Unusual or Different Pub Names......

[Tryasize10]

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

Great boozers these by the way

 

[Tryasize10]

The Twice Brewed Inn (Northumberland).

Located in Once Brewed very close to Gap (formerly known as Sycamore Gap).

 

[Tryasize10]

Powder Monkey in Wallsend.

 

[Craggyjohn]

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

I drank in a pub near Reading called The Black Boy. Think it's changed its name now.

 

[Druss_The_Legend]

The Bucket of Blood. A pub in Hayle, Cornwall

My in-laws own a holiday cottage in Hayle and we have been on holiday every summer for the last 3 years, but never noticed that pub. I will be looking out for it this summer .

 

[Druss_The_Legend]

This pub is/was in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.

 

[swordtrombonefish]

My in-laws own a holiday cottage in Hayle and we have been on holiday every summer for the last 3 years, but never noticed that pub. I will be looking out for it this summer .

 

[Beverleyred]

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

Just the other side of the M4 roundabout from the Madstad in Reading.

 

[Craggyjohn]

Just the other side of the M4 roundabout from the Madstad in Reading.

Near Shinfield. Think it was named after a race horse

 

[Beverleyred]

The Squat and Gobble in the Castro district of San Francisco. (Say no more)

 

[Druss_The_Legend]

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I have just looked on Google maps and we haven't been to the part of Hayle that pub is. It is quite close to Hayle beach though which is one of the nicest beaches I have ever been on when the weather is hot(which is a rare occurrence when we have been to Cornwall lol).

 

[Sammysmiths]

The Purple Turtle-Reading
The Otters Pocket-Stamford

 

[Norfolkred1]

The poverina Normanby, means Poor thing!!

 

[Craggyjohn]

**** and Bottle in York. Also the Whippet Inn....

 

[Big_Nothing]

Teesside’s very own… The Golden Smog

 

[Concrete Dreams]

The Bear and Ragged Staff - more often seen in the south.

 

[Carlos Fandango]

The poverina Normanby, means Poor thing!!

I always thought it was named after a horse.

 

[chemicalali]

No longer with us under its original name, but The Kicking Cuddy, Coxhoe was a name to enjoy

 

[Four-All]

Just the other side of the M4 roundabout from the Madstad in Reading.

Not quite - it's just a bit further east, and isn't directly accessible from the M4. Used to be our regular pub lunch venue when I worked at Reading Uni but as @Craggyjohn correctly says, it was renamed a couple of years back following a refurb and is now the Shinfield Arms.

 

[Anton_Berg]

Crocker's Folly. NW London, (there's a story).

The Arab Boy. Putney (don't know the story).