Pub Sign Study Gullivers Manchester / myLot

Photo taken by me – Gullivers Pub Sign, Manchester

Preston, England

December 21, 2018 11:13am CST

This John Willie Lees pub is not full of Lilliputians but certainly draws in many people of all human shapes and sizes. The bar has a popular performance space upstairs for poets and singers, (I have performed there myself), so it is perfectly apt that Gulliver has a musical instrument at his disposal in this book illustration style sign, related to the best known of the lands Gulliver visited during his voyages in Jonathon Swift’s classic satirical novel. Arthur Chappell

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Alfredo Rossi

@amadeo (111937)

• United States

21 Dec 18

How remember the character so well there.Gulliver.It was a great movie back in those days

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Arthur Chappell

@arthurchappell (44941)

• Preston, England

21 Dec 18

@amadeo There are several versions of it - I like the one with Richard Harris. The Jack Black version is terrible.

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Alfredo Rossi

@amadeo (111937)

• United States

21 Dec 18

@arthurchappell I saw the really original one.not with Black or Harris.Not sure who the actor was.I supposed could look it up

Alfredo Rossi

@amadeo (111937)

• United States

21 Dec 18

@arthurchappell also the animated one?

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ARM

@responsiveme (22923)

• India

28 Dec 18

Yes,the tiny people seem to be the most popular of his stories.lively sign. Good to know you performed there.was it an enactment?

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Arthur Chappell

@arthurchappell (44941)

• Preston, England

28 Dec 18

@responsiveme I took part in several poetry events there

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ARM

@responsiveme (22923)

• India

29 Dec 18

@arthurchappell

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Anna

@LadyDuck (502208)

• Italy

22 Dec 18

The sign is very well painted, it reminds me the pictures that I saw in the book I read when I was young.

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Arthur Chappell

@arthurchappell (44941)

• Preston, England

22 Dec 18

@LadyDuck They have almost certainly reproduced a book illustration for the sign here

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Anna

@LadyDuck (502208)

• Italy

22 Dec 18

@arthurchappell For what I see this is what I think, it's a very good painting.

Judy Evans

@JudyEv (381837)

• Rockingham, Australia

26 Dec 18

It's a good looking drawing.

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Arthur Chappell

@arthurchappell (44941)

• Preston, England

26 Dec 18

yes it is very nicely detailed

Felicia Kane

@DesirousDreamer (34776)

• Peoria, Arizona

21 Dec 18

That is amazing. I always wanted to go to a place where they did poetry readings or poetry slams, I love poetry slams. But most places are downtown for me and that is way too far haha

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Arthur Chappell

@arthurchappell (44941)

• Preston, England

21 Dec 18

@DesirousDreamer You could offer to start one off at a bar or venue

Arthur Chappell

@arthurchappell (44941)

• Preston, England

21 Dec 18

@DesirousDreamer You could offer to start one off at a bar or venue

Courage7

@Courage7 (19626)

• United States

21 Dec 18

Isnt that lovely Arthur? And so nice they have that performance room and you performed there as well! I so love the pubs there Arthur. Thanks for sharing these great signs with us.

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Arthur Chappell

@arthurchappell (44941)

• Preston, England

21 Dec 18

@Courage7 I always enjoy finding them

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Courage7

@Courage7 (19626)

• United States

21 Dec 18

@arthurchappell I know you do.