Pub names

Boom

SoundAsa£ said:

The Bleeding Wolf........Stoke on Trent.

The Strugglers...............Lincoln. Outside the castle walls where prisoners about to be hung would 'struggle' with the gaolers on their way to the gallows.

The Pyewipe Inn.....Lincoln.

The Travellers Rest in Lincoln (now closed) which had a handwritten note in the window saying "No travellers".

Alwaysneil

How many The Turk's Head have people drunk in? Any chances that name is not acceptable any more?

Stig

Alwaysneil said:

How many The Turk's Head have people drunk in? Any chances that name is not acceptable any more?

The Saracens Head, Kings Langley if that counts.

theeenorth

Black boy Avery Hill still there?

Lincsaddick

theeenorth said:

Black boy Avery Hill still there?

there used to be a Black Boy pub in Stepney Green .. now a Halal restaurant and Chicken Shack ((:>)

cafcdave123

Was in Dirty Dicks last night , I'm now in the Cock and Woolpack

Bit of a theme going here...

Baldybonce

Stig said:

Alwaysneil said:

How many The Turk's Head have people drunk in? Any chances that name is not acceptable any more?

The Saracens Head, Kings Langley if that counts.

Lots of pubs in the west country called the Turks head or Saracens head. They used to chop off the head of Arab slavers who raided the south coast and Ireland.