Rough pub stories
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IOM Q said:
wormus said:
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.
Haha, I was working in Bushys that year, may well have served you! Cleaning the toilets at the end of the night was a case of spraying the entire place with the hose pipe and then maybe throwing some bleach around
I remember finding slugs in the drip trays under the beer taps one day 
Around 2000, I moved to a very rural area in Shropshire. One afternoon, after an early finish, I decided to try out my local. Parked my Alfa 166 out front and walked in with my suit on. Group of farmers sat at the bar and no-one else. They looked at me like I was from another planet.
"Everything alright lads?" I asked.
"Well yeah. It's just we don't get your type in here," came the reply.
Thinking he was referencing the colour of my skin (dark), I said "That's going to require some clarification."
After a pause that seemed to go on for days he replied -
"Well you know, fella's in suits driving fancy Italian cars"
Anyhow, I bought them all a pint and we lived happily ever after.
"Everything alright lads?" I asked.
"Well yeah. It's just we don't get your type in here," came the reply.
Thinking he was referencing the colour of my skin (dark), I said "That's going to require some clarification."
After a pause that seemed to go on for days he replied -
"Well you know, fella's in suits driving fancy Italian cars"
Anyhow, I bought them all a pint and we lived happily ever after.
sinbaddio said:
Around 2000, I moved to a very rural area in Shropshire. One afternoon, after an early finish, I decided to try out my local. Parked my Alfa 166 out front and walked in with my suit on. Group of farmers sat at the bar and no-one else. They looked at me like I was from another planet.
"Everything alright lads?" I asked.
"Well yeah. It's just we don't get your type in here," came the reply.
Thinking he was referencing the colour of my skin (dark), I said "That's going to require some clarification."
After a pause that seemed to go on for days he replied -
"Well you know, fella's in suits driving fancy Italian cars"
Anyhow, I bought them all a pint and we lived happily ever after.
Had you walked onto the set of The Archers? "Everything alright lads?" I asked.
"Well yeah. It's just we don't get your type in here," came the reply.
Thinking he was referencing the colour of my skin (dark), I said "That's going to require some clarification."
After a pause that seemed to go on for days he replied -
"Well you know, fella's in suits driving fancy Italian cars"
Anyhow, I bought them all a pint and we lived happily ever after.
Great stories, keep them coming. My Mum and Dad grew up within a stones throw of the Gunner, both moved away, did really well for themselves and I'm pretty much the PH cliche now. Took my kids on a tour round Pilton when they were in their teens.
Funnily enough my suggestion we went in for a drink was swiftly declined
Funnily enough my suggestion we went in for a drink was swiftly declined
Not a pub but a club in Catford called Hollywood, me one of my brothers and three mates walked in one night and there was a couple of separate fights going and as we was making our way in my mate Sam nearly copped a flying bottle in the face. We left pretty sharpish.
Edited by leigh1050 on Wednesday 8th July 20:14
silverthorn2151 said:
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.
The TBT....it’s got a nice ring to it 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.
r159 said:
ABZ RS6 said:
Eagle and Child (or Bird and b
d as it was know) Huyton Liverpool. Absolute den of vice and thievery. Local plod knew to stay well clear.
Absolute den of vice and thievery sums up Huyton generally.d as it was know) Huyton Liverpool. Absolute den of vice and thievery. Local plod knew to stay well clear.I used to cut through there on the way to Old Swan...
it did get a bit "tasty" from time to time....and while we are talking s
t pubs in huyton i feel the bow and arrow also deserves a mention.... i once couldn't get down pilch lane as there were 2 warring factions that had spilled out from the boozer into the car park and then all over the road...us poor road users just had to sit it out until it was all over.. very entertaining mind. 
tuscaneer said:
i grew up in huyton.... it did get a bit "tasty" from time to time....
and while we are talking st pubs in huyton i feel the bow and arrow also deserves a mention....
Ah yes, the delightful Bow and Arrow. Ironically named really as that was probably one of the few weapons not to be found in there it did get a bit "tasty" from time to time....and while we are talking s
t pubs in huyton i feel the bow and arrow also deserves a mention....
TorqueDirty said:
Not rough but definitely old school - I moved to Inverness in the late 90's and in the early days occasionally went to the Pub called the Pheonix.
Basically an old man's pub - I believe it had only just stared to allow women in, but very few were interested in going in. On the floor, fully surrounding the big central wooden island bar was a nicely tiled drainage channel leading to a drain in the floor at one corner of the bar.
Yup - you guessed it. The old boys did not go to the Gents for a piss. They just pissed on the floor whilst sitting at the bar.
I hasten to add that the drainage channel was no longer in use - or at least was never used when I was in there. That said I gather had not been out of use for that long.
There was sawdust too.
Oh - I just found a recent picture. I looks a great deal better today but you can still see the "bar urinal"
I think someones been winding you up, thats certainly not true in the last fifty years, the Phoenix used to be one of the best and most popular pubs in Inverness
Basically an old man's pub - I believe it had only just stared to allow women in, but very few were interested in going in. On the floor, fully surrounding the big central wooden island bar was a nicely tiled drainage channel leading to a drain in the floor at one corner of the bar.
Yup - you guessed it. The old boys did not go to the Gents for a piss. They just pissed on the floor whilst sitting at the bar.
I hasten to add that the drainage channel was no longer in use - or at least was never used when I was in there. That said I gather had not been out of use for that long.
There was sawdust too.
Oh - I just found a recent picture. I looks a great deal better today but you can still see the "bar urinal"
I think someones been winding you up, thats certainly not true in the last fifty years, the Phoenix used to be one of the best and most popular pubs in Inverness
Edited by TorqueDirty on Wednesday 8th July 08:22
blue_haddock said:
A mate if mine got a job in Southend after we finished uni so I took him and his stuff down to his digs.
We had a crawl along the sea front pubs and ended up in one called the forresters.
Oh my god as a pair of 21 year old from the provinces to end up in basically a strip club was quite an eye opener!
There was this naked bird wandering round with an old school dimpled beer glass getting donations before doing a bit of a 'routine' I can still remember it 20 years later!
It's now been torn down for redevelopment of the sea front.
Forresters was a Customer of ours, along with The Blue Boar and Talk nightclub.......We had a crawl along the sea front pubs and ended up in one called the forresters.
Oh my god as a pair of 21 year old from the provinces to end up in basically a strip club was quite an eye opener!
There was this naked bird wandering round with an old school dimpled beer glass getting donations before doing a bit of a 'routine' I can still remember it 20 years later!
It's now been torn down for redevelopment of the sea front.
...since we are talking rough as f
k venues....
Uncle John said:
My grandads local when I was a kid. Notorious is an understatement.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/th...
Big estate pub, had a games room out the back that had 10 pool tables, an L shaped table & about 8 dart boards.
I was still young, but I could feel the atmosphere that it had. Big boot sale on a Sunday in the car park.
I went in there a lot https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/th...
Big estate pub, had a games room out the back that had 10 pool tables, an L shaped table & about 8 dart boards.
I was still young, but I could feel the atmosphere that it had. Big boot sale on a Sunday in the car park.
Atmosphere was always brewing and new faces were not liked
Eye contact was a stupid thing to do
Sterillium said:
skilly1 said:
Ha! I was going to post this exact pub - I lived close by in the 1990s. Awful place... 
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