Strange Pub Names

[crookedspire]

A few more unusual names: Q in the Corner the pub was somewhere on Paradise Square, Why Not pub perhaps named after a race horse, East House on Spital Hill . Nickname one Shout them down another long gone Paradise Square boozer.

[stpetre]

A few more unusual names: Q in the Corner the pub was somewhere on Paradise Square, Why Not pub perhaps named after a race horse, East House on Spital Hill . Nickname one Shout them down another long gone Paradise Square boozer.

 

I think the pub you are thinking about is the 'Who Can Tell' (Tennant's) was at Botham Street and Ruthin Street in Grimesthorpe. The supposed name coming from the outcome of a horse race. As for 'East House' not a strange name as it was in that side of Sheffield, but then again !

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[trastrick]

O.K. TORONTONY opened the door to non Sheffield pubs so, a few years ago in los Angeles there was a bar [ not a pub ] called BETTIES "PISTOL DAWN ' Get it ???

 

obviously owned by an ex pat

 

Here in TO we had a line of "Firkin" pubs, Fox & Firkin, Fiddle & Firkin, firkin this, firkin that etc.etc

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[horribleblob]

When I moved to Sheffield, one of the first pubs I visited was The Plumpers, in Attercliffe. Urged on by my drinking companion, I remember querying (in my alien accent) why our pint glasses weren't quite full and then being given short shrift by the barman. I never returned and the pub was demolished a year or so later. I assumed "Plumpers" was a cutlery thing (like Buffers) and understand that the Attercliffe pub wasn't the only one in Sheffield to bear the name.

[Ivan Spatula]

there can't be many stranger pub names then "The Lambpool" ont cliffe yrs ago .... wonder how that got its name ?

[TORONTONY]

When I moved to Sheffield, one of the first pubs I visited was The Plumpers, in Attercliffe. Urged on by my drinking companion, I remember querying (in my alien accent) why our pint glasses weren't quite full and then being given short shrift by the barman. I never returned and the pub was demolished a year or so later. I assumed "Plumpers" was a cutlery thing (like Buffers) and understand that the Attercliffe pub wasn't the only one in Sheffield to bear the name.

 

It was actually Tinsley where the Plumpers was located, close to where the motorway overpass was eventually built. Good pint of Stones, called in many a Saturday lunchtime after work at Hadfields across the road, in the sixties.

[stpetre]

When I moved to Sheffield, one of the first pubs I visited was The Plumpers, in Attercliffe. Urged on by my drinking companion, I remember querying (in my alien accent) why our pint glasses weren't quite full and then being given short shrift by the barman. I never returned and the pub was demolished a year or so later. I assumed "Plumpers" was a cutlery thing (like Buffers) and understand that the Attercliffe pub wasn't the only one in Sheffield to bear the name.

 

There were two pubs called 'The Plumpers' in the Attercliffe area, one (a Stones' house) at Sheffield Road and Bawtry Road in Tinsley, demolished and re-built nearby and one (a Tetley's place ) on Sutherland Street at Norfolk Bridge.

[TORONTONY]

There were two pubs called 'The Plumpers' in the Attercliffe area, one (a Stones' house) at Sheffield Road and Bawtry Road in Tinsley, demolished and re-built nearby and one (a Tetley's place ) on Sutherland Street at Norfolk Bridge.

 

Never knew there was another Plumpers, apologies to Horribleblob.

[horribleblob]

There were two pubs called 'The Plumpers' in the Attercliffe area, one (a Stones' house) at Sheffield Road and Bawtry Road in Tinsley, demolished and re-built nearby and one (a Tetley's place ) on Sutherland Street at Norfolk Bridge.

 

Yep, stpetre, that's the one. Ta.

 

 

Never knew there was another Plumpers, apologies to Horribleblob.

 

That's ok, TORONTONY.

[Pugwash]

The North Pole. I used to work at Tempered Tools, just round the corner from the North Pole. One of my work mates spent so much time in the pub he got the nick name "Nanook"