15 episodes

The Hairy Bikers: Pubs That Built Britain - Season 1

First aired Apr 18, 2016Season 1

Browse all 15 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.

Episodes

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Episode 1

Yorkshire

6.0
Apr 18, 201629 min1 votes

The fascinating history hidden in Britain's boozers. Si and Dave visit a Yorkshire pub believed to have been drunk dry by troops in the English Civil War.

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Episode 2

The Lake District

6.0
Apr 19, 201629 min1 votes

Dave takes Si on a pub tour of his Lake District home patch, following in the footsteps of the poets Wordsworth and Coleridge. On the way, they sample negus - a wine-based drink from the late 1800s - and battle it out in a traditional pub competition to find out who 'The Biggest Liar' is.

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Episode 3

Manchester

6.0
Apr 20, 201629 min1 votes

The history hidden in Britain's boozers. Si and Dave take a Manchester pub crawl to uncover historic boozers once at the heart of the city's industrial revolution.

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Episode 4

Cornwall

7.0
Apr 21, 201629 min1 votes

The history hidden in Britain's boozers. Si and Dave visit Cornwall, where they discover pubs that were at the centre of an illegal industry in the late 1700s - smuggling!

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Episode 5

Lincolnshire

6.0
Apr 22, 201629 min1 votes

The history hidden in Britain's boozers. Si and Dave visit 'Bomber County', Lincolnshire, on a mission to discover the importance of the county's pubs in World War II.

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Episode 6

Liverpool

6.0
Apr 25, 201629 min1 votes

The Hairy Bikers get groovy in Liverpool as they take a tour of some swinging 60s pubs. They meet John Lennon's drinking buddies and perform on stage at the Cavern.

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Episode 7

South Wales

7.0
Apr 26, 201629 min1 votes

Dave visits the valleys of south Wales to uncover the history of some fascinating boozers and unearth pubs that were at the heart of the area's coal-mining communities.

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Episode 8

Home Counties

8.0
Apr 27, 201629 min1 votes

From drinking medieval ale in the ancient town of St Albans to morris dancing in the oldest free house in Britain, Si and Dave embark on a historic pub crawl to discover how Britain's inns and taverns witnessed the beginning, end and intervening years in the Wars of the Roses.

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Episode 9

Glasgow

6.0
Apr 28, 201629 min1 votes

Si and Dave explore Glasgow's shipbuilding history. Meeting former shipyard workers, they discover what pub life was like when the yard's whistles blew.

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Episode 10

East End London

6.0
Apr 29, 201629 min1 votes

Si and Dave step back in time to the 50s and 60s of London's East End. Their tour takes them to pubs once central to the criminal deeds of the notorious Kray twins.

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Episode 11

Edinburgh

6.0
May 2, 201629 min1 votes

The guys discover dark histories in pubs that witnessed murder and gruesome punishments in the 1800s, and meet a folk singer who keeps the city's historic tales alive.

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Episode 12

Bristol

7.0
May 3, 201629 min1 votes

The guys delve into Bristol's seafaring past, discovering some pubs with fascinating histories and sampling the West Country's most famous export - cider.

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Episode 13

Oxford

6.0
May 4, 201629 min1 votes

Si and Dave take a pub tour of Oxford to visit the spot where CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien drank pints together, plus a favourite haunt of Inspector Morse creator Colin Dexter.

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Episode 14

Great Fire of London

7.0
May 5, 201629 min1 votes

Si and Dave's tour takes them to London, where they find inns that witnessed the Great Fire and pubs that watered the workers during the city's 50-year rebuild.

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Episode 15

Carlisle

6.0
May 6, 201629 min1 votes

The tour ends in Carlisle, where the guys discover an extraordinary WWI government scheme designed to put a stop to drunken behaviour and change the city's pubs forever.