What is the roughest pub you have ever been to?

I worked in Glasgow as a building labourer back in the eighties one of the guys we worked with was a semi retired armed robber ( his description) and former leader of Carlton Tongs from the East End, we used to work in some really rough places in Glasgow, a different level to the Boro but he liked a pint at lunchtime or after work, and would take us into some super rough boozers first thing he would do is introduce himself to the bar staff then mention so and so from the area who he knew to let them know that he was connected, we never had a bit of bother, but it was funny to see how it worked when you knew the right or possible the wrong people
 
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coluka said:
Yes, there is /was one in Benidorm too.

It is proudly Unionist, with pictures of King Billy, St Edward’s Crowns and Ulster’s red hand etc. Rangers through and through and you would not last 1 minute in a Celtic shirt before feeling pain
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Yes I know it well the ceiling is quite something but the juke box tops the lot.
 
Not sure about rough, but the edgiest pub I ever went in was the penny black in Whiston, Liverpool, openly dealing drugs and very hostile to me a 20 years old Teessider.
Mind I did go in to buy £7.50 worth of hash. scary though.
 
Steampacket was rough but ok if you kept in the shadows 🤣
Princess Alice in South Bank, dropped my mam's partner off there one day, he asked if I wanted a pint, "Beer or lager?"
"What's the Bass like?"
"BEER OR LAGER?"
😐
The Park End was rough before it closed for good, as was the Wee Willie
 
kuepper said:
The Pear Tree, Wythenshawe, Manchester. Druggy place with people openly dealing, using bongs etc together with plenty of petty criminality. Became the focus of a police raid called 'Operation Partidge' and was closed down and reopened with the name The Wendover which the clientele didn't adapt to and it was demolished shortly after.
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I lived near the pear tree for 6 months when we first moved to manchester. It wasn ex council rental. I liked the area and the pub but my middle class wife hated it.
 
newusername said:
As a teenager I went into the Broadway in Middlesbrough & it was the first time I saw someone, a woman (Ethel?), **** on the floor rather than leave the fruit machine & go to the toilet.
It wasn't so much that that happened but that it went unremarked that makes it stand out all these years later.
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I used to go there often in my teens. Had it's moments......
 
A said:
Once had a trip to the brambles farm hotel as a long haired student in the late 90's with my long haired student mate just fora change of scenery. We were not well received. Tried the Buccaneer after there, similar reception, so ended back in the hairy lemon where we felt a touch more at home in the surroundings and clientele. Both those boozers were real eye-openers
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Similar experience at the Brambles Farm Hotel, we were driving in the area and my girlfriend at the time needed the toilet. She said just pull into there i'll nip in the Brambles Farm Hotel. I thought I'd better go with her as thought could be a bit of a dodgy pub. Dodgy was an understatement. We walked in and were met with absolute death stares. I said f*ck this I'd rather you p*ss yourself than go in here! And I walked her straight back out.
 
The Broadway after hours for me. I think I was the only person not dealing or buying.
 
newusername said:
As a teenager I went into the Broadway in Middlesbrough & it was the first time I saw someone, a woman (Ethel?), **** on the floor rather than leave the fruit machine & go to the toilet.
It wasn't so much that that happened but that it went unremarked that makes it stand out all these years later.
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First time? There were subsequent times?
 
NortonExile said:
Cannot believe this thread is eleven pages deep and no mention of the Reindeer in Stockton (Unless I’ve missed it).

Horrendous.
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Lots. Back in the 80’s me and the future Mrs R were waiting for the National Expeess to take us back to my folks for Christmas. It was freezing. As there was about 20 minutes to kill we popped into aforementioned pub. It was just after noon. Three lots of very young parents were drinking heavily while their unfortunate progeny, all under 6 or so, ran riot in the pub. Very happy we only had time for one. I was pretty shocked, and I’m used to drinking in rough council estate pubs where I come from.
 
Just after Christmas in early 1999, Kensington, Liverpool. Walked into the Pawn Shop pub with a uni mate, Chelsea v Oxford, FA cup replay was on. We had a pint, watched some tool lose a load in the Casino Crazy bandit. We put a quid in and dropped a load of coins then got chased out. Ended up down the road at The Vinebrook. Both places were horrific, not sure what we were thinking to be honest but we still talk about it to this day
 
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