Rubbish Pubs

[EpsomWolf]

Trips is going to kill you, just so you know.

As long as the wake isn’t in a G.K. pub it’s fine.

 

[Boozad]

The Ashmore is alright, the landlords been running it as a food bank during the pandemic, during which it got raided because someone grassed to the police it was serving drinks, landlord said if he finds out who it was they'll be kneecapped!

That bolded part is utter, utter bollocks. Not saying he didn't say it, moreso he wouldn't do it.

 

[Boozad]

Stroud Ave then, grew up and lived round there until I was about 20

Lived in the corner flat that faced out onto that big green in the middle of the Stroud Avenue loop, can't remember the name of the road. it's been over twenty years ago and it didn't last long.

 

[SSB]

The Boat still had a darts team on a Friday as of a couple of years back. Unfortunately they also had a disco on those nights too, which with a pub the size of that it isn't exactly conducive for a good game. It was mostly being used as a pre town piss-up joint as a result.

Remember The Bushbury Arms having karaoke at the same time as a darts match and us laughing at a young girl murdering a song until we found out it was the landlord’s darling daughter.

 

[Tredman]

This was our local underage pub when I was a kid - known as the Rickie. Finally closed a few years ago after the second murder outside IIRC.

 

[Jack Regan]

Remember The Bushbury Arms having karaoke at the same time as a darts match and us laughing at a young girl murdering a song until we found out it was the landlord’s darling daughter.

The Bushbury Arms very much worth a mention, awful place. The Otter and Vixen too as that's where the Bush darts team moved to after it closed down. It'd be a lot easier to list the nice pubs I've been in from a darts POV than all of the shitholes.

 

[Derby Wolf]

Staffordshire Volunteer in Bushbury. Woodbine. One a One Stop. The other gently falling derelict. Both have improved from this change of usage.

My first girlfriend lived by Northicote Park and like clockwork it'd be raided by the police every 6-12 months. Lovely gaff!

This was probably my favourite shithole in Burton.

It's got boarded up a couple of years ago which is definitely for the best. It's in a massive council estate full of neds and dossers, and you could regularly find people openly smoking weed in the lounge most nights. Probably heroin in the toilets too knowing some of the lads that used to go in there.

Shobnall or Stapenhill? Gotta be one or t'other!

The Locomotive in Burton Town too, about to have its licence tugged and then Barracudas about 500 yards up the road you will never find more wretched hives of scum and villainy.

 

[sycophantia]

We used to travel from Dudley to Sedgley for our underage pubs, The Crown and the Red Lion? Last time I went past the Crown there were a load of dodgy looking characters outside...haven't been in either for about 44 years.
Had to travel cos my old man used most of our locals and would have killed me if he caught in them when I was 15-16

 

[lemonjelly]

on the cannock road you had the wagon and horses, and across the road was the equally shite coach and horses. both rough as arseholes.

also the mitre in bradmore. one of the oddest pubs about.

an ex-albion supporting mate of mine used to do a "rough pubs" crawl of other towns with his mates every once in a while. gang of them would go to a series of hellholes for a night out.

 

[Derby Wolf]

By the way, I know it goes without saying Wetherspoon pubs are largely shitholes but Bilston Spoons abuses the privilege. Tommy Dudley is a bit of a cult figure in Bilston and hes took his horse in there more than once. Someone should do a joke about that.

on the cannock road you had the wagon and horses, and across the road was the equally shite coach and horses. both rough as arseholes.

also the mitre in bradmore. one of the oddest pubs about.

an ex-albion supporting mate of mine used to do a "rough pubs" crawl of other towns with his mates every once in a while. gang of them would go to a series of hellholes for a night out.

As a kid the Angels used to take over the Springhill on a Wednesday. We'd walk past after my boy Scout meetings and I used to be enthralled with the bikes. When that became a Harvester they started using The Mitre. Started drinking underage on the rec till we got the guts to try and get served in there.

 

[Trips]

Most of those have been used as meeting points for nights out at some point, bunch of former colleagues used to live around Stroud Avenue. The Cavalcade by far the worst of the bunch, wouldn't have dared to go in without a local by my side. On lad I worked with treated it like a second home though, think he was a big fan of some of their 'off menu' goods.

I never felt that uncomfortable in the Cavalcade, although I grew up at that end of Stroud Ave and knew quite a lot of the folk in there. No surprise when I heard they had bulldozed the place, everyone just ended up in the Homestead instead lol

 

[EpsomWolf]

Remember The Bushbury Arms having karaoke at the same time as a darts match and us laughing at a young girl murdering a song until we found out it was the landlord’s darling daughter.

Reminded me of visiting my sister over in Leighton Buzzard and randomly tagging on to her pub quiz team one evening.

One of our team members was disputing the answer to a question about Kajagoogoo and the fella that took over when Limahl left. The quizmaster was a bit of a knob and things got a bit heated, but the girl wouldn’t let it drop. Eventually he said, “Fucks sake, what would you know about 80’s pop music anyway, you’re just a kid”

To which she replied, “Nick Beggs is my dad.”

Quality. I bloody loved that.

 

[visage]

Shout out for the Flying Dutchman.

The only time I ever went in there I saw a dwarf attacking someone with a pool cue. Hence never going back.

 

[The Bear]

My first girlfriend lived by Northicote Park and like clockwork it'd be raided by the police every 6-12 months. Lovely gaff!



Shobnall or Stapenhill? Gotta be one or t'other!

The Locomotive in Burton Town too, about to have its licence tugged and then Barracudas about 500 yards up the road you will never find more wretched hives of scum and villainy.

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Stapenhill for The Dart.

I used to go in the Loco on nights out in my late teens 20 years ago. It used to have a DJ on weekends and It was ok back then. Then up the road to what was then Merlins, which was a quite depressingly scummy nightclub.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Have two from Hamburg:

I absolutely loathe both of them, but the London Pub is worse for a) being run by Walsall fans (or at least it was in 2001) b) not having been cleaned since about 1984 c) lying to us in 2018 that they had Villa vs Wolves on when they fucking didn't, but we didn't know that until we'd trekked all the way over there. Then a place next door that didn't exist when I lived there did have it on. Then we lost 4-1.

 

[lemonjelly]

As a kid the Angels used to take over the Springhill on a Wednesday. We'd walk past after my boy Scout meetings and I used to be enthralled with the bikes. When that became a Harvester they started using The Mitre. Started drinking underage on the rec till we got the guts to try and get served in there.

used to go in the springhill as a teenager quite a lot. Knew Daryl who did the "rock disco" there, from the steady eddies. Knew his wife sue, and daughter fiona quite well too.
remember the first night it reopened after the makeover and the bikers walked in and threw a load of offal waste over the bar.

 

[lemonjelly]

The only time I ever went in there I saw a dwarf attacking someone with a pool cue. Hence never going back.

as a 19yo, I was invited there by a friends exceptionally sexy mom. she used to drive an escort rs turbo, and wore very tight jeans. very odd experience, as she took me there to introduce me to her parents...

 

[The Weasel]

as a 19yo, I was invited there by a friends exceptionally sexy mom. she used to drive an escort rs turbo, and wore very tight jeans. very odd experience, as she took me there to introduce me to her parents...

Did she get to see you in your housecoat...?

 

[Keef]

Was that Stacey's mom (whose got it going on)?

 

[lemonjelly]

Did she get to see you in your housecoat...?

I wish!