Pub signs are not always PC. The Nag's Head sometimes displays a picture of a horse but often shows a woman scolding her husband, and this is not the only example.
The sign for a Staffordshire pub called the Labour In Vain showed a black boy in a tub being scrubbed by a white couple. The sign was removed by the brewery in 1993 after complaints. It was replaced by a picture of a farmer sowing seed that was immediately eaten by a flock of birds. The original sign was then hung in the pub garden but is to be reinstated this week.
Apparently the pub was originally a hiring station for people seeking work, pubs often acting as unofficial employment agencies at one time.
For the full story from The Sentinel Newspaper see here
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