The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #97879   Message #1934811
Posted By: Folkiedave
12-Jan-07 - 07:37 PM
Thread Name: BS: Pub Names
Subject: RE: BS: Pub Names
One of the great sessions pubs (most nights of the week) in Sheffield is called Fagan's after a long-standing landlord Joe Fagan of whom there are many legendary stories.

Go in and ask Tom the current landlord to tell you some of them.

Joe was a Lancaster bomber pilot and used to tell how not only was he blown out of the sky and had to parachute down, he caught a fellow airman on his way down without a parachute. Not only that but he smoked a Woodbine on his way to earth.

When asked how he lit the Woodbine, since he was holding his fellow airman, Joe answered "flak".