Ooh yeah, didn't notice I was quoting a post nearly a decade old.
Which is the roughest pub in London?
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Frumious B.
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So are there any properly rough pubs left in London, hopefully within easy reach of Brickers?
I used to go to one in Manchester where they passed a tin round for the IRA. They were very friendly, even though we were students and southerners. In fact all the Irish pubs were very welcoming.
I used to go to one in Manchester where they passed a tin round for the IRA. They were very friendly, even though we were students and southerners. In fact all the Irish pubs were very welcoming.
The Salutation?
goldenecitrone
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Who fell, got sliced into pieces and wrapped up in bin liners and accidentally buried. Not just tragic, but incredibly unlucky.
silverfish
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The britains hardest pub series is bollocks they did my local in Plymouth. its a topless pub and the most dangerous people in it are lovelorn drunken Fijian matelots.
The traff in aldershot is a rough pub and a lesson in what happens to aggressive mentally disturbed soldiers when they eventually leave the paras. Get old, get bitter, get mentally ill, get fat, get alcoholic and keep fighting
The traff in aldershot is a rough pub and a lesson in what happens to aggressive mentally disturbed soldiers when they eventually leave the paras. Get old, get bitter, get mentally ill, get fat, get alcoholic and keep fighting
fractionMan
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fractionMan
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which pub?
I used to go there sometimes. Gone I believe now.
Not gone, according to the interwebs, now I've looked!
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It had something of a refurb recently, but it certainly can make for an interesting late, late drink.
Boris Sprinkler
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Was going to say the General Smuts in the White City estate, but after googling it appears that is has now lost its license.
named after this guy - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Smuts An advocate of apartheid which is fitting as the pub also seemed to segregate itself too, with Irish in one side and West Indians in the other. It also had an off license in which you would get your booze through a hatch behind bars.
And how fitting I just typed that whilst listening to White City by the Pogues. Ahh all home sick.
named after this guy - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Smuts An advocate of apartheid which is fitting as the pub also seemed to segregate itself too, with Irish in one side and West Indians in the other. It also had an off license in which you would get your booze through a hatch behind bars.
And how fitting I just typed that whilst listening to White City by the Pogues. Ahh all home sick.
craigxcraig
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Not sure if it still exists, but Jesters on Union Street was pretty rough - any time from 9pm through to closing time!
fractionMan
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lol.
I used to drink there. Rough my arse.
Boobs. Now that was rough. At least I think it was called boobs.
craigxcraig
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lol.
I used to drink there. Rough my arse.
Boobs. Now that was rough. At least I think it was called boobs.
I was there reguarly between 94-97 - fighting almost every night, both inside and out.
Can't recall Boobs though, where was that?
fractionMan
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I was there around the same time. I must have been too pissed to notice
The thing I remember is the waltzer chairs 
Boobs was next to the octogon, down from blonds, the warehouse/oz and sgt peppers. Pink neon sign, it was a right dump.
If we can have pubs outside London I nominate the long-defunct and much-missed Earl De Grey, in Hull, a sailors' pub notorious for drinking, fighting and so on since at least the 1870s. It closed in the late 1980s, reopened a few years later and then shut again in short order, reputedly partly because it had lost one of its key attractions: it was no longer a brothel.
In London some of the Woolwich pubs are pretty sketchy. Gentrification will finish them all off before long though, I think.
In London some of the Woolwich pubs are pretty sketchy. Gentrification will finish them all off before long though, I think.
Boris Sprinkler
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craigxcraig
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I was there around the same time. I must have been too pissed to notice
Boobs was next to the octogon, down from blonds, the warehouse/oz and sgt peppers. Pink neon sign, it was a right dump.
I do know Boobs (I think) you went upstairs into it?
Oz/Warehouse/Sgt Peppers - blasts from the past!
silverfish
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Avondale by the docks
fractionMan
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I used to live in keyham but I never went there.
I used to go in the arcade just up from it as a teenager.
silverfish
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Lol molesters try the clipper it's the 23 hour a day pub 4 doors down. It's like the canteena bar in Star Wars with stranger looking clientele. The only place crazier I've drunk was a foreign legion whorehouse/club in Dakar. I had back up and I was selected as the madams translator for the night so survived
Frumious B.
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It was the Albert in Rusholme http://www.panoramio.com/photo/60188838. A fun area for an all-Irish pub crawl. You were yards from an unbroken chain of curry houses on the main road, but in the residential roads there'd be an Irish pub every few hundred yards. Osborne House was another http://www.flickr.com/photos/adambruderer/4479028197/ Completely OT, as they were such friendly places, even to people who were conspicuous outsiders. Maybe it's a Manchester thing - I'm not sure that Student Grant types would get the same welcome in a no-carpets-or-teeth Irish pub in London.
Agreed. In my time Manchester was Student City.
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