Barbarians. :D
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I know you'll all have been waiting with baited breath, so you'll be relieved to hear the 2019 Pub Sign of the Year has finally been announced. This year's top award went to Travellers Joy in Rayleigh - Pete Crosby, who nominated the pub for this year's award, has posted a good shot of the sign on this site.
The runners up were Cherry Tree in Newcastle-Under-Lyme and The Quay Inn in Minehead.
Interestingly, the top two pubs are both part of Greene King's Hungry Horse chain. The chain seem to be replacing a lot of their corporate pub signs with traditional pictorial signs which, if my experience of Hungry Horse pubs is anything to go by, would make them their only redeeming feature!
Hmm, reminiscent of Watneys painting their pubs any colour but red and removing the badging after they had trashed the brand value in the 1970s.
PS given last year's comment by Farway about The Lass o'Richmond Hill, what's going on with the Cherry Tree sign? Looks like we've got the set.
I seem to recall that Whitbread for a while retained the identity of Wethered, Strongs, Brickwoods and Fremlins (I know Wittenden will be keen to confirm this).
I vaguely remember seeing a Threlfalls sign in North Wales way back (Caernarfon?). Perversely I now use Whitbread hotels as a base for going to other pubs! They do seem to be building up a chain if their own pub / restaurants but they are always next to their hotels. I have tried their unlimited breakfast but have found it descending into a trough of debauched gluttony.
Pub sign of the year 2011?