Roughest pub

[sir malcom]

id have smacked the cvnt aswell,talk about biting the hand that feeds you.

 

[blue10high]

I'm off out in Prestatyn tonight!!
The whole place is like the wild west!! :-)

Whats up with Prestatyn moved here from Manchester about 13 years ago best move ever (exept having to travel alot more to see City). Keep up the good work love reading about the rough pubs in Manchester been in most of them over the years.

 

[Scareye]

I'm off out in Prestatyn tonight!!
The whole place is like the wild west!! :-)

Whats up with Prestatyn moved here from Manchester about 13 years ago best move ever (exept having to travel alot more to see City). Keep up the good work love reading about the rough pubs in Manchester been in most of them over the years.

Said with my tounge firmly in my cheek mate!
Although the Ffrith and the Clwydian can be full of knobheads!
Always good to have another blue in the area! Not a lot of us about round here!

 

[Cellarite]

Whats up with Prestatyn moved here from Manchester about 13 years ago best move ever (exept having to travel alot more to see City). Keep up the good work love reading about the rough pubs in Manchester been in most of them over the years.

Said with my tounge firmly in my cheek mate!
Although the Ffrith and the Clwydian can be full of knobheads!
Always good to have another blue in the area! Not a lot of us about round here!

blue10high being one of them? calm down mods, it's my old man.

 

[kippaxwarrior]

Just gone down Rochdale Road and seen Billy Greens has now been completely demolished

 

[JASR]

I was a student back in later 80’s and had a work placement in Runcorn.
No real student accommodation, so had to stay in the now demolished Southgate estate.

Local paper was lying on dining table, as I got to know my new flat mates, I saw the headline ‘Murder at The Merry Monk’... opened front door, looked left, saw pub...
Asked flat mates ... ‘ yeah that was last week, killed on our doorstep’

The next weeks local paper headline ‘Terror at The Tricorn’... the other local pub...

Surprised I survived the place, as I regularly wandered around, alone, through the estate rather drunk.

 

[shevtheblue]

I don't drink but i grew up living next to The Moss Rose (later renamed The Four Heatons) in Stockport. I had never been in there and i'm not sure how rough it actually was, but there was always kicks off and bottles being smashed after arguments. Then one day when i was walking to the bus stop for uni, there were tonnes of police there. Not sure how we hadn't noticed but apparently there had been some gang shit going down in the pub and some guy had been kidnapped, locked in his car boot and the car set on fire, burning him alive. A little after that the place was torched and now it's a co-op, the area is still trying to recover from its scally roots.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/nov/05/drugsandalcohol.helencarter

Article date shows my age a bit :'(

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

old Roebuck (Middleton)
Robin Hood (Moss Side)
Fox (Blackley)[/QUOTE]

This was my Dad's local! I always thought it was rather charming! I've never been in and not passed it for the best part of forty years so I don't know what's there now, but walking down Bottomley Side and passing The Old House at Home always struck me as a highly unsavoury public house!

 

[worsleyweb]

I don't drink but i grew up living next to The Moss Rose (later renamed The Four Heatons) in Stockport. I had never been in there and i'm not sure how rough it actually was, but there was always kicks off and bottles being smashed after arguments. Then one day when i was walking to the bus stop for uni, there were tonnes of police there. Not sure how we hadn't noticed but apparently there had been some gang shit going down in the pub and some guy had been kidnapped, locked in his car boot and the car set on fire, burning him alive. A little after that the place was torched and now it's a co-op, the area is still trying to recover from its scally roots.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/nov/05/drugsandalcohol.helencarter

Article date shows my age a bit :'(

I remember that incident well.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

When I played darts in the 80's the three roughest pubs I went in were, in no particular order

Cheshire Cat, Brinnington
Wembley, Adswood
and our home pub, Nicholsons Arms. Lancashire Hill

I remember saying to one of our team members that I thought the Nicholsons had a reputation, but I felt it was OK. He said that it went off quite often and I'd been fortunate not to witness anything.
The following week someone was glassed and the week after, on a non dart playing night, someone was shot.

I haven't read the whole thread but Grand Central in Stockport deserves a mention. Part of the 90's development by the station so pretty modern and un-assuming and no bother in the week however Friday and Saturday night were fight night and the rouges of all other dodgy Stockport boozers would make their way like some holly pilgrimage. I only went in a few times but without fail there was mass brawling and generally lads getting the sh!t kicked out of them for little reason. Closed down now.