Roughest pub

[LongsightM13]

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The Anson - Vics business premises A tough pub.

The New Vic in the 80,s was a place to play cards and have lock ins. Guns, drugs and chinese take aways.

The waggon and horses could be dodgy but missed it when it was demolished.

The blackstock was near The Plaza Cafe....proper curry house

The Clarence...was my local for a while. Daffys haunt.[/quote]
Wasn't the Plaza the place that sold the notorious 'suicide' curry, if you could finish it you didn't have to pay?
The New Vic was run for a while in the 80s by an Irish fella called Gallagher? His lad was in my year at school. Another lad from school, barryo, is on here but doesn't post very often. His family had a few pubs round and about, including I believe The Trafford of all places (spit)
There was a lad a few years older than me, knocked around with my mate's older brothers, who was a mad blue and Clarence regular in the 80s. Steve something, O'Leary, Sweeney? Sound fella, doing my nut in now that I can't remember his surname

 

[mancityvstoke]

The Clarence...didnt know the lad you mention. Knew Daffy ...mad as fook. He fought with riot cops in town once after a Derby game, on his own. He lost.
City used to wait in The Brunswick and that pub a bit further down.

The Plaza - Yep Suicide , Killer and Cremation curries. You should have seen the place. Good days?.......well I was pissed during the 80's so can't remember.

 

[DruryBlue]

hahahaha, my local, feck all wrong with it!! :-))

the highfield just up the road from the waggon was a right rough hole years and years ago, remember some of the lads had been out rabbitting, came back and stuck a ferret down the pool table while the bloke who was playing was ordering his pint, picture him lining up the black when a ferret sticks its head out of one of the pockets!!

Remember playing pool in the Highfield and when I beat the lad, he went over and started eating his glass - most people just ignored him - must have been a regular occurence!

 

[hackneyslim]

Little bit off geographically, and nothing to compare with the war stories on here, but I am from Cheadle Hulme, so you'll forgive the tourism.

The Stonebow in York was the tramps' boozer. Legend has it a fight was going on as usual and some passer by stopped and tried to see the bundle through the window when a fist came through the glass and laid him out in the gutter. I set precisely one foot inside before beating a swift retreat one afternoon.

The other was The Carlisle in Hastings, biker bar, where some guy had been killed with a shotgun a few years before I played a gig there, so I was already nervous before some tank came up and pointed to one of the amps. You can't put that there, he said. My stupidly hard mate from Blackheath said, well, I just did. The biker says, I'll be back later for you. Mate - ok, I'll be waiting. Fun gig. Played the set at 150% usual tempo to finish quicker. Kept the motor running more than once with that guitar player.

 

[simonr555]

The Balmoral in Bolton. Also The Rocket in Breightmet.

 

[Doddy]

Had a few pints in here - what a shithole !
Pig and Porcupine was the tastiest of a weekend, kicked off every weekend mostly with riot police turning up after the windows had been put through !
The Pear Tree was a good drink and a bit rough if you were an outsider - I played football for them for a few seasons in the late 90's and they had some bruisers.
My Dad played for the Cock of the North and was there when some guy got shot, aswell as the Portway for years.
BTW alreet Dabz


I also played football for the Portway and the Cornishman,both sound pubs in their day the roughest in Woodhouse Park was the Cock but only if you didnt know people in there.The Woodpecker has just reopened but is not a very pub now.Doddy

 

[sir malcom]

The bricklayers on ordsall lane,it got held up when there was a lock in on,they were that pissed they didnt realise what was going on.

 

[Mikeegrini]

This lot will bring a tear to the eye of anyone over 30 odd, fell out of a few of these.

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Wow, great post fella!
Was thinking of the pub that used to be actully in the Arndale?....It was on that website and it was called John Willie Lees!
Used to work in Argos with another poster off here and spent many a Friday evening after work in there!
Loads of charecters, brasses and piss heads a plenty....happy days!

The Mark Twain ????

 

[blue10high]

It had it's moments as did The Diamond XX and The Ellesmere near by.All complete sh1tholes.

you an eccles lad? diamond xx was the one known as cloudies wasn't it? due to it's shite cloudy beer. wangies has been known to house a few rum bleeders as well. not least of all my own uncle mike. a blue who is on a one man mission to offend as many reds as possible in a lifetime, whether it leads to a leathering or not.

No son cloudies was higher up Liverpool Road The Golden Lion I think most of Eccles had some great pubs never safe but good banter as for all the pub talked about in Salford played darts in most of them used to play for the Langworthey,The Duchey were it cost me a Tenner so you could win a £4 jackpot I also played for City from The Willows, your DAD

 

[ali benarbia's studs]

whats the op doing in off topic ?????? does he still get thick with pm`s .... phat brasser!!!!!