MoiMoii's Random Thoughts And Ramblings: 24th Jan 2012 Funny Old Pub Names & Signs

Tuesday, 24 January 2012

24th Jan 2012 Funny Old Pub Names & Signs

I am very fond of British pubs, especially those very old ones with strange or amusing names. Many of the these old tavern names are in danger of disappearing as large conglomerations buy up pubs and change their names to "modern" equivalents. Throughout Britain "Harvester" pubs, "Slug and Lettuce" and "Beefeater" pubs can be found, owned by these big groups.

It's a great pity the loss of the heritage connected with the old names. Many are in connection with history or legend, or even just old wives' tales, others are reflection of the pub owners' humour. A good thing many of these inns can still be found when around Britain and Ireland.

Just look at them. Aren't you smiling? Don't you think they are worth preserving?

The Idle Cook - Idle, Bradford, Yorkshire
Bucket of Blood - Phillack, Cornwall
*The Fawcett Inn - Portsmouth, Hampshire
*The Ram Inn - Newark, Nottinghamshire
Moderation Inn - Reading, Berkshire
The Pub with No Name - Priors Dean, Hampshire [known by locals as The White Horse Inn]
The Vat and Fiddle - Nottingham
The Happy Medium - Chichester, West Sussex
The Hung Drawn And Quartered, London
Hole in the Wall - Southsea, Hampshire; Caernarvon, north Wales; Little Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire; Waterloo, London; Lowside, Bowness Windermere, Cumbria (ole Int Wall); and several other venues.
Bank Tavern, Keswick, Cumbria
The Bleeding Wolf, Hale, Altrincham, Cheshire
Blooming Fuchsia, Ipswich, Suffolk
The Cow and Snuffers, Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales
Drunken Duck, Hawkshead, Cumbria
Mad Dog, Odell, Bedfordshire
The Quiet Woman - York [The sign being a woman carrying her own severed head]
Nobody Inn - Doddiscombsleigh, Devon
One that almost got away: The Cemetery in Rochdale, Lancashire.
The Tap Shop, Mid Calder, West Lothian, Scotland.
Who'da Thought it, just outside Plymouth, in Devon.
The Stumble In, in Bellglade, Florida.
The Drunk Skunk, in Tennessee.