Robinson’s Challenge

Robinson’s Unicorn Brewery of Stockport seeks the Inn Sign Society’s help to provide information related to the names of their pubs.

Members are invited to contribute relevant information which will be included on the company’s soon-to-be revamped website.

Although we are keen to enlist the help of ISS members living in the area, others (visitors to the Lake District for example) may have knowledge that may useful.   

Robinson’s estate of 364 pubs is located in the north-west of England and also north Wales. The north-west area mainly includes: Cheshire, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Lancashire and Greater Manchester. Robinson’s pubs in the Principality are located in Anglesey, Clwyd and Gwynedd.

 Click here to view Robinson's list of pubs
They are sorted by county (USE BOOKMARK OPTION) and then listed alphabetically by pub name.

• Please quote the ISS reference number (LH column) with any information regarding each specific entry.

• Limit your response to not more than 50 words per entry.

• Mention the most important information first.

Names such as Kings Head or similar are best avoided unless you have photographic evidence of the monarch portrayed!

Please send your findings as soon as possible to the Publicity Officer preferably by email or by post to 34a Chawn Hill, Stourbridge DY9 7JB

You may ask why the company needs our help. As a result of takeovers (e.g. Hartleys) details and records of information about pub names may have been lost.

The Inn Sign Society should feel very proud to be invited to participate in this challenge. It may be taken as recognition of the high regard that the Society is held and its acknowledged status as the leading authority regarding the meanings of inn signs and pub names.  

• If you require further information please contact the Publicity Officer immediately.
  
  However between 10 March and 3 April 2012, click here to send any enquiries.

Aims & Objectives

The aims and objectives of the Society are:

• To bring together those with a general interest in the Inn Sign in general and provide a means of exchanging information about, and encouraging research into, the Inn Sign in all its many facets.
   
• To make a record of as many signs as possible
   
• To research the origins of the many names given to inns
   
• To establish archives, both written and pictorial, accessible to all members.
   
• To record the sign artists, their sources and their material.

A full copy of the Constitution and Rules of the Society is available to members on application the Secretary - click here to request a copy

The Constitution London,  NW1		The Magna Carta Lincoln		The Magna Charta Lowdham, Notts

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