This is the best thread ever! Makes me miss home & all the east hull boozers that I grew up in..... for the record its goat & compass closely followed by the crown on holderness rerd
Late 70s early 80s used to drop in Earl De Grey before heading into old town .. the old parrot .. the working girls .. black corner .. and the wild west punch ups .. Had it all for me .. was better then going to the movies with the entertainment .. used to finish off at Bierkeller with it's brass dance floor .. oh such wonderful memories
skipper's on North bransholme i take it live up that way myself and don't use itInspired by the preseason thread.
Name the three roughest boozers you've frequented in Hull.
1. Elephant and Castle mid 90's. An absolute air of menace as soon as you walked in. A mate was a 'local' so I was just about safe in there. Hostile doesn't come close.
2. Skippers. As a lad from that neck of the woods with plenty of the clientele old school mates you might think I'd feel comfortable in the place. Wrong, full of nutters and arse holes.
3. Tam Tams. Full of bams ( as Irvine Welsh would say) and definitely not for the faint hearted. Rough as arseholes.
endyke now a premier convince storeEndyke was dodgy, probably still is.
Any boozer on OPE.
Swallow hotel on B/holme...Hotel my arse...
The Beech tree in Kirkella.? ..Leave it out...I went in there on a couple of occasions. Seemed full of hooray Henry's and Henrietta's. Can't image any needle in there.Things could get a bit hairy in the Beech Tree.
The Beech tree in Kirkella.? ..Leave it out...I went in there on a couple of occasions. Seemed full of hooray Henry's and Henrietta's. Can't image any needle in there.
Unless someone had their Chardonnay or Pims spilled.
Pennine Rambler on N. Bransholme was best avoided if a certain notorious family where in there, along with Gypsyville Tavern on Hessle High Road.
Mind you my brother nearly filled Jimmy Bullard in in Beech Tree...Bit of a whoooosh! there.Maybe I should have added a big smiley to my post?
I live in East Yorkshire so apologies in advance for coming into Hull and raping your facilities.
My wife and I were doing up a house (shovelling human ****e out of a crack den) down Holland Street and as such spent a bit of time in Elephant and Castle. During daylight hours, obvs.
The first time we went an old man threw an empty *** packet at our feet next to the bin outside. My wife was going to pick it up but I tugged her hand as she'd already upset some schoolkids by picking up their chip wrappers and this guy looked more menacing than children. Already committed to the door we entered into a fog of cannabis smoke. Five or so blokes were sat smoking weed under the 'No Smoking' sign, taking it in turns to play pool next to the 'No Smoking Over The Pool Table' sign. We were impressed by the black marble flooring which upon closer inspection turned out to be the dirtiest carpet I have ever seen, somehow buffed to a high sheen. A shelf was hanging off a pillar with a bit of blood on it.
Undeterred, we continued to the bar, next to which was a framed closure order from Humberside Plod with the words 'REINSTATED. THIS IS OUR PUB' written on it in red pen. The girl behind the bar informed us that the police had trouble locating certain individuals when the pub was closed so they'd been forced to allow it to reopen. I don't know how true this was but I wasn't going to call her a liar or anybody in there anything. We had three pints each and the price was for some reason, different every time. The first time my wife went to the toilet she came back 20 seconds later and I had to go and stand on guard as there were no doors. Not on the way in, not on the cubicles. Luckily no one could see in as there weren't any lights either. Or an intact sink.
The last time we went in a man tried to force us to play poker and as our neighbours had been removing stuff from the house as quick as we were putting it in, we cut our losses and did one.
Strange days.
skipper's on North bransholme i take it live up that way myself and don't use it
Sums up the place perfectly.
I'm surprised it is still open tbhMy old man used to go in there every Tuesday night, why a Tuesday I'll never know.
Saying that I went in with him one night( it was a Tuesday) and he had his little group of mates who'd meet up with and have a blather, mainly about sport.
They were the only ones in the place.
I live in East Yorkshire so apologies in advance for coming into Hull and raping your facilities.
My wife and I were doing up a house (shovelling human ****e out of a crack den) down Holland Street and as such spent a bit of time in Elephant and Castle. During daylight hours, obvs.
The first time we went an old man threw an empty *** packet at our feet next to the bin outside. My wife was going to pick it up but I tugged her hand as she'd already upset some schoolkids by picking up their chip wrappers and this guy looked more menacing than children. Already committed to the door we entered into a fog of cannabis smoke. Five or so blokes were sat smoking weed under the 'No Smoking' sign, taking it in turns to play pool next to the 'No Smoking Over The Pool Table' sign. We were impressed by the black marble flooring which upon closer inspection turned out to be the dirtiest carpet I have ever seen, somehow buffed to a high sheen. A shelf was hanging off a pillar with a bit of blood on it.
Undeterred, we continued to the bar, next to which was a framed closure order from Humberside Plod with the words 'REINSTATED. THIS IS OUR PUB' written on it in red pen. The girl behind the bar informed us that the police had trouble locating certain individuals when the pub was closed so they'd been forced to allow it to reopen. I don't know how true this was but I wasn't going to call her a liar or anybody in there anything. We had three pints each and the price was for some reason, different every time. The first time my wife went to the toilet she came back 20 seconds later and I had to go and stand on guard as there were no doors. Not on the way in, not on the cubicles. Luckily no one could see in as there weren't any lights either. Or an intact sink.
The last time we went in a man tried to force us to play poker and as our neighbours had been removing stuff from the house as quick as we were putting it in, we cut our losses and did one.
Strange days.
Mind you my brother nearly filled Jimmy Bullard in in Beech Tree...
Turned out that no, he didn't know he was, but made the reasonable assumption that anyone asking that question in the first place was a ****, and should be removed from the area
A mate came round and asked if I fancied a pint to get over the 7-2 defeat by Brentford. He drove up there, first time either of us had been in. Paul and Shaun McN were in and another of our group from those days. The founder of the Action Group and chief coffin carrier came in to meet his mate who had been to the game. Then some of the team walked in laughing and joking. A few comments about instead of laughing they should be at home and hanging their heads in shame. The Coffin Carrier then got in a heated discussion about they can't have discussed the match much and been in a rush to get back to the pub when they arrived back before someone who had been by car. Got to jackets off and invitations to discuss it on the car park with one of the players, can't remember which one, may have been Gordon Nesbit, (which makes me realise how heated it was as Dave was a big fan of Nesbit's) before people stepped in. Cameo was the coffee club, in which you could purchase bottles of watered down rum under the bar.
Ocean 11 was a club with a licence to sell booze over the counter.
Played some decent music in there and to be honest it wasn't so bad as long as you didn't upset any of the regulars.

I bet you was the pissed up twat who offered me and and a mate a lift home and we ended up at a house party on BransermI got nicked for drink driving on my way home from my last visit to Henry's.
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Early 80's, when drink driving was still cool.![]()

.... we ended up in Hull Royal that night as the stupid git jumped off Anlaby Road flyover trying to catch up with her as she went down the Boulevard.I bet you was the pissed up twat who offered me and and a mate a lift home and we ended up at a house party on Branserm![]()