Bobby Taylor is, as they say, "the talk of the town". There are so many stories circulating about him that he is famous for miles around. Bobby considers this good for business. He is still young, thirty three, and a bachelor. Many years ago his father Joshua and mother Kelly left Ireland for London, where they tried in vain to make a living in the bristling metropolis. At the first opportunity they abandoned the crowds of the metropolis and left for the country. They began brewing gin in Bridbury and slowly but surely they built the "St. George's Pub" .

On the very day that Bobby's father nailed the official pub sign above the door, Kelly was taken ill. Since then Joshua devotes all his time in caring tenderly for his wife and has no more time for the pub. At the age of twenty Bobby had to manage alone, but with the help of Hank Waltham, Bridbury’s stationmaster and Mickey Russel from the elegant "Victoria Inn Hotel" he made the pub into a flourishing business, despite the raised eyebrows of the majority of Bridbury’s  women. "A blot on the village”, is what they call Bobby's beer house, mainly because their husbands prefer each other's company to doing odd jobs around the house.

Jeanet Evans of the local hat shop leads the way in this, but this is because her husband, Steven likes a pint or two. The antique merchant Jenny Darton and the blacksmith’s wife Amylee Cobham agree with her entirely because their son Timothy and live-in nephew John have been known to end up singing in the cell of William Enfield’s police station after an enjoyable evening spent in the "St. George's Pub".