Weird Pub names

[Hitchington]

In Suffolk, near Sizewell

 

[Hitchington]

"The Job Centre" in Deptford

 

[Cubist]

used to drink in a pub in Harrow called The Case is Altered. Supposedly a corruption of Casa Alta, name brought back by the army in the Napoleonic Wars in Spain

There's a "Case is Altered" near Warwick as well.

 

[ianrauk]

"The Job Centre" in Deptford

Ooh a TNM to me for that one

 

[Oldbloke]

The Rampant Cat in Woolton Hill, Newbury

 

[bianchi1]

We had ' The Gay Dog ' close to us in Worcester. Some new owners moved in and got rid of the gay bit and it was just ' The Dog '.

 

[TVC]

There seemed to be a craze for renaming pubs with stupid names a few years ago, fortunately most have now been returned to their traditional title. I really can't remember any of them now

 

[lazybloke]

That doesn't sound much like London to me.

Village of Westminster?

 

[subaqua]

the blue cap , which had a picture of a dog on the sign, in Sandiway Cheshire.

 

[subaqua]

"Opposite the Bannister and Shamrock, which used to be the Rose and Crown"

Slug and lettuce .Aaaaargh



ooohh the Bear and Billet in Chester.


and the marlbororough arms ( yes it is spelled that way)

 

[cosmicbike]

Last year i went to a pub called The Monkeys Forehead.

Student pub up Egham Hill. Now either closed or being renovated.

 

[Ian H]

The Poppe Inn, near Chard, sounds like a silly modern name, but it's beside Poppe Lane, and isn't.
The Double Locks and the Turf Locks are two Exeter pubs along the canal. The latter can only be reached on foot or by bike.
The Holman Clavel is an isolated pub on the edge of the Blackdowns with its own cider.

 

[StuAff]

In Eastbourne Road, Portsmouth, The Jolly Taxpayer.

 

[Donger]

C'est chic, apparently.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

To the north of Otley, there's one called 'the Spite', with quite a decent tale to it

Can't remember where but we once were in a tiny village. Few houses, 3 shops and 2 pubs a few doors apart....both called The White Horse.

There's an Arabian Horse in Aberford (on the old A1/'Great North Road') it is meant to be the only pub of that name in the country

Near me, there's a Black Swan, next door - now an audio/visual repair shop, was the White Swan