a tapping record, so B stands; that date cannot honestly serve as our first record of drinking here, and no published source offers another in its place, so the page now gives no first record at all.
2026-09-10The WrestlersThe pub’s own site shows current hours (Mon-Thu 16:00-24:00) and says the Wrestlers "has stood on its present site since 1547" with the present operators there since 1997. It offers no document for 1547 and does not mention the 1921 rebuild, so grade C stands.
2026-09-10The Church House InnThe inn’s own site shows current opening hours (Wed-Sun) confirming it trades. It gives no history, so the mid-to-late-16th-century dating still rests on CAMRA and grade B is unchanged.
2026-09-10Clachaig InnCAMRA WhatPub shows it open with hours (Mon-Fri 11:00-23:00) and notes hours vary day to day in winter. It gives no date for the building or the inn, so the unsourced 16th-century origin stays grade C.
2026-09-10The Old InnThe pub’s own site shows current bar and dining hours. The sources disagree: the pub itself says it "has offered a place for locals and visitors to come together since the 1600s", while the founding date we carry for it is 1550, from CAMRA’s 16th-century description. The date we record as its claim may need moving to the 17th century.
2026-09-10The Old InnThe pub's own site gives current bar and dining hours, so it trades. It also says the inn has offered a place to gather since the 1600s, while the claim recorded here is 1550, following CAMRA's description of a 16th-century building. The two accounts are a lifetime apart and no document has been traced for either, so the grade stays C.
2026-09-10The Old WellingtonWikipedia states "In 1830, the building became a licensed public house, known as The Vintners Arms", after being a house and draper’s shop from 1554. Drinking use therefore begins after 1750, so it is not ranked among the hundred oldest; its pub history is dated from 1830. Also confirms the 1552 build, Grade II listing from 1952, the 1971 raising and the 1999 move of 300m. The Wikipedia link has been corrected to the article’s current title.
2026-09-10The Old WellingtonWikipedia records that the building became a licensed public house called the Vintners Arms in 1830, having been a house and a draper's shop from 1554. Public drinking therefore begins after 1750, so it is not ranked among the hundred oldest and 1830 is recorded as the year it became a pub. The same article confirms the 1552 build, the Grade II listing of 1952, the raising of the building in 1971 and its move of 300 metres in 1999.
2026-09-10Brauerei-Gasthof HeroldCLOSED. inFranken (17 February 2025) reported that sisters Gisela Herold and Regina Haas would shut the Brauerei-Gasthof for good on 31 August 2025 because they could not staff it, ending brewing, serving and baking rights held since 1568; the closure was confirmed by Nordbayerischer Kurier and by beerwanderers.com after the event. Should move to Lost Old Pubs, recorded as having closed in 2025.
2026-09-10The Lion InnCAMRA WhatPub shows it open with hours and independently repeats the late-16th-century date "actually completed in 1580", with the original brewing cellar and pig sties surviving. Still no document behind 1580, so grade C stands.
2026-09-10Café De DruifLocal Amsterdam-Oost news confirms the café at Rapenburgerplein and, on the evidence of old maps, gives 1631 as the likely start of café use with the 1585 distillery date unverifiable. This conflicts with Amsterdam750’s archive finding of drinking use only from 1863, which is the date our record follows. Grade C either way.
2026-09-10Café De DruifTwo accounts of this café disagree. Local Amsterdam-Oost reporting, reading old maps, puts the start of café use at about 1631 and finds the 1585 distillery date unverifiable, while the Amsterdam750 archive research this record follows finds drinking on the premises only from 1863. Either way the 1585 on the wall has nothing behind it, and the grade stays C.
2026-09-10The Dolphin TavernThe tavern’s own site shows hours 11:00-23:00 daily and sets out the 1585 claim with the Hawkins, Raleigh-first-pipe and courtroom stories. All tradition rather than record, so grade C is right.
2026-09-10Hofbräuhaus am PlatzlBrewing right is not a public house: 1589 is the court brewery's founding, and the first record of the public taproom is 1828, so B stands and the first record of a drinking house here moves from 1589 to 1828, which is also the year we give for the house becoming one.
2026-09-10The Garrick InnCAMRA WhatPub shows it open with hours and independently confirms the key facts: timber-framed building of 1594, Grade II*, "has been a pub since 1718", named the Garrick from 1769. Matches the 1718 we hold as the first record of drinking here, and grade B (CAMRA gives 1594 where we have c.1596).
2026-09-10Café De KarpershoekMokum Magazine (12 July 2024) reports the café trading under new proprietor Peter Brugman after an in-keeping refurbishment, and repeats the 1606 date and the VOC-sailor origin. It does not test 1606, so grade B still rests on Amsterdam750’s 1641 notarial record of the inn De Oldenburger Kelder.
2026-09-10Bruce InnWhat we knew on 10 September, before the closure was confirmed. The Falkland Arms Hotel and the Bruce Inn are one building, 23 High Street, which has also traded as the National Hotel, the Bruce Arms and the Hunting Lodge Hotel: Historic Environment Scotland lists it category B, LB31275, dated 1607 on an inscribed lunette panel with a back wing of 1611. A commercial agent was offering it with vacant possession in June 2026 and Pubs Galore reported the Bruce Inn closed, so it was recorded as temporarily closed on the reasoning that it was being marketed as a pub to relet. The name it should be carried under is still an open question, since it no longer trades under either.
2026-09-10Café ChrisDutchAmsterdam gives the address, the 1624 date and both versions of the Westertoren story (a lunch room for the builders, or where they were paid). It repeats the tradition without testing it, which is consistent with grade C and with Amsterdam750’s finding of café use only from 1882. The café’s own site cafechris.nl could not be read - its TLS certificate has expired.
2026-09-10De Drie FleschjesThe proeflokaal’s own site shows current hours (Mon-Sat 14:00-20:30, Sun 15:00-19:00) and the 50-barrel drink organ still in use. It claims "ANNO 1619" on the building, where we had recorded 1650. Amsterdam750’s archive finding of drinking use from 1618, as Het Sufflet, sits beside that.
2026-09-10De Drie FleschjesThe proeflokaal's own site shows current hours, Monday to Saturday from 2pm and Sunday from 3pm, with the row of fifty tasting barrels still in use. Its front is lettered ANNO 1619, a year earlier than the 1650 recorded here as its claim; both sit beside the archive entry of 1618 for a tasting house on the site, which is what earns the grade A.
2026-09-10The Hawes InnCAMRA WhatPub shows it open (7:00-23:00, no alcohol before 11:00) under Vintage Inns (Mitchells & Butlers), and describes an old coaching inn beneath the Forth Bridge with the Stevenson connection. It gives no date, so the vague 17th-century origin and grade C stand; operator is now sourced.
2026-09-10Stara Karczma w JeleśniThe Silesian regional tourism heritage record confirms a restaurant still operating in the inn, places it on the Wooden Architecture Trail, notes the 1774 date on a ceiling beam and says the building "probably dates from the 18th century", possibly older and possibly Wallachian. Independent support for our doubts about the 1655 Jan Kazimierz story, so grade C is right.
2026-09-10El RinconcilloThe tavern’s own site is live with contact and booking details, confirming it trades, and sets out the 1670 claim of over 350 years broken only by the Covid closure. Self-interested and undocumented, so grade C stands.
2026-09-10Proeflokaal Wynand Fockink1679 documents a distillery, not a tasting house; the earliest evidence of drinking on the premises is the tasting room interior of 1860, so B stands and the first record of drinking on the premises moves from 1679 to 1860.
2026-09-10Moulin InnCAMRA WhatPub shows it open noon-23:30 and states "First opened in 1695, and refurbished January 2019, the inn is the oldest part of the Moulin Hotel" - a second source for the 1695 date, though still without a document, so grade C stands.
2026-09-10McHugh's BarCAMRA WhatPub shows it open (noon-01:00 Mon-Sat, 13:00-23:00 Sun) and gives the Department for Communities listing reference HB26/50/274, Grade B2, for a building "reputedly the oldest in Belfast, likely to have been built circa 1715". Supports grade B and gives us a listing reference we did not have.
2026-09-10Hviids VinstueVisit Copenhagen lists it as an operating bar that "has existed in the same location for almost 300 years". Reassuring in context: TV2 Kosmopol reported that the neighbouring Skindbuksen (1728) shut, while Hviids kept going - so the closure story attached to that block is not ours. Still no primary licence record, so grade B rests on the accepted 1723 date.
2026-09-10The Locke BarNow trading: the holding page has gone and Limerick.ie lists full hours (Mon-Thu 9:00-23:30 and later at weekends) with nightly trad sessions. It repeats that the bar stands on "the original site of one of Limerick City’s oldest pubs dating back to 1724". The local historian Patrick Comerford records that the premises has only traded under the name Locke Bar for about twenty years, which is why the claim is treated as a site history rather than a continuous one.
2026-09-10The Locke BarIt is trading again: the holding page has gone and Limerick.ie lists full hours, from 9am on weekdays and later at weekends, with nightly traditional music. That listing repeats the claim that the bar stands on the site of one of Limerick's oldest pubs, dating from 1724. The local historian Patrick Comerford records that the premises has traded as the Locke Bar for only about twenty years, so the 1724 belongs to the site rather than to the business, which is why the grade is C.
2026-09-10The Purty KitchenVisit Dublin lists it as an operating pub with live music and a current phone number, confirming trading. It gives no founding date, so 1728 remains the pub’s own claim and grade C is right.
2026-09-10Settle InnCAMRA WhatPub shows it open with hours (Mon-Wed 15:00-23:00, later later in the week) and states it was "Built in 1733" and is the oldest pub in Stirling. A second source for the date, but still no licence or listing evidence, so grade C stands.
2026-09-10Crown & Anchor InnCAMRA WhatPub shows it open noon to 22:00-24:00 depending on the day, and was last surveyed on 4 March 2026 and updated 17 March 2026 - the freshest status evidence in this batch. Visit Moray Speyside also lists it as operating year-round with rooms. Neither dates the building, so 1739 still rests on Wikipedia’s Findhorn article and grade B is unchanged.
2026-09-10Albion House TavernThe tavern's own CAMRA WhatPub entry (distinct from the branch pub guide we already cite) gives its hours as 11:00-00:30 Monday to Saturday and noon to 20:00 on Sunday, and repeats that it has stood on the site since 1780 and is the closest tavern to a church in the British Isles per Guinness. Those hours carry no date of their own: read again on 18 September 2026, the entry states that it was last updated on 26 September 2024 and last surveyed on 28 January 2015.
2026-09-10Bell in Hand TavernA researched history that supports our sceptical note and sharpens it: founded 1795 by town crier Jimmy Wilson in the Exchange Coffee House basement, moved to Williams Court/Pi Alley in 1853, closed on 9 January 1915 for a redevelopment that never happened, reopened on Devonshire Street in 1934 and moved to Union Street in the 1950s. The "oldest continuously operating" claim fails on the 1915-34 gap. Its own website would not respond when we checked, so trading was not re-verified from it.
2026-09-10Bell in Hand TavernA researched history that supports our sceptical note and sharpens it: founded 1795 by town crier Jimmy Wilson in the Exchange Coffee House basement, moved to Williams Court/Pi Alley in 1853, closed on 9 January 1915 for a redevelopment that never happened, reopened on Devonshire Street in 1934 and moved to Union Street in the 1950s. The "oldest continuously operating" claim fails on the 1915-34 gap. Trading not re-verified: bellinhand.com returns 403.
2026-09-10The Plough InnConfirms temporarily-closed is still the right call: CAMRA records "Closed Long Term" from 1 July 2025 with the note "Sadly closed mid 2025. As of March 2026, owners are seeking new tenants and remain hopeful of re-opening", and repeats the 1810 date and the Guernsey’s-oldest claim.
2026-09-10The Plough InnStill closed, and temporarily-closed remains the right description. CAMRA records it Closed Long Term from 1 July 2025, with the note that the owners were seeking new tenants as of March 2026 and remained hopeful of reopening. The same record repeats the 1810 date and the claim to be Guernsey's oldest.
2026-09-10U Zlatého tygraThe 1816 beer hall rests only on the pub's own history, so it cannot carry a grade; the earliest independent record of a drinking house at the address is Šoch's café of 1835 (Prague City Tourism), so B stands, with the first record of a drinking house here moved to 1835 and two sources added that are not the pub itself.
2026-09-10The Ear InnThe bar’s own history page shows it open daily to 4am and dates the house to about 1770, with drink first sold by Thomas Cooke in the mid-1800s and the EAR name created in the late 1970s by painting out part of the neon BAR sign. Consistent with our note of tavern use from at least 1835 and grade B. The web address recorded for it has been corrected.
2026-09-10The Ear InnThe bar's own history page shows it open daily until 4am and dates the house to about 1770, with drink first sold by Thomas Cooke in the mid-1800s and the EAR name made in the late 1970s by painting out part of the neon BAR sign. That agrees with the tavern use recorded here from at least 1835, so the grade stays B.
2026-09-10Horeke HotelThe Bay of Islands regional tourism listing shows it trading as a hotel with restaurant, cafe, bar and accommodation on the Hokianga waterfront. The listing calls it the Horeke Tavern and repeats a claim of beer served since 1826, earlier than the 1833 we record. No source is given for 1826, so the grade is unchanged.
2026-09-10Horeke HotelThe Bay of Islands regional tourism listing shows it trading on the Hokianga waterfront as a hotel with restaurant, café, bar and rooms. The same listing calls it the Horeke Tavern and says beer has been served there since 1826, earlier than the 1833 recorded here; nothing was found behind 1826, so the grade stays C.
2026-09-10Shipwrights Arms HotelThe Australian Institute of Architects’ award record states the building "was constructed in 1845 in Battery Point", describes work done with heritage consultants and notes new owners from 2019 with the front bar retained - independent of the pub’s own 1846 claim and confirming it trades.
2026-09-10Shipwrights Arms HotelThe Australian Institute of Architects' award record states that the building was constructed in 1845 in Battery Point, describes conservation work done with heritage consultants, and notes new owners from 2019 who kept the front bar. That is independent of the pub's own 1846 claim and confirms it trades.
2026-09-10The Wheat Sheaf TavernToronto Heritage Planning cites city directories showing a tavern on this corner in 1849 and the Shorts' 1845 assessment entry — a drinking-use record at the claimed date from a municipal source, so A.
2026-09-10The Kentish HotelHeritage New Zealand (List no. 535, Historic Place Category 2, entered 7 April 1983) records the hotel "initially built by early 1852" and Edward Constable applying in January 1853 for a licence to sell alcohol under the name Kentish Hotel; the hotel’s own history gives Licence No. 47 granted on 10 January 1853. A licence two years after the 1851 claim is a record of drinking use at or near the claimed date, which is grade A, on one official and one self-interested source. Own site is live with menus, rooms and a Portside Bar, so it trades.
2026-09-10The Kentish HotelHeritage New Zealand (List no. 535, Historic Place Category 2, entered 7 April 1983) records the hotel as initially built by early 1852 and Edward Constable applying in January 1853 for a licence to sell alcohol under the name Kentish Hotel, while the hotel's own history gives Licence No. 47, granted on 10 January 1853. A licence two years after the claimed 1851 is a record of drinking use close enough to the claim to raise the grade to A, on one official source and one self-interested one. The hotel's site is live with menus, rooms and its Portside Bar, so it trades.
2026-09-10Bushranger HotelThe NSW State Heritage Register entry (listing 01827, gazetted 8 October 2010) confirms construction in 1860-61, the earlier names Kimberley’s Commercial Hotel and Kimberley’s Inn, the raid of 26 January 1865 in which Constable Samuel Nelson was shot by John Dunn, and that the building "has continuously operated as a hotel since it was built". Solid second source for grade A.
2026-09-10Farmers Arms TavernThe pub’s own site shows current hours (Wed-Sat 11:00-22:00, Sun 11:00-15:00), confirming it trades after the 2022 ABC report we already cite. It makes no historical claim on the page, so the 1863 licence and the Queensland’s-longest-licensed claim still rest on the ABC, and grade C stands - Nindigully makes a rival claim on an 1864 licence.
2026-09-10Farmers Arms TavernThe pub's own site gives current hours, Wednesday to Saturday from 11am and Sunday to 3pm, confirming it trades after the 2022 ABC report already cited. It makes no historical claim on the page, so the 1863 licence and the claim to be Queensland's longest-licensed pub still rest on the ABC report, and the grade stays C. Nindigully makes a rival claim on an 1864 licence.
2026-09-10Nindigully PubA publican's certificate of 1864 recorded in the Queensland publicans' index (via State Library of Queensland) is drinking use at the claimed date, so A; the broken licence and the 1911 rebuild are stated in the notes instead of being treated as grading problems.
2026-09-10Bar El FederalThe Buenos Aires city tourism site lists it as an operating bar at Carlos Calvo 599 in San Telmo and describes a 19th-century building that "previously functioned as a store with a beverage counter", the almacén typology in our note. The city’s own listing and other sources put the corner’s origin at 1858, where the 1864 we record comes from Spanish Wikipedia.
2026-09-10Bar El FederalThe Buenos Aires city tourism site lists it as an operating bar at Carlos Calvo 599 in San Telmo and describes a 19th-century building that previously worked as a store with a beverage counter, the almacén pattern described in the notes here. The city and several other sources date the corner to 1858, where the claim recorded here is the 1864 given by Spanish Wikipedia; neither year has a document behind it, so the grade rests on the building.
2026-09-10Kamiya BarConfirms trading with hours 11:00-20:00 (last orders 19:30), closed Tuesdays and twice-monthly Mondays, and independently gives the 1880 (Meiji 13) foundation, the 1921 (Taisho 10) building and its status as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan. Consistent with grade B and the liquor-shop origin. The official kamiya-bar.com could not be read - its certificate does not match the host.
2026-09-10Kamiya BarThe 1880 record is a liquor shop, not a bar; the bar itself is documented from 1912, so B stands and the first record of a bar here moves from 1880 to 1912.
2026-09-10La PiojeraCNN Chile reports the administrator planning to close the Santiago Centro premises and open elsewhere in 2026, citing the fall in central-city trade; Meganoticias (29 June 2026) reports the business expanding to a new 400-seat venue at Mall Barrio Independencia after 130 years, with the bar now taking about 30 per cent of its pre-2019 custom. Between them they establish the history and the pressure on the original site but not whether Aillavilu 1030 is still pouring.
2026-09-10La PiojeraSources added, and the status stays unclear. CNN Chile reports the administrator planning to leave the Santiago Centro premises and open elsewhere in 2026, citing the collapse of central-city trade, while Meganoticias reported on 29 June 2026 that the business is expanding to a 400-seat venue at Mall Barrio Independencia after 130 years, with the bar now taking about 30 per cent of its pre-2019 custom. Between them they establish the history and the pressure on the original site, but neither says whether Aillavilu 1030 is still pouring.
2026-09-10Bar CordanoInfobae (16 January 2025), in a piece on the historic bars of central Lima "that are still alive", has Cordano operating on jirón Áncash and founded in 1905; separate coverage marks its 120th anniversary on 13 January 2025. Confirms trading after the pandemic closure and supports grade B.
2026-09-10Bar Cordano1905 documents a bazaar rather than a bar, and no published source dates the change, so B stands and the page now gives no first record at all, rather than let 1905 stand as though it recorded a bar.
2026-09-10Bar BritánicoThe Buenos Aires city tourism site lists it open every day 9:00-03:00 at Av. Brasil 399, confirms the Bar Notable designation, and repeats that it opened in 1928, taking the name from the Anglo-Argentine railway clientele after being called La Cosechera. Settles the status after the 2006 and 2014 interruptions in our note.
2026-09-10The Radium BeerhallShowMe answered the closure rumours on 27 February 2025: the beerhall had not shut at the end of 2024, and Lina Cabeleira was still running it after her husband Manny died in 2021. The same piece confirms the 1929 Radium Tearoom under the Lebanese Kalil family and the liquor licence of 1942, which matches the note here and grade B. It is the newest account of the place we have.
2026-09-10King's HeadAdded with a grade A. The conveyance of 18 December 1455 naming the newly built Kyngeshede is a record of the inn at the date the pub claims, and Historic England dates the standing fabric to the C15. CAMRA's record, updated in March 2026, and the pub's own events listings show it trading as the Chiltern Brewery's tap.
2026-09-10New InnAdded with a grade A: Historic England lists the building as a mid-15th-century inn, purpose-built for St Peter's Abbey, which is a record of drinking-house use at the claimed date rather than a later licence. CAMRA's record, surveyed in May 2025 and updated in July 2026, gives daily opening hours, so the bar trades after the 2018 fire.
2026-09-10Red LionAdded as a grade C. The 1148 date belongs to the cellars and no record of drinking at that date was found; Historic England dates the hall house to the late 15th or early 16th century, and Southampton local histories give the first licence as 1552, which is the date recorded here. CAMRA's record was updated in April 2026 with no closure flagged.
2026-09-10The Haunch of VenisonAdded as a grade C: Historic England dates the building largely to the mid-15th century and describes its origin as the church house for St Thomas's, so the 1320 story of workmen drinking here has no record behind it. CAMRA's record, surveyed in February 2026 and updated in September 2026, gives full opening hours.
2026-09-10George & DragonAdded as a grade C. The Dover Kent Archives record the 1212 claim, but Historic England describes a late-medieval house of probably late-15th-century date that became a pub later, and nothing was found for 1212. CAMRA's record, updated in May 2026, shows it open daily with Brakspear as freeholder.
2026-09-10Green DragonAdded as a grade C: the pub's own 1310 has nothing behind it, Historic England dates the building substantially to the mid-15th century and reads it as a former shop, and Norfolk pub historians trace drinking here from the 16th century. The same historians record it closing twice in 2023 and reopening on 12 September 2025, which the pub's own bookings page confirms.
2026-09-10The Old Nag's HeadAdded as a grade B: Historic England records a doorway lintel dated 1577 and lists the building as a public house of that year, so the fabric matches the claim, but no document of drinking here in 1577 was found. The pub's own site and CAMRA's record both give current opening hours.
2026-09-10The Ship InnAdded as a grade C: the pub advertises a 13th-century origin, while Historic England dates the inn to the 16th or 17th century with a 19th-century enlargement, and no earlier record of drinking on the site was found. The pub's own site and CAMRA's record, surveyed in February 2026, both give daily hours.
2026-09-10Ye Olde Dolphin InneAdded as a grade C: the 1530 date comes from the pub and from Derby's tourism pages, while Historic England dates the building to the late 16th century and notes only that the licence is said to date from 1580. CAMRA surveyed it in August 2026 and lists full opening hours.
2026-09-10The Coopers ArmsAdded as a grade C: the pub dates itself to the reign of Richard I and gives 1543 for its opening as an inn, while Historic England lists the fabric as 17th century or earlier and no document was found for either date. CAMRA surveyed it in February 2026 and updated the record in June 2026.
2026-09-10The Chequers InnAdded as a grade C: the inn claims the 15th century, while Historic England dates the hall house to the 16th century or earlier and records heavy 18th and 19th-century extension, and no record of drinking here in the 15th century was found. CAMRA surveyed it in February 2026; the pub's own site takes bookings.
2026-09-10The George InnAdded as a grade C: the inn and CAMRA both give the 14th century, while Historic England will go no further back than the 16th century and no earlier record of drinking here was found. CAMRA's record, updated in August 2026, gives daily hours and names the National Trust as freeholder.
2026-09-10Royal OakAdded as a grade C: the pub is reputed to be Shropshire's longest continuously licensed house and CAMRA gives it a 15th-century date, but Historic England dates the building to the mid-17th century and no licence record from before that was found. CAMRA surveyed it in August 2026 and the pub's own site lists current hours.
2026-09-10The Seven StarsAdded as a grade B. An earlier research pass set it aside as too late for a list of pre-1600 pubs; on a world ranking it belongs. Historic England records the building as perhaps 17th century in origin and dated 1602, matching the claim, while no document of drinking here in 1602 was traced. The pub's own site gives current hours.
2026-09-10Ye Olde Bell & SteelyardAdded as a grade B: Historic England's Grade I entry reasons that New Street was built in 1550 and that this is the probable date of the Bell, which supports the 1540 CAMRA and the inn both give, while no document of drinking here at that date was found. CAMRA surveyed it in August 2025 and updated the record in April 2026.
2026-09-10Ye Olde Dog and PartridgeAdded as a grade B on Historic England's Grade II* entry, which describes it as originally a coaching inn of probably late 15th to early 16th-century date; CAMRA calls it Tudor. The date recorded here is the listing's, not a pub legend, and no document of drinking has been traced. Both the Chef & Brewer page and CAMRA's record, updated in September 2026, show it trading.
2026-09-10Ye Olde SwanAdded as a grade C, and the gap is wide: the pub and the local press call it 13th century, while Historic England lists two early 18th-century houses linked to form the pub, and no medieval record of drinking on the site was found. Surrey Live reported the refurbishment finished in February 2026 and CAMRA's record, surveyed in August 2025, gives daily hours.
2026-09-10George & DragonAdded as a grade C: CAMRA describes it as a 13th-century Sussex pub, while Historic England dates the timber and flint building to the 17th century or earlier and no record of drinking here in the 13th century was found. CAMRA's record gives daily opening hours and names Marston's as freeholder.
2026-09-10Anne of ClevesAdded as a grade B, and outside the hundred oldest. Historic England's C14 and C15 detail supports the 1384 the pub gives for the building, but the pub's own history and CAMRA both record that it became a tea room in the 20th century and a pub only on conversion in 1996, so public drinking here begins long after 1750. CAMRA's record was updated in August 2026.
2026-09-10The Old WindmillAdded as a grade B: Historic England dates the timber frame to the 16th century or earlier, which matches the 16th-century date CAMRA gives, and no record of drinking from that century was traced. CAMRA surveyed it in February 2026 and lists full opening hours.
2026-09-10Eight BellsAdded as a grade C: the inn and CAMRA both give the 14th century, while Historic England dates the ashlar building to the 17th and nothing was found to record drinking here earlier. CAMRA surveyed it in February 2026; the inn's own site takes table and room bookings.
2026-09-10The White HartAdded as a grade C: CAMRA gives the 14th century, Historic England dates the hall house to the 15th with 17th-century alterations, and no record of drinking here in the 1300s was traced. CAMRA surveyed the pub in March 2025 and lists daily hours with Punch as freeholder.
2026-09-10Ye Olde Yew Tree InnAdded as a grade C: the inn gives 1348 and CAMRA a 14th-century date, while Historic England dates the earliest part to probably the 15th century and no record of drinking here in the 1340s was traced. CAMRA's record, updated in August 2025, gives current hours with Stonegate as freeholder.
2026-09-10The Old BellAdded as a grade C: CAMRA gives a 15th-century date, but Historic England's entry does not date the frame at all and records a mock-Tudor extension of about 1930, while CAMRA's heritage note attributes most of the interior to a 1934 refit. Nothing was found to record drinking here in the 15th century. CAMRA's record was updated in August 2026.
2026-09-10The King's WarkAdded as a grade C: the bar dates itself to 1434, which is when James I of Scotland began the royal arsenal on this ground, and the medieval tower has been demolished. The earliest record of drinking on the site is an inn documented in 1623, which is what is recorded here. The pub's own site and CAMRA's record, updated in November 2025, show it trading.
2026-09-10The AngelAdded as a grade B and as temporarily closed. Historic England's C15 dating supports the claim that the inn goes back to 1420, though the licence of that year has not been traced. CAMRA records it temporarily closed from 3 March 2026 with reopening expected on or before 14 December 2026, after the Nedging Hall Estate bought it in January 2026 following the closure reported in 2025.
2026-09-10The New InnAdded as a grade C: the village history society traces the inn to 1311 as a farmhouse, while both Historic England and CAMRA date the building to the 17th century and no earlier record of drinking here was traced. CAMRA surveyed the pub in September 2024 and lists its opening hours, including a Tuesday closure.
2026-09-10Prince of WalesAdded as a grade C: CAMRA's guide entry gives a 15th-century date, while CAMRA's heritage record and Wikipedia both describe an early 17th-century guildhall, largely rebuilt in 1808, that served as town hall and courthouse. Nothing was found to record drinking here in the 15th century. CAMRA surveyed the pub in January 2026 and lists daily hours.
2026-09-10Hanbury ArmsAdded as a grade B and outside the hundred oldest. Wikipedia and CAMRA agree on a 16th-century house built for the Morgan family as Ty Glyndwr, which supports the 1565 Caerleon gives it, but Wikipedia records that the Hanbury family bought it in the 1720s and that it became a pub around the 1750s, so public drinking here does not reach back to the claimed date. CAMRA's record, updated in December 2025, shows it trading.
2026-09-10Ye Olde King's HeadAdded as a grade C. Historic England and Wikipedia agree that the building went up about 1208 as a town house for the administrator of Chester Castle and was rebuilt for Randle Holme I in the early 17th century, so the early date belongs to a house rather than an inn; the pub's own history gives 1717 as the year it became the King's Head. CAMRA's record shows it trading under Heineken with hours to midnight at weekends.
2026-09-10Hole in the WallAdded as a grade C: Armagh I's interview with the owner in August 2026 records the building as a jail of 1615 and the first licence as a public house in 1693, which is the earliest date recorded here, and the same article shows the bar trading with a music festival at the end of that month.

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