Pubs with funny names?

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 25,310
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    There are two pubs in Manchester named after characters in the book The Manchester Man by Isabella Banks. They are called the Jabez Clegg and the Joshua Brooks.
  • Bedsit BobBedsit Bob Posts: 24,344
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    There's a pub in Droitwich, called The Old Cock Inn. :D
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 688
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    Not particularly funny but theres a pub near me called the Frog and Onion??? I think they just drew lots of random words.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 746
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    I occassionally pass by one called 'The Round of Beef' I always think it is a strange name for a pub but I like it.
  • That BlokeThat Bloke Posts: 6,351
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    I always like "The VAT and Fiddle" which is next door to the HMRC building in Nottingham. Obviously deliberate but I still find it funny :)
  • M30M30 Posts: 936
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    The Wizard's Sleeve
  • FroodFrood Posts: 13,180
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    Most of these silly names are there to attract customers to a pretty lousy pub (or bar).

    Mind you, I was in The Load of Hay in Uxbridge on Sunday and that is a great pub.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,091
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    The Dog Inn on Revidge Road in Blackburn
  • Bedsit BobBedsit Bob Posts: 24,344
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    The Dog Inn on Revidge Road in Blackburn

    Sounds like bestiality. :D
  • BZRBZR Posts: 2,197
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    the pour house
  • big macbig mac Posts: 4,583
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    There were two pubs within a relatively short distance of each other on the A167 near Durham called the Honest Lawyer and the Cock o' the North. The latter has closed down and been turned into old people's homes.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 364
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    There's an (awful) pub in Grantham called the "Muddle Go Nowhere"

    Who the **** came up with that? LOL
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 427
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    ronifto wrote: »
    :eek: Bar or lounge? :D

    Bar for me :D

    Usually just a wee stop off as its the nearest pub to my house. Then its off to the good old footys :D
  • cazellcazell Posts: 65
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    The Happy Cheese, Ashurst, New Forest
  • georgeshairgeorgeshair Posts: 1,443
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    There's one in wareham called the Silent Woman Inn. Scroll down the website to see the pub sign...
  • MuggsyMuggsy Posts: 19,251
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    Is The Custard House in Small Heath still going?

    Answers own question: I see it is.
  • x_malibubabex_malibubabe Posts: 2,261
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    There's a bar in town where I live called The Square Balloon :confused: It's a random name. The decor inside is a huuuuge balloon... which is round?! There's another pub called The Big Cheese, dunno why but I have a giggle everytime I go past it.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 129
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    In Bournemouth we have a new gay bar opened up , called "Does your mother know?" ha ha I thought it was a brilliant name :D
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,727
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    Someone had to say it:

    The Cockwell Inn
    Tillit
    Herts
  • sparkideesparkidee Posts: 1,298
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    the Belle End...... has been that name before the word bellend was even thought of :D
  • soransoran Posts: 1,644
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    My local attracts it's fair share of tourists, due to its unusual name :D
    http://www.piddleinn.co.uk/index.html
  • SHAFTSHAFT Posts: 4,369
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    My favourite S London pub names were The Hairy Lemon and The Frog and Radiator. Crap pubs to drink in though!
  • eugenespeedeugenespeed Posts: 66,695
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    Up until recently we had a pub called The Black Pearl, named after the film, and decorated.....like the film.

    Nowadays it's went back to it's old name The Old Ship.

    Thank flip :D
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 555
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    Not a pub, but there's a restaurant in Edinburgh called Aghtamar Armenian Lake Van Monastery In Exile. Run by a mad Armenian bloke who only opens when he feels like it and only lets you dine there if he likes the look of you. There's loads of hair-raising stories about it on the Internet.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 7,284
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    IWantPVR wrote: »
    Best I have seen was the Honest Lawyer in my home town. More Ironic than funny I guess.

    In Southampton, with "The Bent Brief" just a bit further along, by any chance?

    One of our locals is 'The Cricketer's Arms". I don't think it's an especially unusual pub name, but it strikes me as quite daft nonetheless. :D

    I vaguely remember my Dad mentioning a pub with an odd name from his youth, and I've just been to have a look at a list of Norfolk ones to try to work out what it was. Didn't find it, but apparently there's a pub in Norwich called 'Abraham offering up his Son'. :D
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