Strangest Thing You've Seen in a Pub.

[Delboy20]

Pit and Pendulum in Nottingham.

I had a pint in there and needed a wee so I went looking for gents.. one min later no success.. 5 min later I was getting desperate by that time so I gave up and asked the landlord. He pointed me that there is secret door! I found it and it was disguised as bookcase!

Hi Hoppy,

I have used the same secret door. I had forgotten about that pub. Quite a spooky place full of goths with very loud music !
I quite liked it in there.

Cheers,

Del.

[hopwas]

Hi Hoppy,

I have used the same secret door. I had forgotten about that pub. Quite a spooky place full of goths with very loud music !
I quite liked it in there.

Cheers,

Del.

Yes! Very gothy and strange hand pumps.. it was some sort of sprial I think. Pictures of Vincent Price and Dracula theme everywhere..

I went there in Jan 2004 and it was coldest pub crawl I ever took part in (the temp was struggling above 0c)

[RogerB]

Pit and Pendulum in Nottingham.

I had a pint in there and needed a wee so I went looking for gents.. one min later no success.. 5 min later I was getting desperate by that time so I gave up and asked the landlord. He pointed me that there is secret door! I found it and it was disguised as bookcase!

The London Stone at Cannon Street (an Eerie pub) also has doors in the bookcase. Also, as you step through you break a beam of light that sets off the sound of baying hounds.

[Delboy20]

Hi all,

This thread has got me remembering all sorts of strange things but one of the wierdest was a lion !
When I was a kid my gran used to keep a pub in Quarry Bank called The Vine. I spent many happy hours in there. It was used by plenty of local "characters".
One of them was known as the "Lion Mon" because he kept a few strange wild animals including a couple of lions. I remember seeing it sat on the bar one day !!
If my memory serves me well he applied to the council for permission to build a crocodile pit in his back garden - he got turned down !!

Cheers,

Del.

[Andy Ven]

When I was a kid my gran used to keep a pub in Quarry Bank called The Vine.

Top boozer!

[Delboy20]

It was a great pub - been gone a long time now. It was turned into a dentists !

[Andy Ven]

It was a great pub - been gone a long time now. It was turned into a dentists !

Not the Batham's pub then?

[Delboy20]

No sorry a different Vine. It was on Quarry Bank high street not far from the Church Tavern. You must mean the Bull & Bladder.

[Andy Ven]

Yes, that's the one I thought you meant

BTW, which bit of the Black Country are you in?

[Delboy20]

Cradley Heath