Probably the most offputting pub name in the country...
http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/55013/
Probably the most offputting pub name in the country...
http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/55013/
http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/37405/
Not been in here since i have been reviewing - it is believed to be named after the now defunct iron foundries of Moxley, it isn't, it took it's name from the flourishing Indian restaurant trade locally!
MILD:
Does anyone remember Cabbage Hall's former name? Looking at the photo I'm sure I stopped there years ago, The Bull springs to mind..........
I rather like the idea of drinking in a pub called Tiddlers, and I've a feeling the Kremlin Inn has had that name for a long time. Somethin to do with the Crimea? Of course, with my memory, that could be another pub entirely.
It's nothing new, this daft name-changing lark. Many moons ago The Sloop, Poole, became The Conjuror's Half-Crown and, not long after, a bit further up the road the well named, Halfway Hotel became The Grasshopper.
Not as daft as most of the pubs mentioned so far, but still inexplicable, is the recent change to my local pub. The, once again well named and historically accurate, Old Barn Farm has become the Three Legged Cross, the name of the village in which I live, over a mile away. Worse still, the pub sign displays the Manx cross
Fairs fair, the beers pretty good, much better than it used to be..........
Pubs are a hobby, real ale is a passion. Oh, and like me dogs, fear no evil..........
The Only Running Footman has always seemed a bit stupid to me but I guess there is a historical reason.
http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/22352/
I've just joined Alcoholics Anonymous - I still drink, just under a different name.
Whatever happened to the Ferret and Firkin in a Balloon up the Creek?
The Kremlin was originally known as the Craven Arms , which in the local dialect sounds a bit like Kremlin , it is very close to the M.O.D. radar/listening station (look for the giant golf balls) on the top of the hill hence radio Moscow on the jukebox !Originally Posted by runningdog
Does anyone remember Cabbage Hall's former name? Looking at the photo I'm sure I stopped there years ago, The Bull springs to mind..........
I rather like the idea of drinking in a pub called Tiddlers, and I've a feeling the Kremlin Inn has had that name for a long time. Somethin to do with the Crimea? Of course, with my memory, that could be another pub entirely.
It's nothing new, this daft name-changing lark. Many moons ago The Sloop, Poole, became The Conjuror's Half-Crown and, not long after, a bit further up the road the well named, Halfway Hotel became The Grasshopper.
Not as daft as most of the pubs mentioned so far, but still inexplicable, is the recent change to my local pub. The, once again well named and historically accurate, Old Barn Farm has become the Three Legged Cross, the name of the village in which I live, over a mile away. Worse still, the pub sign displays the Manx cross
Theres a Man with a Mullet going Mad with a Mallet in Millets !
Fictional I know but the TV series The Young Ones featured The Kebab and Calculator in one show.
A quick search reveals that this was in fact the Westbury Park Tavern. I suspect if it really was called the Kebab and Calculator someone would have been in and reviewed it by now.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/bristol/...00/7683587.stm
Not a pub as such, rather a bar. How the prosaically named The Courtyard, in Leeds, evolved into A Nation Of Shopkeepers, God only knows. Someone had one drag too many of wacky baccy?
http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/pubs/54018/
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
I like this one. Shame it's so far away...
http://www.panicmanual.com/2008/12/1...dogs-bollocks/
Perhaps Napoleon was a former landlord
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