What is the second most common pub name in the UK behind the Red Lion?
Pub names named after various people. An "arms" name, too, can derive from a pub's town. The most common tree-based pub name is the Royal Oak, which refers to a Historical event. Many traditional pub names refer to the drinks available inside, most often beer. Other pub names refer to items of food to tempt the hungry traveller. For example, The Baron of Beef in Cambridge refers to a double sirloin joined at the backbone. Although puns became increasingly popular through the twentieth century, they should be considered with care. Supposed corruptions of foreign phrases usually have much simpler explanations. Many old
The Old Red Lion, Islington each year, under an open submissions policy. Old Red Lion Theatre won the Dan Crawford Pub Theatre Award for 2006. The Old Red Lion, Islington The Old Red Lion is a pub and fringe theatre, at Angel, in the London Borough of Islington. The theatre was founded in 1948 as the Old Red Lion Theatre Club. The pub was Grade II listed in 1994 by Historic England. The pub in itself is one of the oldest in London, having first been built in 1415 in what was then the rural village of Islington in open countryside and fields. A house