Weird Pub names

[smutchin]

The Three Chimneys in Biddenden, Kent - not an especially weird name, but the pub has only ever had two chimneys. It goes back to the Seven Years War when French prisoners were held nearby - when they were let out on parole, the point where the pub stands, at the junction of three roads (trois chemins) marked the boundary of where they were allowed to roam.

 

[Hill Wimp]

Our favoured drinking establishment is called the Just Reproach a small micro pub. Named after Daniel Defoe' s poem in the 1700s about the town.

www.bestofengland.com/thejustreproach/

 

[Haitch]

Was it the Talbot? https://mancunian1001.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/the-lost-pubs-and-shops-of-stalybridge-town-centre/

Good shout, but a bit lower on the same page is The Commercial, which rings a slightly louder bell. Thanks.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

And down the road Hark To Mopsey (is it still open) formerly Hark To Mobsey.

Repainted too (taken about dinnertime)



http://www.harktomopsey.co.uk/index

 

[smutchin]

I don't know the Hark To Mopsey but I do know the Hark To Bounty in Slaidburn...

The inn is reputed to date back to the 1300s, although most of the existing fabric of the building dates from the 16th century. The inn was known as The Dog until 1875, when the squire of the village, who was also the Rector, had a pack of hounds. One day whilst out hunting, he and his party called at the inn for refreshments. Their drinking was disturbed by a loud and prolonged baying from the pack outside. High above the noise of the other hounds could be heard the squire's favourite dog, which prompted him to call out ....
"Hark to Bounty!"

http://www.harktobounty.co.uk/about-us

Sounds like a load of old cobblers to me. I know they didn't have internet porn to amuse them in those days but that really is a bit lame.

"My dog is barking... I know, let's rename the pub. What larks!"

 

[raleighnut]

The 'Trip' in Nottingham has long been a favourite pub of mine.

 

[Chris S]

There are a few pubs called this in the Midlands, perhaps it was a Victorian pub chain

 

[Surlydave]

Cat and Custard Pot, Paddlesworth Kent. Spotted on cycle your in the autumn.

 

[smutchin]

Cat and Custard Pot, Paddlesworth Kent. Spotted on cycle your in the autumn.

Supposedly another case of a signwriter's typo - used to be Mustard Pot once upon a time, if you believe the legends.

 

[HF2300]

There are a few pubs called this in the Midlands, perhaps it was a Victorian pub chain

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There's a 'Dog Hangs Well' in Ludlow which is supposedly a corruption of the same name. It's said that 'Gate Hangs Well' is from a rhyme "This gate hangs well, and hinders non, refresh and pay, and travel on" and the pubs were associated with toll and town gates, but I don't know how true that is.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

The 'Trip' in Nottingham has long been a favourite pub of mine.

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I thought that title went to the (now) Bingley Arms, at Bardsey, rating back, as a 'brewhouse' to 953AD (between Leeds & Wetherby)
http://www.bingleyarms.co.uk/history.php

 

[nickyboy]

The Spinner & Bergamot in Comberbach, Cheshire....another one we pass on the Manchester to Llandudno ride. It's all about horse racing apparently

"The inn was previously owned by the Smith Barry family of Marbury Hall and was originally titled The Spinner in recognition of the spinning loom between Pickmere and Wincham.

Land owner Sir Hugh Smith Barry favoured the inn as his local to such an extent that he named one of his racehorses, The Spinner, after it. The highlight of the filly‘s career came in 1764 when she won the Ladies’ Plate at Scarborough.

So delighted with the success of the horse, Smith Barry bought the inn himself and added a new name - Bergamot - to the pub‘s title.
The Bergamot was an even more successful horse for Smith Barry, clinching the Chester Cup in 1794 - a win which would make Smith Barry‘s fortune."

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Another horse racing pub is in Bishop Burton (on A1079, between Market Weighton & Beverley)



http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/75981


Named after a St Leger winner, apparently
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altisidora
https://www.altisidorapubbeverley.co.uk/our-pub/



Which leads me on to a pub in Outwood (on A61, between Wakefield & Leeds)
It was previously, for a lot of years (maybe even since it was built?) called The Queen
A couple of years ago, it was renamed 'St Leger'

Before; http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2740843
After; http://www.outwoodcommunityvideo.co.uk/the-st-leger-queen-outwood.html

It is more than a co-incidence that this name was chosen, for more than one reason
1. It's on the junction of Leeds Road, & Ledger Lane (possibly to do with local Colliery offices being on there, where the accounting was done??)
2. Horse racing was once held at Outwood, there is still a Grandstand Road
http://wnets.org.uk/the-grand-stand-outwood-wakefield/

Plus, at the other side of Wakefield, up at Heath, there is a row of buildings called 'Horse Race End' (although this is a tenuous connection)

 

[Paulus]

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

I pass a pub with the same name near Eastcote every day, always wondered about the name.

 

[Paulus]

Red lion and pineapple, Acton

Is that the one with a tree growing through it?