Thinking about pubs where a regular punch up used to be the nor. Any body remember The Double Up?

I was a regular up the stairs to the Double Up but never saw a fight, but then we were out of there by 9 and on the road to the Wine Lodge and Black Rock, White Horse, Chancery Hotel, Mitre, Balmoral etc....no memory after that.
The Double Up closed for "refurbishment" Still waiting for it to re-open.

No Tavern or Moodies in there?

Our thurs, Fri, Saturday evenings used to go a little like this.
Bus, Talbot and falcon, Strafford, Chancery, Black rock, Woolpacks, The Tavern, Yates's if it was a birthday, Speakeasy/Beehive, bus, Commercial in Normy, long nights!

Tiffany's,In one of them booths with the curtains shut



while listening to Kentucky Blue,them was the days

Used to start in the Chance on a Friday evening and up back there for the last ones. Those stairs down to the gents were far easier to navigate at 7 o'clock rather than 11 o'clock...

The didn't do's were The Brunswick, Beehive, Dog and Gun, Strafford , Moodies and Jockey. The first two were "chipper" pubs I remember though did go in the Brunsick from college. Wasn't there a Union Jack and a Stars and stripes painted over the whole ceiling in there, or did I dream that.
Yes, did go in the Tavern plus Swan with Two Necks, not Redoubt or Elephant and Castle nor Smiths arm unless we were on the Westgate run. Inns of Court was a good un but just begining to fall from grace (1970) Now it's deffinatley fallen from grace but still a pub I like.. Graziers of course but the Woolpack was always heaving so not so often. Harewood Arms, good pint of tetleys in there and always freindly. Loved the Talbot and Falcon.
I think it's interesting to know what pubs (apart from the obvious boring pubs) folk didn't go in. Ah yes, the Shakespear at lunchtime watching the girls go by, nice elevared view.

Dive off the 110 bus and straight in the Talbot and Falcon for us then Strafford or Raven some nights It would be into the Roundhouse at Newton Hill

Never saw any heckler get top side of Neville Sinclair when he was doing his act in the Dolphin, plenty tried and left with their tail between their legs. When he wasn't working Nev used to come across to the Star to relax, totally different character when he wasn't doing his drag queen act.

Was The Star the smallest pub in Wakey. Very tight for room.
Nobody has mentioned the Shakespeare yet. Pubs like the Shakey and the Fleece were mainstays of the Tetley's Darts and Dommies League. Most of the Tetley pub landlords threw a good arrow.

Aye they didn't come much smaller than the Star, nice pint of Tetleys though me favourite pub in town along with the Dog and Gun, The Shakespeare wasn't much bigger, once again a decent pint of Tetleys, Annie was the name of the landlady used to go in there mainly to oggle at her cracking daughter married unfortunately

decent game of three card though in the back room

Where was the Shakespeare?