The very worst pub in the world ever and the best Page 2

Worst pub? Too many to choose from (mainly J D Wetherspoon)

Especially if they're in Reading, situated by suburban housing estates and have white vans parked outside.

I think of lots of lovely pubs though. I have some good ones in walking distance. A great one is the The Bell at Aldworth http://www.aldworth.info/Aldworth/bell.html
No draught available, but a nice garden complete with chickens and loads of sparrows, it's next to the cricket field and they do fantastic hot rolls filled with huge slabs of cheese.

The Slaughtered Lamb. It's not bad providing you don't mention the pentagram on the wall.

Quote: chipolata @ July 14 2009, 9:54 AM BST

The Slaughtered Lamb. It's not bad providing you don't mention the pentagram on the wall.

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The really skinny Rik Mayall can be a bit of a distraction also.

A few of the best...

The Greyhound (Pub and Hotel) - Carshalton, Surrey
The Pen Mill Hotel - Yeovil, Somerset
The Cricketer's Arms - Farncombe, Surrey

Quote: Dolly Dagger @ July 14 2009, 9:52 AM BST

Especially if they're in Reading, situated by suburban housing estates and have white vans parked outside.

I think of lots of lovely pubs though. I have some good ones in walking distance. A great one is the The Bell at Aldworth http://www.aldworth.info/Aldworth/bell.html
No draught available, but a nice garden complete with chickens and loads of sparrows, it's next to the cricket field and they do fantastic hot rolls filled with huge slabs of cheese.

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No drafts? Isn't that like a knocking shop with out knockers?

Quote: sootyj @ July 14 2009, 12:27 PM BST

No drafts? Isn't that like a knocking shop with out knockers?

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Sorry I meant lager on draught. There's real ale and stuff and lager in bottles.

There's also a fabled pub in the countryside in Berkshire/Oxfordshire. It's run by two old sisters, it's tiny and it's like sitting in their front room but it's really difficult to find as it's down some tracks in the woods. Some people set out to find it and never arrive. And then another time you do find it. Wooooooooo!!!!

Now that is a good idea, no lager I approve.

There are many, many poor pubs in and around my home town Middlesbrough, too many to choose from.

Had to post this though...surely the most unsumptious beer garden in all of Christendom? Note the tastefully-arranged road bollards and the dead seagull caught in the barbed wire.

Oh my word do people get shot or f**ked up against that wall?

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Oh my word do people get shot or f**ked up against that wall?

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Shoot up I imagine.

Quote: Lee Henman @ July 14 2009, 12:56 PM BST

There are many, many poor pubs in and around my home town Middlesbrough, too many to choose from.

Had to post this though...surely the most unsumptious beer garden in all of Christendom? Note the tastefully-arranged road bollards and the dead seagull caught in the barbed wire.

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I love it The seagull is pub grub no?

Quote: Lee Henman @ July 14 2009, 12:56 PM BST

surely the most unsumptious beer garden in all of Christendom? Note the tastefully-arranged road bollards and the dead seagull caught in the barbed wire.

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Luxury.

Quote: Afinkawan @ July 14 2009, 9:36 AM BST

The Old Leather Bottle in Wimbledon. It's a bit rubbish now.

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Fact. The last time I was in there I had to dissuade a chap that the level of violence he indicated he wanted to commit upon my perosn didn't seem commensurate with my crime of having 'looked at him', apparently. He did actually say, 'What are you looking at?' My response was to look over my shoulder to see who he was talking to.

Quote: Afinkawan @ July 14 2009, 9:36 AM BST

The worst one has probably been blanked from my memory but I have vague memories of someone putting an axe in the pool table and someone else waving a shotgun around.

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That could be the Queen Vic in North Cheam. Though the axe was embedded in the bar first, then the landlord.

For me, I think my favourite is probably the Park Tavern in Kingston. Worst, Prince of wales in New Malden, or any number of pubs in Liverpool.

Or anywhere where you can't sit down and/or the music's too loud. I'm 87.

Quote: Rob H @ July 14 2009, 3:06 PM BST

That could be the Queen Vic in North Cheam.

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DON'T TALK TO ME ABOUT CHEAM!!!!

Quote: chipolata @ July 14 2009, 3:18 PM BST

DON'T TALK TO ME ABOUT CHEAM!!!!

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Jeez, ok. I wasn't planning on it.

I'll change the subject: Where did Hancock live? Railway Cuttings, I know, but where was it...?