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Switch off your mobile. Kevin says they're unnecessary and intrusive and has banned them. You'll have gathered that Kevin is an old fashioned kind of landlord. He took the 'Free House' off the sign outside his pub when he saw the term abused by others; his is a true Free House he says, he can sell what beer he chooses.
Don't get the wrong idea, Kevin is a great host and runs a popular pub, which is loved by its regulars. It's just that he doesn't have to answer to Head Office. This is Head Office. Once the majority of pubs were run by people like him, nowadays most are run by managers following a career path and they tend to move from pub to pub. Kevin's been here more than 25 years.
This charming little hostelry hasn't changed much in three hundred years. The front bar has a beer shop interior with bare floor boards and wooden panelling. There's a plethora of genuine curiosities and bric-a-brac, including some working penny arcade machines and a what-the-butler-saw type viewing box 'in 3D still pictures'. The centre piece is a stove from the 1820's. Another individual aspect is that bar staff are at a much lower level than the customers and bar stools are at chair height, which is somehow disconcerting. Mounted on the counter is a wonderful pewter beer engine with pretty pink ceramic Chelsea Pottery handpulls.
The back bar downstairs is small and cosy, with a cast fireplace and dark wooden panelling. Here too collections of oddments, such as ice-skates and carpet beaters, and lots of prints. A hefty and shining National cash register sits on the solid bar counter.

Visit to Detroit, Michigan on November 23, 2011.

This shingle style mansion was built in 1890 for industrialist Charles Lang Freer, who was primarily
a railroad car manufacturer. The house is considered Michigan's finest example of the shingle style.

The house is next door the the Hecker-Smiley mansion and is part of the East Ferry Street Historic District. Since 1919, the Merrill-Palmer Institute of Human Development and Family Life, now part
of Wayne State University, has owned the home for their headquarters.