I need a few classic pub names for a quiz I'm writing. Can be tradtional, well known individual pubs, or from tv and literature. I've got a few but need some more so looking for some inspiration. Obscure ones are fun but less useful for this but feel free to chuck them in if it keeps the thread going.
The Royal Oak
the King's Head
Black Bull
Marquis of Granby
Queen's Head
Duke of Wellington
Grey Horse
The Bell
The Crown and Anchor
The Rose and Crown.
The Ship.
The Crown.
The Prince of Wales.
The Castle
The Globe
Red Lion
The Old Red Lion
Drovers Arms
Travellers Rest
White Lion
Kings Head
Queens Head
Elephant and Castle
Fox and Hounds
The (Old) Coach House
That's perfect. Some good ones there. A few more fictional ones would be good, especially classic fiction as I have some from soaps.
The Slaughtered Lamb
The Slaughtered Lamb ((American werewolf in London)
The leaky cauldron (Harry potter)
The drunken clam (family guy)
The four feathers (Brighton rock)
Samoan Joes (lockstock)
The Winchester (Shaun of the dead)
The Slug and Lettuce is a fictional pub, it's certainly not a real one.
The Tabard (Canterbury Tales)
The Six Jolly Porters (Our Mutual Friend)
Davy Byrne's (Ulysses)
The (broken/mended) Drum (Discworld)
The Crow and Crown (Withnail & I)
The Three Broomstocks (Harry Potter)
Not all fictional by the way
The Broken Drum -edit: too slow
The Mended Drum - edit: too slow
The Blue oyster bar - police Acacdemy
The Prancing Pony - lord of the rings
Titty Twister - From Dusk till Dawn.
The Bull (The Archers)
The Queen Victoria (Eastenders)
The Rovers Return (Come on, really?)
The Woolpack (Emmerdale)
The Dog in the Pond (Hollyoaks)
Oh, you have soaps. Sorry
Jamaica Inn (Jamaica Inn)
Admiral Benbow (Treasure island)
The Kebab and Calculator (The Young Ones)
Rippers:
The Ten Bells
The White Hart
Ye Frying Pan
Krays:
The Blind Beggar
Touristy:
The Pack o' Cards
The Bucket of Blood (Cornwall somewhere)
The Fox and Firkin (Lewisham) (The original firkin pub AFAIK "For Fox sake buy me a Firkin pint")
The Admiral Benbow (from Kidnapped or Treasure Island)
The Cock Inn
We sometimes take club rides past it just so we can ask 'how far is the Cock Inn?'.
The "Jubilee"
Has anyone mentioned the "Louis Marchesi"?
The Turtles Head
My favourite pub in Aberdeen used to be called "My Father's Moustache"
But is now more boringly called "The Noose And Monkey"
Much more traditional names around this way:
The Ship
The Boathouse
The Fox and Hounds
The Black Bull
The Swan
The Lion and Lamb
The Whippet Inn (known for its cider).
The Flying Swan (central to many Robert Rankin novels).
There's a couple in Reading with unusual names; The Litten Tree (known to us as The Kitten Tree) and The Purple Turtle (god knows).
Moe's Tavern? (Simpsons)
The Winchester (Shaun of the dead)
Also the pub in Minder, wasn't it?
jamie oliver's chortle fest that is 'the cock in cider'?
mogrim - Member
The Slug and Lettuce is a fictional pub, it's certainly not a real one.
you sure?
http://www.slugandlettuce.co.uk/slug-edinburgh/find-us/
The Lord Nelson... used to be the most common of all! He has been gone a fair while now though
Not classic names but some of my favourites are the ones which come from the super-local industries. On Scotswood road there were once The Crooked Billet, The Forge Hammer and The Blast Furnace ( amongst [url=
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The Spouter Inn - Moby Dick
The Nag's Head (Only Fools and Horses)
Woolpack (Emmerdale)
The Bull (Archers)
The Nobody Inn
The New Moon
The Lamb
The Walrus and Carpenter
The Swan
The Ship
The Ship
The Hung, Drawn and Quartered
The Bunch of Grapes
East India Arms
The village I work in has 3 pubs ...
..The Red Lion
...The White Swan
....The Black Bull
Manchester has some great named pubs
the Peveril of the Peak
The Britons Protection
the Nutshell - smallest pub in england/the world (in Bury st Edmunds)
The Star
The Commercial is also common round here
Faucet Inn. Heard they do a good cider... 😆
I read somewhere that the Elephant and Castle was a bastardisation of Les Enfants de Castille. There you are, a quiz question.
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Duke of New York (Clockwork Orange)
Horse and Groom (Hitchhiker's Guide)
Local common ones my way, several of some of them...
Royal Oak,
Cricketers
Nag's Head
Crown
Star
White Hart
Red Lion
The Cock near Lewes. Good memories of Jenn drinking rusty water in there getting frustrated with Grant and I.
How times change..........
The Saracen's Head (trad).
The Grille (real aul' mannies pub in the Deen)
Ma Camerons (another old pub in the 'deen).
ETA: was tickled (oo-er missus) by Le Petit Coq in St Jean D'Aulps
Claverton's.
Spanking Roger
In one of the less desirable parts of Manchester
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The Winchester (Shaun of the dead)
Homage to Arther Daley's favourite watering hole ?? ... The Winchester Club in the TV program, Minder
Hamilton Hall at Liverpool Street Station ... busiest pub in the land ??
Whats the pub at the highest elevation? ... Think its in the Lakes, up hardknot pass or something ..??
The Alma Inn is a widespread name with interesting roots.
There used to be two pubs in Ramsgate: the Blazing Donkey, and the North Pole. The latter had a bus stop outside so you could get a ticket to the North Pole.
how could i have forgotten the classic and dirty...'the wormit inn' in Fife.
Theres a few in Withnail and i...'The Mother Black Cap', 'The King Henry' also 'The Crow'
Cock & Bull ...
I read somewhere that the Elephant and Castle was a bastardisation of Les Enfants de Castille. There you are, a quiz question.
You read rong.
I thought it was a bastardisation of the Infanta de Castille, and was going to throw my board rubber your way, but apparently, according to Wiki (!) they did actually keep elephants there!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_and_Castle
Henry VIII kept a Polar bear at the tower, so Wiki could, maybe, perhaps be right.
There's a lot of " The Tiger's Head"s in SE Londo/Kent too...
No use for your quiz, but I was always intrigued by "The House Without A Name" in Bradshaw, Bolton.
The boardroom at the Lee's brewery in Middleton is the one that is/was used by Coronation Street.
Whats the pub at the highest elevation? ... Think its in the Lakes, up hardknot pass or something ..??
Tan hill in Swaledale - I had to google, I always thought it was the cat and fiddle but that is second apparently... every day's a school day
The Village Inn.
It's about a mile from me.
The Generous Briton in Brant Broughton,although I think CMD is having it closed in his own honour.
The Crown Posada on the Quayside in the Toon.
Other Newcastle ones:
The Blackie Boy
The Beehive
The Strawberry
The Black Bitch in Linlithgow
Aigburth Arms (Red Dwarf)
The Mug House
The Saracens Head
The Wreckers Retreat
The Rising Sun
The Old Rectifying House
The Labour In Vain
The Seven Stars
The Heart In Hand
The pub that features prominently in The Framley Examiner (Google it, it's ace) is called The Warm Zippy. I do like that.
I have an.old stable at the bottom of the garden and as we couldn't think of anything better to do with it we've turned that into a pub. We've been pretty traditional with the name though (as it's a proper, traditional pub dontchaknow) and called it The Kilson's Arms (partner's surname is Kilbane so it's pretty obvious what we did there).
The Severn Salmon
Llandoger Trow (oldest pub in the universe )
The Plough
The Boars Head
The Worlds End
The Sailors Arms
Fictional;
Cheers
Ten Forward
Mos Eisley Cantina
Factual:
First In Last Out
Blue Posts
The George & Vulture still exists as a restaurant, the Blue Boar, the Magpie and Stump - The Pickwick Papers
The Three Cripples - Oliver Twist
The Oxford Bar - Rebus novels
The Tappit Hen
There's a pub in Birkenhead called ''the cock and pullit".
The landlord has just opened a sister pub in Liverpool called "the cock and seaman".
I 5hit you not......
One-offs:
The Case Is Altered, Warwicks
The Golcar Lily, Bolster Moor
The Silent Woman, Slaithwaite
The Sair, Linfit
The Dusty Miller, Longwood
The Scapehouse, Scapegoat Hill
The Hobbit, Sowerby
Nicknames: The Tup (The Ram's Head), Saddelworth
The Hen's Face (Queens Head) Illingworth
The Nook (Kings Head Tavern) Holmfirth, also known I'm told, as the Bareknuckle Boys although the name is often shared with the New Inn on Dunford Road
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The Globe Inn (One of Robert Burns waterinh holes)
Mos Eisley Cantina Bar (Star Wars)
Ricks (Casablanca)
The Frog and Roastbeef - highest pub in Europe (Val Thorens)
It's terrible..... Cafe Snesko is next door and so only a couple of feet of elevation lower, and was the scene of much danish schnapps-fueled apres-ski carnage.
Although that's probably a bit convoluted for a pub quiz question.
The Cock and Pig, Witney
Scapegoat - Member
One-offs:[b]The Dusty Miller, Longwood[/b]
Nope, one of those in Barlborough too...
http://dustymiller.co.uk/
In fact searching for that url, it would appear there are at least 5 of them!
I always like the sound of 'The Twisted Pinnacle' - shit pub mind!
The New Found Out
Rock and Fountain