A pub agency have been accused of constructing a ‘schoolboy error’ after they changed a swing signal hanging outdoors considered one of its inns in Kent.
As a part of a spruce-up, Admiral Taverns lately eliminated the previous signal at The Eight Bells in Canterbury, which featured a maiden with eight Canterbury bells, the flowers the historic pub is known as after.
They then changed it with an indication that includes eight church bells hanging in Canterbury Cathedral’s Bell Harry Tower.
Not solely is the pub not named after the cathedral bells, there aren’t truly eight of them hanging from the Bell Harry Tower.
‘It’s a schoolboy error,’ Kent pub historical past skilled, Rory Kehoe, advised Kent On-line, ‘as a result of the actual fact is that Bell Harry solely homes one bell, which it’s named after, not eight.
‘The paintings of the brand new signal means that if one stands underneath the tower (on the crossing of the nave with the transept) and appears up, a lot of bells are seen.
‘However not so. Even Bell Harry is out of sight, because it’s truly mounted on the roof of the tower.’
He stated the cathedral’s foremost ring of 14 bells is hung within the SW (Oxford) Tower, with the opposite six bells situated within the NW (Arundel) Tower.
He added that he was relieved the pub’s long-serving landlady Kim Truelove nonetheless has the previous signal, whose design is assumed to stem again to 1908, when The Eight Bells was a tied home throughout the property of Canterbury’s Ash’s Dane John Brewery.
Kim stated she’d requested Admiral Taverns for the previous signal to be restored when the entrance of the pub was having a spruce-up.
However the space supervisor advised her this wouldn’t be attainable and gave her two new designs to select from.
She stated she felt obligated to conform to considered one of them, however was unhappy to lose the previous signal, which ‘prospects liked and has a lot historical past’.
Kim stated the brand new signal is ‘very properly finished’ however doesn’t match the pub.
She advised the Metro immediately Admiral Taverns – which owns greater than 1,600 pubs – have now stated they ‘have it in hand’, which she hopes means they’ll quickly be placing the previous design again up.
The Metro has contacted Admiral Taverns for a remark.
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