I remember when I tempted years and years ago getting the little brown envelope...

weekly paid, in cash! Check the notes first, then the coinage then off for some bears! Glorious days. The Lakenham Cock always looked a half decent pub, from the outside.

Posted By: DrDublin on October 18th 2011 at 17:46:58

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What's the dodgiest Pub you've been into in Norwich? (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Oct 18, 16:31:54
- Romany (n/m) (General Chat) - Charles21, Oct 18, 18:20:22
- The Festival House (General Chat) - bird table, Oct 18, 17:57:16
  - I remember that place, wasn't there a dodgy 'club' upstairs/next door too? (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Oct 18, 17:58:23
- When I worked at Bally shoe whorehouse down Hall Road we used to spend Friday's envelope (General Chat) - APB, Oct 18, 17:41:16
  - I remember when I tempted years and years ago getting the little brown envelope... (General Chat) - DrDublin, Oct 18, 17:46:58
    - Who did you tempt? (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Oct 18, 17:49:01
      - You know precisely what I mean Malky! (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Oct 18, 17:50:13
- Lager TOPS!!!!!!!!!!! (n/m) (General Chat) - APB, Oct 18, 17:31:23
  - Is there a pub called lager tops? (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Oct 18, 17:33:10
    - lol, good name for a pub! :D (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Oct 18, 17:34:16
- Played league pool in some right dodgy dives... The Southall (General Chat) - Pixelman, Oct 18, 17:30:20
- Not Norwich, but the Glue Pot in Lowestoft would take some beating (General Chat) - BSE Canary, Oct 18, 16:58:45
- Cat and Fiddle (n/m) (General Chat) - Ken Dodds Dads Dog, Oct 18, 16:57:10
- The one that was down Pottergate near the chip shop (General Chat) - BSE Canary, Oct 18, 16:51:45
  - The Bird Cage, The Pottergate Tavern, The Brown Derby - wasn't dodgy was it? (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Oct 18, 16:54:16
    - I've been in the Brown Derby many a time after popping down to Andy's records (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Oct 18, 16:58:16
      - Agreed. Then off to Tudor Hall or Bonds. (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Oct 18, 16:59:14
        
        ahem (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Oct 18, 17:01:51
        
        haha! Still going an'all. (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Oct 18, 17:04:00
        
        ...then The Jacquard (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Oct 18, 17:04:57
        
        omg. now your talking. Then became Santanas (or was that before Jaquard)? (n/m) (General Chat) - Pixelman, Oct 18, 17:31:30
        
        Yep - was Santanas for a while, then back to The Jacquard I think. (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Oct 18, 17:48:09
        
        To see Al play...... (General Chat) - DrDublin, Oct 18, 17:05:52
        
        what's that? (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Oct 18, 17:05:50
        
        .... (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Oct 18, 17:10:31
        
        ah yes, I just looked it up, bit before my time really (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Oct 18, 17:11:08
        
        Oh you young 'uns.......Samson's for me (n/m) (General Chat) - BSE Canary, Oct 18, 17:05:49
        
        How old are you? The Jacquard opened in the 60's. (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Oct 18, 17:08:38
        
        Oh really, I went in the 80's to see The Birthday Party I think! (n/m) (General Chat) - BSE Canary, Oct 18, 17:10:09
        
        ^^^ Now *that's* a proper band ^^^ (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Oct 18, 17:46:34
        
        Lot's of famous people played there, many before they became famous. (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Oct 18, 17:09:26
  - Pottergate Tavern? Lovely. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Oct 18, 16:54:12
    - That was me sitting outside, Chips, Light & Bitter, John Player Black, listening (General Chat) - BSE Canary, Oct 18, 16:57:09
      - whilst stroking pk (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Oct 18, 17:33:47
- Romany Rye. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Oct 18, 16:45:42
  - There's no scientific way of stopping it either (General Chat) - pants, Oct 18, 16:57:11
  - The Farmhouse is an odd one (General Chat) - Huge Small, Oct 18, 16:50:44
    - Nice name for a pub. Only ever had a few pints there outside in the summer mind. (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Oct 18, 16:51:52
  - It was always very dark in the Romany. They tried to make it a music pub din't they? (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Oct 18, 16:46:47
    - I don't know, did they? To draw on the renowned musical talent of Kinghorn fucking Road (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Oct 18, 16:48:44
    - Is that the one near eaton park/UEA? (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Oct 18, 16:47:43
      - Yeah, it's on Colman Road, in the double-sided parade of shops. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Oct 18, 16:49:35
      - Colman Road, near the shops - it's closed now. (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Oct 18, 16:49:05
- The Kings Arms (n/m) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Oct 18, 16:41:48
  - Foolish. You brought mrs scrampers in, can't have been that bad. (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Oct 18, 16:43:25
    - i think i've only done about 5 pubs in the Nodge (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Oct 18, 16:46:46
      - haha! (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Oct 18, 16:47:13
- the larkman (General Chat) - Cheltenham_Canary, Oct 18, 16:41:19
  - Not technically in Norwich but there is a pub (or used to be) in the centre of Bowthorpe.. (General Chat) - DrDublin, Oct 18, 16:43:59
    - The Norkie (General Chat) - Huge Small, Oct 18, 16:48:14
      - Where was wardys? (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Oct 18, 16:49:35
        
        This or this: (General Chat) - Dog, Oct 18, 16:52:55
        
        2nd link, that's the place I was thinking about (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Oct 18, 16:53:28
        
        That's the Norkie. I've never been in it. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Oct 18, 16:56:02
        
        lols (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Oct 18, 16:56:23
        
        Norkie it is. (n/m) (General Chat) - Dog, Oct 18, 16:55:38
        
        Who came up with the name I wonder. Strange name. (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Oct 18, 16:56:10
        
        ... (General Chat) - Huge Small, Oct 18, 17:00:07
        
        Cool. Learn something new every day. (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Oct 18, 17:11:21
    - The Norkie? (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Oct 18, 16:46:33
    - Wardy's? (n/m) (General Chat) - Dog, Oct 18, 16:45:11
      - Ah think that was it. A place called 'Wardy's' is alarming in itself. (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Oct 18, 16:45:43
  - No. Destroyed. Aldi'd (n/m) (General Chat) - Huge Small, Oct 18, 16:43:29
    - Over a 1000 pubs have closed since the smoking ban (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Oct 18, 16:46:58
      - how many closed before the smoking ban? (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Oct 18, 16:51:30
        
        dunno (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Oct 18, 17:00:37
        
        9 (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Oct 18, 16:52:35
      - Good fucking riddance to many of them, to be fair. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Oct 18, 16:51:30
  - Shut very many moons ago. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Oct 18, 16:42:38
  - Nope. Was dodgy though, went in a couple of times. (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Oct 18, 16:42:14
  - Used to go past that place on the bus home from School. Long gone, Lidl's now I think (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Oct 18, 16:41:59
- Freemasons always looks dodge when I walk past. (General Chat) - Dog, Oct 18, 16:40:20
- the kings (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Oct 18, 16:39:41
  - Foolish (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Oct 18, 16:42:44
    - agreed (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Oct 18, 16:46:37
      - You loved it, and lasted longer than others. (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Oct 18, 16:52:23
        
        they don't call me hardcore for nothing (General Chat) - SCC 28, Oct 18, 17:00:48
- Slipperys, Fiveways or BSG. (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Oct 18, 16:39:25
- The Grove (n/m) (General Chat) - Huge Small, Oct 18, 16:39:13
- BSG. It used to be brilliantly dodgey. (n/m) (General Chat) - tudders, Oct 18, 16:37:16
  - BSG tudds? Where was it? (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Oct 18, 16:38:08
    - Got it! Ber Street Gates, yep, steer the ship well clear of that place! (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Oct 18, 16:39:52
- Probably Fiveways (n/m) (General Chat) - Only1Doherty, Oct 18, 16:33:57
  - lols, many moons ago when we first started playing at the UEA, it was the closest place... (General Chat) - DrDublin, Oct 18, 16:37:18

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