25 Pubs you've been in and thought "oh no, I'm about to die..."

[Dave 123]

1- The Knot, Ellesmere Port

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

2. any of them in Failsworth or Oldham

 

[JoeyB]

Emmas, Gosport. (Got into a spot of bother with 4 visiting Glaswegian sailors, but it ended well)

 

[biggs682]

Emmas, Gosport. (Got into a spot of bother with 4 visiting Glaswegian sailors, but it ended well)

3. any of them inWellingborough

 

[robjh]

6. The Country Girl at Saltley in Birmingham. It was opposite a college belonging then to Birmingham Poly, and we were teaching English to a group of Spanish kids as a summer job. We would have looked very studenty.... oh my lord, it was a place where you stared at the carpet all the way to the bar and back, just in case you caught anyone's eye.

Of course it may be a lovely place now.

 

[vernon]

The Fforde Green in Harehills, Leeds. The clicking coming from behind the back of a bloke staring menacingly at me in the locals' bar was a stiletto knife being extended and retracted. I beat a retreat to the more civilised concert room upstairs where I watched Paul Young perform with The Streetband.

 

[young Ed]

not been in there my self and don't plan to but i know it's not very nice!
7. The Crusader-Ashford Kent
Cheers Ed

 

[MarkF]

The Perseverence, Lumb Lane, Bradford. I'd have been about 20, the only white face in there, I'd been offered smack and then been accused of being a cop, before I'd even got the bar, which was hole in some floor to ceiling security grille. I could hardly see my nose in front of me and Wayne Smith's riddim was pulsating through my body
Good times.

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjw7m-BKmQ8

 

[nappadang]

Having a Tyneside accent left me feeling more than a little vulnerable in The Round Robin, Ford Estate, Sunderland. I was convinced a lynching party was being assembled. I left rather sharply and stole a taxi I'd not booked.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

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Yep - that was the problem with marrying someone from Failsworth! he and his family sometimes took me to the pubs there... and then the took me to some pubs in Oldham.... now they only take me to the Methodist church bar instead much cheaper (2 pints of fresh orange juice & lemonade and a pint of bitter was less than £5 in March of this year) and infinitely safer (I think, well I escaped!)

 

[Glow worm]

The Dawn Run, Cheltenham. Only went once. I'd only been in there a few minutes when the police came in and dragged one of the drinkers out and into a van!

 

[Tim Hall]

6. The Country Girl at Saltley in Birmingham. It was opposite a college belonging then to Birmingham Poly, and we were teaching English to a group of Spanish kids as a summer job. We would have looked very studenty.... oh my lord, it was a place where you stared at the carpet all the way to the bar and back, just in case you caught anyone's eye.

Of course it may be a lovely place now.

Ooh! I've not been there, but I think one or two yacf people go there a bit. @kimble for one, and Basil (not OTP), who treats it as his second (or third) home. I imagine it's improved a bit.

 

[PaulSecteur]

The Shakespeare, that used to be here (Between Willenhall and Wolverhampton.)

https://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=52.583359,-2.062344&spn=0.001207,0.002064&t=h&z=20

 

[ufkacbln]

Emmas, Gosport. (Got into a spot of bother with 4 visiting Glaswegian sailors, but it ended well)

Emmas -the Royal Naval School of Dancing


You are obviously a young sprog.

The modern day matelot has never experienced the plastic tree, urine soaked carpet and female clientèle of that glorious establishment known as "Joannas"

 

[JoeyB]

It was a while ago when I last went. I think I only ever visited twice, the second time my mate got a tasty headbutt for his troubles.