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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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Blankiefan · 05/05/2018 16:24

Off licence - Amy's Winehouse.

AdidasGirl · 05/05/2018 16:52

There is a hairdressers here called "The Fresh Princess of Belle Hair"

isseywithcats · 05/05/2018 16:56

Dont know if its still there but when we went to Tenerife in las Americas there was a pub called the bogs dollocks my kids thought it highly amusing

MrsPotatoHeadIsMyIdol · 05/05/2018 16:56

There's an undertakers nearby called R. S. Cape

ImBreakingBad · 05/05/2018 16:57

Master Bates - Fishing shop in Fife!

Clevs · 05/05/2018 17:04

There's a village in Wales that I've driven through called Knockin...the local shop is called the Knockin ShopGrin

bumblenbean · 05/05/2018 17:08

Saw the van of a port-a-loo hire company emblazoned with the name ‘Touching Cloth Loo Hire’ Grin

cliffdiver · 05/05/2018 17:18

These are hilarious.

There's a scaffold company who have that slogan 'satisfaction with every erection'

katseyes7 · 05/05/2018 17:19

There is/was a dog grooming parlour in Plymouth called Dirty Dogs and Filthy Bitches....

katseyes7 · 05/05/2018 17:20

There's a plumbing company in York called All Cisterns Go.

pigsDOfly · 05/05/2018 17:24

Used to see it on a van in Brighton for a carpentry business: Wood, Nail & I.

So very Brighton, and always used to make me smile.

Presh12345 · 05/05/2018 17:42

Place in Donegal Ireland called Muff. It's on the coast. They have a dive club called "Muff Diving club"

FrangipaniBlue · 05/05/2018 17:42

There was a house near to me called Fir Kew Hall, stencilled very neatly in great big letters over the arched front door!!! It was called it for YEARS and I would love to know the back story.

It was sold a couple of years back and it's been painted over by the new owners but still faintly visible Grin

FrangipaniBlue · 05/05/2018 17:43

Also once saw a hairdressers called Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow and one called Barberella's

FrangipaniBlue · 05/05/2018 17:45

Remembered another.....

Once working at a clients office and heard tinkly ice cream van music but the Batman theme, apparently it was the mobile sandwich company, aptly named "the Bap Van" Grin

Imavinoops · 05/05/2018 17:46

We have a barbers called Sherlock Combs!

zaalitje · 05/05/2018 17:50

Two chippies in London

Fishcotheque

In cod we trust (next to a church)

TimesNewRoman · 05/05/2018 17:53

Dog kennels called Mutlins Grin

StillNoClue · 05/05/2018 17:54

Used to be a tanning shop called Tanz-in-ere.

user453678953 · 05/05/2018 17:59

There is (or was) a sun bed place in Liverpool called 'colour of you'!

GhettoFabulous · 05/05/2018 18:13

Many moons ago there was a gay bar in Glasgow called The Muscular Arms.

GrooovyLass · 05/05/2018 18:24

There's a chippy near me in what used to be a railway station called The Plaice Station.

enterthedragon · 05/05/2018 18:33

Near here there used to be a pub called the fuzz and firkin, apparently the name pig & whistle was not considered appropriate, the building was an old police station.

tiredmummy1991 · 05/05/2018 18:49

There's a sandwich shop near me called 'only foods and sauces'

BikeRunSki · 05/05/2018 18:51

Frangipani There is a whole fleet of Bap Vans around South and West Yorkshire. They still make me chuckle.

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