Every fact on this site links to a named source and shows the date we last checked it.
We use Whitbread and Premier Inn statements for company decisions, and operators’ own pages for the pubs that have taken over former restaurants.
Local and trade reporting helps explain what happened to individual buildings.
For older stories, we use newspaper archives, menus, adverts and local records. A date on an advert can tell us when an offer appeared; it does not necessarily tell us when a restaurant opened.
Our editorial labels distinguish Confirmed, Official record, Reported and Conditional information. A company announcing a sale is different from a pub announcing its first day of trading.
Where accounts disagree, we explain the difference or leave the detail out.
AI tools help us draft and organise pages. Every fact is checked against a named source, which we link on the page, and each page shows the date it was last checked.
Reader memories are written by readers and reviewed by a person before they appear.
AI assistance does not supply first-hand experience. We do not invent visits, customer quotations, opening dates or staff stories.
A photograph needs its own source and credit; a convincing-looking picture is not a substitute for a real one.
Reader memories and photographs
Memories describe what individual readers remember. We review submissions before publication and keep private contact details out of the public story.
Please send only pictures you own or have permission to share, and explain where and roughly when they were taken.
Please email webmaster@beefeatermemories.co.uk with the page address, the wording you think is wrong and a source or explanation. A useful correction can be as small as a misspelt pub name.
We check material changes and record them in the editorial log.
