Britain's best summer pubs

Pitcher perfect: another happy customer at Glasgow's West Brewery Bar, the only UK brewer to follow the fastidious German Purity Laws Photograph: Brian Sweeney

The historic Flask tavern in London's Highgate village Photograph: Dan Wilton

The Yew Tree bar in Cauldron, Stoke-on-Trent: part boozer, part museum of Victorian ephemera Photograph: Rebecca Lupton

The Brown Dog, Barnes: home of the best barbecued lobster in London Photograph: Tricia de Courcy Ling

'Mine's a speckled hen.' The Hare Arms, Stow Bardolph, Norfolk Photograph: Si Barber

Even the children are chilled at The Engineer, Primrose Hill, London Photograph: Zak Waters

A parched rambler at the boot-friendly Applecross Inn, Applecross, Highland Photograph: Sam Morgan Moore

Knick-knackery behind the bar at the Birch Hall Inn in Beck Hole, North Yorkshire, where you can also buy paper bags of old-fashioned sweets Photograph: Tessa Bunney

Hackney locals and original East Enders coalesce at the time-warped Palm Tree (020 7253 0483), on the Regent's Canal, Mile End, London Photograph: Dan Wilton

Dogs are part of the furniture at the Pandora Inn, Restronguet Creek, Cornwall Photograph: Toby Coulson

Pub paraphernalia at the eccentric Three Kings (020 7253 0483), Clerkenwell, London Photograph: Dan Wilton

An advert for mother's ruin at the unashamedly old-fashioned Bell (01635 578272) in Aldworth, Berkshire Photograph: Nick Ballon

Howzat? The summery White Hart (01227 76509) in Canterbury makes the grade Photograph: Nick Ballon