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The Blue Bell
16 Pavement
York
Circa 17th Century
Established 1798
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The building was constructed in the late 17th century, as a five-bay timber-framed house, with a central staircase.
It originally had a jettiedfront, but it was refronted in the 18th century. The facade of the lower two floors was replaced with brick, while the top floor appears to have been retained and rendered over.
At the rear, the original jettied facade survives, although its ground floor is obscured by later outbuildings. Around this time, the house was divided in two, the other half becoming 54 Fossgate.
In 1798, 53 Fossgate opened as The Blue Bell.
The pub was later purchased by C. J. Melrose and Sons, a local chain of pubs and wine merchants.
In 1903, the chain refurbished it, and it retains its layout and fittings from this period.
These include doors, windows, glazed screens with service hatches and varnished matchboarding on the walls.
The pub is entered through a corridor, widened slightly into a lobby, which contains a single tip-up seat by the bar.
CAMRA considers this lobby a forerunner of the drinking lobbies which became popular in northern England in the inter war period.
In 1903, George Robinson became the landlord of the pub; he was later the founding director of York City F.C., and the club initially held its meetings in the pub.
On his death, the licence passed to his wife, Annie, and then to their daughter, Edith Pinder.
She only retired in 1992, since when it has changed hands several times but has been maintained in the same style.
Originally Grade II listed in 1954, in 1997 it was upgraded to Grade II* on the strength of its interior, one of very few pubs to be awarded this grade for internal features.
Outside The Royal Standard North Woolwich E16 with my Dad,Famous for the county line between Kent and Essex running through it's centre allowing Punters to drink in 2 counties within 1 Pub,Romanian restaurant now and the Moodiest Pub I've drank in in it's prior form,Cheers🍻🍻
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@FootballCliches Wales in 94 (Southall, Mark Hughes, Rush, Saunders, Giggs & Gary Speed) missed out to a very good Romania side with Hagi who did well at the WC
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