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Post by jimshoo on May 19, 2014 8:44:52 GMT
Not far from where I live is a pub called The Flies Home by the locals.
Anyone got strange pub names?
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Post by scorp on May 19, 2014 9:09:43 GMT
We have The Perseverance - not a particularly humorous name, but I do like the sign: it shows a distant Noah's Ark, and in the foreground, large, a snail on its way to join ship...
There are some revolting silly names, foisted on pubs in the past decade or so - The Monkey's Forehead comes to mind...
Egham's The Victoria laboured on as The Iguana and now has been renamed again - the Burger King.
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Post by Prue on May 19, 2014 9:23:14 GMT
Can't think of any funny ones, js, but one of my favourite names was a place I used to go to years ago when I lived in Canberra called The Contented Soul. Nice little spot in Woden Plaza.
My local these days is The Stags Head. And it wasn't me I that left the apostrophe out!
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2014 10:32:08 GMT
I have nicknamed my local as 'The Harlots Arms'.
There is or was a pub near Stone in Staffs called the 'Labour in Vain' and the old pub sign had a cartoon type painting of a little black child in a sudsy bath with a woman scrubbing away at him.
New owners thought that was very un-pc and renamed the pub - I can't remember what it then became. There was a bit of a local protest lead I am proud to say by my oldest friend who argued that this was a piece of history. It got as far as him being interviewed on national radio, BBC R4
I can't remember the outcome, but sadly the sign is no more.
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Post by jimshoo on May 23, 2014 14:38:22 GMT
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Post by Body on May 27, 2014 13:23:12 GMT
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Post by ARENA on May 30, 2014 11:20:39 GMT
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Post by Nobody on May 31, 2014 12:24:42 GMT
There used to be a pub/restaurant in Perth Western Australia called 'Dirty Dicks' or was it Dirty Dick's?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2014 17:46:56 GMT
I passed one this morning called 'The Pipe and Slippers'
No Idea what it is like inside.
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Post by waiting4atickle on Sept 22, 2024 19:02:46 GMT
Used to go to a pub with a forgettable name that my drinking partner and I used to refer to as "The Name Escapes Me".
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Post by toots on Sept 23, 2024 7:33:19 GMT
In Chichester there is/was a pub called The Slug and Lettuce. Nope, never fancied it.
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Post by waiting4atickle on Sept 23, 2024 10:01:31 GMT
There is a Slug and Lettuce pub chain, which has been around for nearly 40 years, so quite a few pubs so called now, including one in Reading. I'm not sure if that's the origin of the name or if it was stolen from earlier hostelries: I know there used to be a Slug and Lettuce in Winkfield near Ascot. Many years ago my drinking partner and I were photographed outside it holding a lettuce - his high octane Australian girlfriend used to voice the opinion that we were sluggish and even now he sometimes addresses me in letters as El Slugo. This pub either predates the chain or was one of the first it opened, although it seems an unlikely venue for that.
Until recently there was a rather odd and oddly-named pub near us - The Magpie and Parrot.
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Post by ARENA on Sept 23, 2024 13:33:32 GMT
There is a Slug and Lettuce pub chain, which has been around for nearly 40 years, so quite a few pubs so called now, including one in Reading. I'm not sure if that's the origin of the name or if it was stolen from earlier hostelries: I know there used to be a Slug and Lettuce in Winkfield near Ascot. Many years ago my drinking partner and I were photographed outside it holding a lettuce - his high octane Australian girlfriend used to voice the opinion that we were sluggish and even now he sometimes addresses me in letters as El Slugo. This pub either predates the chain or was one of the first it opened, although it seems an unlikely venue for that. Until recently there was a rather odd and oddly-named pub near us - The Magpie and Parrot. There was a Slug & Lettuce in Ealing back in the 1980s |
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Post by ARENA on Sept 23, 2024 13:35:14 GMT
There is a Slug and Lettuce pub chain, which has been around for nearly 40 years, so quite a few pubs so called now, including one in Reading. I'm not sure if that's the origin of the name or if it was stolen from earlier hostelries: I know there used to be a Slug and Lettuce in Winkfield near Ascot. Many years ago my drinking partner and I were photographed outside it holding a lettuce - his high octane Australian girlfriend used to voice the opinion that we were sluggish and even now he sometimes addresses me in letters as El Slugo. This pub either predates the chain or was one of the first it opened, although it seems an unlikely venue for that. Until recently there was a rather odd and oddly-named pub near us - The Magpie and Parrot. There was a Slug & Lettuce in Ealing , back in the 1980s. |
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Post by toots on Oct 18, 2024 7:48:47 GMT
The Bishop On The Bridge, Winchester.
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