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October in pub history
23 days in October that somebody wrote down, spread across 23 dates of the month and 374 years — the earliest 15 October 1651, when the Earl of Derby's last hour, and the most recent 9 October 2025. 17 of them name a house with a page on this site.
1 October
2024
The Hark to Bounty closes
The Hark to Bounty at Slaidburn stopped trading on 1 October 2024, and CAMRA recorded it closed long term two months later, the property being marketed. Its listing covers the inn and the old courtroom above it.
3 October
1818
A licence for the New Inn
A licence was granted to Thomas L. Richardson on 3 October 1818 for the New Inn at Hobart, known as the Ship Inn by 1821. The date rests on one pub historian's reading of the records.
5 October
1971
Three Scottish inns listed in a day
The Moulin Inn above Pitlochry, the Drovers at Inverarnan and the Kenmore Hotel were all added to the Scottish list on 5 October 1971. Each dates itself well before its listed fabric: 1695, 1705, and a tavern of about 1502.
6 October
1970
Both of Hoppe's houses are registered
Spui 18 and Spui 20 in Amsterdam, the standing bar and the seated room that together make up Café Hoppe, were both entered in the national monuments register on 6 October 1970. Hoppe dates its own trade on the Spui from 1670.
7 October
1826
Atwood's oyster house opens
Hawes Atwood opened his oyster house on the ground floor of the Union Street building in Boston on 7 October 1826. The landmark nomination puts a dwelling and then a specialty store before it, and dates the bar room that pours drink there to August 1983.
8 October
2010
The Bushranger Hotel is gazetted
The hotel at Collector went on the New South Wales State Heritage Register as item 01827, gazetted on 8 October 2010. The register dates the building to 1860-61, gives its older names as Kimberley's Inn and Kimberley's Commercial Hotel, and says it has worked as a hotel ever since it was built.
9 October
2025
Consent to reopen the Eagle and Child
The Ellison Institute announced on 9 October 2025 that planning permission and listed building consent had been granted to restore and reopen the Eagle and Child on St Giles' in Oxford, shut since 2020. Completion is estimated for 2027.
10 October
1830
The beerhouses open
The Beerhouse Act came into force on 10 October 1830. Beer, ale and porter could be sold from a front room for two guineas a year, and tens of thousands of houses took up the trade.
11 October
1968
The Scotch Piper is listed
The thatched, cruck-framed Scotch Piper at Lydiate was listed at Grade II* on 11 October 1968. The inn's 1320 is tradition; CAMRA reports tree-ring dating of its timbers to the middle of the sixteenth century.
12 October
1810
The first Oktoberfest
Munich invited the public to the fields outside the city walls on 12 October 1810, to celebrate the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen. The festival has been held there since.
13 October
1966
Cadw and a court order of 1578
Cadw listed the Groes Inn at Ty'n-y-Groes on 13 October 1966, and its full report opens with a document rather than a date-stone: 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.
15 October
1651
The Earl of Derby's last hour
James Stanley, seventh Earl of Derby, was executed in Churchgate outside Ye Olde Man & Scythe on 15 October 1651 for his part in the storming of Bolton. A chair in the pub carries an inscription saying he sat in it beforehand.
17 October
1814
The London beer flood
A vat burst at the Horse Shoe Brewery on Tottenham Court Road on 17 October 1814, sending at least 128,000 gallons of porter through the streets of St Giles. Eight people were killed.
18 October
1949
The Spaniards is listed
The Spaniards Inn on the edge of Hampstead Heath was designated Grade II on 18 October 1949. The national register reads seventeenth-century brick with some timber framing and weatherboarding, and panelling inside that may be original; the 1585 is traditional.
19 October
1981
The Plough & Harrow is listed
Cadw listed the Plough & Harrow at Monknash on 19 October 1981 and amended the entry in 2005. The pub dates itself to 1383, the age of the Cistercian grange it stands on rather than of the early seventeenth-century house.
20 October
1989
The Pig and Whistle is proclaimed a monument
The Pig and Whistle at Bathurst in the Eastern Cape was proclaimed a national monument on 20 October 1989. The house stands beside the forge of Thomas Hartley, a Nottinghamshire blacksmith who came out with the settlers of 1820.
21 October
1992
The Grand View is entered permanently
The Queensland Heritage Register carries the Grand View at Cleveland provisionally from 21 August 1992 and permanently from 21 October 1992. The register begins the house as a dwelling about 1852, with a tap recorded in 1860 and the Brighton Hotel trading by 1862.
23 October
1860
An inquest at the Plough
The Kentish Gazette of 23 October 1860 reported a coroner's inquest held at the Plough Inn at Stalisfield, on a farmer of the parish. It is a record of the house trading under that name, which is worth more than a sign: the frame is fifteenth-century and the first landlord named here appears in 1841.
24 October
1951
Ye Olde Mitre is listed
Ye Olde Mitre in Ely Court was designated Grade II on 24 October 1951. Historic England reads the building as about 1773 in stock brick under Welsh slate, which is more than two centuries later than the 1546 the pub gives.
25 October
1951
The Garrick is listed
The Garrick on Stratford's High Street, next door to Harvard House, was listed at Grade II* on 25 October 1951. Its timber frame dates from about 1596, after the town fires of that decade, and the house has been the Greyhound and the Reindeer in its time.
29 October
2022
Bankruptcy is decreed against Bar Luiz
Diário do Rio reported on 29 October 2022 that a Rio business court had decreed the bankruptcy of Bar Luiz, opened in 1887 on Rua da Carioca as Zum Schlauch. The building keeps its listing as heritage of the city either way.
30 October
1973
The Talbott Tavern on the register
The Old Talbott Tavern at Bardstown in Kentucky was entered on the National Register of Historic Places on 30 October 1973. The stone range with walls two feet thick was built at its eastern end first; the earliest record of trade traced here is 1800, against a claim of 1779.
31 October
1966
The Chapel Inn is listed
The Chapel Inn on Market Hill at Coggeshall was first listed at Grade II* on 31 October 1966, as Chapel Hotel. Historic England dates the timber-framed house late fourteenth-century, altered in the sixteenth, eighteenth and nineteenth; the inn claims 1554.
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.