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Post by amberaleman on Apr 28, 2008 22:10:22 GMT
Now the public house is a wonderful British institution. And many pubs have curious names, some dating back hundreds of years, others of very recent coinage. Here are ten strange pub names that I'm aware of. Please do add your own! Bucket of Blood (Phillack, Cornwall) Cat's Back (Wandsworth, G London) Dinkum (Polegate, E Sussex) Goat Major (Cardiff, Glamorgan) Leg of Mutton and Cauliflower (Ashtead, Surrey) Mucky Duck (Tismans Common, W Sussex) One-Eyed Rat (Ripon, N Yorkshire) Pelican In Her Piety (Ogmore-by-Sea, Glamorgan) Tin Pot (Gustard Wood, Hertfordshire) Virgins and Castle (Kenilworth, Warwickshire) An honorary mention too for the Idle Working Men's Club (Idle, W Yorkshire).  We should try to arrange a visit to the Tin Pot some time! |
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Post by ambersalamander on Apr 29, 2008 17:37:18 GMT
TIN POT!  |
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Post by peekay on Apr 30, 2008 5:26:49 GMT
We have a pub in Leek called the Black Swan which is known to everyone in the town as the Mucky Duck.
I can also offer you The Wilkes' Head.
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Post by Croc on Apr 30, 2008 16:35:59 GMT
Goat Major in Cardiff is a cracker of a pub - it was there I was first introduced to the products of a certain Mr Brains
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Post by medibot on Apr 30, 2008 17:03:02 GMT
I shall be in there on Saturday and Sunday Brains Dark here i come! |
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Post by frankiegth on Apr 30, 2008 19:03:05 GMT
We have one in Hucknall called:-
THE FLYING BEDSTEAD
Named after the nickname given to the thrust measuring rig from which the propulsion system for the Harrier "jump jet" was developed, at the Rolls Royce site at Hucknall.
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Post by DazaB_WCFC on May 1, 2008 0:53:26 GMT
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Post by davetscfc on May 1, 2008 8:15:24 GMT
We have a pub in Leek called the Black Swan which is known to everyone in the town as the Mucky Duck. I can also offer you The Wilkes' Head. Our local pub the Anchor & Hope is known to all Salisbury drinkers as the Scrump, but we do have a pub that officially has 2 names, rather than a proper name and a nickname - The Railway Inn/The Dusthole. There's one name on one wall and one on another, and there's a hanging pub sign with a different name on each side. |
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Post by amberaleman on May 1, 2008 21:00:43 GMT
Sadly, I see that the Tin Pot is no longer a pub and is now a guest house. But surely a cool place to stay if we ever decide to hold a Tinpot convention. And there is an actual pub (The Cross Keys, listed in the Good Beer Guide) just a few hundred yards away. |
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Post by Col ISIHAC. on May 12, 2008 12:29:56 GMT
Amber; can offer a slight variation on one of yours - Shoulder of Mutton and Cucumber (Yapton) Daza dear, where it the Tin Pot?? Looks almost perfect. |
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Post by amberaleman on May 12, 2008 20:48:25 GMT
The Tin Pot is in Gustard Wood, a small village between St Albans and Stevenage. (Look on the map for Harpenden then go right a bit.)
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Post by ambersalamander on May 12, 2008 21:44:21 GMT
Yapton, isn't that near Bath? I know it's near somewhere I went on a drunken trip to recently. I saw a bus with "Yapton" on the front and reasoned that if I got on it backwards I wouldn't have to pay, as Yapton backwards is "Not Pay"  |
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Post by amberaleman on May 12, 2008 21:54:29 GMT
Yapton, isn't that near Bath? I know it's near somewhere I went on a drunken trip to recently. It was Bognor, dear. And yes, you were outrageously drunk. |
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Post by ambersalamander on May 12, 2008 21:57:09 GMT
Oh yes, it was Bognor. I wasn't THAT drunk at that stage!
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Post by ojiveojive on May 12, 2008 23:03:11 GMT
So that would be Ron Gob, then . |
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