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public house

1. Brit the formal name for pub

2. US and Canadian an inn, tavern, or small hotel

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inn

1. A place which provides eating and drinking, but no lodging, for the public; a tavern.

2. A hotel.

3. A student hostel or residence.

4. A hospice.

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Middlesbrough then expanded to the south of the railway line and 92 public houses were opened between the years 1849-1899.

Raise a glass to the many historic pubs of the town

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Public House, a tap room with encyclopedic beer list, to open at The Venetian

MORE public houses are calling time, a survey has revealed.

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The study is at its best in the last two chapters, which place public houses into a more interpretive framework, first from the perspective of early modern observers and finally within the context of larger historical questions.

Drinking Matters: Public Houses and Social Exchange in Early Modern Central Europe

Route 805: The Herald Public House, Sir Henry Parkes Road, Canley, departs 1.30pm; Lime Tree Park Working Men's Club, Templar Avenue, Tile Hill South, 1.45pm; The Rainbow Inn, Birmingham Road, Allesley Village, 2pm; The Maudslay Public House, Allesley Old Road, Chapelfields, 2.15pm; Ricoh Arena, arrives 2.30pm.

The public house trade has been dying for some time now through heavy taxation on alcohol, then on July 1 2007 the smoking ban was the final nail in the coffin for the public house.

Letter: Mailbag - RIP the British pub

In Public Houses takes a novel look at one of colonial America's best known institutions, the tavern.

In Public Houses: Drink and the Revolution of Authority in Colonial Massachusetts