| Best Pub Name 19:06 - Oct 19 with 8525 views | colinallcars |
Only one day of the international break left then it's back to agonising and wringing our hands.
Best for me, given the Jolly Milkman in Mortlake is no longer a pub - it has to be the Mad Bishop & Bear in Paddington.
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| Best Pub Name on 19:26 - Oct 19 with 5489 views | BrianMcCarthy |
The Igoe family of Doonbeg, Co. Clare own a pub.
The Igoe Inn. | |
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| Best Pub Name on 19:35 - Oct 19 with 5462 views | brewers_hoop |
Always liked the ‘Fawcett Inn’ in Portsmouth 👀
Also, name changed now, but the ‘Nobody Inn’ in Newington Green, London | | | |
| Best Pub Name on 19:36 - Oct 19 with 5455 views | EastR |
I believe there is a Jolly Taxpayer somewhere, Portsmouth? | |
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| Best Pub Name on 19:39 - Oct 19 with 5450 views | hantssi |
I was in the Fawcett Inn back in the summer, they do their own cider and it’s actually called the Fawcett Inn Cider - I kid you not! | | | |
| Best Pub Name on 19:39 - Oct 19 with 5449 views | Boston |
Both cop shop and licensed establishment gone now but loved the name of the pub beside Wealdstone Police Station - The Case is Altered. | |
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| Best Pub Name on 19:47 - Oct 19 with 5445 views | hantssi |
Pub next door to my office when I was a lad, used to drink in there some lunchtimes (every Friday!), it was a real dump! | | | |
| Best Pub Name on 19:51 - Oct 19 with 5436 views | Boston |
Those gentlemen who inhabited the back of the bar on the right hand side were a right nuisance. | |
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| Best Pub Name on 20:12 - Oct 19 with 5407 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
There was a Case Is Altered in Willesden too. | | | |
| Best Pub Name on 21:46 - Oct 19 with 5344 views | Lblock |
The Other Gaff was a classic pub name.
“I’ll meet you in the Other Gaff” always a good one to avoid who you really didn’t want to meet.
I also liked The Better Half in Ealing Broadway.
It’s where I met my wife - fact. | |
| Cherish and enjoy life.... this ain't no dress rehearsal |
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| Best Pub Name on 22:02 - Oct 19 with 5311 views | colinallcars |
I met my wife in the Grange.
She was furious - I told her I was working. | | | |
| Best Pub Name on 22:14 - Oct 19 with 5276 views | R_from_afar |
There was, maybe still is, a pub in Leamington Spa called Granny Mouse's Townhouse. I mention it here because it's the most ridiculous pub name I've ever come across. Even worse, it was previously called something normal, like The Red Lion  | |
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| Best Pub Name on 22:18 - Oct 19 with 5271 views | johann28 |
Just a few - explanations on request!
Laughing Gravy (Southwark)
George & Vulture (City)
Boot & Flogger (Southwark)
Dogget's (Blackfriars)
Fat Walrus (New Cross) | | | |
| Best Pub Name on 22:22 - Oct 19 with 5268 views | colinallcars |
The Red Lion is, I believe the most common name.
The reason pubs had such names and picturesque signs in the middle ages was that most inn-goers couldn't read and needed the signs to indentify the inn.
Of course, this is still commonplace in Shepherds Bush. | | | |
| Best Pub Name on 22:40 - Oct 19 with 5234 views | flynnbo |
“The Cock Inn” in Harpenden.
“The Slaughtered Lamb” in “An American Werewolf in London”. | | | |
| Best Pub Name on 22:58 - Oct 19 with 5206 views | SK_hoops |
Red lion amd pineapple in Acton. | | | |
| Best Pub Name on 23:08 - Oct 19 with 5194 views | HAYESBOY |
Dirty Dicks, Bishopsgate
The Mayor of Scaredy Cat Town, London
The Butt and Oyster, Pin Mill. | |
| Smells like a trout farm in here |
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| Best Pub Name on 00:14 - Oct 20 with 5138 views | Nov77 |
Tequila Mockingbird | |
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| Best Pub Name on 00:20 - Oct 20 with 5136 views | ted_hendrix |
The World Turned Upside Down, 387 Basingstoke Rd, Reading RG2 0JE.
All-day carvery menu in a traditional, family-friendly pub, open for breakfast. | |
| My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic. |
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| Best Pub Name on 01:11 - Oct 20 with 5111 views | Boston |
...where was she supposed to be? | |
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| Best Pub Name on 01:13 - Oct 20 with 5112 views | PunteR |
The Hole in the Wall pub in Richmond. No longer there. | |
| Occasional providers of half decent House music. |
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| Best Pub Name on 01:20 - Oct 20 with 5108 views | Boston |
C-Mob 1926.
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| Best Pub Name on 01:46 - Oct 20 with 5094 views | NewBee |
I remember coming across Dirty Dicks on an early visit to London, it might have been 40 years ago.
And it was possibly the most bizarre drinking establishment I've ever been in - and I've been in a few!
The bar area and surrounds, though not the actual punters' area, were blackened and filthy, with dust, dirt and grime everywhere and all sorts of detritus, including dead cats (plural) hanging from the ceiling or shoved into corners etc. Old cigarette butts and cigars etc were pushed into cracks, a couple of items of underclothing hung from the ceiling and there were cobwebs, seemingly undisturbed for years, on every surface.
Even by the standards of those days, I cannot believe it passed Health & Safety, but when I visited again a few years later it had been "Disneyfied) i.e. a cleaned-up pastiche of what it had been like.
More here:
https://www.dirtydicks.co.uk/pub-history/ | | | |
| Best Pub Name on 01:49 - Oct 20 with 5095 views | SydneyRs |
There was another pub with the same name not too far away in Old Redding. Had a big beer garden so was a go to place on summer evenings. Always seemed like a lovely idea until the wasps arrived.
Across the road from the Wealdstone one was the infamous Queens Arms where it was not uncommon to see several police cars outside. They did have some good comedy nights in the 90s though. | | | |
| Best Pub Name on 02:03 - Oct 20 with 5088 views | NewBee |
There's a pub of that name under one of the arches at Waterloo Station:
https://southbank.london/eat-and-drink/hole-in-the-wall
And it was alsop the name of the pub (bar, actually) on the Westbound platform of the District Line tube at Sloane Square. Yes, you read that right, it was actually down in the Tube station itself.
I believe there were once a number of such licenced drinking holes ("pubs" is probably a bit much), all of whom have since closed.
One I remember very well was quaintly named "The Doctor's Dilemma", situated within the arcade in Hammersmith Tube Station (H&C Line side).
I remember going in one afternoon and couldn't believe what I was seeing. There were maybe half a dozen drinkers in, all of them half-pissed and all (I think) Irish. Though a small-enough place, iirc it had maybe half a dozen taps, five of them Guinness and one lager - they clearly knew their clientele!
Though partial to a drop of the dark stuff myself on occasion, and though the pint I had was perfectly well poured, there was nothing about the place which induced me to have another. Or ever go back in a second time.
Anyhow, it closed a while later, to make way for a Tapas Bar. | | | |
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