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September in pub history
19 days in September that somebody wrote down, spread across 19 dates of the month and 710 years — the earliest 11 September 1309, when a stone house on the Vrijthof, and the most recent 1 September 2019. 17 of them name a house with a page on this site.
1 September
2019
The Lad in the Lane stops trading
The Lad in the Lane in Erdington stopped trading on 1 September 2019 and CAMRA has carried it as closed long term ever since. Its late fourteenth-century timber frame is still standing.
2 September
1666
The Great Fire
The fire that began in Pudding Lane in the early hours of 2 September 1666 burned out most of the City's taverns. Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese was rebuilt about 1667, which is part of why its claim of 1538 is so hard to test.
4 September
1855
A licence in Frogs Hollow
Michael Costello was granted a publican's licence for the Prince of Wales Hotel in Brisbane on 4 September 1855, having applied that August. The city's heritage citation reads an 1862 photographic panorama as showing that the hotel of 1855 is the basis of the building trading there now as the Victory.
6 September
1979
The Lion and Unicorn is listed
The Lion and Unicorn on the main street at Thornhill, west of Stirling, was added to the list at category C on 6 September 1979. The inn advertises fine food and ale since 1635, and no record that old has been traced for it here.
8 September
1970
't Papeneiland is registered
Café 't Papeneiland, on the corner of the Prinsengracht and the Brouwersgracht, was entered in the Dutch national monuments register on 8 September 1970 as Rijksmonument 718.
9 September
1886
Kenfig's corporation is wound up
A notice of 9 September 1886 wound up the ancient corporation of Kenfig under the Municipal Corporations Act 1883, and the schedule of what the new trust took over names the public house called the Prince of Wales Inn, let with a garden, a pond and a field to Mrs Yorath at ten pounds a year.
11 September
1309
A stone house on the Vrijthof
A deed of the St Servaas chapter of 11 September 1309 names a stone house on this Vrijthof corner belonging to a knight of Schonecghen. That is the year In den Ouden Vogelstruys counts from, and it describes a house rather than a drinking room: the first hospitality traced there is a coffee house of about 1840.
14 September
1949
The Cherub is listed
The Cherub at 13 Higher Street in Dartmouth was listed at Grade II* on 14 September 1949. Historic England dates the timber frame to probably the second half of the fifteenth century, where the pub claims about 1380.
15 September
1970
Wynand Fockink's house joins the Dutch register
Pijlsteeg 31 in Amsterdam, where Wynand Fockink's tasting room stands behind the Dam, was entered in the national monuments register on 15 September 1970. The house has a bell gable of 1689 and an eighteenth-century shop interior; the distillery counts from 1679.
16 September
1966
Den Turk's front is protected
The façades and roofs of Café Den Turk in Ghent were protected as a monument on 16 September 1966, inside the older designation of the crossbowmen's guild hall next door of 13 October 1943. The Flemish inventory dates the fabric and takes no view on when drink was first sold here.
17 September
1952
The Dog and Partridge is listed
Ye Olde Dog and Partridge at Tutbury was designated Grade II* on 17 September 1952, as Dog and Partridge Hotel, and the entry was amended in 1984. Historic England dates the close-studded timber frame to probably the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century, which is close to what the pub claims.
20 September
2002
The Queen's is registered on the Isle of Man
The Queen's on Douglas promenade became Registered Building No. 201 on 20 September 2002. The Manx register reads the house as built before 1826, probably as cottages and stables for Castle Mona next door, and called the Queen's Hotel by 1854.
21 September
1877
The Palace, fitted up in superb style
The Arizona Weekly Miner told its readers on 21 September 1877 that Shaw and Standefer had fitted up the Palace at Prescott in the most superb style. It is the first reliable record of the saloon; the original burned in 1883.
23 September
1950
Two Beaumaris inns designated together
Cadw designated Ye Olde Bull's Head and the George and Dragon at Beaumaris on the same day, 23 September 1950, both at Grade II*. The Bull's Head dates itself to 1472 and the George to 1410; tree-ring dating puts the George's beams at about 1541.
24 September
1984
The Old Nag's Head is listed
The Old Nag's Head at Edale, where the Pennine Way starts, was designated Grade II on 24 September 1984. The 1577 the pub gives is cut into a doorway lintel, and Historic England records it there.
27 September
1973
The Grapes is listed
The Grapes on Narrow Street in Limehouse was listed at Grade II on 27 September 1973. The register reads a nineteenth-century front of stock brick, four storeys and two windows wide; the pub claims an ancestry of 1583, and the earliest record traced here is 1805.
28 September
1967
The end of the six o'clock swill
South Australia's first legal after-six beer was drunk on 28 September 1967, under legislation brought in by Don Dunstan. The state had shut its hotel bars at six since the First World War.
29 September
1825
Ann Bridger's licence
The first licence at the Bush Inn at New Norfolk was granted on 29 September 1825 to Ann Bridger, a widow who had reached Hobart two years earlier. The inn says it has never lost that licence; newspaper evidence has the house standing as a private residence between about 1874 and 1877.
30 September
1998
The Central at Ramsey is registered
The Central in Ramsey became Registered Building No. 176 on 30 September 1998. The Manx register takes the house to have been raised about 1797 for Thomas Mylrea, and later lived in by the island's longest-serving High Bailiff.
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.