16 dated days · 16 dates in the month
June in pub history
16 days in June that somebody wrote down, spread across 16 dates of the month and 222 years — the earliest 6 June 1799, when a licence at Natchez, and the most recent 16 June 2021. 12 of them name a house with a page on this site.
1 June
1942
The Royal Fountain is bombed
A German raid on Canterbury on 1 June 1942 destroyed the Royal Fountain, the inn the city traced back furthest. Its licence was transferred to the Abbot's Barton Hotel.
3 June
1986
The Bell at Aldworth is listed
The Bell on the Berkshire Downs at Aldworth was listed at Grade II on 3 June 1986. One family has held it for more than two centuries, and the ebony handpumps at its hatch were installed in 1902.
4 June
1952
The Sloop is listed
The Sloop on the wharf at St Ives was first listed at Grade II on 4 June 1952, as a low L-shaped house of colourwashed granite rubble of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The reputed 1312 is the inn's own, and CAMRA repeats it.
5 June
1972
The Hand and Shears is listed
The Hand and Shears at Smithfield was listed at Grade II on 5 June 1972, and its entry amended in February 2020. The house claims 1532; the corner building looks new in a photograph of 1852, and the interior was refitted in 1896.
6 June
1799
A licence at Natchez
Richard King was granted a licence to keep a public house at Natchez on 6 June 1799, the earliest firm record of trade in the building called King's Tavern. It is the oldest building in the town and is not open as a bar now.
7 June
1958
The Wayside Inn reopens
Longfellow's Wayside Inn at Sudbury reopened on 7 June 1958 with an open house and picnics on the lawn, two and a half years after fire gutted it. The rebuilding was paid for by the Ford Foundation.
8 June
1983
The Eight Bells is listed
The Eight Bells on Church Street in Chipping Campden was listed at Grade II on 8 June 1983, read as seventeenth-century work in Cotswold ashlar under a stone slate roof. The inn's own story starts in the fourteenth century.
9 June
1952
The George at Cranbrook is listed
The George in the Kentish cloth town of Cranbrook was listed at Grade II* on 9 June 1952, in an entry that takes in the butcher's and the shops beside it. Its owners date the house to about 1300; the entry was amended in April 2000.
10 June
1916
Six o'clock closing in New South Wales
New South Wales voted on 10 June 1916 to shut hotel bars at six in the evening, after soldiers from Casula camp raided hotels and a man was shot dead in a riot at Central station. The hour of drinking that followed work became known as the six o'clock swill.
14 June
1954
The Black Swan is listed
The Black Swan on Peasholme Green in York, twin-gabled and jettied over timber framing, was first listed at Grade II* on 14 June 1954. Historic England dates the core late in the sixteenth century.
16 June
2021
The Old College Bar comes down
Glasgow council demolished the Old College Bar on 16 June 2021 in the interest of public safety, six weeks after the fire in the buildings beside it. The site on High Street is vacant.
18 June
1986
The Lord Crewe Arms is listed
The Lord Crewe Arms at Blanchland was listed at Grade II* on 18 June 1986. Historic England reads the building as the west cloister range of Blanchland Abbey — probably the abbot's lodge, guest house and kitchen — of the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, remodelled in a Gothick manner in the mid eighteenth.
20 June
1967
The Three Chimneys is listed
The Three Chimneys outside Biddenden was first listed at Grade II on 20 June 1967. The listing describes a sixteenth-century building with later alterations, where CAMRA and the pub both say fifteenth.
24 June
1974
Spon Street is listed, the Old Windmill with it
The Old Windmill in Coventry was designated Grade II on 24 June 1974, as Old Windmill Inn, on the same day as most of the rest of Spon Street. Its warren of small rooms includes a former brewhouse, and CAMRA rates the interior as of national interest.
29 June
1835
The Surveyor General is licensed
James Harper was licensed at Berrima on 29 June 1835, in a building put up the year before. The claim that this is Australia's oldest continuously licensed inn is complicated by a lapse in 1895.
30 June
1845
The Hero of Waterloo's first licence
The stonemason George Paton took the first licence for the Hero of Waterloo in Sydney on 30 June 1845, in a house he had built the two years before. The smugglers' tunnel beneath it is a story rather than a record.
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.