| Best Pub Name 19:06 - Oct 19 with 8522 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 15:18 - Oct 20 with 1306 views | QPunkR |
There's a gaff in Geneva called Pub Lord Jim that my acquaintance of the same name always has to stop into when he comes over | |
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| Best Pub Name on 15:34 - Oct 20 with 1284 views | terryb |
Another name to put forward is the Slubbers Arms in Hudddersfield. The best pub I've been to following Rangers.
Unfortunately, it was sold last year & is now permanmently closed. So no help to those of you that are making the trip tomorrow  ! | | | |
| Best Pub Name on 15:47 - Oct 20 with 1269 views | dsw2509 |
How about The Leg of Mutton &Cauliflower (in Epsom somewhere). | | | |
| Best Pub Name on 16:30 - Oct 20 with 1211 views | NewBee |
All very true, except that since Fullers sold off the brewing side of things (to Asahi) and concentrated on being a pub management chain, their accountants seem to have been taking an ever closer look at their property portfolio, or more specifically the ROI it beings in.
As a result there have already been a couple of their (otherwise profitable) pubs which have been closed and converted into (even more profitable) flats etc, with the fear being that there are more to come.
Meanwhile back on topic, I used to know a pub in Middlebrough called The Pig & Whistle, universally known to patrons as "The Piss & Wiggle".
I've since realised that it's a common enough name for an English pub, with googling suggesting this to explain the name (I daresay there may be other theories):
https://www.hidebound.co.uk/blog/post/drinking-vessel-names-piggin-whistle-or-th | | | |
| Best Pub Name on 16:39 - Oct 20 with 1196 views | NewBee |
The London district of Swiss Cottage is named after an inn called The Swiss Tavern that was built in 1804 in the style of a Swiss chalet and on the site of a former tollgate keeper's cottage. The inn was later renamed Swiss Cottage. The area is served by Swiss Cottage Station.
Anyhow, there are loads more such examples, as you say plus, of course, numerous pubs called The Station.
Meanwhile, there is a pub out Rickmansworth way called "The Gate". I went in one day and was disappointed to find it didn't have five bars...
Also there is - or used to be - a pub out on the way to Heathrow called "The Office". I imagine there was many a phone call made from there of an evening to explain why said caller still hadn't arrived home after work. [Post edited 20 Oct 2023 16:41]
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| Best Pub Name on 16:53 - Oct 20 with 1194 views | rocknroland |
The Sunburned Arms. Lindos, Rhodes. | | | |
| Best Pub Name on 17:23 - Oct 20 with 1172 views | guitarzan |
Four pubs in Camden called Dublin castle. Pembroke castle, Windsor castle and Edinburg castle, so called to keep the English, Scots, Welsh and Irish navvies in separate pubs and thus avoid fighting | | | |
| Best Pub Name on 18:22 - Oct 20 with 1135 views | NewBee |
Wouldn't have fancied starting a Darts League in that vicinity... | | | |
| Best Pub Name on 18:27 - Oct 20 with 1134 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
I know all these pubs intimately but never knew this.
Every day an education on this site. | | | |
| Best Pub Name on 18:43 - Oct 20 with 1126 views | NorthLondonR |
A favourite of mine is "Sacks of Potatoes" just off the Aston University Campus in Birmingham. Sh1t pub really but even better pronounced in a broad brummie accent. | | | |
| Best Pub Name on 19:17 - Oct 20 with 1108 views | NoDiddley |
The Constitution in Bell Street, Marylebone, spent most of my life there in the 80s | | | |
| Best Pub Name on 19:18 - Oct 20 with 1107 views | Northernr |
Great pub, sadly missed. | | | |
| Best Pub Name on 19:20 - Oct 20 with 1101 views | Northernr |
There's one near my mum's called The Dog And Rat.
All the village recycling bins and bottle banks are in the car park.
One morning Young North is munching away on his cornflakes idly flicking through the village newsletter.
"Mum... why do we need a dog and rat recycling facility?" | | | |
| Best Pub Name on 19:21 - Oct 20 with 1096 views | aston_hoop |
I remember it well. I watched us lose 4 or 5 to nil v Southend in there one Friday evening. Local bloke wanders over in the strongest brummie accent telling me "I bet you feel like a right tw*t now"....yeah thanks mate. | |
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| Best Pub Name on 20:32 - Oct 20 with 1058 views | Mick_S |
Also there is - or used to be - a pub out on the way to Heathrow called "The Office". I imagine there was many a phone call made from there of an evening to explain why said caller still hadn't arrived home after work.
One in Northolt, too. One of the few pubs left in nutty town. | |
| Did I ever mention that I was in Minder? |
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| Best Pub Name on 21:28 - Oct 20 with 1023 views | PeterHucker |
It was a pub crawl around Camden including those exact pubs sometime in the 90s that inspired my mate’s theory ably pubs with castle in the name (mentioned earlier on this thread) | | | |
| Best Pub Name on 22:17 - Oct 20 with 984 views | R_from_afar |
I just remembered this one from when I used to live in Warwickshire. It's named after a geological formation:
https://www.thebluelias.co.uk/ | |
| "Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1." |
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| Best Pub Name on 23:15 - Oct 20 with 952 views | OldPedro |
A few pubs in Halifax with good names:
Meandering Bear
Grayston Unity
Kobenhavn (named because in Copenhagen there is a bar called Halifax apparently)
and then the pub where the Halifax Building Society was formed.......
.......The Old Cock! | |
| Extra mature cheddar......a simple cheese for a simple man |
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| Best Pub Name on 23:42 - Oct 20 with 942 views | NewBee |
I was putting some stuff into a recycling bin when a huge rat jumped out and ran away.
"Why would anyone want to throw out a perfectly good rat like that?", I thought to myself... | | | |
| Best Pub Name on 04:14 - Oct 21 with 917 views | WA_Hoop |
I spent some time living in Harrow and then Pinner, so the Old Redding 'The Case is Altered' used to be my go to pub on balmy summer evenings in the late 80's. | | | |
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