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November in pub history
14 days in November that somebody wrote down, spread across 14 dates of the month and 700 years — the earliest 3 November 1324, when petronilla de Meath, and the most recent 30 November 2024. 9 of them name a house with a page on this site.
3 November
1324
Petronilla de Meath
Petronilla de Meath, maidservant to Dame Alice Kyteler, was flogged and burned at Kilkenny on 3 November 1324 while her mistress got away abroad. The medieval house that carries the Kyteler name trades as Kyteler's Inn; that Alice kept an inn in it is tradition.
4 November
1982
The Ferry Boat Inn is listed
The thatched Ferry Boat Inn at Holywell, on the Great Ouse, was listed at Grade II on 4 November 1982, with three of its neighbours the same day. The AD 560 on its sign is tradition; the earliest record traced of drinking here is 1841.
7 November
2024
Fire at the Lad in the Lane
West Midlands Fire Service sent five engines and about thirty firefighters to the empty Lad in the Lane late on 7 November 2024, to two fires the service believed had been set deliberately. Nobody was hurt.
8 November
1979
The Pandora is listed
The Pandora Inn on Restronguet Creek was first listed at Grade II on 8 November 1979. Historic England reads a building of about the seventeenth century, mostly rebuilt in the nineteenth and greatly extended in the twentieth, under mostly wheat-reed thatch.
10 November
1775
The Marines and the Tun
The United States Marine Corps dates itself to 10 November 1775 and toasts Philadelphia's Tun Tavern as the room where its first recruits signed. The tavern was lost in 1781.
11 November
1944
Cordina opens in Valletta
Cesare Cordina opened the caffè in Valletta on 11 November 1944, in rooms he rented from the Casino Maltese after a bomb closed the family shop across the Grand Harbour. The 1837 the house prints belongs to that shop, in Cospicua.
16 November
1984
Ye Olde Swan is listed
Ye Olde Swan on the Thames bank at Thames Ditton was listed at Grade II on 16 November 1984. The register reads two early eighteenth-century houses in colourwashed brick, joined and extended in the nineteenth to make one pub; the thirteenth century is the pub's own.
17 November
2004
The first brew at U Medvídků
U Medvídků in Prague finished the first brew of its new house brewery on 17 November 2004, a date chosen for falling exactly fifteen years after the Velvet Revolution. Brewing is recorded in the house from 1466 and had stopped in 1898.
18 November
2014
The market rent only vote
MPs voted 284 to 259 on 18 November 2014, against the government of the day, to give tied pub tenants the right to a rent free of tie. The right arrived with the Pubs Code two years later.
19 November
2021
The Ginza Lion is put forward for registration
Japan's Council for Cultural Affairs met on 19 November 2021 and recommended ninety-one buildings for registration, the Ginza Lion's block among them. Its papers date the building to 1934 and call the tiled and mosaicked beer hall on the ground floor a masterpiece of its kind.
20 November
1986
The German Arms is confirmed
The German Arms at Hahndorf, in the German settlement in the Adelaide Hills, was confirmed as a State Heritage Place on the South Australian Heritage Register on 20 November 1986.
24 November
2005
The Licensing Act 2003 begins
The new licensing regime began at midnight on 24 November 2005, replacing fixed hours and annual renewals with a premises licence that stands until it is surrendered. The headlines about 24-hour drinking came to little: 460 pubs held such a licence by 2007.
25 November
1982
The Puhoi Hotel is listed
The Puhoi Hotel and Stables were entered on the New Zealand Heritage List as a Category 2 historic place on 25 November 1982. The pub in the Bohemian settlement north of Auckland dates itself to 1879.
30 November
2024
Hark to Bounty closes
The Hark to Bounty at Slaidburn, which keeps the old forest courtroom of Bowland on its first floor, was recorded closed long term on 30 November 2024 and is being marketed for sale.
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.