Trades, Tools and Products
- Axe 'n Cleaver in Much Birch, or Altrincham, also Boston, Lincolnshire
- Bettle and Chisel in Delabole, Cornwall, from two tools of the slate quarrymen
- Blacksmith's Arms, with the pun of the actual blacksmiths arms and their strength
- Blind Beggar. The pub of that name in Whitechapel is associated with the foundation of the Salvation Army in the 19th century and gangland violence in the 1960s.
- Bricklayer's Arms fairly common
- Builders Arms: Kensington Court Place, London
- Butcher: the Butchers Arms can be found in Aberdeen, Sheepscombe, Stroud, Woolhope and Yeovil
- Compasses, Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, dates from the 17th Century.
- Fisherman's Arms, Birgham near Coldstream
- Foresters, Brockenhurst in the New Forest
- Gun Barrels: at Edgbaston in Birmingham, a city known for its metal-working and gunmaking trades.
- Harrow: A harrow breaks up the soil after it has been turned over by the plough to a finer tilth ready for sowing.
- Harewood End: Hare, Woodland.
- Mason's Arms
- New Holly in Forton, Lancashire, named after the busy trade in the supply and cultivation of wreaths and decorations.
- Oyster Reach at Wherstead, Ipswich
- Pillar of Salt, the name of pubs in Northwich, Cheshire and Droitwich, Worcestershire. Although ostensibly the name refers to an event described in the bible, both towns were formerly centres of the salt trade in England.
- Plough: an easy object to find to put outside a pub in the countryside. Some sign artists depict the plough as the constellation; this consists of seven stars and so leads to the name the Seven Stars found in Redcliffe, Bristol, Shincliffe, County Durham, Chancery Lane, Robertsbridge and High Holborn.
- Plough and Harrow, Drakes Broughton, Worcs: A combination of the two farming implements.
- Propeller, Croydon (now closed) and Bembridge
- Ship Inn from Irvine to Oundle
- Sailor, Addingham near Ilkley; Jolly Sailor at St Athan and at Sandown, Isle of Wight
- Tappers Harker (Long Eaton, Nottingham): a railway worker who listened to the tone of a hammer being hit onto a railway wagon wheel, to check its soundness. Similar to the Wheeltappers and Shunters fictional pub of the 1970s show
- Woodman
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Famous quotes containing the words tools and/or products:
“But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Isn’t it odd that networks accept billions of dollars from advertisers to teach people to use products and then proclaim that children aren’t learning about violence from their steady diet of it on television!”
—Toni Liebman (20th century)