Lichfield Pubs 9781445651385 Neil Coley - Free Tracked Delivery
'As smooth as oil, sweet as milk, clear as amber and strong as brandy.'Boniface, in George Farquhar’s play The Beaux Stratagem, describing Lichfield ale.Farquhar was one of the visitors to Lichfield in the eighteenth century when the city was notorious for its many pubs and brothels. Today, thankfully, only its pubs are famous and continue to add colour to this fine Georgian city. The great medieval cathedral forms a magnificent backdrop to the many pubs of the city, some of which were visited by Lichfield’s most famous son, Samuel Johnson, whose brooding statue can be found in the city’s market square. Many of Lichfield’s ancient pubs, some of them old coaching inns from the days of stagecoaches and highwaymen, are still in existence; others, sadly, have gone. This book tells the story of.
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