Weird Pub names

[Paulus]

There is the crooked Chimney near St Albans, For an obvious reason.

 

[PK99]

Is that the one with a tree growing through it?

Can't remember. It was my local 30 years ago as a Fullers Pub, now a 'Spoons.

Name came about as there were two pubs next door to each other, destroyed by fire* many years ago and rebuilt as one...

* that was a tale on a picture in the Pub at the time, current web sites say they were demolished to build the Tram depot

 

[rich p]

On a Friday night ride to the coast, Whitstable, a few years ago we all paused outside a pub in Bermondsey called The Gregorian.
@theclaud said, 'Fancy a pint'
and I hilariously quipped, 'Chants would be a fine thing...'

 

[Yellow Fang]

We used to have a Pineapple near us. It's now the Pomeroy. Which is a shame, because the Pineapple's been there long enough to have a road named after it. Suppsedly it was named after an unexpected fruit which came to Buckinghamshire quite a long time ago - but judging by the number of Pineapple pubs around the place that might be wrong.

There was a 14th century pub called The Pineapple near Aldermaston. I thought IDIOTS, how dare they give an old pub a silly name like that. The pub sign did not even show a pineapple, it showed a fir cone. When I looked it up on t'internet, I found out that pineapple was the old name for a fir cone

 

[Ian H]

There's a Blue Ball Inn in Sidford and a White Ball in Tiverton.

 

[Brains]

Down in SE London near Charlton FC is the Antigallican, which I believe is named after a ship. .

There used to be another pub, near London bridge, also called the Antigallican, in the days before Strava people used to boast of their Antigallican to Antigallican cycle times.

The Antigallican movement of the 17th century was against all things French.
I guess we will be having a bunch of new pubs springing up with the modern version of the name, "The Brexiteer" (where no French wine or German beer will be sold)

 

[smutchin]

The Antigallican movement of the 17th century was against all things French.

I wasn't aware of the Antigallican movement - very interesting, thanks! The Antigallican near London Bridge must have gone before I moved to London in the late 90s because I don't remember it.

I've just looked it up and apparently there were several Antigallican pubs around London at the height of the movement, but most of them changed their name when the movement died out. And there was a ship of the same name, but based on what you say, it now seems unlikely that the pub in Charlton was named directly after it.

 

[HF2300]

I thought that title went to the (now) Bingley Arms, at Bardsey, rating back, as a 'brewhouse' to 953AD (between Leeds & Wetherby)

Great pub, or was. I drowned a car out in Spear Fir on the way back from there once!

Passed the 'Ship In Distress' this afternoon

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Great pub, or was. I drowned a car out in Spear Fir on the way back from there once!

That's a ford, that I don't hear much about nowadays!!
Listed on here, as Scarcroft
http://www.wetroads.co.uk/westyorkshire.htm

 

[Salar]

Bucket of Blood in Hayle

 

[Yellow Fang]

There was a pub in Brighton called The Pub With No Name.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

One I pass on some of my longer rides: The Original Ball at Ball near Oswestry.

I haven't been in but it looks fairly appealing so I might give it a try sometime.

 

[Gasman]

When I was too young to go in, there was a pub in Royal Exchange Square in Glasgow called the 'Muscular Arms.

Last I saw, it was a Pizza Hut, in Nelson Mandela Square.

 

[subaqua]

Walrus and carpenter opposite customs house on lower Thames street. And further up the slope is the hung drawn and quartered.

 

[HF2300]

A pub I used to frequent was the Gander on the Green, which got unofficially contracted to The Gangrene.

There wasn't a green remotely close to it either.