What is the roughest pub you have ever been to?

The maple - never been in but you can see it from the new by pass to Stockton and it sandwiched between ragworth/blue hall and Durham rd so I’d suspect is abit tasty.

Just looked it’s a care home now.
 
Both in Glasgow.

Bairds Bar in the east end. A Celtic pub. Me being an English, Non Catholic in there was erm.... interesting. Long since shut though. Look it up if you don't know it.

Other one, not strictly a pub, but visited with the lad who's house we were staying at on this trip to Glasgow. It was a social club in Sighthill. FK ME. Rough doesn't even cover it!!

Surprised I got back to England intact tbh.
 
My Dad had the tenancy of the Robin Hood. Only for a couple of years as was normal I would guess for that Pub. I heard alot of stories of how stessful/difficult it was to run. I think it was pulled down in the 1990s, I never visited him there. I used to drink in the Albion (Commercial Street near the Dock) ocassionally with him and it looked rough, but was actually very friendly inside on a lunchtime. Different feel from the Town Centre pubs. They were all part of Old Middlesbrough - Pre Riverside/Middlehaven. Places wear working class blokes went to talk amonst themselves, play darts/dominoes, have a laugh, wind down..
 
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El Guapo said:
Is that the one that is now Dubliners? If so I used to go in there back in late 80s early 90sand play pool in the back room, was very shabby but I never had any bother.
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I used to work at KHome on Chappel Street in 1980, the pub was called the Cleveland then. It was our Friday lunchtime venue. Great character, but I never went in on the night.
As a footnote, we used to buy our Saturday morning sandwiches from BRS, I seemed to remember that they even baked their own bread. Happy Days😋
 
We were out in Bristol after the match with a Boro fan and his mate from Bristol we asked where we were going next and Boro fan who knew Bristol said ?????(sorry can't remember name) to which the Bristol lad said "you can't take them there it's rough as f***" the Boro lad said "the nurseries in Boro are rougher than that" :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
 
Billingham red said:
The Billingham Arms, its no longer there now , was a bit intimidating 😳
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Oh yeah been there loadsa times. Used to do a bit of Craig David on the karaoke when I was about 16/17. Often ended up at ‘the Arms dance’ after Kings / Stoney! What a crap place but everyone had a great time
 
The Slang Pub in Budapest. Local bloke lost his head threw the tip jar at the lads behind the bar because one of our group turned the light off whilst he was having a ****. All kicked off, lasses screaming. Mafia looking blokes arrived outside all massive wearing long coats wouldn’t let anyone leave until they got to the bottom of the story. Pretty hairy.
 
The Lion & Falcon in the Cleveland Centre, also big shouts for the Roseberry and Acklam Garden City.
 
Never been in the Captain Cook but from the stories I have heard it would take some beating as the roughest pub in Boro at one time. Well known 'hard men' Terry Dicko and Brian Cockerill have mentioned it many times in their books and the fights that went on in there. BC mentioned attacking Allo ( Lee Duffys killer) because he was hitting another man over the head with a chair!

Trying to visualise all this and it sounded like a wild west saloon fight! Stories do seem to have been embellished a bit! It would make some sense as these were predominantly male pubs, copious amounts of alcohol consumed, and reputations as hard men to be upheld.
 
newyddion said:
Brads Bar in Stockton. Walked in with my mates, they went to the bar and I went to the toilets. Went to wash my hands in the sink.. but it was full of blood. Went to use another sink and that too was full of blood. As I came out of the bogs my mates were walking out saying ‘it’s rough as f**k in here’ - not sure what went on.. but it must have been worse than two sinks full of blood.
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Brad's Bar was rough as f, u-c k - your mates were right!
 
The Ruthsayer said:
I’m pretty sure it was Champions before it was Churchill’s. Big estate pub just off the ring road?
And yes, that Brown Jug!
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I remember before Churchills was pulled down someone had painted 'F U C K O F F A LDI' in great big black letters on the side of the pub. Was funny going past it on the school bus every morning.

When a student in Newcastle, we spent a few bank holiday monday's down on Whitley Bay sea front, and there was some absolute shitholes on those pub crawls.

Also, you can tell a pub is a wrong un' if they have anti-drug snorting measures like UV lights or no flat surfaces in the cubicles
 
Piccadilly Day Tripper said:
I remember before Churchills was pulled down someone had painted 'F U C K O F F A LDI' in great big black letters on the side of the pub. Was funny going past it on the school bus every morning.

When a student in Newcastle, we spent a few bank holiday monday's down on Whitley Bay sea front, and there was some absolute shitholes on those pub crawls.

Also, you can tell a pub is a wrong un' if they have anti-drug snorting measures like UV lights or no flat surfaces in the cubicles
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That was like the back entrance to safeway in Norton ( the old Norton board school) some wrote in huge big letter on the wall outside

“ now entering the d*ckhead zone”
 
Must say I've drank in a lot of the pubs mentioned as far back as the Glass Barrel days including the Berry, The Bucc, the tavern and the dodgy Stockton ones.. A bunch of us did it regular, out of curiosity, in our student days. Their reputation goes before them but they were never quite as bad as folk made out.

Not saying we didn't have any dust ups - The Welly was probably the worst. Used it regularly but one night about 8 of us got lifted by the cops.

i do remember a bunch of us walking into the barrel first time around. There was some party going on, with a load of rough old birds dancing about.

DJ turned the music down and announced "F me. Fresh meat girls. Come and get it it. Give them a beginners discount and try not to break any of them"

Marvelous.
 
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