Interesting, Strange, Weird and Funny Names of Public Houses. Would also be more interesting if you know anything about the pub. …internet sources are usually good for that…
The Bucket of Blood,
Hayle in Cornwall.
The name refers to a supposed incident that took place 200 years ago, when the landlord went to draw water from the local well, and drew up a bucket filled with blood instead. A mutilated corpse was found at the foot of the well.
We used to have one named ‘The Flag and Whistle’ because it was built on the site of an old railway track - it even had a children’s slide shaped like a train in the garden. Then it was taken over by a ‘chain’ - and it changed to something boring - can’t remember what!
I used to love looking at old signs - not just pubs but shops as well - they were often hand painted, interesting and really good art work. Shame ‘they’ seem to want to make everything uniform.
We use to spend quite a lot of time in Rye in East Sussex. They still have some cobbled streets and mostly very old buildings with wonderful signage
Nearby is Winchelsea another ancient place…Old Fashioned Pubs to Match…
Ye Olde Bell Inn The oldest Pub in Rye…
Mermaid Inn Hotel,
Rye East Sussex
The Mermaid Inn is a Grade II* listed historical inn located on Mermaid Street in the ancient town of Rye, East Sussex, southeastern England.[1] One of the best-known inns in southeast England, it was established in the 12th century and has a long, turbulent history. The current building dates from 1420 and has 16th-century additions in the Tudor style, but cellars built in 1156 survive.[2] The inn has a strong connection with the notorious Hawkhurst Gang of smugglers, who used it in the 1730s and 1740s as one of their strongholds: Rye was a thriving port during this period. Some of the smugglers, their mistresses and other characters are reported to haunt the inn.
Just down the road from us is The Black Cock pub something to do with a former landlord 
http://www.jlpubsltd.co.uk/theblackcockinn/index.html
The Globe Inn of Dumfries is an interesting place I’ve been to.
It dates back to 1610 and was a favourite of Robbie Burns but as far as I’m aware the origin of the name has been lost in the mists of time.
Another was Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem in the centre of Nottingham which is said to be England’s oldest pub.
https://www.visit-nottinghamshire.co.uk/food-and-drink/ye-olde-trip-to-jerusalem-p529041
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Ye Olde Starre Inne, one of York’s most historic pubs, is a Grade II listed building said to date back to 1644, the year of the siege of York by the Roundheads, when it was first licensed. The inn does have the longest continuous licence of any pub in York, and it claims to be the oldest.
You cannot fail to see the inn’s sign (from 1733), which proudly hangs over and across Stonegate, directing you on through the narrow snickelway to a courtyard and finally the inn. The inn’s spectacular views of the upper part of York Minster make it worth visiting, if for that alone, especially when the Minster is floodlit, but you’ll be tempted in to try its huge choice of real ales and good old English food.
The ‘old star’ is said to be King Charles I, in line with the then landlord’s Royalist stance in the 1640s. Unfortunately for the landlord the Roundheads gradually invaded the inn and went on to make use of its 10th-century cellar as both a hospital and mortuary during the Civil War. In 1662 a Thomas Wyeville bought the building for £250. It was yet again sold in the early 19th century when it still had a bargain price of only £850.
Horace
York resident and regular contributor. Fascinated by this historic city and always keen to promote local, independent businesses. The man taking the photographs and tweeting from Jorvik.
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Great history imagine the past that went on in those pubs
A postcard featuring the Blue Boys Inn, date unknown (Image: From the collection of Pater Moynahan, displayed on dover-kent.com)
Historic England awarded the building its Grade II listed status for its “unusually complete” records, and for its historical character.
There are two parts of the building with significant historical interest.
The oldest part is dated from at least as far back as 1584, when it was a farmhouse, owned by Thomas Wickens, a yeoman of Brenchley.
The building was passed down through the family for about a hundred years after, until its accessibility for travellers along the road to Tonbridge brought new trade.
The new occupants included saddlers, equine keepers, and carpenters. It changed hands a few times every century from then on.
In 1724 a turnpike was extended from Woodsgate to Kippings Cross, meaning there was a higher quality but tolled stretch of road. The site of the Blue Boys was positioned at the start of the free to access, and much more treacherous road.
I knew this Pub very well to look at …Was the turning we took with our Caravnning weekends as a Family nearly every other week we went past that Pub…
One day their was a temporary looking building at the rear…filled with furniture, some had to look of Antiques…
I put the link in because the story is very revealing but so long…tragic end to grade 11 listed building…
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](The Bow Bells | Bars and pubs in Bow, London)
The haunting at this East End pub sounds more like a maintenance issue to us, with a phantom flusher said to menace the ladies’ toilets. Over the years, the toilets have said to mysteriously flush while bottoms were perched upon seats. So far, not pants-wetting material – but in 1974, The Bow Bells team decided enough was enough, conducting a séance in the lavs. When the phantom flusher was asked to make itself known, a toilet door slammed open with such force that it broke one of the pub’s mirrors.
Are you allowed to say that in here? 
you are seeing through me… 
I’m afraid l am the only link to the pub names that follow !!
The Turks Head in South west London ?
The Pig and Whistle also in London !
The Lord Nelson in Warwick !
The Bowling Alley, also in Warwick ?
The Skinner’s Arms , in Beddington corner, south London !
The Harvest Home, also in Beddington !
The Elephant and Castle in London !
The Toad in the Hole, l forget where that is??
The Jenny Lind, between Carshalton and Sutton SE London!
Shall l continue ??
Donkeyman! 
The Hole in the Wall, Galway
The Harvest Home was a stones throw from us living in Guy Road, and we would pop in quite often for quick drink…funds were tight back then for sure…
liver ok?
@DianneWoollie So weren’t you nearer to The Plough Inn then Dianne?
I think it was a charrington house and was owned by a couple of sisters
that owned about five or six pubs in the area??
My liver must be ok cos l am 85 yrs old and still like a tot or two !!
Donkeyman!
