Pub

A pub was a public building found all over England, Scotland and Wales, where communities would gather for social drinking and conversation. Pubs also served full meals. (PROSE: The Sow in Rut)

Typical Scottish pubs had a "dour, squat look." (PROSE: The Highlanders)

Activities in pubs
Often, a fight would break out among the drunks in pubs, (COMIC: Party Animals) and the police would intervene. When, in 2007, one such fight broke out, Gwen Cooper and Andy Davidson tried to break it up, Gwen receiving a head injury. (TV: Everything Changes)

Sometimes, the members of a pub would join to make a sports team. When Craig Owens revealed to the Eleventh Doctor that he belonged to a pub-league football team, the Doctor thought that he meant a drinking competition. (TV: The Lodger)

Another activity not uncommon in a pub were games, such as pub quizzes. On 24 April 2010, the guests of the wedding of Bernice Summerfield and Jason Kane played one such pub quiz at the Black Swan. (PROSE: Happy Endings)

Naming of individual pubs
Common in the naming of pubs were foxes. The Fourth Doctor, Harry Sullivan, Sarah Jane Smith and UNIT used the Fox Inn as a temporary headquarters in Scotland while dealing with the Zygon threat in Loch Ness. (TV: Terror of the Zygons) The Fancy Fox was a pub that Amy Pond, Rory Williams and the Eleventh Doctor used as a kind of base while on an adventure in the town of Foxton. (PROSE: The Way Through the Woods) In fact, most pub names seemed to be an animal and an adjective. For example, the Black Swan was a pub visited by both the Seventh and Eighth Doctors. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation, Not in My Backyard, Happy Endings)

In popular culture
In the British soap opera Eastenders, one of the characters, Peggy Mitchel, owned a pub. In 2007, taken advantage of the ghost phenomenon (when Cybermen were mistaken for ghosts), a storyline featured Peggy being confronted in her pub by Den Watts, who had came back from the dead. She told him to get out of her pub, joking that the only spirits she served were gin, whisky and vodka. (TV: Army of Ghosts)

Behind the scenes
Real life pubs have proven popular filming locations.
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