Paul McCartney Robbers' Ball - English Pub Signs
Extended (not alternative) version of Paul McCartney's Robbers' Ball with images of pub signs - welcome to the revelry tonight.
Pub Signs of England (excluding London): The Mill Inn Aldeburgh, The Old Buttermarket Canterbury,T he White Hart Canterbury, Royal Pavilion Tavern Brighton, The Baron of Beef Cambridge, The Cricketers Canterbury, Prince of Orange Dover, The Railway Hastings (St Leonards on sea),Smugglers Hastings, The Witch & Wardrobe Lincoln, Town Crier Chester, The Unicorn Bognor Regis, The Somerhill Tonbridge, Watergate Inn Chester, Vauxhall Inn Tonbridge, St Marys Vaults Knaresborough, Station Inn Whitby, Tontine Hotel Ironbridge, The Square Bottle Chester, The Runcible Spoon Norwich, First In Last Out Hastings, The Wig & Pen Colchester, Royal Oak Lewes, The Magna Carta Lincoln, The Liverpool, First and Last Ormesby, Ram Hotel Brandon, Cat & Fiddle Norwich, The Mischief Norwich, The Bay Hotel Robin Hood Bay, The Beehive Liverpool, Blind Jacks Knaresborough, The Falcon Southend ,Flying Dutchman Southborough ,The Forest House Chester, Coach and Horses Norwich, The Crooked Billet Leigh-on-Sea, Widow Cullen's Well Lincoln, The Talbot Richmond, Caernarvon Castle Prenton, The Green Dragon Lincoln, Hermitage Inn Warkworth, The Cricketers Brighton, The Cricketers Canterbury, The Albert and The Lion Blackpool, The Sussex Brighton, Foresters Arms Tonbridge, The Hop Poles Lewes ,Johnny Pye Heswall, The Millstone Inn Stamford, Jolly Sailors Whitby, Golden Lion Richmond, Green Dragon Hardraw, The Falcon Liverpool, The Hay Waggon (unknown location),The Peterboat Leigh on Sea, Plough Inn Whitby, Royal George Staithes, The Horse & Cart Rye, The Cornucopia Southend, The Crystal Palace (Bath), Drum & Monkey Harrogate, The Golden Fleece Stamford, Kings Head Reeth, The Gardener's Arms Lewes, Old Ton Tongwynlais Inn, Bear and Billet Chester, The Assembly Inn (Bath), The Harbour Inn (unknown location), Railway Tavern Holt, Flintknappers Brandon, The Lanes Brighton, The Market Inn Brighton, The Little Crown Colchester, The West Gate Inn Canterbury, The London Trader Hastings, Anchor Inn Hastings, The Norfolk Colchester, The Haven Port Erin Isle of Man, Whittle Springs Blackpool, Buck Inn Whitby, Bridge Inn Grinton, The Black Bull Inn Stamford, Three Swallows Cley next the sea, The Swan Inn Horning, The Bell Brandon, The Cock Inn Peasemarsh, The Dolphin Hastings, Ye Dolphin Robin Hood's Bay, Lord Burleigh Stamford, South Bank Runcorn, The Otters Pocket Stamford
How to photograph Pub Signs.
When you photograph a pub sign, you are inevitably shooting from below and pointing the camera upwards, and, more often than not, having to shoot at an angle as well. Unavoidably, therefore, what your camera records is not a rectangle but an irregular quadrilateral, with all four sides of the sign of different lengths and with no 90⁰ angles. Furthermore, there is bound to be a lot of extraneous detail. To correct these faults, you need to use photo editing software (PaintShop Pro / Photoshop / Photoshop Elements -- there may be others) and correct the perspective using a Perspective Correction / Transform tool followed by a crop. You can also correct for colour and/or contrast (especially useful where the sign has faded over the years) and possibly clone out distracting features (there are far better ways of doing this than using the clone tool, but that's another matter).
Ideal conditions for pub sign photography are overcast conditions to avoid unsightly shadows and as little wind as possible.
Music: Paul McCartney Robbers Ball / Robber's Ball / Robbers' Ball extended
John Metcalf (civil engineer) | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:57 1 Early life
00:03:27 2 Carrier
00:04:08 3 Road builder
00:05:54 4 Later life
00:06:36 5 Memorials
00:07:01 6 Epitaph
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John Metcalf (15 August 1717–26 April 1810), known as Blind Jack of Knaresborough or Blind Jack Metcalf, was the first professional road builder to emerge during the Industrial Revolution. Blind from the age of six, Metcalf had an eventful life, which was documented by his own account just before his death. He was an accomplished diver, swimmer, card player and fiddler, but was better known for the period between 1765 and 1792 when he built about 180 miles (290 km) of turnpike road, mainly in the north of England and as such, he became known as one of the fathers of the modern road.
His work on the roads in the north has been commemorated in a pub named after him, a statue in Knaresborough town centre and part of the A658 in Harrogate being named John Metcalf Way.