I spent a weekend in NE Somerset recently 'researching' a couple of rural pubs that are on CAMRA's register of historic interiors - that is interiors that have remained unchanged, often since construction, and reflect a lost time when service was direct from a barrel and either through a hatch or often simply through a doorway. Both pubs predominately sell cider.
This is the Tucker's Grave Inn a couple of miles outside Faulkland (where the village pub is closed):
5D3_7487 by John Leah, on Flickr
The rear of the pub is where the entrance is. Note the sign by the door - whether for the low ceiling height or the cider was unclear:
5D3_7399 by John Leah, on Flickr
The bar is so small a lot of activity takes place in the garden:
IMG_5417 by John Leah, on Flickr
As the evening cooled off a fire pit large enough to burn whole fence posts and even a table was lit. Everyone sat around chatting stranger to stranger something very rare these days.
IMG_5423 by John Leah, on Flickr
We stayed in their 'wild' camping field which is a wonderful rural retreat worth visiting even if not the pub:
5D3_7408 by John Leah, on Flickr
This is the Tucker's Grave Inn a couple of miles outside Faulkland (where the village pub is closed):
5D3_7487 by John Leah, on FlickrThe rear of the pub is where the entrance is. Note the sign by the door - whether for the low ceiling height or the cider was unclear:
5D3_7399 by John Leah, on FlickrThe bar is so small a lot of activity takes place in the garden:
IMG_5417 by John Leah, on FlickrAs the evening cooled off a fire pit large enough to burn whole fence posts and even a table was lit. Everyone sat around chatting stranger to stranger something very rare these days.
IMG_5423 by John Leah, on FlickrWe stayed in their 'wild' camping field which is a wonderful rural retreat worth visiting even if not the pub:
5D3_7408 by John Leah, on Flickr
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