SHA Small Heath Alliance

Over 40s bars/cattle market city centre

Foxtrot Oscar 16:25, Tue 5 May

Ribeye   0
Replying to Ricky Blotto   17:30, Wed 6 May
Ricky Blotto
It's probably not rough - I've yet to be beaten up there - but even to this day The Bull Ring Tavern is full of old school craziness.

It's no where near as bad as it was. I've been in there quite a bit recently. A few years ago I saw a bloke piss himself in there and not bat an eyelid
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newblue   0
Replying to Ribeye   17:40, Wed 6 May
Some of the pubs in the west end of Newcastle were very ‘interesting’. None of them were rougher (or possibly stranger) than The Monkey House on Cato Streer in Duddeston (don’t think it was called that but it just seemed to be known as that). It was a scrumpy house and frequented by seriously brain damaged clientele.
‘Comically negative’ - Colin Robinson
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Rags   0
Replying to Albert - Lord Birmingham   17:45, Wed 6 May
Spike
number8
The Custard House 40 years ago

WHAT a pub.

RIP.

Whatever rough pub people can tell me they used to drink in "back in the day" - I can always pull out my Custard House card and know it can't be trumped.
The Happy Trooper, the Broadway & The Merrymaker were rougher in my opinion. Having said that, as a person that has drank in most rough pubs in Birmingham over the years, it depends what night and who is in there as far as pubs being rougher than each other.

The Happy Trooper was completely mental .... one of only two pubs i avoided when delivering stuff (shut up .... 50 years ago) ..
The other was The Lyndhurst - not mental really - just massively unpleasant people
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El Mayor   0
Replying to Albert - Lord Birmingham   17:48, Wed 6 May
Albert - Lord Birmingham
Spike
number8
The Custard House 40 years ago

WHAT a pub.

RIP.

Whatever rough pub people can tell me they used to drink in "back in the day" - I can always pull out my Custard House card and know it can't be trumped.
The Happy Trooper, the Broadway & The Merrymaker were rougher in my opinion. Having said that, as a person that has drank in most rough pubs in Birmingham over the years, it depends what night and who is in there as far as pubs being rougher than each other.

In my younger days I drank in Costermongers which had a bit of a reputation but I can’t say I saw anything bad happen in there.
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Rags   0
Replying to El Mayor   17:55, Wed 6 May
Albert - Lord Birmingham
Spike
number8
The Custard House 40 years ago

WHAT a pub.

RIP.

Whatever rough pub people can tell me they used to drink in "back in the day" - I can always pull out my Custard House card and know it can't be trumped.
The Happy Trooper, the Broadway & The Merrymaker were rougher in my opinion. Having said that, as a person that has drank in most rough pubs in Birmingham over the years, it depends what night and who is in there as far as pubs being rougher than each other.

In my younger days I drank in Costermongers which had a bit of a reputation but I can’t say I saw anything bad happen in there.

I think it all depends on your age ..... many pubs go through phases of being fine and then bloody awful ... so depends which years you were frequenting them

for example ... The Windsor in Cannon Street in the 70s - if you used the entrance that was in Needless Alley to get into the back lounge you usually wouldn't be allowed in as someone was always on "lookout". Once whatever "deal" was going on had been completed then he lowered his arm and let you in.

You could buy car radios so cheap in there that you could make a decent profit reselling them.

I hear it's quite posh in there now
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El Mayor   0
Replying to Rags   08:27, Thu 7 May
Rags
Albert - Lord Birmingham
Spike
number8
The Custard House 40 years ago

WHAT a pub.

RIP.

Whatever rough pub people can tell me they used to drink in "back in the day" - I can always pull out my Custard House card and know it can't be trumped.
The Happy Trooper, the Broadway & The Merrymaker were rougher in my opinion. Having said that, as a person that has drank in most rough pubs in Birmingham over the years, it depends what night and who is in there as far as pubs being rougher than each other.

In my younger days I drank in Costermongers which had a bit of a reputation but I can’t say I saw anything bad happen in there.

I think it all depends on your age ..... many pubs go through phases of being fine and then bloody awful ... so depends which years you were frequenting them

for example ... The Windsor in Cannon Street in the 70s - if you used the entrance that was in Needless Alley to get into the back lounge you usually wouldn't be allowed in as someone was always on "lookout". Once whatever "deal" was going on had been completed then he lowered his arm and let you in.

You could buy car radios so cheap in there that you could make a decent profit reselling them.

I hear it's quite posh in there now

I genuinely don’t think it is
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Tall   0
Replying to El Mayor   08:47, Thu 7 May
El Mayor
Rags
Albert - Lord Birmingham
Spike
number8
The Custard House 40 years ago

WHAT a pub.

RIP.

Whatever rough pub people can tell me they used to drink in "back in the day" - I can always pull out my Custard House card and know it can't be trumped.
The Happy Trooper, the Broadway & The Merrymaker were rougher in my opinion. Having said that, as a person that has drank in most rough pubs in Birmingham over the years, it depends what night and who is in there as far as pubs being rougher than each other.

In my younger days I drank in Costermongers which had a bit of a reputation but I can’t say I saw anything bad happen in there.

I think it all depends on your age ..... many pubs go through phases of being fine and then bloody awful ... so depends which years you were frequenting them

for example ... The Windsor in Cannon Street in the 70s - if you used the entrance that was in Needless Alley to get into the back lounge you usually wouldn't be allowed in as someone was always on "lookout". Once whatever "deal" was going on had been completed then he lowered his arm and let you in.

You could buy car radios so cheap in there that you could make a decent profit reselling them.

I hear it's quite posh in there now

I genuinely don’t think it is

Was in there a couple of weeks back, posh it certainly isn’t but, a lot better than it was ‘back in the day’.
What did the Knights in White satin?
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Mr Driscoll   1
Replying to Louie Donowa   09:01, Thu 7 May
Louie Donowa
Lucy Palmers, he won’t even need new pants.

True story. Back in the day, In the run up to a family wedding on my in-laws side, a party of aunts and cousins over from Ireland were unwittingly booked in there for a couple of nights. I've never understood why, whoever ran that place, didn't warn them off, but in they went, and out they came minutes later, pale and pretty much mute for the remainder of the festivities.
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bluechip   0
Replying to Mr Driscoll   09:04, Thu 7 May
Mr Driscoll
Louie Donowa
Lucy Palmers, he won’t even need new pants.

True story. Back in the day, In the run up to a family wedding on my in-laws side, a party of aunts and cousins over from Ireland were unwittingly booked in there for a couple of nights. I've never understood why, whoever ran that place, didn't warn them off, but in they went, and out they came minutes later, pale and pretty much mute for the remainder of the festivities.

Booked in to Lucy Palmers for a couple of nights??? I bet that was expensive
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number8   0
Replying to Rags   09:28, Thu 7 May
The Lyndhurst was where I drank when I lived in Erdington, and yes it was not a place you'd want to drop into from outside.
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Albert - Lord Birmingham   0
Replying to El Mayor   09:55, Thu 7 May
El Mayor
Rags
Albert - Lord Birmingham
Spike
number8
The Custard House 40 years ago

WHAT a pub.

RIP.

Whatever rough pub people can tell me they used to drink in "back in the day" - I can always pull out my Custard House card and know it can't be trumped.
The Happy Trooper, the Broadway & The Merrymaker were rougher in my opinion. Having said that, as a person that has drank in most rough pubs in Birmingham over the years, it depends what night and who is in there as far as pubs being rougher than each other.

In my younger days I drank in Costermongers which had a bit of a reputation but I can’t say I saw anything bad happen in there.

I think it all depends on your age ..... many pubs go through phases of being fine and then bloody awful ... so depends which years you were frequenting them

for example ... The Windsor in Cannon Street in the 70s - if you used the entrance that was in Needless Alley to get into the back lounge you usually wouldn't be allowed in as someone was always on "lookout". Once whatever "deal" was going on had been completed then he lowered his arm and let you in.

You could buy car radios so cheap in there that you could make a decent profit reselling them.

I hear it's quite posh in there now

I genuinely don’t think it is
It's closing down anyway to be an O'Neills.
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Mr Driscoll   0
Replying to bluechip   10:06, Thu 7 May
bluechip
Mr Driscoll
Louie Donowa
Lucy Palmers, he won’t even need new pants.

True story. Back in the day, In the run up to a family wedding on my in-laws side, a party of aunts and cousins over from Ireland were unwittingly booked in there for a couple of nights. I've never understood why, whoever ran that place, didn't warn them off, but in they went, and out they came minutes later, pale and pretty much mute for the remainder of the festivities.

Booked in to Lucy Palmers for a couple of nights??? I bet that was expensive

I sense you're ITK on these matters. 😉.
No seriously, it was a long time ago and pretty much everyone involved had past on (heart conditions, mainly I expect🙂), but honestly, it happened.
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