Rough pub stories

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whitesocks

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1,006 posts

45 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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In celebration of the pubs reopening yesterday, I thought it would be interesting to share our strange/Bizare stories of rough pubs.


Supernova190188

887 posts

138 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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Are there still any pubs about with sawdust on the floor I wonder?!

Spare tyre

9,458 posts

129 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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Supernova190188 said:
Are there still any pubs about with sawdust on the floor I wonder?!
As a youngish bloke, was that really a thing, what’s the purpose soak of various juices and blood?

rayny

1,143 posts

200 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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Spare tyre said:
Supernova190188 said:
Are there still any pubs about with sawdust on the floor I wonder?!
As a youngish bloke, was that really a thing, what’s the purpose soak of various juices and blood?
In a real pub, the sawdust was what was left of the furniture from the previous evening.

Smiler.

11,752 posts

229 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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Had the weirdest lock-in ever, in this place:


bloomen

6,854 posts

158 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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Never understood why anyone would linger in a horrible environment filled with horrible people. There'll probably be a pub next to a nunnery just up the road.

wormus

14,509 posts

202 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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Bushy’s IOM TT 1997. It was before they turned it into an office block. Really rough and I remember walking into the toilet to find a biker face down on the floor, passed out in half an inch of piss from the leaking urinals. Very lairy back in those days.

silverthorn2151

6,298 posts

178 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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As a young Building Control Officer in the early 80s we had to inspect licenced premises to check condition, means of escape and so on in relation to licence renewals.

At that time the area I covered ran from Stratford down through Plaistow to Silvertown and North Woolwich. Feck me there were some rough pubs down the back streets. Proper dodgy places for a young chap from the Council to turn up at. Never once was there an issue though. Join in a bit of banter and on to the next one. Very easy to accept the proffered drinks though and be pissed by 11:00 am.

The Tidal Basin Tavern in Silvertown though.......definitely not somewhere to linger in.

Tom _M

417 posts

69 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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No knowledge of the place, but reminded me of a pic I saw a while ago of The Windmill pub in Kirby from 1980:



Looks inviting!

anonymous-user

53 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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I used to work at The Original Swan in Cowley , Oxford during my Uni years (mid 80s).

It was the local for the Cowley car plant workers and used to have a disco every Friday. Without fail, the early shift going home and the late shift going to work would would get pissed up and then fights would ensue. Bar staff always had to break it up and it was not a pleasant experience.

The fact that the pissed up would then go and build some cars always added extra relevance for me of the phrase ‘Friday afternoon car’.

anonymous-user

53 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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Pint of lager was 75p at the time.

p4cks

6,885 posts

198 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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I'd recently moved in to my new house and and friend and I decided to try the local, which was not in the most affluent of areas.

I was sitting in the bar and the owner (whose name was not above the door as he'd been in prison for selling fake tabs and stolen alcohol but that's a story for another day ) came from the toilets in a foul mood.

"I've already told them about taking drugs in the toilets... when you're having it don't go in the cubicles in two's as it looks obvious"



foiled

160 posts

69 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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The Custom House pub, at the bottom of St Mary's Street, in Cardiff, accidentally went in there as a student in the early '90s during a pub crawl.

As students our hygiene standards weren't exactly high, but the toilets had vomit encrusted in the sink, and the clientele were as rough as a badger's arse, supped up our pints and quickly left for more familiar surroundings at the Philharmonic

john2443

6,325 posts

210 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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Pub at Junction of Derby Road & Leopold Street Long Eaton - mate went in with people from work, looked round and said It's a bit rough in here, shall we go in the lounge? The guy he was with said This is the lounge!

abzmike

8,242 posts

105 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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On a midweek pub crawl in Leith in the early 80s, my companions and I decided it was time to finish up when the UDA collection tin was waved in our faces. It’s been rather gentrified now.

whitesocks

Original Poster:

1,006 posts

45 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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Tom _M said:
No knowledge of the place, but reminded me of a pic I saw a while ago of The Windmill pub in Kirby from 1980:



Looks inviting!
Wetherspoons has probably saved the building by now

Parkette

702 posts

60 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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Went to a pub in Bradford called the Birdcage, the place was carpeted but my shoes stuck to the carpet with every step. Looked around, 20 people in the pub all sat at tables, no women in there, every man had his forehead on the table in front of him, it was only 7.0pm.

StevieBee

12,795 posts

254 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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markcoznottz

7,155 posts

223 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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john2443 said:
Pub at Junction of Derby Road & Leopold Street Long Eaton - mate went in with people from work, looked round and said It's a bit rough in here, shall we go in the lounge? The guy he was with said This is the lounge!

Nice old building, traditional pub. Like a lot of that type of pub, stuck in the 80’s.

markcoznottz

7,155 posts

223 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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whitesocks said:
Tom _M said:
No knowledge of the place, but reminded me of a pic I saw a while ago of The Windmill pub in Kirby from 1980:



Looks inviting!
Wetherspoons has probably saved the building by now
There was a pub in Eccles with two Alsations on the roof until maybe mid 2000’s, we never dared venture in.