TALES FROM THE COUNTRY PUB. By Brian P. Martin.

(1998) 2002 reprint. 4to (199 x 270mm). Pp192. Colour and b/w photographs and illustrations. Green boards, spine titled in gilt.

The author "has travelled all over the country to track down some great characters. From Britain's oldest landlady - a lifetime teetotaller who served drinks till she was ninety-nine - to the loyal customer who regularly sank eighteen pints a night; from the landlord who hung a yellow duster out of his window to warn salmon fishermen that the bailiff was coming, to the farmer who blew a hole in his friend's hat when he filled an ashtray with gunpowder ...the smallest pub in the country [and] the pub with no name." Oral history and humorous stories from country pubs of the last two generations.