Gelan
Winger
It's up for sale...was always a scruffy dive. Used to get tanked up in there 68 to 70 waiting for the overnight rent-a-riot as the coach was called. Ran out of coach companies in the end. Also used to rehearse in the "Wedding Suite" which resembled a very dusty bombsite. Last time I was there, 2 dogs were shagging in the snug, actually they were shagging outside the pub but a few of the lads moved them inside.The Antigallican that used to be right outside the Valley.
It effectively means anti French. There were loads of pubs called this during the Napoleonic wars apparently but the name fell out of favour once we ended up being on the same side. Maybe some of the knuckledraggers who love Brexit and Boris can get it ressurected?
Other ones I like are;
The Nation of Shopkeepers in Leeds
The House of Trembling Madness in York
The Fawcett Inn, Portsmouth
The Case is Altered, Harrow
Charlton’s closed Antigallican pub on the market for £3.25m
The Antigallican pub on Woolwich Road is up for sale, nearly two years after councillors backed plans to build eight flats alongside it. The auction house Allsop has set a guide price of £3,250,000…
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