I visited this pub a few years ago because my name is the name of the pub, it was very much a “local pub for local people” and my joke for a free pint for sharing my name with the pub was received with a stern “no”!
by acdbrnout
I visited this pub a few years ago because my name is the name of the pub, it was very much a “local pub for local people” and my joke for a free pint for sharing my name with the pub was received with a stern “no”!
by acdbrnout
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The Moon and Pitchfork
Early 80’s, football hooligans were an issue.
At our city centre pub (Leicester) on Match days the front door was locked, and only regulars, or known others, were allowed in.
Staff and actual regulars would take turns at the door (they got a pint for doing it) and we stayed violence free despite the large numbers walking past.
I’ll have a can a can’t please.
My local only lets regulars in on Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve, anyone else gets turned away
Looks like a friendly type of place.
Is your name Red Lion?
That’d be cool.
Or are you The Duke of Wellington?
There used to be a pub in Stafford with a sign on the door saying ‘No Skinheads’.
Even in the 90s some pubs still had “No Travellers” on the door, like a proper brass sign so it wasn’t just a quickly printed piece of paper.
I’d bet this is related and they’re trying to get away with it by not breaking the law.
Is that even legal if it’s not a private members place?
We used to have a sign on the door of my local when the circus was in town “locals only”. The guys from the circus were getting drunk and causing huge issues for the area so needed to be done.
The Troubles here as well, sadly.
“any strangers will be refuse at bar”…
Sounds like a load of rubbish to me… What they going to do, put them round the back with the recycling…?
(Sorry, someone had to make what I thought was an obvious joke…)
>ARE YOU LOCAL?
Ah, the Moody Cow
I remember a pub in Wolverhampton with ‘Motorcyclists by appointment only’
In bloody Wolverhampton
My local pretty much runs like this aswell.
You have to ring the doorbell and look into the camera before you get let in. It’s more or less unofficially a members pub
This is one of two things imo:
1) A way of saying “no travellers” without explicitly doing so & opening themselves up to potential legal action.
2) It was actually the regulars causing trouble with non-regulars, but said regulars put a lot of money over the bar so they’re “protecting their revenue”.
This is a local pub for local people. We’ll have no trouble here.
Pub = “Public House”.
Real public not allowed.
Regulars welcome
All strangers will be refused
Drops of rain- no, tears!