The Victorians were obsessed with the beauty of barmaids.

What colour is the pub? Red-black-brown-gold, lights catching and twinkling.

Pub games are an important part of pub life. Dominoes are tactile and tactical.

A hard-working harbourside inn at Newlyn in Cornwall.

During World War II, pubs were overrun with soldiers, and often short on beer.

A moment in the long, complicated history of women in pubs.

A Victorian survivor in post-war London.

Children on the pub doorstep – a familiar sight before the emergence of the children's room and the family pub.

This could be from any year from about 1930 to 1970 – often the way with pubs.

A post-war pub refurb in modern style, probably with a 'cocktail bar', not that this old boy with his bottle of brown ale is bothered.

A pint of Bass and the temptation to temperance.

A Victorian pub with modern keg beer – the unmistakeable Watney's brand.

The carpeted, regimental-tie-wearing stiffness of the middle-class pub.

A crowd outside a Glasgow pub attired in serious drinking trousers.

Pints of ale and stout, overflowing ashtrays, sanctioned misbehaviour.

Close that door on the way out, will ya?