Image credits

Every photograph here is used under a licence that permits it, and every one is credited where it appears as well as in this list — beside the photograph itself, or, under a grid of thumbnails, in a line that names the licences and points back to this page. We use images from Wikimedia Commons, Geograph, Flickr, Mapillary and public library and heritage archives, and only under open licences that allow reuse with credit, or in the public domain. An archive photograph is used as public domain only when there is a reason it is: the archive says so, or its age or its photographer's death puts it out of copyright.

We never use a pub's own photographs, or images from Google, TripAdvisor or social media, however tempting. Where no licensed photograph of a pub exists, the page shows an illustrated façade drawn for this site, chosen by building type — it is a drawing, and its alt text says so.

Photographs are converted to WebP and served at up to four widths — 240, 480, 800 and the photograph's own, which is 1,200 pixels at most — each a plain scale of the same frame, so nothing is cropped in the file. A photograph smaller than one of those widths is never enlarged to fill it; that width is simply not offered. Nothing else is altered: no retouching, no recolouring, nothing removed from the frame.

Two things a reader is entitled to know about how those files are then shown. A display box with a fixed shape — the photograph at the top of a pub page, the square on a card — fills itself from the middle of the frame, so what you see there can be less than the whole photograph even though the file is uncropped and the credit is the same. And when a page is shared on social media, the preview image is the photograph by itself, with no credit in the frame: the licences allow attribution by link where the medium gives no room for it, and the link goes to the pub's page, which carries the photographer's name and the licence beside the picture.

If you hold rights in an image here and think it is used wrongly, write to hello@oldpubs.com and we will take it down while we check, not after.

Photographs (525)

Maps, illustrations and type

• Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the Open Database Licence.
• Map tiles by OpenFreeMap, using OpenMapTiles.
• Coastlines on the static maps from Natural Earth via world-atlas, public domain.
• Place names © GeoNames, under CC BY 4.0.
• Illustrated façades and the site's marks are our own.
• Type: Libre Caslon Display and Libre Caslon Text, and Hanken Grotesk, all under the SIL Open Font Licence.

Related

Where the dates come from lists the archives and heritage bodies behind the research. How we date a pub sets out the rules, and the terms of use cover reuse of anything on this site.

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