Sentence examples for pub sign from inspiring English sources

In 1914, Chesterton's roving commonsensical publican Pump made do with a pub sign, a cheese and a barrel of beer.

The painted pub sign, one of the oldest popular visual arts traditions in Britain, is locked in decline.

The family name is plastered over everything from the village pub sign to, more coincidentally, the train that takes him away to prep school.

For his part, Pharoah has the Railway Arms pub sign and is about to take delivery of one of the bullet-ridden doors from Hunt's Audi Quattro.

But close it must, so Pump and his friends uproot their pub sign, take a barrel and a large cheese and set off around the country: coming out of hiding to erect their pub sign at a series of fugitive locations, and then melting away again as the authorities catch up.

The Fiells, who bought their Hammersmith house in 1994 for £190,000, have an eclectic sensibility, with furniture from the 1960s and 1970s mixed in with the occasional Chippendale table or 19th-century pub sign.

Many contemporary portraits of Elizabeth I look like pub signs".

I think about the lanes and the stone rows and the lock cottages and the pub signs.

Before national service and Chelsea School of Art, he was a close student of cartoons, London pub signs, Edward Hopper and the posters of Toulouse-Lautrec.

He loved to paint the unusual or overlooked: costermongers' barrows, a disused whelk boiler, barrels, fish carts, marine debris, pub signs, street and boat signage.

Green parrots flutter in the palm trees under a blue Spanish sky and the tapas restaurants and gift boutiques still outnumber the jostling British and Irish pub signs.