Just remembered there’s an ex-flatroof pub, now Desi pub around the corner from my parents’ house called The Fiery Holes.
Excellent name for a pub/curryhouse hybrid, that.
If I ever own a pub I’m gonna call it The dog and bollock
The House of Trembling Madness is still there. Clive was there on Thursday. They have opened a second pub not too far away from the original as well.
The Bleeding Heart Tavern in the Holborn end of Clerkenwell in London.
There’s a pub in Dalston that just kept the name of a former business that was on the premises: Farr’s School of Dancing.
There used to be a pub in Welling, just about in London, called Fanny on the Hill.
Don’t in my family’s neck of the woods, in the Medway Towns in Kent, there was a pub called The Who’d Ha’ Thought It. No idea if it’s still there.
Sorry Guv
If I ever ran a pub it would have to be called The Kebab and Calculator after The Young Ones.
Probably strangest for me is the OP, when I was a student up there.
Maybe not the weirdest, but the shittest would’ve been The Pub off Oxford Road in town
Used to have to text ‘We’re in the pub The Pub’. An absolute nonsense really.
La Buscatrufa
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Or
My student union bar was called The Dogs Bollocks - had apparently been decided by a student vote in boaty mcboatface style and they went through with it.
The Ferret and Radiator
On a similar note, there used to be a village pub called the Headless Woman on one of the A roads in Cheshire. Demolished now, but I remember thinking the sign (similar to that one) was quite creepy when I was a kid.
Bants
Alright Phillip Green
Yes used to be my favourite pub about 10 years ago
proof
(turns out i got the name slightly wrong)
