Bees residing in pub wall.

[beehive1234]

Just remembering an old pub in Lytchet Minster or was Lytchet Matravers. Any, it was a really old pub and quite a big one too. Stone and thatch. Lots of wood end penned off areas and fascinating pictures. The best bit for me was the bee hive in the wall with glass on the inside where you could watch the bees. Eventually after revamp the hive dissapeared. Something to do with health and safety probably.
Lovely place to visit night or day and always excellent food. Does anyone remember it and is there another pub somewhere with bees in the wall with observation window on the inside?

 

[enrico]

There is an old mill near me with that scenario but they don't sell beer! Checking it every year to see how long the same bees reside there. Into the third year now! Never tampered with in any way.
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[Dishmop]

There is a place on the road between Scarborough and Pickering here they have a room upstairs with glass rooms with hives in them, and holes in the walls to the outside.

 

[beebopalula]

There used to be a pub named The Bees in the Wall in Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire - no long gone. It had a colony in the wall and a glass viewing window inside the bar.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Bees in my area tend to go for religious establishments. Theres one in the church roof not too far from my carreg apiary which have (anecdotsly) been there for years. and for many years there was a clolony in the wall of the old chapel I'm involved with - definitely the same colony from year to year as there are two beekeepers monitoring it from the end of winter every year; unfortunately they died out near the end of that funny cold spring we had last year - they were alive and buzzing the week before palm Sunday, then a month later - dead o

 

[jerry]

The Bees in the wall is still very much in Whittlesford, although I can't tell you anymore than that as I only drove past it over the weekend. May be worthy of a visit for research purposes!

 

[beehive1234]

Many thanks for your replies. Doesn't seem that there are many left these days. Have to visit Wittlesford sometime. Purely for research you understand.

 

[tudorcd]

In 1968 I was staying with student friends near Whittlesford, we drank oft at the Bees, one Sunday morning while having coffee I was startled by a Messerschmit going over very low hotly pursued by 2 RAF fighters. Time lapse, I thought, or too much beer. Then we spotted the camera plane which was filming Battle of Britain.
Thanks for the memory reminder.