Strange pub names

[cornholio's RC200]

Or there's a pub which I used to frequent pretty much every Friday after work when I lived in Worcester. You can't see the sign very well in the picture, but it's called "The Swan with Two Nicks".

Now, a bit of a history lesson (don't yawn at the back!) - The building next to it in the picture is King Charles House. It was from this house that King Charles II made his escape, closely followed by Cromwell's forces after his defeat in the battle of Worcester in 1651.

There, that wasn't so bad was it

There's one of those in Little Bollington just outside Altrincham (very nice it is as well) and there used to be a Swan with two Necks in Manchester by the printworks; an "interesting" place it was too. Ultimately it survived the IRA bomb only to be demolished to make way for a block of flats (sorry - luxury one and two bed apartments).

Down south in Reading there's a bar and live music place called The Purple Turtle. That always makes me laugh.

The pub of the "famous/infamous" in the mid '90s in Camden in London was called The Good Mixer...

 

[big.eck]

this is just down the road from me in linlithgow >

the name is said to be after a horse from the local coal mine ? well thats what i heard

 

[Whatleymeister]

Many a drunken night spent in the purple turtle!! Good bar, if not somewhat a popular haunt of the metal heads. Which is why I went there

 

[Tazio]

this is just down the road from me in linlithgow >

the name is said to be after a horse from the local coal mine ? well thats what i heard

There is a black dog in the Linlithgow coat of arms. And locals used to known as black bitches.

 

[azaro]

Was a pub near me called The Queen's Legs, but they're never open!

Seriously though, my local is called The Dog Inn.
Brings a whole new aspect to the question "Where are you going on Friday night?......"

 

[big.eck]

this is just down the road from me in linlithgow >

the name is said to be after a horse from the local coal mine ? well thats what i heard

There is a black dog in the Linlithgow coat of arms. And locals used to known as black bitches.

that makes sence thanks for that

 

[technodup]

You'll have to go a long way to beat this one.

You wonder why they bother with the chairs outside. It's the shittiest bit of Hope St in the rainiest city in the country.

Mind you it's better than actually being inside it. Slophouse of the worst order.

 

[ratbane]

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Not sure if it's still there, but during my college years 82 to 85, there was a pub in Portsmouth called The Fawcett Inn.


edited. sorry GT-steve, hadn't seen your pic post!

 

[Rich Aitch]

The pub near me is called "The Cock and Bottle" -['It got stuck inside, doctor!'] and until it closed in January my local was the much missed "Royal Shepheard," the only Royal Shepheard in Britain.
A favourite pub name is "Ye Olde Black Boy" in Hull- I like to think that Harriet Harman MP finds it really offensive- which is appropriatly round the corner from the Wilberforce House museum, where William Wilberforce- slavery abolotionist and MP for Yorkshire- was born.

 

[CAS]

One down the road from me is called the Wonky Donkey - make of that what you will!