Unusual or Different Pub Names......

[r00fie1]

"The Crooked Billet" London Colney

 

[Blf]

I always liked the name "The Antigallican" when we were away to Charlton.
The name comes from anti French groups who met there during the Napoleonic wars. I thought it was a unique name but later found out there were a couple of them in London.
Think it's shut down now.

 

[Bernies_quiff]

The Cat and Bagpipes near Northallerton

 

[Laughing]

There is a pub in London with a hangmans noose outside used to hang pirates.

It is called the prospect of Whitby.

 

[GibbosEmpire]

"The Black Boy". Yes that is a pub name in 2024.

 

[HarryVegas]

"The Black Boy". Yes that is a pub name in 2024.

The Blackie Boy is still going in Newcastle.

 

[HarryVegas]

When you think about it, The Pig Iron is hardly a common name.

 

[r00fie1]

"Ye Olde Trip To Jerusalem"
Claims to be the oldest Inn in England [1189]

 

[exeterboro]

My favourite in Exeter which shut down @2018 was The Sorry Head and that was on Blackboy Road ( Google the debate around the street name).

 

[Stocktonian]

The rat and parrot in Nottingham got called “the tvvat and minge “ if my memory hasn’t failed me from the late 90s early 2000s!!

 

[Kowalski]

The Foaming Tankard, near the Crazy Kipper fish bar, Fenton, Stoke.

 

[jeff_potato]

I used to live near one called The Vulcan, not far from from an old forge. Not seen another one called that, but there is one in Wales too, according to Google.

 

[Billingham red]

The stag and monkey in hartlepool. AKA the slag and junkie

 

[norfolkngood]

I used to live near one called The Vulcan, not far from from an old forge. Not seen another one called that, but there is one in Wales too, according to Google.

There certainly is. It opened today in St Fagan's National Museum, the Welsh version of Beamish.

 

[norfolkngood]

"The Crooked Billet" London Colney

There are a few pubs called the Crooked Billet in the south.

There was a very big one on th North Circular in Walthamstow, when I lived down there 50 years ago, but its been knocked down now and is only remembered in the name of the roundabout that took its place.

 

[Boro in Devon]

One near me called Sally Pussey's Inn always want to check my pint for hairs

 

[guisborough_rob]

The Gravediggers’ Arms in Edinburgh. Affectionately known as Diggers.

 

[Lemmy_kilmister]

The Garrick Snug in Beeerkhn'ed

 

[the_holgate_roof]

There are a few pubs called the Crooked Billet in the south.

There was a very big one on th North Circular in Walthamstow, when I lived down there 50 years ago, but its been knocked down now and is only remembered in the name of the roundabout that took its place.

One on Wimbledon Common too.

 

[Schlumberger]

The Briton's Protection
The Peveril of the Peak
Both in Manchester.