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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

If you know of any more pub signs illustrating or including cats,
have any old photographs, or information about sign or name changes,
please !
Additions, amendments or suggestions for our galleries always gratefully received.

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Our featured feline at the head of the page, shown having quite a lot of fun, is Ragamuffin, or 'Rags' for short: sadly he is no longer with us. A cat of great character, who seemed to live by the maxim 'Life is for living', it was devastating for me when that life was cut short by a road accident. A 'rescue' cat, he lived with me in North Wales for less than four years only. You can see a little tribute to him here — and a more flattering photo.


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