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British pub signs featuring cats
Gallery 5
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We also have a short article about the history of inn signs here.
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The Live and Let Live is a town pub in the city of Guildford, Surrey in southern England. There are several pubs with this name scattered around the country, with their signs having different interpretations of the name — one I saw has a falcon and a pigeon sitting together. On this one notice not just the cat and dog, but also the mouse! |
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Adding to the various signs featuring Dick Whittington and his cat, here is one from the Dick Whittington at South Oxhey, not far from Harrow Weald in the north-west of outer London. Apparently there is a legend in the area that in the 15th century Sir Richard Whittington owned what is now Oxhey Hall Farm, to the south of Watford town; that fact probably accounts for the choice of name for this pub. |
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The Whittington Cat is a small pub situated in the main shopping street of the coastal town of Whitehaven, in the north-western English county of Cumbria. There is no pictorial sign (in 2007) and we do not know the connection, if any, with Dick Whittington or his cat. |
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The main street in the village of Egremont, also in the county of Cumbria, seems to boast a number of pubs, and one of them is The Cat. |
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Cats that Got Away
Alphabetical list of pubs and locations
Short history of British pub signs
Notes and Anecdotes
Additional information about particular 'cat signs' or pubs
(cross-linked with gallery entries)
If you know of any more pub signs showing cats,
or have information about sign or name changes,
please
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All additions to or suggestions for the gallery gratefully received.
You might like to read about the adventures of Fleetwood who has visited over 60 pubs in Scotland and England with his humans
Grateful thanks are due to the Inn Sign Society for supplying and permission to reproduce images
of many older pub signs from their archive. Where appropriate these are acknowledged in the text above,
but otherwise all photos are our own except where indicated.
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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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