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The Derby Arms at Inskip - Motoring Pub Museum

The Derby Arms at Inskip - Motoring Pub Museum 

The Derby Arms at Inskip - Motoring Pub Museum, near Preston, Lancashire.

I stumbled across this one when looking for YouTube videos on the subject (topic) of Preston.  I knew the Derby Arms as a pub, but I didn't realise it had been this 'Motoring Museum' novelty pub.  

Motoring Pub Museum (1967) - From British Pathé

Filmed at the Derby Arms at Inskip, near Preston, Lancashire.


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Watch on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m77k03VznDA


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The Motoring Bar, Derby Arms, Inskip Lancashire Real Photo Postcard
The Motoring Bar, Derby Arms, Inskip Lancashire Real Photo Postcard



Video Transcript

[You] wouldn't expect an AA minivan to take on a rescue operation at any of these exotic Rendezvous nor would you get yourself into a position like this getting there.


This is nothing to do with modern motoring we're back in the early days again just look at this lot quite rightly you're not supposed to drink and drive, but here's a very special place where they sometimes give the green light provided no one overdoes it.


They're nipping into the Derby Arms at Inskip, Lancashire not far from Preston. It's not only a pub but a museum of Motoring, where you might be tempted to order beer by the gallon instead of by the pint.


Motoring mementos from all over the world just drink the atmosphere in amplified by tape recordings made by landlord George Allison at historic motor race meetings.


[Announcer - Ferrari number 12 in...]


Everyone's motoring mad in these parts racing drivers come here to impress their girlfriends with tall stories about how they checked a skid through a Brand's hatch oil patch.

Call it a gimmick if you like, but vintage car enthusiasts come from all over the country just to get the feel of the pub that should really be on Wheels. Perhaps they're working on that one.

For wallpaper Mr Allinson has collected registration plates from every state in the USA and more besides.


This is where you can trace the whole history of Motoring for the price of a pint where it's special super plus or just plain cooking bitter.

There's the veteran vintage bar for the sentimentalists and

the Grand Prix bar for the hot rod hot heads, and that must be the status symbol to beat them all.


[And] here's Mr Allinson's way of telling his customers it's drinking up time.


Mr Allinson's motoring Pub must be the only one in the land that really deserves to be called a Roadhouse!


Derby Arms Motoring Inn, Inskip near Preston in 1964 - A barmaid draws huge mugs of beer from novel draught pumps- From the Preston Digital Archive
Derby Arms Motoring Inn, Inskip near Preston in 1964


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What they (British Pathé) say, in film jargon speak;


M/S of a sign giving distances to several places overseas; L/S of a vintage car on the roof of a pub; two groups of people are seen getting out of vintage cars outside. Inside this motoring theme pub we see several shots of motoring memorabilia; the beer is pulled from a petrol tank beer pump; tape recordings of race meetings are played; a man plays with some model cars while his girlfriend tries to look interested.


Several flags, models, number plates, steering wheels are seen on the walls; two men light cigarettes at the bar while landlord George Allinson pulls a Jaguar beer pump to serve them. In the Grand Prix bar two men warm their hands over a Rolls Royce radiator in the fireplace.


FILM ID:403.04


A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT'S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES.


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The Derby Arms Motoring Inn, Inskip near Preston
Black &White Postcard from circa 1968
Preston Digital Archive

https://www.flickr.com/photos/rpsmithbarney/4273309530

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Derby Arms Motoring Inn, Inskip near Preston. January 9th, 1964
A barmaid draws huge mugs of beer from novel draught pumps
Preston Digital Archive

https://www.flickr.com/photos/rpsmithbarney/10465861755/

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Location: Preston Rd, Inskip, Preston PR4 0TJ, UK

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