Strange Pub Names!

[Jemisa]

Talking to friends anout Pub names they tell us when on their hols they went into a pub called 'The Cat & Custard Pot' in Kent.
Are they pulling our leg? Do you know it?

What strange pub names have you come accross?

jem

[tenrec]

Yes there is a pub called that.

[tenrec]

There are 2 pubs in the Lakes called "The Travellers Rest". Nothing unusual about that, however, they are both nicknamed "The Gerry". Anyone know why?

[DTCwordfan]

not long ago:

http://www.theanswerb.../Question1128225.html

[elliemay1]

Not a pub but a barbers called Shear and Shed! Yuk!

[Answerprancer]

My favourite pub names (not sure if it still exists) was/is "The Who'd A Thought It" in Glastonbury. One of my favourite bolt-holes in London is called "The Hole In The Wall" - it's in Waterloo near the train station.

[sandyRoe]

Didn't the last hangman have a sideline as a publican? I think his pub was called, 'Help the poor traveller'.

[Wharton]

...in a galaxy bar not far away...

[THEMOTLEY1]

http://www.catandcustardpot.co.uk/

[DTCwordfan]

The Drunken Duck (Hawkshead to Ambleside) was once called that (Traveller's Rest).

Some farmer's wife with newly acquired ducks at Hawkshead market, on the way back to the farm, drops in and leaves her ducks out the back. She nips in for her half pint of gin and, on emerging, finds her ducks dead.

Or so she thought until one of their beaks opened and a large beery bubble emerged. Turned out that there was a leaking barrel and the ducks had taken a partial affinity to the amber nectar. The pub lost it's name then and there.

Used to be a great spit and sawdust Theakstons pub.....now very trendy
http://drunkenduckinn.co.uk/

[tenrec]

We also have a "Hole int' Wall" in Bowness, also known as "The New Hall Inn". In Kendal there used to be a pub called "The Hyena".

[mike11111]

I will hazard a guess: a gerry is a slang name for a chamber pot so by extension may have become to mean a toilet which would be a central feature of a resting place for travellers.

[sandyRoe]

There was a 'Who'd a thought it' in Belfast. It was the only building left standing in the area after a German air raid.

[starone]

The Beat'em and Whack'em in Bristol, commonly referred to as The Whack'em which was originally The Beaufort Arms, although no-one ever called it that. And The World's End also in St. George, Bristol.

[mike11111]

Albert Pierrepoint's pub was called Help The Poor Struggler.

[tenrec]

"Cock & Dolphin" now turned into flats.
"The Oddfellows"

[DTCwordfan]

I remember that, tenrec,many a pint went down there, just behind the RWYC.....(and the church).

[tenrec]

DT, I cleaned there for a few years.

[marval]

There is a pub in Milton Keynes called "The Slug and Lettuce."

There is a restaurant in Lincolnshre called "Get Stuffed."

[DTCwordfan]

We have a great one just outside Hayle (Hell); the Bucket of Blood.

A body dripping blood came up in the pub's well bucket.......inside the pub.
http://www.staustellb...-of-blood-hayle-.html