BS: Pub Names

Subject: RE: BS: Pub Names
From: GUEST,Mingulay at work
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 10:57 AM

There is a pub in Uxbridge which was renamed 'The Ostler', it was previously called 'The White Horse'. A spokesperson for the brewery explained that the change of name was to better reflect the range of services on offer.

I would have loved to have walked into the bar leading a horse just to see if the 'services' reflected the name.

I also used to attend a watering hole called 'The Stag & Pheasant' which was better known locally as 'The Staggering Peasant'.

Subject: RE: BS: Pub Names
From: Scrump
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 10:54 AM

Lots of pubs owned by the Greene King brewery in England are being renamed "the Greene King" - at least, that's how it looks. The brewery has started replacing the old pictorial signs (usually depicting the pub name) with a sign just showing the brewery logo. This has been causing a bit of friction with the locals - in one village, I gather they were able to get the brewery to restore the old sign.

As for pub names, I regret the trend in recent years to replace old pub names, which usually have some sort of local historical significance, with "trendy" new names, usually designed to attract yuppies or young "binge drinkers" (well, they're the ones with the disposable income, apparently). Although old buildings are protected against alteration by law, it seems old names are not :(

Subject: RE: BS: Pub Names
From: Captain Ginger
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 10:19 AM

Reminds me of a dear aunt who had lodgings in a delightful pub in a little village in Wiltshire.
She loved to hear of my adventures on foreign postings and to be kept abreast of all the queer goings on up the Khyber Many was the time our regimental postman would break into an inexplicable grun when I handed him yet another field postcard addressed to:

Miss Prudence Lykes,
The Olde Cock Inn,
Tillit,
Wilts.

Subject: RE: BS: Pub Names
From: Rasener
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 09:56 AM

The Hooker's Inn
Big Willy's Inn
The Dogs Bollocks
The Cock and Pull Pub
The Dog & Dongle
The cat & Mouse
The Slug & lettuce
The Cockroach & Maggott

Subject: RE: BS: Pub Names
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 09:21 AM

Nice one Laura

If your local is noted for its argumentative clientele,disputes sometimes settled by that
'Olde English' tradition of the car park punch-up then why not do as one pub near us did change its name from 'The G*****n' to 'The War Office'

Subject: RE: BS: Pub Names
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 09:19 AM

The Centipede, or The Millipede, to spice up games of 'pub cricket'.

Subject: RE: BS: Pub Names
From: GUEST,Stoatweasel
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 09:15 AM

Why do people think that if you put 'ferret' in a pub name, it's automatically funny?

Subject: RE: BS: Pub Names
From: *Laura*
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 09:13 AM

The Septic Ferret!!
I am SO going to suggest that my local (The Masons Arms) changes it's name! :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Pub Names
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 08:55 AM

The Office... as in I'll be a little late home dear, I must pop into the office .

Subject: RE: BS: Pub Names
From: skipy
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 08:39 AM

the "under new management"
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Pub Names
From: Billy Suggers
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 08:36 AM

I'm a regular at the "Temporary Sign" in Loose Chippings, (near Sodbury). Great name for a pub.

Subject: RE: BS: Pub Names
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 07:52 AM

Ideally the name would have some relevance to the site or area the pub is in. I mean, you wouldn't call it the Station Inn if it wasn't near a station and didn't do rooms.

Or else maybe a historical connection. What was on the site before it was a pub ?

Subject: BS: Pub Names
From: GUEST,jimlad (Guest)
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 07:43 AM

I recently was aked for my opinions on names for a new pub opening in my town. The following were rejected.

'The Strangled Leper'

'The Septic Ferret"

'The Hugh Jarce Arms'

Any more out there?.