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I think they do a blue plaque at the bar. I'll have a white Russian while you're up there.
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.
Ha! Drank in there occasionally when I was young. A few of the locals are a little rough around the edges, but that sounds mental!
Meanwhile in Posh Bath, this is the best we can do down here in the soft south:
https://goo.gl/maps/WZqKL6XzxfpNot 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.
Longacre tavern could be a little dodgy. Site of the infamous 'everyone knows but nobody's telling' murder. Now a dominos, which is ironic as there was always old geezers playing dominos in there.
The benchmark of any pub is surely that you can murder someone in there and nobody saw a thing?
After the Brass Handles murderized/no witnesses story I posted before, we once popped in to the next pub down, the Weaste, by Salfords old ground.
We'd been out for a few Sunday afternoon beers at the Inn of Good Hope (not a bad boozer but scene of a recent drive-by shooting) and we'd never been in the Weaste so decided to try it.
It's a massive old pub. 5 or 6 of us walk in, including a couple of pretty big, handy lads. We walk in and there's a gang of about 20 scary looking blokes by the bar. Nobody else in the place. And the discussion is heated, to say the least.
Next... It's like the slaughtered lamb. The place falls totally silent. Everyone just stands and stares at us.,The biggest bloke out of the lot of them (man-mountain) marches over to us
"What d'ya think you're doing lads?"
"We've just come in for a beer"
"No you've not...... * off!"
Then literally pushed us back out the door.
We didn't argue. * knows what we'd just walked in on 😯
Obviously a debate on 1x, 26v27.1v29, cheating in mega or the rees-mogg bairn.
The benchmark of any pub is surely that you can murder someone in there and nobody saw a thing?
I seem to remember one place in South London were a man had his face removed by a shotgun. No one saw it of course.
a short angry ginger scotsman
Tautology?
Was it wee Chesney?
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This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
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We didn't argue. **** knows what we'd just walked in on
sounds like a pretty serious game of domino's!
I seem to remember one place in South London were a man had his face removed by a shotgun. No one saw it of course.
It was one of the pubs near me when I was growing up - never went in it as it was a dangerous dump with no redeeming features [url= http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-most-dangerous-pub-in-britain-just-last-week-a-customer-was-shot-in-the-face-with-a-sawn-off-1381963.html ]St Helier Arms, Britain's most dangerous pub?[/url]
My old local. Sorely missed. We drink elsewhere now but its not the same.
Um eddiebaby,
Im partly responsible for the sprats replacement...im not sure its an improvement going by the CGI of it, looks like a 4 year old drew it. 😥
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