Do you know any public houses that have really interesting names because of their history?
If yes what is it and what’s the history surrounding the name?
I used to know a pub called the Silent Woman. There were lots of stories about why it was called that but the most interesting was this… Smugglers used to frequent the pub and because they were scared that the landlady would talk to someone that they didn’t want her to they cut out her tongue!
Sorry I think that a few people misunderstood my question. When I say a public house, I mean a pub (somewhere where you drink, buy alcohol and that often provides overnight accomodation). I don’t know what the American word is… inn, bar etc maybe. I forget that we speak the same language but have different words and sayings for some things. I can see how some people thought that I meant a house open to the public though, It’s my fault for not being more specific.
I live in North West England where there are many pubs but few with interesting names. However I recall one in Middleton named ‘Who’d a thowt it?’ which is Lancashire dialect for Who would have thought it. In Leigh there is one named ‘Our House’ which is reputed to be the only pub in England so named. My local is The Rope and Anchor which was originated about five hundred years ago by a retired sailor. Here’s some more but i can’t help you with their history:-
1. Hark to Bounty, Slaidburn
2. Tinker and Budget, Oswaldtwistle
3. Clog and Billycock, Blackburn
4. Doctor Syntax, Preston
5. Hand and Dagger, Treales
6. Snig’s Foot, Ormskirk
7. The C’ock and Bottle, Tarleton (My apostrophe)
8. The Crooked Billet Inn, Worsthorne
9. The Duck and Puddle, Blackburn
10. Fibber McGees, Lancaster
11. Duck and Squirrel, Salford
12. Hand and Banner, Wigan
Finally there’s one in Stalybridge, Cheshire named
‘The Thirteenth Mounted Cheshire Rifleman’
the white house
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The Beetle and Wedge, so called because they were tools of shoemakers who drank there centuries before.
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The Chouse in Norman, OK. It was originally a church but the community left for a new church. So some family bought the place and lived in it. I think its public now and is called the Chouse.
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I don’t know the name but I do know that in Natchez there are many antebellum homes that have interesting stories. Some of them weren’t finished because of the Civil War.
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"Monticello" the Kennedy´s residence…Considered one of the must beautiful places to live in that moment…
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I live in North West England where there are many pubs but few with interesting names. However I recall one in Middleton named ‘Who’d a thowt it?’ which is Lancashire dialect for Who would have thought it. In Leigh there is one named ‘Our House’ which is reputed to be the only pub in England so named. My local is The Rope and Anchor which was originated about five hundred years ago by a retired sailor. Here’s some more but i can’t help you with their history:-
1. Hark to Bounty, Slaidburn
2. Tinker and Budget, Oswaldtwistle
3. Clog and Billycock, Blackburn
4. Doctor Syntax, Preston
5. Hand and Dagger, Treales
6. Snig’s Foot, Ormskirk
7. The C’ock and Bottle, Tarleton (My apostrophe)
8. The Crooked Billet Inn, Worsthorne
9. The Duck and Puddle, Blackburn
10. Fibber McGees, Lancaster
11. Duck and Squirrel, Salford
12. Hand and Banner, Wigan
Finally there’s one in Stalybridge, Cheshire named
‘The Thirteenth Mounted Cheshire Rifleman’
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