The worst pub in Britain
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glenn forger
Guest
the Cat and Mutton on Broadway Market in Hackney is now a gastro hipster pub. Back in the mid nineties it was a stinking old man boozer, I'd go in to watch the footie on a Sunday. they didn't have a Sky licence so the landlord drew a pint glass on the screen with Tipex. An old man with a crew cut had a weeping head wound, yellow matter oozed through his head bandage. All the furniture was bust and what they sold as Stella Wasn't Stella. One day Man U played Arsenal, a chap came in with a Man U scarf on, a customer grabbed the scarf and wiped his dogs bum with it. happy days.
glenn forger
Guest
the Standard was a biker pub twenty years ago.
The Sun on Bethnal Green Road is also now a trendy pub full of people with stupid haircuts. I saw the last game played at the old Wembley there, a dull draw with Germany IIRC. A couple were getting smashed at a table as their toddler children ran around the pub throwing Snappits at customers, an incredibly drunk pensioner wandered in and opened a handkerchief on the bar and offered watches for sale. When I went to the toilet a large gentleman was snorting Charlie, not in the cubicle, standing by the sink. "You're a copper!" He said. "No I'm not" I said. "Whys your hair short then?" He asked. "Ok" I said, and he seemed satisfied. The pub had a new carpet laid and they laid it on top of the old carpet. The place stank. When it was taken over and gentrified the new landlord told me he barred over a hundred people in the first month.
The Sun on Bethnal Green Road is also now a trendy pub full of people with stupid haircuts. I saw the last game played at the old Wembley there, a dull draw with Germany IIRC. A couple were getting smashed at a table as their toddler children ran around the pub throwing Snappits at customers, an incredibly drunk pensioner wandered in and opened a handkerchief on the bar and offered watches for sale. When I went to the toilet a large gentleman was snorting Charlie, not in the cubicle, standing by the sink. "You're a copper!" He said. "No I'm not" I said. "Whys your hair short then?" He asked. "Ok" I said, and he seemed satisfied. The pub had a new carpet laid and they laid it on top of the old carpet. The place stank. When it was taken over and gentrified the new landlord told me he barred over a hundred people in the first month.
glenn forger
Guest
there's strong evidence the wrong people are in prison for those Essex murders. they supplied the ecstasy to Leah Betts.
AndyRM
XOXO
- Location
- North Shields
Letting down bike tyres? They sound well hard. You should have gone back inside, filled your sock with pool balls and ended them.
Mad Doug Biker
Master of disaster!
- Location
- Craggy Island
[QUOTE 3038953, member: 1314"]... well, they were all fighting to control the night club doors. P'zaz in Grays, Raquels in Basildon or was it Southend, and one more in Southend. I did a lot of research into it a few years back.
Yep - they supplied the batch that provided the E for Leah Betts - they'd invested a lot of money in that hoard and the whole thing caused lots of waves. A close family member was quite close to it all and he said they just didn't pay off the right people. Anyway, don't want to derail the thread![/QUOTE]
Its all interesting though, sort of a 'How the other half live' (or don't live to be exact) sort of thread.
Yep - they supplied the batch that provided the E for Leah Betts - they'd invested a lot of money in that hoard and the whole thing caused lots of waves. A close family member was quite close to it all and he said they just didn't pay off the right people. Anyway, don't want to derail the thread![/QUOTE]
Its all interesting though, sort of a 'How the other half live' (or don't live to be exact) sort of thread.
Pro Tour Punditry
Guru
I went to a boozer not too long ago and the Chardonnay was far too cold, I had to let it sit for a good 5 minutes before I could drink it.
Mad Doug Biker
Master of disaster!
- Location
- Craggy Island
Scandalous!!
Peteaud
Veteran
- Location
- South Somerset
Pah, thats nothing.
We went into a boozer round here, the coffee was lukewarm and the Scones didnt come with cream n jam.
Back OT
It is no wonder so many pubs shut down. I used to drink in a simple pub, proper beers and irish guiness, untill the landlord had a row with his girlfriend and shot himself!
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Donger
Convoi Exceptionnel
- Location
- Quedgeley, Glos.
Many years ago some of my mates pursuaded me to take a look at one of the old city centre pubs in Gloucester - for the experience. I don't actually remember the name of it, as I seem to have blanked the experience as a coping strategy. You know when you walk in and find only one other customer at one of the busiest times of the day that something is wrong. On this occasion that customer was both utterly bladdered and a total weirdo, and we gave him a wide berth. The landlord let his Jack Russell terrier jump up on the benches and cock his leg wherever and whenever he wanted. We stayed for one (very swift) pint, but by the time we were ready to leave, we spotted the dog under our table biting the head off a maggot-infested raw eel...... blood, slime and maggots all over the carpet. Lovely. (Where does that fit on a five star rating scale? (Minus 3?).
asterix
Comrade Member
- Location
- Limoges or York
You don't think it could have been a reprisal by someone else? Maybe because they slashed their bike tyres for example?
glenn forger
Guest
Got any Mandy crockers? Or cabbage, down to my last Henry, do us the usual deal, yeah?
Firestorm
Veteran
- Location
- Southend on Sea
[QUOTE 3038953, member: 1314"]... well, they were all fighting to control the night club doors. P'zaz in Grays, Raquels in Basildon or was it Southend, and one more in Southend. I did a lot of research into it a few years back.
Yep - they supplied the batch that provided the E for Leah Betts - they'd invested a lot of money in that hoard and the whole thing caused lots of waves. A close family member was quite close to it all and he said they just didn't pay off the right people. Anyway, don't want to derail the thread![/QUOTE]
Raquels was in Basildon.
There were a number of clubs in Southend at that time most of which have now gone and the others changed names many times
Yep - they supplied the batch that provided the E for Leah Betts - they'd invested a lot of money in that hoard and the whole thing caused lots of waves. A close family member was quite close to it all and he said they just didn't pay off the right people. Anyway, don't want to derail the thread![/QUOTE]
Raquels was in Basildon.
There were a number of clubs in Southend at that time most of which have now gone and the others changed names many times
