Rough pub stories

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carlove

7,538 posts

166 months

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

I've heard of that one, I hear the patrons are like zombies.

Spare tyre

9,456 posts

129 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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Johnnytheboy said:
whitesocks said:
Johnnytheboy said:
Walking past a dodgy looking pub in a rough part of Portsmouth one Sunday at midday.

It had those swingy saloon doors; someone walked out and as the door swung back and forth I caught the distinct sight of an old woman sat at the bar with a pair of knickers pulled onto her head like a hat.
Portsmouth is good for drinking. So I might have been in that one at some point.
It was somewhere in Somers Town.
Lived there, nice place !

Doofus

25,732 posts

172 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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Two pubs I liked taking newbies to, because they looked really rough, but weren't (always).

The Purple Turtle, Reading
The Breedon Bar, Birmingham

LaurasOtherHalf

21,429 posts

195 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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bigandclever said:
LaurasOtherHalf said:
RonaldMcDonaldAteMyCat said:
Its Just Adz said:
Used to go in one near the Manchester City ground, it only opened on match days and was proper rough.
Cant remember the name though.
Maine Road.
hehe

I think the last flat roofed pub I went in (outside of Scotland) was near Maine Rd on a match day.
I hope it was The Crossroads. Great ‘estate’ pub smile

Edited to add picture (from google)...

Doesn't jog my memory, I recall a single story grey brick pub I think but could be miss-remembering. I also think it was situated on a dual carriageway or main road (fnarr) with the estate the other side of the pub-long time ago now.

The weird thing I remember was it was almost a copy of a pub we went to in Shorpe on an away day, which I'm pretty certain had a stuffed dog behind the bar.

stevesingo

4,848 posts

221 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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The Grand Prix Club, Brough Cumbria. Fought a fighting retreat! Hilarious in the dysfunctionality of the clientele.

Desiderata

2,327 posts

53 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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The Gunner, a flat roofed pub on Pennywell Road in the delightful Edinburgh suburb of Pilton.
They'd only serve beer in plastic tumblers to minimise the glassings and the barstaff had their own pre-covid perspex security screen. Even the chippy next door had a revolving door kind of serving hatch for protection of the staff and to prevent run-offs.
I worked on a building site nearby and visited a couple of times at lunchtime, even then it was terrifying, I wouldn't have chanced it on a Saturday night.

anonymous-user

53 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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stevesingo said:
The Grand Prix Club, Brough Cumbria. Fought a fighting retreat! Hilarious in the dysfunctionality of the clientele.
Haha, one of my old haunts. Appleby lads versus Kirkby. Pissed up scrap and a bus ride home.

AlvinSultana

858 posts

148 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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The Dinmore.

Corn Beef Island.

Blackpool.

Accept no substitutes.


You had to be there to understand.

Doofus

25,732 posts

172 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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Funny how most of the really nasty places are in the North.

Or Portsmouth.

wink

skilly1

2,700 posts

194 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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This place in Bristol takes some beating. Went there 4 months ago!


LaurasOtherHalf

21,429 posts

195 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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RonaldMcDonaldAteMyCat said:
stevesingo said:
The Grand Prix Club, Brough Cumbria. Fought a fighting retreat! Hilarious in the dysfunctionality of the clientele.
Haha, one of my old haunts. Appleby lads versus Kirkby. Pissed up scrap and a bus ride home.
I wondered who you used to be on here! wink

anonymous-user

53 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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RonaldMcDonaldAteMyCat said:
stevesingo said:
The Grand Prix Club, Brough Cumbria. Fought a fighting retreat! Hilarious in the dysfunctionality of the clientele.
Haha, one of my old haunts. Appleby lads versus Kirkby. Pissed up scrap and a bus ride home.
Just to add to that, it was called Grand Prix club because the owner, Cliff Allison, had been a driver for Ferrari and others in F1 in the late 50s/early 60s.

The 'club' was a combination of garage, bus company (Cliff would drive the school buses), truck stop, indoor football pitch and squash courts.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Allison

Brads67

3,199 posts

97 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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Desiderata said:
The Gunner, a flat roofed pub on Pennywell Road in the delightful Edinburgh suburb of Pilton.
They'd only serve beer in plastic tumblers to minimise the glassings and the barstaff had their own pre-covid perspex security screen. Even the chippy next door had a revolving door kind of serving hatch for protection of the staff and to prevent run-offs.
I worked on a building site nearby and visited a couple of times at lunchtime, even then it was terrifying, I wouldn't have chanced it on a Saturday night.
Been in the Gunner a few times. It's as bad as you imagine.
Drank in a few Edinburgh dives over the years but all seem posh compared to the Gothenburg in Prestonpans during the 80's. It's an arty micro brewery pub now and has been restored to it's stunning splendour, but in those days you were likely to be hit with a machete for saying the wrong thing, which could have been anything really.

Some of the dodgiest people in East Central Scotland used to conduct there business in there.

Once spent the night in the Pig Iron in Middlesbourgh. Dear lord !

GAjon

3,721 posts

212 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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bigandclever said:
I hope it was The Crossroads. Great ‘estate’ pub smile

Edited to add picture (from google)...

The Crossroads was near where the Etihad is now, not near Main road.

I used to go in there every Friday afternoon when I was an apprentice.

craig r

217 posts

162 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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MiniMan64 said:
Never went but apparently there was pub in Keyham in Plymouth that had topless barmaids at the weekend.

Mother and daughter...
Avondale Arms...Keyham is generally rough though

Mikebentley

6,034 posts

139 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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The Peacock in the Horsefair Kidderminster. Once after a weekend stag do in Torquay we returned to the Peacock on a Sunday afternoon. Twenty of us worse for wear. Two blokes in the pub daring each other to do more and more outrageous stuff just to get the drink fund everyone had contributed into that was sat in an empty glass on the bar. It culminated in one eating excrement with a teaspoon from a glass just to win enough money for two pints.

They weren’t even out with the rest of us. In the same pub at the same time a Hells Angel called Peanut passed out and broke his front tooth off. He then glued it back with Araldite which resulted in a hospital stay for blood poising.

This was all normal for The Peacock.

carreauchompeur

17,830 posts

203 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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skilly1 said:
This place in Bristol takes some beating. Went there 4 months ago!

I’ve always...wondered about that place!

MiniMan64

16,862 posts

189 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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craig r said:
MiniMan64 said:
Never went but apparently there was pub in Keyham in Plymouth that had topless barmaids at the weekend.

Mother and daughter...
Avondale Arms...Keyham is generally rough though
That’s the one!

Zarco

17,702 posts

208 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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AlvinSultana said:
Corn Beef Island.
What a name laugh

Uncle John

4,269 posts

190 months

Sunday 5th July 2020
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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.