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British Pub Signs featuring Cats

Index to our photo galleries

Listed below are the cat-related pub signs we (or others) have photographed, with dates.
In many cases the pub itself is also pictured.

Click a pub's name from the list below to go to its illustrated entry in our galleries
(use your Back button to return here)
or to browse through the signs just take one of the gallery links.

Gallery 1      Gallery 2      Gallery 3      Gallery 4      Gallery 5

Black Cat	Bedminster, Bristol	10/04
Black Cat	Greenock, Scotland	6/09
Black Cat	Lye Green, Chesham, Buckinghamshire	6/05
Brass Cat	Bolton, Lancashire	5/05
Brass Cat	Halifax, West Yorkshire	5/05
Burmese Cat	Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire	9/04
The Cat	Ellesmere Port, Merseyside	7/04
The Cat	Enville, West Midlands	6/05
The Cat (Shotz Cat), Greasby, is now The Red Cat: see below
The Cat	Willenhall, Wolverhampton	1/06
Cat Inn	Cheswick, Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland	4/09
Cat Inn	Egremont, Cumbria	10/07
Cat Inn	Northwood, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire	6/05
Cat Inn	West Hoathly, East Grinstead, West Sussex	6/05
Cat and Bagpipes	East Harlsey, Northallerton, North Yorkshire	7/04
Cat and Cabbage	Rotherham, South Yorkshire	6/04
Cat and Canary	Canary Wharf, East London	10/09
Cat and Canary	Henfield, West Sussex	7/09
Cat and Custard Pot	Paddlesworth, near Folkestone, Kent	6/05
Cat and Custard Pot	Shipton Moyne, Gloucestershire	10/04
Cat and Fiddle	Bodmin, Cornwall	9/05
Cat and Fiddle	Bootle, Merseyside	6/05
Cat and Fiddle	Cheltenham, Gloucestershire	10/04
Cat and Fiddle	Clyst St Mary, Exeter, Devon	9/05
Cat and Fiddle	East Rudham, King's Lynn, Norfolk	10/06
Cat and Fiddle	Great Barr, Birmingham	10/04
Cat and Fiddle	Hatfield, Hertfordshire	6/05
Cat and Fiddle	Hinton Admiral, near Christchurch, Hampshire	8/07
Cat and Fiddle	Ilkeston, Derbyshire	5/04
Cat and Fiddle	Norwich, Norfolk	6/05
Cat and Fiddle	Radlett, Hertfordshire	6/05
Cat and Fiddle	near Wildboarclough, Cheshire	5/07
Cat and Lion	Stretton, Warrington, Cheshire	9/04
Cat and Mutton	Broadway Market, East London	7/09
Cat and Wheel	Bristol	9/05
Catcracker	Stanford-le-Hope, Essex	6/05
Cat Head Inn	Chiselborough, Somerset	10/04
Cat i' th' Well	Wainstalls, Halifax, West Yorkshire	5/05
Cats	Woodham Walter, near Danbury, Essex	6/05
Cat's Back	Wandsworth, South London	6/05
Cat's Whiskers	Childwall, Liverpool	6/05
Cat Tavern	Salisbury, Wiltshire	10/04
Cat with No Tail	Douglas, Isle of Man	10/05
Charlton Cat	Charlton St Peter, Pewsey, Wiltshire	8/08
Cheshire Cat	Brinnington, Stockport, Greater Manchester	9/04
Cheshire Cat	Christleton, near Chester	10/08
Devonshire Cat	Sheffield, South Yorkshire	5/05
Dick Whittington	Gloucester	9/05
Dick Whittington	South Oxhey, Hertfordshire	8/07
Fat Cat	Chester, Cheshire	4/04
Fat Cat	Colchester, Essex	7/08
Fat Cat	Ipswich, Suffolk	6/05
Fat Cat	Norwich, Norfolk	10/05
Fat Cat	Sheffield, South Yorkshire	6/04
Fishergate Inn	Wigan, Lancashire	12/09
Forest Home	Holbury, Hampshire	8/07
Half Moon	Whipton, Exeter	7/09
Kilkenny Cat	Llanelli, south Wales	12/05
Live and Let Live	Cotmanhay, Derbyshire	8/04
Live and Let Live	Forest Gate, east London	9/09
Live and Let Live	Guildford, Surrey	8/07
Live and Let Live	Stanway, Colchester, Essex	6/08
Luckwell Hotel	Bristol	8/09
Mad Cat	Pidley, Cambridgeshire	6/05
Mother Shipton	Knaresborough, Yorkshire	5/09
Old Cat Inn	Wordsley, Kingswinford, West Midlands	9/05
Old Fat Cat	Southampton	6/05
Olde Boote Inn	Whittington, Shropshire	6/07
Owl and Pussycat	Basildon, Essex	3/09
Owl and Pussycat	Bethnal Green, East London	6/05
Owl and Pussycat	Felixstowe	10/05
Owl and Pussycat	Leicester	10/05
Pendle Witch	Sabden, Clitheroe, Lancashire	5/09
Puss in Boots	Macclesfield, Cheshire	5/05
Puss in Boots	Stockport, Greater Manchester	9/04
Puss 'n' Boots	Acomb, York	1/05
Puss in Boots	Windley, Duffield, Derbyshire	5/05
Rampant Cat	Broad Layings, Berkshire	6/05
Red Cat	Crank, near St Helens, Lancashire	6/05
Red Cat	Greasby, Wirral, Merseyside	10/06
Red Cat	Hindley, near Wigan, Lancashire	6/05
Red Cat	near King's Lynn, Norfolk	6/05
Red Cat	Whittle-le-Woods, Chorley, Lancashire	4/07
Romping Cat	Bloxwich, Walsall	9/05
Romping Cat	near Bomere Heath, Shropshire	4/04
Snickleway Inn	York	5/09
Squinting Cat	Clipstone, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire	5/04
Squinting Cat	Pannal Ash, Harrogate, North Yorkshire	1/05
Squinting Cat	Swarcliffe, Leeds	1/05
Star Inn	Beeston, Nottinghamshire	7/05
Three Legged Stool	near Worksop, Nottinghamshire	4/07
Whittington and Cat	Kingston-upon-Hull, Humberside	5/05
Whittington and Cat	Highgate Hill, London	6/05
Whittington Cat	Whitehaven, Cumbria	10/07
Whittington Stone	Highgate Hill, London	6/05

In addition, the following are listed on our page for
Cats that Got Away
for inn signs no longer including cats,
or the pubs have closed down, changed their names etc.
Take a trip down memory lane!
Many of the entries, although not all, include photos of the cat signs which used to exist.

Alley Cats	Wigton, Cumbria
Black Cat	Lymington, Hampshire
Cat and Bagpipes	Glasgow, Scotland
Cat and Cockatoo	Pontesbury, Shropshire
Cat and Fiddle	Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria
Cat and Lantern	East Barnet, Hertfordshire
Cat's Eyes	Baillieston, Glasgow
Cat's Whiskers	Elgin, Scotland
Cat Cracker	Isle of Grain, Kent
Cheshire Cat	Thornton Hough, Cheshire
The Commodore	Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire
Copy Cat	Glasgow, Scotland
Downing Arms	Tadlow, Royston, Hertfordshire
Fiddler's Cat Tavern	Sheerness, Kent
First In, Last Out	Hastings, East Sussex
Ginger Tom	Sneinton, Nottingham
Live and Let Live	Booker Common, High Wycombe, Bucks
Live and Let Live	Frampton Cotterell, Gloucestershire
Live and Let Live	Oldham, Lancashire
Live and Let Live	Olympia, West London
Live and Let Live	Pegsdon, Bedfordshire
Maltese Cat	Roehampton, south-west London
The Office	Luton, Bedfordshire
Old Butcher's Arms	Calne, Wiltshire
New Broom	Checkley, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Old Wine Vaults	Eastwood, Nottingham
Owl and Pussycat	Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey
Rampant Cat	Burford, Oxfordshire
Red Well	Over Kellet, Lancashire
Robin Hood	Bishop's Stortford, Essex
The Romper	Ringway, Manchester
Whitecotes	Chesterfield, Derbyshire
White Horse	Chilgrove, Wiltshire
Whittington's	London EC4
Ye Olde Market	Newark, Nottinghamshire

Browse through the galleries

Gallery 1      Gallery 2      Gallery 3      Gallery 4      Gallery 5

Cats that Got Away

Brief History of Inn Signs

Notes & Anecdotes