You may enjoy unique honey for tea when you visit The Beehive Inn in Castlegate at Grantham in Lincolnshire, UK. The honey comes from the Inn’s “living sign” – a beehive.
Since 1830, the beehive has hung in a tree outside the Inn. Its bees produce an average of 30lbs of honey every year!
A sign on the Inn reads :
” Stop traveller this wondrous sign to explore and say when thou hast view’d it o’er and o’er.
Grantham now two rarities are thine, A lofty steeple and a living sign.”
The lofty steeple is that of St Wulfram’s church, 272ft high, at the end of the street.
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Sweet! I want to stay there. 🙂
Me too!
Amazing! There are quite a few pubs named The Beehive in London, but none of them have bees hanging outside. Wonder how the owners go about getting the honey down.
I have no idea! I’ll be they don’t do many inspections… 🙂
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Thanks!! 🙂
Those bees are pulling double duty, both as honeymakers and moneymakers!
Wonderful bees!! 🙂
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