Mikey's Memory #2

Date of Visit: 09/08/2020

Name of Pub: The Red Lion

Location: Avebury, Wiltshire

Book Featured: Part II

WWH Rating: 9/10

Mikey's Memory #1

Date of Visit: 12/04/2015

Name of Pub: The Widow's Son

Location: London

Book Featured: Part I

Summary:

According to sources, a widow once lived here with her son back when it was originally a house. Since becoming a pub, it is now known amongst the locals as the "Bun House" because of a tale going back 170 years. The Legend of the Widow’s Son tells the story of the widow's only son, a sailor that left to go to sea and planned to come back at Easter. In anticipation of his homecoming, she saved him a hot cross bun but unfortunately he never returned. For the rest of her life, she hung up a bun every Good Friday should he ever return home. Since her death, this tradition has continued and every year, a sailor visits the pub to add a new bun to the collection. Inside The Widow's Son, the buns can now be seen hanging above the bar.

A bun for her son

WWH Rating: 8/10

Welcome to my travel blog

Good evening everyone,

Since self-publishing the first book in the series of Weird, Wondrous & Historic Pubs of the United Kingdom back in September 2019, I haven't stopped researching, writing and visiting more fascinating public houses to feature in Part II. Running side by side to this is also a Yorkshire Edition which I am currently working on and if everything goes to plan, it should be available to buy on Amazon next year. Part II is going to take a little longer to finish as pubs will be featured across the whole country and travelling outside of England has proved quite tricky since last year due to the pandemic but trips are in the pipeline for 2022 to London, Scotland and Northern Ireland which will further flesh out the book as I'm wanting to feature even more pubs than the previous volume.

Since work started on Part II towards the end of 2019, I have managed to tick off a number of English counties, including; Cornwall, Kent, Wiltshire, Cumbria, Derbyshire and Norfolk. I even went a little further afield and paid a visit to the Isle of Man to see a pub which will be included and even though the Isle of Man is not part of the UK, I thought it would make an interesting, one-off feature piece.

Well, that's all there is for now but please do keep coming back to see where I get to on my travels over the coming weeks and months to the most weird, wondrous and historic pubs in the United Kingdom.

Mikey