The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #47708   Message #713370
Posted By: Emma B
19-May-02 - 08:26 AM
Thread Name: Name That Pub (Bar)
Subject: RE: Name That Pub (Bar)
Unfortunately the 'history' of names is not as interesting as the imagination (you know radio has better pictures!) The Blazing Donkey is just another name for braying and the Good Intent was the name of a schooner used for smuggling off the Kent coast (There is also a Good Intent just outside Chester named after a local stagecoach) Is there still a Mother Redcaps in Dublin - a great pub where I got totally smashed on Christmas Eve. 'Old Mother Redcap according to her tale/Lived twenty and a hundred years by drinking good ale/ It was her meat, her drink, her medicine besides/And if she still had drunk ale, she never would have died. - What a role-model!