AIR-MINDED INNKEEPERS
Modern public house names continue to extend my knowledge of the subject, says a writer in the "Daily Telegraph and Morning Post." It is interesting to notice that the Kentish inns, on the whole, seem to have a good start of the rest of England in the matter of modern nomenclature. Another curious point is that while motorists, as far as I know, have not helped in the naming of a single inn, several correspondents have cited names taken from aviation. "The Comet," at Hatfield, named after the Melbourne air-race victor, is known to thousands of Londoners. An old roadside inn at Henlow, East Bedfordshire, once the "John Barleycorn," was rebuilt and renamed "The Airman," as a compliment to the Royal Air Force depot nearby. If we stretch the idea of modernity a little. "The Air Bal-Joon,"-at Abing&m, can .be #dded to item, - ,-■■- -. . "
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 99, 24 October 1938, Page 7
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145AIR-MINDED INNKEEPERS Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 99, 24 October 1938, Page 7
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