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Best pub/ shop names ever!

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honeybeeq · 04/05/2018 22:06

Doing some research on the house we're moving to and it's very near to a pub called.. the Malt Disley!

I love it!! I'm having a bitch of a time with the letting agent and this house is very worth it but aibu to ask you to cheer me up with funny shop/ pub names?

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TheTroutofNoCraic · 04/05/2018 22:50

Wright Hassell are exactly that...drafted in by debt collection agencies for the most part.

sepsisandAKI · 04/05/2018 22:50

I remember the pink pizza car! Some of these are hilarious. Golden cock pub not for from me!

Bigpizzalover · 04/05/2018 22:50

Winking Willy’s fish and chip shop in Scarborough always makes me giggle in an immature way Grin

FASH84 · 04/05/2018 22:52

When I lived in Durham there was a pub called the fighting cocks

BikeRunSki · 04/05/2018 22:55

Frying Nemo - fish n chip shop in Howden, East Yorks.

EthelBeavers · 04/05/2018 22:55

This is an old one but there's a dry cleaners in Turnham Green called Turnham Clean. 😂

Thehop · 04/05/2018 22:56

There are some builders near us called bodgit and scarper

Wickedstepmum67 · 04/05/2018 22:56

'Godloves Solicitors' (yes, really); 'Brian Pickles Lawnmowers' (where did he get the jars?) and the slightly worrying 'Hu man Take-away' - genuinely all businesses round our way.

BlondeB83 · 04/05/2018 22:56

Benjamin Barker’s Hairdressers (aka Sweeney Todd)

Rhythm & Booze off licence

BeBesideTheSea · 04/05/2018 22:57

Tanning place in Oxford called Sun of a beach

Gibble1 · 04/05/2018 22:58

A yarn shop in a village near Bristol “Alter knit universe”

NutCase82 · 04/05/2018 22:59

COD father - chippy
Iron maiden - ironing service

TazTheFairy · 04/05/2018 23:03

There was a take away in the village of Bare called Bare Grills.

blackdoglet · 04/05/2018 23:05

@Mooey89 You be near me then!

My3littlestars · 04/05/2018 23:08

We've got a window cleaner called Seymour clearly.
And there was a tanning salon called Tanzinere

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Dippyeggsandsoldiers · 04/05/2018 23:10

I've been to a chip shop called 'frying nemo' 😬

Gilead · 04/05/2018 23:12

Many years ago there was a carpet shop in Chiswick named Fukhall and Piskett!

honeybeeq · 04/05/2018 23:13

These are epic! Grin

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Fluffychickenmonkey · 04/05/2018 23:14

Chinese takeaway in Brighton called

Brighton Wok

It still makes me laugh

raviolidreaming · 04/05/2018 23:14

GP surgery in Shepherds Bush - The Bush Doctors Grin

BestIsWest · 04/05/2018 23:16

We used to have a mobile fish and chip seller called
Chip Van Winkle

Still makes me laugh.

The Rhondda Valley is brilliant for shop names.

Gudgyx · 04/05/2018 23:22

There’s a dog grooming place here called Captain Dugwash

Also, I love spotting Virgin Media vans. They all have names which have to contain ‘van’ eg vangelina jolie, jean Claude van dam, obi van kenobi etc I find them hilarious!

Diorissimo1985 · 04/05/2018 23:22

Wickedstepmum67 ah I think I know where you live as I used to live near where Brian Pickles his lawn mowers! I used to laugh at that every time I went past

There's a shop in Cupar which sells curtains called Poles Apart

Fozzleyplum · 04/05/2018 23:27

Years ago, DH and I were in stitches when we saw the sign at the entrance to the pub at the Tintagel Castle hotel - "Excalibar". Also a roadside cafe near Kyle of Lochslsh called Jac-o-bite.

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