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July in pub history
20 days in July that somebody wrote down, spread across 20 dates of the month and 418 years — the earliest 18 July 1598, when a distiller takes Gdańsk citizenship, and the most recent 21 July 2016. 16 of them name a house with a page on this site.
1 July
2007
Smoking ends in English pubs
Smoking was banned in enclosed public places in England at six in the morning on 1 July 2007, the last of the four nations to do it. The smell, the sound and the economics of every pub in the country changed within a week.
3 July
1986
The Cridford Inn is listed
Historic England first listed the Cridford Inn at Trusham on 3 July 1986, under the spelling Crideford Inn. The building is old and the pub is not: drink has only been sold here since 1982, which keeps the house out of the ranking however far back its fabric goes.
9 July
1863
The St Peter cellar in print
The Salzburger Zeitung of 9 July 1863 reports an arrangement made in the St Peter cellar rooms at Salzburg, and it is the earliest notice of the cellar under any name that has been read for this site. The house dates itself to 803.
10 July
1957
The Old Inn at Mullion is listed
The Old Inn at Mullion on the Lizard was first listed at Grade II on 10 July 1957. It is possibly late seventeenth-century, of whitewashed stone rubble with a cob first floor under thatch; the sixteenth century it claims is tradition.
11 July
1840
A store, not yet an inn
The Perth Gazette of 11 July 1840 carried Jecks's advertisement for a store on his allotment at Guildford. The name Rose and Crown does not appear in print until a notice of 12 March 1842, which is why the heritage assessor allows the building may have gone up before anyone was served in it.
13 July
2004
The Duke of Wellington is registered
The Duke of Wellington on Flinders Street in Melbourne was added to the Victorian Heritage Register as number 1175 by a notice dated 13 July 2004, covering the original 1850 building and its addition of 1857. The licence has run here since 1853.
14 July
2005
A Gozo barman remembered
The Times of Malta of 14 July 2005 printed an appreciation of Philip Nicholson, who used to sit with both elbows on the bar of Gleneagles at Mġarr and watch tourists come in hunting for A. J. Quinnell, the name he wrote under. It is also a plain outside record that drink is served across that counter.
15 July
1815
Notice of a new inn at Windsor
The Sydney Gazette of 15 July 1815 carried notice that an inn called the Macquarie Arms had been built at Windsor and would open for accommodation on the 31st, kept by Thomas Ranson, who had formerly been an innkeeper in England. The house counts from the later date.
16 July
1984
The Old Bridge Inn is listed
The Old Bridge Inn beside the packhorse bridge at Ripponden was listed at Grade II on 16 July 1984. Behind its mid eighteenth-century stone front stands a cruck truss of about the sixteenth century; the inn dates its story to 1307.
17 July
1749
A Halifax licence of 1749
The Split Crow cites a licence granted by Governor Cornwallis to John Shippey on 17 July 1749, for the Spread Eagle at Salter and Water Streets. The present bar is a later revival on a different site.
18 July
1598
A distiller takes Gdańsk citizenship
Ambrosius Vermöllen, a Mennonite distiller from the Netherlands, took citizenship of Gdańsk on 18 July 1598. The 1598 on Pod Łososiem belongs to that day; Goldwasser was made at Breitgasse, with a tasting room and restaurant beside it, only from 1704.
21 July
2016
The Pubs Code comes into force
The Pubs Code came into force on 21 July 2016, giving tenants of the largest pub companies the right to ask for a rent set free of tie. It reaches only owners of 500 tied pubs or more in England and Wales.
22 July
1986
The Bingley Arms is listed
The Bingley Arms at Bardsey, which dates its story to 953, was listed at Grade II on 22 July 1986. The building carries a 1738 datestone and is read as mid eighteenth-century, with the roof raised a century after that.
23 July
1830
The Beerhouse Act
The Beerhouse Act received royal assent on 23 July 1830. For two guineas a year any ratepayer could brew and sell beer in their own house, with no magistrate's licence; by 1841 licences had gone to 45,500 brewers.
25 July
1807
Knopwood's diary at Hobart
The Reverend Robert Knopwood wrote in his diary on 25 July 1807 that Hopkins had opened a public house at the sign of the Whale Fishery. That entry is what Hobart's Hope and Anchor rests its claim on, and reporting has questioned the link.
27 July
2008
Fire guts the Victory
Fire badly damaged the Victory Hotel in the centre of Brisbane on 27 July 2008. It was rebuilt close to its old form and opened again the following March; the house had first been licensed, as the Prince of Wales, in September 1855.
28 July
1955
The Pied Bull is listed
The Pied Bull at Chester was first listed at Grade II* on 28 July 1955, and the entry was amended in 1998. Historic England reads a seventeenth-century house on what it takes to be the site of two medieval tenements; the pub's sign says 1155.
29 July
1834
Berrima's first inn licence
Berrima's first inn licence went to the emancipist Bryan McMahon on 29 July 1834, under the sign of the Berrima Inn, eleven months before James Harper was licensed at the Surveyor General. The state's heritage record still names the Surveyor General as the oldest of the village's seven surviving early hotels.
30 July
1959
The Fleece is listed
The Fleece at Bretforton was listed at Grade II on 30 July 1959, with the barn behind it. The medieval longhouse became a pub only in 1848, and Lola Taplin left it to the National Trust in 1977.
31 July
1815
The Macquarie Arms opens
The Macquarie Arms at Windsor opened on 31 July 1815 under Thomas Ranson, built by Richard Fitzgerald at Governor Macquarie's direction. The building survived; the trade did not, and it spent decades as an officers' mess and a private house.
Every entry above cites the record that carries the day and the month, because a founding year is not an anniversary: a house may have been pouring since 1189 and still appear here only on the day a clerk wrote something down. The whole archive holds 204 such days across 12 months — on this day in pub history opens on whichever date the site was last built for. How a date is weighed is on how we date a pub; the ones that do not survive checking are in myths, checked.
Updated 11 October 2026.