Worst pubs you have ever frequented...

[Paul11/12]

Suppose it depends on your definition of worst pubs.

To me the worst pubs are those like The Hare and Hounds in Timperley or The Moorings in Worsley, where they look at you as if you're some sort of weirdo if you just want a few pints and not a three course meal to go with it.

I expect the thread to head off in the opposite direction of rough and ready locals in not the greatest parts of town. So I'll go with, The Church/Hulme. The Silver Birch/ Wythenshawe. Ryan's Bar/ Sale. The Park/ Northern Moor.

All pubs I quite like though.

Ryan's bar? That's a blast from the past!

Ryan's Bar, we used to call it The Star Wars Bar, every1 in there looked like Freaks and Aliens, we'd always have a couple of pints at the weekends on our way round Sale, the fact Me and my mates fitted in quite well says it all!

Couldn't agree more about the Hare and Hounds, My mate and I used to go in a couple of times a week during the summers on our way from work(in our shitty building clothes)! Great pint, lovely garden, but stuck up buggers staff and punters, we used to take the piss!

 

[mindmyp's_n_q's]

The rocket Breightmet, Bolton.

 

[NPBlue]

Back in the cold, shivvering 70's, any pub was a candidate for worst pub.

Don't you just love the memories of pubs in the 70's. Watneys bleeding Red Barrel, Whitbread Tankard, Worthington E, Greenhalls local.......................any pub serving Greenhalls. Robinsons pubs, when the beer came with lumps floating around in the bottom and smelled of sweaty socks. Even Elton John sang about that in 'Saturday Night's all right for Fighting'!

'When your best friend floats in the bottom of the glass'

I do remember liking a pint of Toby Light, though. I used to like a Toby Light.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Ben Brierly, moston lane.
Fuckin' arseholes.

Now the local Citizens Advice Bureau.
Mickey Francis was the last owner (I think) of the pub.
I lived in Moston from 1992 - 2011 and I went in the Ben once after a funeral in 1993!

 

[pominoz]

As a younger drinker my local was The Moston, which set the tone.
Also frequented
The 200 and Shiredale in harpurhey,
The Ben, Museum, Old Loom and Bricklayers on Moston Lane.
The penny black, Dover castle, mechanics, Waterloo and tanners when drinking with family from Cheetham hill and Failswoth Pole for a "posher" night out.
Unsurprisingly the rougher pubs of Oxford and Ramsbottom as described by the locals just didn't have the same charm.

We must have crossed paths a few times, as they were all the pubs i drank in. Plus the "Clough" and the "Charlestown" in Blackley.

 

[MIKEYP]

The Pear Tree in Wythenshawe

Now the Wendover.I still frequent the place,but it is dying a very slow death,and rumour has it the brewery are putting it up for sale very soon.Back in the 80`s and 90`s it was a fine place.Always packed,could get ANYTHING in there! In fact I will be stopping a few going off in there today!

 

[simonk]

and The Wembley in Adswood

I lived in that pub for a short while in the mid 70's ... and yes , it certainly had its moments alright !

There was a 'drive' at the back of it where some right dickheads lived !

It's just little houses now, had forgotten it or wiped from memory it was err interesting?

it was Burrwood Drive.

 

[stonerblue]

What was the pub above the Arndale called? All I remember is that it was a JW Lees pub ( I think).

Went in there in the late 80's/early 90's.

It was the kind of place where you left optimism at the door, but in a strange way it was an experience that I didn't find that bad. Is it still there?

the john willie lees

So that is what it was called? Lol.

It was almost as if every ounce of the flotsam and jetsam of mancunian life was sitting there. Sad place in a way, but also strangely reassuring (if that makes sense).

I used to nip in there for a pint most dinner times when i was an impressionable 18 nyr old. Think it's scarred me for life.

 

[94th Minute]

I'd like to defend fab cafe too, also the Star and Garter near Picciadilly train station, been to some brilliant gigs in there.

Billy greens was on toughest pubs in Britain, definition of a quick pint was how fast it was traveling towards your head.

The Silver Jubilee near the Netto in Heaton Norris is a strange place.

The Pineapple and The Nags Head of Hyde road were fucking dives.

The worst pub for me is The Fir Tree in Reddish, it's directly across the road from my house but is absolutely shit. It's so annoying as it has the potential to be a great pub but is ruined by shit beer, shit bouncers, shit music and shitty lighting.

 

[lostmyhouseski]

for me the worst pubs are the bland generic wank ones getting rolled out in most cities, built from scratch or 'refurbed'. Give me a shit hole deteriorating pub with piss stains on the carpet any day!