I haven't been in it, but there is a pub on my way into town with a sign up in the window which says, shoplifters trying to sell items will be barred... Sounds classy :S

When we went to watch Take that at Man city ground, we stopped in the roughest pub ever, it was called The manchester, i was quite scared!!!

Years ago (when I was very young and naieve) I went for a job interview in a pub that I'd never been in before, my first impression was that the boss wasn't very organised as he'd forgotten about my interview. The second was that perhaps it wasn't the sort of pub I wanted to work in as the floors were just wooden, the chairs and tables were a right mishmash of styles, the bar was rather beaten up and scarred and the kicker was the spittoons dotted around the bars!(and this was in the early 80s). I left the pub as it opened it's doors and the regulars wandered in, the kindest way of describing them would be to say that they made the worst dressed homeless person look like they were clothed by Saville Row!
Fast forward 30 years and the pub has now been closed down for the fourth time for being a den of iniquity, dealing drugs (heroin and crack were mentioned in the closeur notice) and being a place where serious crimes were planned (the landlord was convicted of planning an armed raid on a local snooker centre) and a nearby alleyway was the first byway to be closed under new police powers to crack down on crime.
Just as well that when offered the job I turned it down, lol.

But you could've been the making of the place, Colly!! A chance missed, methinks!!

Now, perhaps, but not back then when I was a wet behind the ears youngster, who wouldn't say boo to a goose, lol.

Not sure about pub but the scariest KFC i've ever been in was the one just off Shankhill Road in Belfast!!

Went there on our way home from seeing Robbie in Concert in Dublin in 2003 and OMG! we had to run out the place lol )

I guess us having broad Glaswegian accents didn't go in our favour. And it wasn't until we met up with my cousin who was serving in N Ireland at the time that he told us he wasn't allowed to eat in that KFC for the exact reasons we left lol #o . I guess we were so hungry from travelling that we didn't see the barbed wire fence round it, and the video cameras all over it :SS

A place called the Prince of Orange...

I thought it was fab, wouldn't set foot in there now, was it still open, which it isn't- got closed down. It is now a stupid theme bar.

The one next door to Burnly Hospital - we arrived with bags for a two week stay as holiday managers and I was around 6 months pregnant. My Dad dropped us off (we didnt' have a car) and we walked in and nearly died.

The night before there had been a bar fight and I think 2 lads had had their skulls cracked with pool q's. The place was filthy and the clientel were the roughest lot you have ever seen, I spent very little time down stairs.

Bar staff were happy to fil us in the managers fiddles *eek* and informed us that the landlady kept a room where the local football team members would q for her 'services' at weekend.

I was SO glad to get out of there lol

Nice........

OH yea NOT lmao we ran some dives when we were doing relief. Our last relief (turned into our pub) we went to , me very heavily pregnant (same baby lol) to try to bring family spirit to a plce where the landlord put a pipe from his exhaust and his wife OD'd one on the golf course, one in our bedroom ?>??? lol.