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.
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.
There's a bar in town where I live called The Square Balloon 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.
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.
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.
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'.
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Mind you, I was in The Load of Hay in Uxbridge on Sunday and that is a great pub.
Sounds like bestiality.
Who the **** came up with that? LOL
Bar for me
Usually just a wee stop off as its the nearest pub to my house. Then its off to the good old footys
Answers own question: I see it is.
The Cockwell Inn
Tillit
Herts
http://www.piddleinn.co.uk/index.html
Nowadays it's went back to it's old name The Old Ship.
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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.
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'.