Pubs

My local used to be `The Phoenix and Firkin` in the converted station ,Denmark Hill..Happy Days

Fictitious but I like “The Slaughtered Lamb” on the moors in the film American Werewolf in London.

My favorite real pubs were the Firkins. Goose and Firkin being my local.

Nowthen, some of you Yonners can help me out.
There was a pub up the road from the Smutt (Towards Oldham) which was demolished as part of the new motorway links.
Every Friday night we used to pile in there for 2 reasons, decent Ale and the pleasure of watching/listening to Victor Brox perform (For Free!). Other bands supported him and his Blues Band but they were there to learn from one of the masters.

About the only place you can get a decent pint in Bournemouth.

http://www.goatandtricycle.co.uk/index.html

As a visitor though don’t win the pubquiz by beating the resident champions in a tie break. They take their quizzing very seriously, so seriously that a whole year later when we visited again the landlord asked us not to enter ! :diablo:

As far as I know (Not been in since the 90’s) you still can.

lass ‘o’ gowrie terrific pub also has its own brewery in the cellar and makes its own beers

you used to be able to view the brewery through a glass section in the pub

Old Haunts of mine: –
The Smutt inn in Oldham, then cross over and down the road a bit to “Help the poor struggler” – the pub owned by our last hangman Albert Pierrepoint.
Then jump on the Buz to Manchester and sample the Copenhagen, Lass-o-Gowrie, Peverill of the Peak, Tommy Ducks, Swan with two Necks, Alberts Shed.

All I can find is the Valiant Pub, Broad Street Staffordshire – Try Google Maps and walk by it?

Still on the Aeronautical theme, the “Valiant” (Somewhere in Staffordshire, can’t pin point it though).

Lincoln .7 😉

Who remembers the very 1960’s styled pub called “THE FLYING SAUCER” in Lutterworth in Leicestershire? (I used to go there when I was a kid, fond memories) As far as I can find out, it was built for Home Ales in 1963 and the inside was amazing – then the developers moved in and called it “THE RED ARROW” in about 1990 and totally wrecked the 60’s interior – MORONS……

Bitteswell was nearby, and a pub called “THE FRANK WHITTLE” was nearby (gone I believe?)

Aw, the stuff thats been swallowed up in the name of so called progress……………………………….

Not far from me in Sussex there’s the Frog and Nightgown.

Daughter and friend visited a very small Sussex pub recently. All heads turned to stare at them and silence fell,though she thought she could just faintly hear Duelling Banjos being played 😀

Two that are in Leicester:
The Lord Keeper of the Great Seal

and

The Last Plantagenet

Both are Wetherspoons, but I do like the way they try to give some local personality in the names and decor of their establishments. They do a good fry up too 😀

As long as they supply dummies for them to suck!!!:D

I like this .

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dreamlogic/3718443172/ 😀

I have not been for a few years but there used to be ” Pub With No Name” in Brighton.

On the aviation theme, the pub on the former RAF Clifton Moor site near York is called the Flying Legends…

In LEEK, there is a pub, I think the name is “Scramble” and the sign shows Pilots running to their aircraft, which I assume was in WW11.

Lincoln .7

Like it, just “Bending” the truth slightly 😉

Lincoln .7

There was a bar in Oxfordshire called ‘The Office’

The idea was you could go there after work, call the wife and say in all honesty “I’m still in the office”

Moggy

My English teacher had a sideline in a fascination for pub names and eventually published a small book on the subject, a copy of which I kept for many years, and which finally disappeared in one move or another. I continue to hope to light upon a copy in a second hand bookshop one day.

One of my favourites is The Cat and Custard Pot near me and I remember The Inn Next Door Burnt Down in Bedfordshire but never visited it.

Sky high,

I never visited the “Inn next door…” but I have a feeling it was set up and established as a pub by an ex-RAF pilot who was by then an airline pilot working for one of the Luton based charter airlines. Not sure which.

Ndege.