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Weird Pubs: England

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Introduction:
"Questions about English pubs - the old, the weird and the downright freaky!"


1. The Frog & Toad - Gillingham
This pub serves ale in round bottomed glasses like a miniature yard of ale. Customers are required to lodge an item of clothing with the bar staff as deposit against the ornamental wooden frame the glasses come in. What item must customers lodge as guarantee for the glass' return?
    A Shoe
    A Hat
    A Belt
    A Watch


2. Somerset House, Stourbridge
This spooky West Midlands pub has a most unusual and proven claim to fame. What might that be?
    The roar of a bear from days of yore when a bear pit was located there can still be heard on occasions today
    A resident poltergeist will regularly slide glasses from the tables to smash on the stone floor
    A skeleton from an ancient grave is displayed behind a glass pane set in the floor
    One can hang a full pint of ale unaided on the wallpapered walls


3. The Haunch Of Venison, Salisbury
This 600 year old Wiltshire pub has a glass pane in the interior wall behind which sits a most grisly sight. What sits behind the display pane?
    The local hangmans noose
    A set of dentures said to be the only surviving part of the last witch burned at the local stake
    A bloodied Roundhead's tunic from the English civil war
    The mummified hand of an eighteenth century card cheat


4. The Hatchet Inn, Bristol
This ancient pub, dating back to 1606 still has a 400 year old main door. The door has a quite horrific feature to it. What is this feature?
    Until 1820 the door had only ever been painted with human blood. Since then animal blood has been used
    Beneath the tar are layers of human skin
    The window frame set into it is honed from human bones
    The door has holes cut into it so making it the local stocks where criminals were stoned to death by the populous


5. Widow's Son, Bow, London
200 years ago a poor widow lived in a cottage on this site. Her only son was a sailor and didn't return home from sea. She had cooked him a dish on the day that he was expected home. Of course it was never eaten. When the property became a pub in 1848 it became a tradition that a Royal Navy sailor would attend the pub and hang from the ceiling an example of the item his mother had made for him on that fateful day. These food items have never been taken down and the collection grows by one each year to this day. What hangs from the ceilings of this pub?
    A Hot Cross Bun
    A Black Pudding (blood sausage)
    A Christmas Pudding
    A Birthday Cake


6. The George Inn, Lacock
This ancient pub dates back to 1361 and still boasts a mechanical device of the utmost cruelty that gave rise to the phrase "it's a dog's life". What is that device?
    A Rack (of the human stretching variety)
    A Roasting Spit and Dog Wheel
    A Head-crushing Device
    Medieval Thumbscrews


7. The Eagle, Cambridge
The ceiling of this 18th century pub has not been painted in any way for over 60 years. Why?
    When layers of wall paper were removed from the ceiling a valuable 300 year old mural was revealed
    The ceiling is home to nesting birds
    A rare and protected form of fungus was found living in the ceiling plasterwork
    It bears the signatures of British and American airmen from the 2nd World War


8. Crockers Folly, London
Frank Crocker was a man with an eye for a business opportunity at the end of the 19th century. Learning of a valuable tourist facility to be built in London he built a hotel of magnificent Victorian splendour. Unfortunately once his hotel was built the "facility" was built a half mile away and Mr Crocker bankrupt and in despair hurled himself from an upper story window. Hence the name "Crockers Folly". What was the new to be built "facility" that caused him to invest everything into his hotel?
    Arsenal Football Club
    Victoria Bus & Coach Station
    Marylebone Railway Station
    The Crystal Palace


9. The Pilchard Inn, Burgh Island, Devon
This 14th Century Inn is only accessible by one form of transport, small rowing boats/canoes excepted, when the tide is in. What is that form of transport?
    A Glass Tunnel Through The Waters
    A Giant Sea Tractor
    A Half Mile Long Footbridge
    A Chair Lift


10. Jorrocks, Derby
This pub displays a gruesome "ornament". What might it be?
    A pickled human eyeball
    The ice pick used to kill Leon Trotsky
    A pigs heart fitted with a mechanical pump and tubes to demonstrate blood flow
    An ancient female skull called George


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