What's your local lethal pub?

[Brainaddict]

Although there are a fair few Millwall pubs round here I've never heard of one that would be life threatening. Intimidating perhaps...

I decided to poke my head around the door of the Little Crown a while back, what with it having such a beautiful exterior:

About five men at the bar turned to stare at me. The barman stared at me too. None of them blinked. I withdrew my head and walked on, humming quietly to myself as though that was what I had intended to do all along.

 

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[DotCommunist]

There was this pub on the kings heath estate that was a bit spit n sawdust.


I still got beef with the guy who runs the racehorse for nicking a mates hash when she wasn't even skinning up, it was just in the tin she had open on the table while rolling a fag. Shortarse wanker.

 

[Boycey]

the now thankfully defunct O's bar on park road N8 was pretty fucking horrid, full of kids on shite coke and crack and their dealers. you were guaranteed some little shit who'd been possessed by the spirit of tony montana would be getting very lairy by midnight and that glassings/bottlings would ensue. every year there seems to be an impromptu reunion of the people i went to school with in the pubs that have taken it's place and every year i attend.

it was listed in the top 3 worst drinking establishments in london in a london paper poll along with club enigma not far away on the top of muswell hill and owned by the same company/family/firm/dodgy dodgy motherfuckers.

 

[marty21]

I like the berintheevening site but the user reviews read like the Real Ale Twats from Viz.

http://stonch.blogspot.com/2007/09/real-ale-twats.html
some blog that google led me to - has a jpg of the strip.

e2a - Swansea Uni used to mention The Spinning Wheel in Sgeti in the student induction book as one to avoid. Dunno if they still do.

when i was there, they didn't warn you at all, you soon learnt that in most of the city centre pubs, it was not a good idea to drink in them, particularly if you were a student - full of valley boys intent on getting shitfaced and beating up a student or two, usually they managed to find some, sometimes they found the rugby boys, mayhem

 

[Quartz]

Near my parents' there's a pub called The Stag. Some regulars decided to beat up two visitors. The two visitors - the son of the neighbours of my parents and a friend of his - were two Royal Marines just back from the Middle East...

 

[Greenfish]

Although there are a fair few Millwall pubs round here I've never heard of one that would be life threatening. Intimidating perhaps...

I decided to poke my head around the door of the Little Crown a while back, what with it having such a beautiful exterior:

About five men at the bar turned to stare at me. The barman stared at me too. None of them blinked. I withdrew my head and walked on, humming quietly to myself as though that was what I had intended to do all along.

that looks a proper palace that. a real beauty spot.

 

[Badger Kitten]

The Blackstock, aka the Crack Spot, on Blackstock Rd.

 

[marty21]

The Blackstock, aka the Crack Spot, on Blackstock Rd.

i think I might have been there, but I was very verrrrr drunk

 

[Das Uberdog]

I don't think many places up Narth can compete with the pubbes of old Londinium, but The Railway in Chorley is abit of a rough one. Bang in the middle of the industrial estate. Good, though. Full of rough-punks and chavs into thrash 'n indy, so it also gets the middle-class indy kids looking for abit of real-life authenticity. Makes a fun mix - but the atmosphere is still always threatening. Prior to that, the old Labour Club was always good for a fight.

 

[Bernie Gunther]

There used to be a few really dodgy pubs in Liverpool. For example The Bluebell, The Eagle and Child (a friend described a shotgun incident there, or maybe it was the Bluebell) and the Quiet Man in Huyton (of 'DHSS world tour' fame).

When I was a student I had a summer job in Huyton and one of the lads I worked with told me this story about his dad, a notorious local hard case, getting his nose chopped off for interfering in somebody else's fight in the Quiet Man.

 

[Citizen66]

The Cart And Horses in Stratford. Always boozed up wankers bottling each other there on a Friday night.

The Irish guvnors running it seem a bit shifty too. When I'd sometimes go in on an afternoon after work one of them would delight in relaying stories about paramilitary punishment beatings in glorious detail.

http://www.fancyapint.com/pubs/pub3855.html

 

[Miss-Shelf]

There used to be a few really dodgy pubs in Liverpool. .

just a few?

 

[Onket]

There used to be a few really dodgy pubs in Liverpool. For example The Bluebell, The Eagle and Child (a friend described a shotgun incident there, or maybe it was the Bluebell) and the Quiet Man in Huyton (of 'DHSS world tour' fame).

When I was a student I had a summer job in Huyton and one of the lads I worked with told me this story about his dad, a notorious local hard case, getting his nose chopped off for interfering in somebody else's fight in the Quiet Man.

Fitting name then.

 

[badco]

There was this pub on the kings heath estate that was a bit spit n sawdust.


I still got beef with the guy who runs the racehorse for nicking a mates hash when she wasn't even skinning up, it was just in the tin she had open on the table while rolling a fag. Shortarse wanker.

So you stole his beef as revenge?

 

[UnderOpenSky]

There was this pub on the kings heath estate that was a bit spit n sawdust.


I still got beef with the guy who runs the racehorse for nicking a mates hash when she wasn't even skinning up, it was just in the tin she had open on the table while rolling a fag. Shortarse wanker.

Hasn't he gone now? Not seen him ages, but I'm back there a few times a year.

 

[mattie]

The Longacre Tavern, some poor sod murdered in the alley beside it one NY eve and the fucker who did it got away with it. The police know, the locals won't go to court.

The Livingstone, one of the few pubs right in the middle of the student rental district and all the locals hate students. Well, they hate everyone, but especially students.

 

[marty21]

The Longacre Tavern, some poor sod murdered in the alley beside it one NY eve and the fucker who did it got away with it. The police know, the locals won't go to court.

my dad used to drink there in the days when the flexible hours of the long acre meant it was the only place open in the afternoon, went there a few times, nowt special then, (20 odd years ago) the area has improved since those days, snow hill was way more notorious in the 80s tbf

 

[DotCommunist]

Hasn't he gone now? Not seen him ages, but I'm back there a few times a year.

So I hear, it's donkeys since I went in for a pint. Last time I did some bar jockey dressed like a reject from Alkaline Trio ID'd me. Bad times.

 

[mattie]

my dad used to drink there in the days when the flexible hours of the long acre meant it was the only place open in the afternoon, went there a few times, nowt special then, (20 odd years ago) the area has improved since those days, snow hill was way more notorious in the 80s tbf

Snow Hil isn't at all bad - I live a bit further up the hill from it - but the Longacre looks pretty nasty.

I've also just noticed I posted this in the London forum. oops.

 

[marty21]

Snow Hil isn't at all bad - I live a bit further up the hill from it - but the Longacre looks pretty nasty.

I've also just noticed I posted this in the London forum. oops.

I used to live at the top of the hill (Eastbourne Avenue) used to walk through snow hill a lot

 

[loud 1]

There was this pub on the kings heath estate that was a bit spit n sawdust.


I still got beef with the guy who runs the racehorse for nicking a mates hash when she wasn't even skinning up, it was just in the tin she had open on the table while rolling a fag. Shortarse wanker.

he's gone now,a far more scary women runs it now.

 

[nino_savatte]

Any branch of All Bar One or Edwards.

 

[likesfish]

the Royal Military Hotel, High Street. aka the rat pit aldershot
the parachute regiments pub.

got fooled into going in the there fled to cries of "get the hat"
ended up drinking with some Gurkha's strangely the paras decided to pick on some one else

 

[hipipol]

Silver Buckle, camberwell.

What's your pub that is NEVER an option for a night out due to high chance of violence?
GF

During the day it aint bad

Man of Kent (NUnhead Green)be one I will not venture into mind

 

[Geri]

In Bristol I would avoid the Coach House, although butchers likes to go in there sometimes to pick a fight. It hasn't worked yet though.

 

[fogbat]

During the day it aint bad

Aye - I've been into the Silver Buckle of an evening during the week. The staff have been pleasant, and there wasn't a hint of aggro from the customers.

I think I must have been lucky.

 

[Rollem]

Don't know many round Shepherds Bush way.

is general smuts still open?!? mind you that's more white city i suppose....

 

[tarannau]

Aye - I've been into the Silver Buckle of an evening during the week. The staff have been pleasant, and there wasn't a hint of aggro from the customers.

I think I must have been lucky.

I've been in the Silver Buckle plenty of times over many years and I've always found it fairly anodyne. The odd loud dispute and even handbags on occasion, but it's hardly a terrifying place imo. The music's pretty bad sometimes mind.

 

[fogbat]

I've been in the Silver Buckle plenty of times over many years and I've always found it fairly anodyne. The odd loud dispute and even handbags on occasion, but it's hardly a terrifying place imo. The music's pretty bad sometimes mind.

I'm a 5'6, speccy, nice middle-class boy, too