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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