5/27/2023 0 Comments English inn signs by Jacob Larwood![]() ![]() Yes, ‘ The Goat’ has but not the ‘Goat and Compasses’. There are two theories within, the ‘mason’ theory and the ‘religious’ theory plus a fascinating statement that ‘The Goat’ has become ‘a favourite sign outside our English inns’. But let’s examine that cutting a little closer. ![]() Long may it continue to be, in the new communities now being planned.īy ‘new communities’ they were probably talking about ‘new towns’ so perhaps the cuttings is late 1940s/early 1950s. What we see for certain, from such signs and names, is how deeply the inn is woven into the pattern of our country’s story. The compasses may have indicated that mine host was a mason.Ī more loveable legend from the 17th century has it that the name was originally “God encompass us”, reminding us that the inn inherited the ancient hospitality of the monasteries. THE GOAT as a symbol sprang from a long-past mythology to become a favourite sign outside our English inns. My starting point was the cutting itself which reads: ![]()
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