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The crown in Stockport is under railway arches under the viaduct and that's a belting pub.
I think that one's gone now too.
Billy Greens in Collyhurst was my local when I worked at May's Pawnbrokers round the corner.
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You could buy anything in there.
I bought a brand new mattress, still in the packaging once, they even delivered it and gave me a lift home.
I'd regularly get approached by people asking me if I knew the combination to the safe at work and would I be interested in earning a few quid.
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No the crown is still going strong thankfully.
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There's a pub just along the road from me, called The Kingfisher, and it has all the hallmarks of a pub built to a brewery design, like some in that article, and while it's on a fairly busy road that was a major trunk route, the A350, up until a few years ago, it's surrounded by a number of housing estates that I think date from around the same period:
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It's recently undergone a fair bit of refurbishment, and it's always pretty busy, plenty of people sit outside, and because it's only a few minutes walk from the industrial estate where I used to work, it's popular with people who get an hour for lunch, or for a quick pint after work.
It's a good mate of mines' local as well, he lives about a two minute walk away, so he's often there with a few mates for footy.
The Gaiety in Chappeltown, Leeds? Sounds quite nice. Roof not flat. Drinks served through a small hole in the strong mesh that fenced in the bar area. Like being in the zoo, in a dangerous animals enclosure. Gone now...
first time i went to Leeds, i was going to a rave at the West Indian Centre in Chapeltown. Got the train over, hit a few pubs, jumped in a cab and asked him to take us to the venue. He pulled up at the side of a grassy field bit, pointed at a building 50 yards away and said 'that's it over there. I'm not going into Chapeltown, just walk across this field'.
You know you've picked a lively venue when you can't even get a cab to take you there 😆
I give you The Broadsword in Tillydrone, Aberdeen. Tried to buy pot in there once, and never again. At that time I lived in an even worse estate and was well used to dealing with violent, drug addled weirdos.
Haha, the mere mention of railway arches and Sharkeys crawls out the woodwork. Not a bad place, more of a working club feel to it though. Was the only pub the GCNS mob were "encouraged" to go to on that side of the river.
Other pub of note is Rockers on Midland Street, I think the furniture was honestly found in a skip.
Gary - No love for the Laurieston? (exception to the rule)
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The Laurieston is brilliant!
Used to head to a couple of drinking holes at lunchtime when we were doing our day release college for apprenticeship at springburn college.
Either the masons or the Celtic club, both across the road, both flat roofs IIRC.
Not really particularly dodgy, generally just littered with sad, lovely old alcoholics.
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The Piper in Sale Moor (now a Tesco Express)
You could go in here for a couple of afternoon pints and leave with Gillette razors, coffee, cheese, bacon, washing powder...
And on the other side of town, The Lively Lobster (now a Nisa store). Sometimes I wished I wasn't in Greenall Whitley Land...
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The Laurieston is brilliant!
Last time I was in the landlord said the pint he gave me was the last in the barrel so he wouldn't charge me. Looks a great pub though I've only been in a couple of times. The landlord has been in the pub game since the 1970s. Some nice pics on the walls from previous Maryhill pubs he ran.
doris5000 - was that the 'Dream' all-nighters in Chapeltown? We went to one of those. I reckon we lasted about an hour. It was one of the most terrifying places I've ever been. We left when a huge gang-related thing started going off, big-time, and two gangs of man-mountains were legging it towards each other while pulling huge knives out of their jackets. We were out of there as fast as our little legs would carry us.
Going back to what Rusty said about being able to buy pretty much anything while sat having a pint, if the government ever want to get to a cashless economy, then they'll have to close every flat-roofed pub in the country first 😆
After my time but I think you're thinking of the Continental Club, aka Roots, and after it was mysteriously 'burnt down' and reopened some time early 80s smelling of smoke and and what a local described to me as a likka paint (pronounce in a beer can for breakfast accent), aka the Phoenix Club.
Had it's rougher aspects but students went there (I went as a schoolie). Same could not be said for Cliff's Blues across the way. Redstripe through the kitchen hatch. Jumpers for goalposts.
The Gallowgate in Glasgow surely must have the highest concentration of flat roof pubs anywhere in the UK.
Tbh, the hullaballoo regarding pubs shutting down, I've no issue with - the pubs locally in town that have shut have either shut because they were shite, or there were just too many pubs in the vicinity.
Sadly, a few good rural country pubs have gone too, but that seems to be down to people drinking and driving less, so I can accept that as the lesser of two evils.
When Wetherspoons opened in in town in the old Woolies, pubs were shitting themselves. In reality, it's been a boon to them, as there are far more folks drinking in the town now, they all get the same folks spreading the cash about.
The Gallowgate in Glasgow surely must have the highest concentration of [s]flat roof[/s] dodgy pubs anywhere in the UK.
My old local. Sorely missed. We drink elsewhere now but its not the same.
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these pictures are gold
I'm taking it that Didcot's Premier Cocktail Lounge isn't too hotly contested a mantle? 😀
Gary - No love for the Laurieston? (exception to the rule)
It's been a long time since I've been in there. It's been refurbished recently, looks quite swish now and has a captive market now the sou'wester is closed 🙂
Back in my youth when I played in my local boozer's pool team, I always looked forward to our away fixture at The Murray Bar 😥
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NoBeerInTheFridge, in the heart of deepest, darkest Shortlees!
Ooft, I've never even been to Shortlees, never mind that pub. Think I'll keep it that way.
In my pool days, pretty much any pub in the bottom end of Stevenston was a 'fun' night...
[quote=Nobeerinthefridge ]Ooft, I've never even been to Shortlees, never mind that pub. Think I'll keep it that way.
In my pool days, pretty much any pub in the bottom end of Stevenston was a 'fun' night...
The Pink Parakeet in Hurlford was another belter
The Pink Parakeet in Hurlford was another belter
I believe they had buckfast on tap? ooft...
binners - Member
I'm taking it that Didcot's Premier Cocktail Lounge isn't too hotly contested a mantle?
😀 Lets just say the landlord had a sense of humour.
Buckfast on tap, and the flat-roofed pub are surely truly natural bedfellows?
I can only imagine the level of violence on an average night 😯
The Lauriston and Sharkeys are decent enough pubs. Brazens alright anawl, no as nuts as it used to be. Dirty Nellys upstairs, now that was a scary place! 😆
Buckfast on tap, and the flat-roofed pub are surely truly natural bedfellows?I can only imagine the level of violence on an average night
Tbh, all of the dodgy pubs I've been in over the years, I've never had any bother. If it's bother ye want, yates/spoons type places, in any big provincial town on a saturday night are your best bet.
Nobeerinthefridge - Member
The Gallowgate in Glasgow surely must have the highest concentration of flat roof dodgy pubs anywhere in the UK.
Gallowgate is indeed a shithole. Canny say i've ever felt in trouble in them though, then again I do come from the right side of the tracks. I clearly wouldn't go near/survive any of the rangers/ more colourful paisley road pubs mentioned! 😆 Though the stanley bar just behind paisley road is a fine republican stronghold! 😆
Gallowgate is indeed a shithole. Canny say i've ever felt in trouble in them though, then again I do come from the right side of the tracks. I clearly wouldn't go near any of the rangers/paisley road pubs mentioned!
I reckon you'd be fine, I've drank in many a Celtic pub, as long as yer no singin'!
Used to go to a pub in Ardrossan (was about the only place we could get served!) as a lad, was a right Bluenose pub, and there was one Celtic fan who drank in there with his mates. When the OF game was on telly, he would be going bonkers if Celtic scored, I can hand on heart say I never ever saw him getting any bother.
I tend to think the phukwits that cause bother after OF games are the type that would cause bother anyway, the fitba is just something to use as some sort of bizarre justification.
I'd happily venture into Bairds, widnae bother me.
Tbh I think timing is a big thing, you go in through the week when normal regulars are in, go in with a crowd that know you aye fine, but at the wrong time, when lets say emotions are up, it just takes one bam to cause it though. I know a few rangers fans that drink in my local celtic pub, they just make themselves scarce at obvious times. i'd imagine a similar thing on the other side.
I'm no really into finding out though, I just wouldn't feel confortable in a rangers pub.
Pretty sure Durty Nellies closed a long time ago, I could be wrong though. A few of my young female colleagues drink in the braze, but I work in the gorbals and it's their local.
nbut at the wrong time, when lets say emotions are up, it just takes one bam to cause it though.
Same with any pub though, look at the wrong person in what they consider the wrong way and you'll get grief anywhere.
I'm no really into finding out though, I just wouldn't feel confortable in a rangers pub.
Neither do I any more tbh, canny be arsed wi it these days. Better off out on the bike.
aye nelly shut early 2000s sometime i think, i was only ever in it once, proper scary, brazen I've always thought alright, but has had it's issues over the years. it's a pub that attracted loads of non locals though cause of the music.
Tbh, all of the dodgy pubs I've been in over the years, I've never had any bother. If it's bother ye want, yates/spoons type places, in any big provincial town on a saturday night are your best bet.
True dat.
I'm from a provincial town originally (Warrington) and never ever went out in the town centre, as it'd be like a war zone at last orders, with all the Baz's and Tommo's kicking seven bells out of each other
When I lived in Salford 6, in fact all the time I lived in Central manchester, I never saw any trouble in pubs, never mind got any grief myself
My theory about this is that its very easy to be a gobby little shit (are you looking at my burd/did you call my pint a puff etc etc) in a small town. Go to a place with some genuine gangsters and proper hard men and start that shit, and its only a matter of time before you do it to the wrong person, and the police are fishing your body out of a river the following morning.
I always feel a lot safer in supposedly 'dodgy' places, than in some god-awful provincial town. In fact I just ****ing hate provincial towns, just because anyone with anything between their ears has generally upped and left for University, the big City, or the sticks, leaving only a hardcore rump of clueless ****s who didn't have the wherewithal to get out. These idiots can normally be found scrapping outside a kebab house at 2am. Warrington is your prime example of this. I loath the place and left as soon as I hit adulthood, never to return. I'd happily carpet bomb the place
Squirrel King. I to went to GCNS in 2000 - 2003. Sharkeys was encouraged then too and was the only place that was on that side of the river. We always went to The Clutha too for a pie and a few pints on a Friday lunchtime. Nice and Sleazys had Buckfast on tap but was more for the student gimmick market I think.
Meanwhile in Posh Bath, this is the best we can do down here in the soft south:
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Not flat roofed, and it's gone waaaay upmarket since I was last in there by the looks of Streetview, but at least they've kept the glass bricks.
Growing up in a market town and having learnt to fight dirty (and run like hell) came in useful a few times.
Been in a few flat roofers in the Welsh valleys too, and never felt so strongly that being English could get me killed. I'd rather walk into an Argentine nationalist bar. Or Raqqah.
Apologies for going even further off topic, but Somerset is lovely for many reasons:
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Well it doesn't have a flat roof, and it's the bar of a hotel rather than a pub but it remains the only drinking establishment I've been in where a short angry ginger scotsman has waved a revolver in my direction while telling the bar staff to put his drinks on my room.
One of my favourite paintings, Christmas Eve by George SHaw, is of a flat roofed pub:
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The Black Prince, Tile Hill, Coventry (no idea if it's still there).
More of Shaw's paintings of Tile Hill here:
http://www.scenesfromthepassion.co.uk/styled-13/index.html
Thank you bob_summers. You've given me a new painter to study. 🙂
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[quote=BurnBob ]Squirrel Nice and Sleazys had Buckfast on tap but was more for the student gimmick market I think.
Go noshed off by a groupie in the ladies there after a gig. One and only time it ever happened!
That calls for a blue plaque.