There will be a great cock match at the Blue Bell…to show 31 cocks…Gentlemen shall be accommodated with a glass of excellent wine and care taken to prevent disturbance by the mob.
The Pub Landlord, 1725
Blimey. That’s a lot of cock. Just leave the bottle. These days the cocks of the county strut their stuff along Prince of Wales Road with its grubby hotspots of ill repute. The Bell now serves up cheap ale to north folk with tattoos and bad teeth. Still, at £3.59 for a large glass of pinot, who am I to argue?
What great history on that sign! Home over the ages to ‘Hellfire’ group, assorted revolutionaries, U.S. Women’s army air corps and you and Liam!!
We’re the most subversive of them all! 😉
Blimey! Used to buy a bottle in Sainsburys for that!
So you were into cock fighting then? 😉
. . let’s not go there!
I don’t really know if it sounds like my kind of place…….
Try it on for size. You might just like it 😀
If those walls could talk. 😀 😀 😀
The sign’s pretty special and shares a lot with few words.
They’d speak volumes!
Ha ha ha. Yup.
Aww, miss old pubs with stories to tell like that – and reckon we’ll be in for a shock should we ever make it back to Blighty some time. Is that classed as a cheap pint, these days?? Eek! 😉
‘Fraid so. What’s a boy to do?