Butterfly Pub Names - a Challenge!
Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 11:47 pm
Perhaps this was best left for those long winter nights when we're deprived of butterflies, but what the heck!
Passing through Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire villages the other day, on a fruitless quest for Brown Hairstreak, Martin and I commented on the apparent lack of pubs named after our favourite creatures.
There are plenty of Fox and Hounds, White Horse, the Swan and so on, but where are the pubs named after a butterfly? Perhaps it's a sad reflection of how little our lepitoptera friends figure in the public imagination? How nice it would be, on a warm summer's day, to wet one's whistle in the Grizzled Skipper, or arrange to meet a friend in the Chalkhill at eight!
So here's a challenge! If you know of a pub named after a butterfly, put up a picture here - telling us about one you knew once won't be good enough! The pub name must be an unambiguous reference to a butterfly - the Peacock won't do if the pub sign has a picture of the bird, likewise nor will the Glanville Arms, Duke of Burgundy or Queen of Spain etc if there is not the butterfly on the pub sign! Joint names, such as the Fox and Grayling will count. The hostelry must be in the UK (sorry, Guy!)
I will donate £25 to Butterfly Conservation on seeing the first photograph in this topic that meets these criteria! You have my word as a lepidopterist and a gentleman!
How safe is my money...?
Bryan
Passing through Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire villages the other day, on a fruitless quest for Brown Hairstreak, Martin and I commented on the apparent lack of pubs named after our favourite creatures.
There are plenty of Fox and Hounds, White Horse, the Swan and so on, but where are the pubs named after a butterfly? Perhaps it's a sad reflection of how little our lepitoptera friends figure in the public imagination? How nice it would be, on a warm summer's day, to wet one's whistle in the Grizzled Skipper, or arrange to meet a friend in the Chalkhill at eight!
So here's a challenge! If you know of a pub named after a butterfly, put up a picture here - telling us about one you knew once won't be good enough! The pub name must be an unambiguous reference to a butterfly - the Peacock won't do if the pub sign has a picture of the bird, likewise nor will the Glanville Arms, Duke of Burgundy or Queen of Spain etc if there is not the butterfly on the pub sign! Joint names, such as the Fox and Grayling will count. The hostelry must be in the UK (sorry, Guy!)
I will donate £25 to Butterfly Conservation on seeing the first photograph in this topic that meets these criteria! You have my word as a lepidopterist and a gentleman!
How safe is my money...?
Bryan
