Whilst there has been a pub on this site since 1430, the interior of the present day Cittie of Yorke dates from a 1924 refurbishment when it was owned by wine merchants George Henekey & Co. (note the wine vats on the top left of the photo). Sam Smiths acquired the pub in 1979 and named it the Cittie of Yorke after a long-vanished pub across the road in Staple Inn. An interesting feature of the pub is a fireplace located in the centre of the pub which has three faces, and dates from 1815. It is rare in having an underground flue - the draught pulls the smoke back down and out.

Two Samuel Old Brewery Bitter pumps from the Rising Sun in Smithfield, London. As it was lunchtime on a Saturday, Smithfield was a ghost town and I had the pub to myself to take some shots.

Delicious Samuel Smith's Old Brewery Pale Ale photographed in the Murenger pub in Newport.

The Murenger is a Samuel Smith's owned pub located in Newport, south Wales. Dubbed a 'haven in a superpub ghetto', it claims to be the oldest pub in Newport and dates from c1530.

Yorkshire Stingo is a strong beer from the Samuel Smith Brewery. Its name comes from a fashionable slang word of the eighteenth century for strong beer. Yorkshire Stingo is aged for at least a year, matured in these well-used oak casks in the brewery’s underground cellars deriving fruit, raisin, treacle toffee, Christmas pudding and slight oaky flavours, before being further naturally conditioned in bottle. The beer is not commonly found and is not cheap (at least £5 a bottle).

The Princess Louise is a fabulous Victorian pub that has one of the best interiors in London. Built in 1872, the pub had a refit in 1892 in which no expense was spared. The decoration is formidable: etched mirrors line the walls, surrounded by polychromatic tiling, elaborate terracotta friezes, patterned ceilings, marble pillars with gilt capitals, tiled floors (mosaics in the corridors) and stained and painted glass. Even the toilets are spectacular. I've posted more photos of the pub over on Flickr.

A refreshing bottle of Samuel Smith Cherry Beer in the Murenger pub, Newport.

Samuel Smith's Old Brewery Bitter drawn from an Oak Cask

Photographed in The Murenger in Newport, Oatmeal Stout is a lot sweeter than the regular Samuel Smith stout available on draught.

Taken in Ye Olde Murenger House, Newport. The pump used to be much larger and contained a model of a man featured in the pump. Rather than asking for a pint of Alpine Lager (or Ayingerbrau as it used to be called), locals would simply ask for 'a man in a box'. You can still ask for one even though he has long since disappeared.