Pub's Legs

[NUKe]

As for big Scores.... I remember going to `Ipswich and therein lies a Pub called the "Grand old Duke of York"..... that is 20,000 legs!

Its still there, a lot of Ipswich pubs have disappeared in the last 30 years

[reohn2]

......... a lot of Ipswich pubs have disappeared in the last 30 years

They just didn't have the legs.....



I'll get me coat

[River_rat]

Regularly play this with SWMBO (Mrs Rat). I once won with "the Roman Legion" on a visit to a friend in Luton (10,000). Then got it again on the way back as we'd swapped drivers!

It's amazing how pleased I felt, particularly as she was crowing about how it would be cancelled out on the return journey, until she realised!

River Rat

[Mick F]

Giggle!

Nice to hear other people playing this game.

[emleyman]

We used to know it as pub cricket. You scored a run per leg, but lost your wicket if you had a pub with no legs, and the next player was 'in'.

Too many motorways around nowadays though, so you don't see many pubs on most long journeys.

[661-Pete]

Reminds me of "sermon cricket" which we kids used to play whenever there was a particularly boring speaker delivering a lengthy homily during School assembly. Every time the speaker said "er" or "um" you scored a single; other gestures by the speaker would have the same meaning as a cricket umpire's.

Sixes and wides didn't occur very often, unless the speaker was particularly hyperactive!

[merseymouth]

Yo all, A defunct pub in Liverpool was "The Legs of Man". Whichever way you threw it a foot went down, unlike the beer prices. MM

[Mick F]

There was a Legs of Man pub down the Little Arcade in Wigan as I remember.
Doubt it's there nowadays, let alone the Little Arcade.

There's the Legs, on the left.

Here's another shot of it.

http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/album/photo ... e&offset=0
http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/album/photo ... e&offset=0

[thirdcrank]

Reminds me of "sermon cricket" which we kids used to play whenever there was a particularly boring speaker delivering a lengthy homily during School assembly. Every time the speaker said "er" or "um" you scored a single; other gestures by the speaker would have the same meaning as a cricket umpire's.

Sixes and wides didn't occur very often, unless the speaker was particularly hyperactive!

We had a math's teacher who interspersed every sentence with "then."

[Cyril Haearn]

Manx Arms
Three legs

[colin54]

Three Legs, Leeds, three legs. Do three legs need a thirdcrank ?

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.79894 ... 8192?hl=en

[PDQ Mobile]

Three Legs, Leeds, three legs. Do three legs need a thirdcrank?

Does he have it TC?
You are a Manxman?

[thirdcrank]

I know where it is but I've never been in and it's one of the few Leeds city centre pubs that I wouldn't associate with a particular clientele. In the context of this thread, it's on a part of the Headrow that hasn't been pedestrianised so you can drive past, which would be all I'd recommend.

While I'm on, pub names with "Arms" obviously don't refer to upper limbs. AFAIK, the tradition of naming some boozers The King's Arms dates from the Civil War and Charles I. His Arms had a lot of legs on there:-

[Cyril Haearn]

Which pubs in Leeds and elsewhere have a particular clientele? How may one identify them?

[colin54]

Which pubs in Leeds and elsewhere have a particular clientele? How may one identify them?

Trip advisor tells you, read all the reviews towards the foot of the page.
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attractio ... gland.html