Pub Names

[Shandy drinker]

Me and @Kevj are opening the Fawcett Street Inn.

Rear entrance only?

 

[Redhouser]

Has it still got loads of bricks in the car park of those two lads from up there who build kips around the estate .?

Don’t think so mate. Passed the other week and never noticed.

 

[gegsongegsonlegs]

The duck and kangaroo was an odd name for a rough estate pub

Never thought it was that rough to be honest.. but I was brought up just down the road so knew most.. some interesting days/nights..

Think the bricks have gone now.

Red hackle is a strange name. Shields/jarrow

Went to one in tayport called the ponderosa

 

[MonkeyLove]

Dirty Duck

 

[Deleted member 3881]

The Cock n Cider

Sounds like my social life in the noughties

 

[Slim999]

Couple of bars I used to drink in in Newcastle had names that stood out a bit ...

The Egypt Cottage ( now gone)
The Crown Posada ( still there )

 

[Gazoliver]

The Muckles in Harrogate

Used to be rat & parrot in Harrogate too

The cranemakers in Carlisle is a bit unusual too.

 

[Redandwhitedust]

Couple of bars I used to drink in in Newcastle had names that stood out a bit ...

The Egypt Cottage ( now gone)
The Crown Posada ( still there )

I'm lead to believe (the landlord once told me - may not be true) that a "Crown Posada" is the crown on a pillow immediately before a coronation, when it's not assigned to anyone (previous monarch dead, new monarch not had their coronation).

He reckoned that the pub got its name from the sign which used to show the Crown in that state.

Which is true of a lot of old pubs. In the days when people couldn't read, taverns used pub signs to mark them apart. A pub with a Swan on the sign would become known as "the white swan", a lion painted red "The Red Lion" etc.... so I guess its feasible
Further to that, I read once about a pub called "The Bull in Spectacles".

The owners had commissioned a new pub sign, which had been left out before being hung. Some local wit grafittied it and gave it glasses and it was apparently cheaper to rename the pub than commision a new sign!!!!

 

[gabbiadini1]

The Berkeley hunt

 

[Gelan]

Rear entrance only.

That gave me a semi

 

[Paddy O'Dors]

The mayor of pussycat town

Been in there. Wouldn't call it a pub like, have to book a slot to get in.
The Jolly Taxpayer in Pompey. One of the very few pubs in the city I've never been in.

 

[Sussex By The Sea]

There's a pub near here called The Blackboys Inn.

It's survived quite a few attempts to have the name forcibly changed.

 

[bat_finchale]

Sure years ago I had a pint in once called The Cyprus in Shields

 

[DieselBert]

The Queen o't' owd Thatch in South Milford

 

[Big Jeff]

Sure years ago I had a pint in once called The Cyprus in Shields

Still there. I went to a Christmas party there years ago and for dessert we had trifle.

Someone had stuck a big toe nail clipping in the top of this lasses trifle.

 

[monkeytassle]

The black bitch in linlithgow

 

[Buzzer]

The Muckles in Harrogate

Gone, been taken over and is now a restaurant/bar. Was my local for a good few years. Shame.

 

[black cat in france]

The Kicking Cuddy, Coxhoe.

 

[Amnorrageordie]

The black bitch in linlithgow

Trying to change it to the willow tree or the black hound. Locals are garn nuts.

 

[Epping]

A dog and pickle near me.. the sign has a dog sat next to a gherkin... Wtf

The Kicking Cuddy, Coxhoe.

Kicking dicky I know of.. the sign is a donkey kicking out

Used to be rat & parrot in Harrogate too

The cranemakers in Carlisle is a bit unusual too.

Rat and parrot became quite a big chain. Met my wife in a rat and parrot in covent garden