What Was The Most Dangerous Bar Or Pub You’Ve Been To?

[Jahulaye]

“The seediest five on the wharf”

At 38 seconds



Do these places exist or did exist, have you ever been to one? Where, what was it like?

[Sqad]

1950's ...the Blind Beggar in Whitechapel.....home of the Krays.

[nailit]

Well spotted jahulaye, it does indeed say dangerous (never noticed it before)

[237SJ]

I haven't been in any dangerous bars but I have been in some dodgy ones in Patpong. We were raided by the police one night - there was a siren situated downstairs so that the bar which was upstairs could get warning before the cops arrived. By the time they got to the top of the stairs everything looked very respectable indeed.

[237SJ]

Oh, and there was the one in Berlin in the "old days" which was full of strippers and squaddies. We got dragged along by some reprobate colleagues and we were the only other women in there.

[Zacs-Master]

I’ve just remembered going to see Def Leppard in a pub in Leeds called The Fford Green. The gig was in the left hand side but we (my girlfriend a mate and myself all dressed in heavy metal garb about 18 years old)walked into the right hand side. We were stared at and I think my girlfriend was the only female in there. We just had a very quick pint, didn’t look at anybody and got the heck out.

[mikey4444]

I had a couple of pints in the "Blind Beggar" about 20 years ago, thinking that it would still feel like the place where Ronnie Kray committed his murder in 1966.

But it was disappointingly ordinary and not remotely dangerous.

[mikey4444]

Sqad....just seen your reply !

[Ken4155]

In the mid 70s, while home on leave, myself and 3 squaddie friends visited a bar in London called The Western Bar. Sawdust on the floor, dimly lit and full of guys who looked as if they'd never seen a bar of soap for quite some time. Wasn't particularly scary but we were made to feel very uncomfortable by the continuous suspicious looks we were getting. We later discovered that many of the clientele thought we were undercover police.

[Zacs-Master]

There used to be a bar in Sunderland called The old 69. The tradition was to drop your glass or bottle on the floor when you’d finished your drink. At the end of the night the floor was a carpet of broken glass. Dangerous in a different way!

[melv16]

A friend's father was playing guitar in jazz band when the Krays walked into the pub. You can imagine the atmosphere in the place...everyone was crapping it. Luckily nothing happened.

[paddywak]

We had a few moments in our local welfare,the one I always remember was sitting waiting for the Friday night Disco to begin when this guy walked in,got a pint and then stood quietly in a corner.We thought it a bit strange as he was wearing an old RAF greatcoat.All became clear when his wifes boy friend walked in and he whipped out a .410 shotgun and tried to castrate his rival with it.He'd have succeeded to if the gun hadn't caught as he pulled it out,as it was he just removed most of his thigh muscle.

[Tilly2]

Any pub or club that my mum sent me to to tell my dad it was time to come home. I hated going in, scared stiff I was.

[gness]

I'd forgotten that, Tilly.....my mum did the same......I hated it... :-(

[Tilly2]

I didn't like the smoke or the noise. The pubs were always full. The club wasn't so bad but I couldn't easily find him. It was a huge place, or seemed so to me, at six or seven years of age.

[pixie374]

All the pubs I used to use regularly had "dodgy" reputations (at best) because they were mostly rockers and metalheads. They were actually the kindest and most genuine people I have ever known. But quite often a couple of people would walk in, glance around and immediately leave.

[gness]

For me, a pub full of Rockers was....bliss..... ;-)

[pixie374]

Oh yes :-)

[gness]

But then again....so was a pub full of Mods....I think I may have been fickle.... ;-)

[pixie374]

Open minded :-) xx

[mushroom25]

the Parkway Tavern in the Park Hill council flats in Sheffield. strangers had to have their wits about them as to take a seat usually meant usurping a local, and doing so was considered akin to breaking into their house, sitting in their favorite chair and turning the TV channel over......