drinking in Manchester's dodgiest pubs!
I walk around Manchester to check out the dingy pubs and try and find a hidden gem, one pub lools like it should be on an estate and another you can't move no matter what time you go in. I have to also hit some 2-4-1 bars as i'm skint so need to strech my money!
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@rossridings4282
2 ай бұрын
Awesome used to seek these pubs out with the ex wife on a saturday afternoon just as Northern Quarter was getting going. Full of characters. Where are you lads from?
@davidclayton9383
2 ай бұрын
Leeds pussy land.
@LacitsyM
18 күн бұрын
Should come to hull. Do the savoy, robin, Apollo, dart then crows nest. Good old proper pubs.
Sign of a great pub when you walk in and 80’s music blasting out 🤘🏼🫵🏻 🍺
@theludixblaster
2 ай бұрын
agree can't beat abit of 80's
@markjenkins2262
2 ай бұрын
It was 70s if you mean the bar
@Man-From-Another-Place
2 ай бұрын
The song 'Photograph' by Def Leppard always reminds me of being in a slightly dingy boozer.
@Man-From-Another-Place
Ай бұрын
@MADCHESTERUTD-oc3ni Those are great tunes.
@newearthmirror186
Ай бұрын
And sign of a dodgy pub is the people dressed like it's the 80's!
So glad I found this channel. Boozing and shitholes, story of my life 😂 (as someone who grew up in South London and now lives in quiet leafy Staffordshire I often travel to dive areas for my 'shithole fix' - I love a good look around the local cess pit) (between say 6am and 1pm of course then it's time to leg it 🤣)
@honestplaces
3 ай бұрын
Cheers pal....yeh i love looking at for a dodgy pub, cheeky backstreet or somet 🤣👍
@-moondust-
3 ай бұрын
Gotta love shity lil pubs...awwh i misd home (Manchester)
@honestplaces
3 ай бұрын
@@-moondust- 100%
@-moondust-
2 ай бұрын
@honestplaces and something I always notice is that they do the best food too
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
@@-moondust- probs because you're too drunk to taste it properly 🤣
A pint used to be the working man's treat. In 1970 the average price for a pint of beer was 2 shillings and 11 pence. That's £1.70 in today's money. The corporates have hijacked the working man's lifestyle. We're being fleeced. I wish people would stop paying these extortionate prices. £5.70 for a pint is offensive.
@thegoldendog7991
Ай бұрын
That equates to about $10 Canadian dollars. 50 Canadian cents more than my Guinness cost in an Ontario pub today, though I have paid as much as $12 Canadian dollars for the same size Guinness at a different pub.
@Joe74854
Ай бұрын
You lads are braver than me beer in every one of those places looked rough the places themselves all looked rough and being ripped off with the prices ,, all in all think il give those places a big miss
@DarrenLovatt-kv7ev
2 күн бұрын
Would that mean a person could get 6 pints per hourly wage then?
the pub landlord is laughing all the way to the bank......🤣😂😅🤣🤣
£5.70 a pint? The sole reason why I don't drink in pubs.
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
Got one for £2.20 today 😬
@user-zc5ft9nw9b
2 ай бұрын
You can get 4 cans of San miguel where I live for that......why I dont go out too.
@IndieGems2
2 ай бұрын
At £5.70 a pint, I think I would have asked for a top up on the Guiness after it had settled. 😀
@johnnowlan9963
2 ай бұрын
It's 5.70 in Dublin a pint of Guinness that euro 570 in Manchester is a rip off🤔
@Abc-li1ij
2 ай бұрын
€9.95 in dublin
This channel is great! Intentionally looking for the sort of pubs i always end up in accidentally whenever i go somewhere unfamiliar is a brave and entertaining subject matter !
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
Cheers pal, appreciate it! You know the back street ones are the best! 👍🍺
Nice one mate. I think you're onto a winner doing the dodgy pub reviews. After watching the last one you did, I tried to look up similar videos of people checking out rough pubs, and there's surprisingly few. Looking forward to seeing Dumfries! Cheers 🍻
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
Appreciate it mate. Yeh this one was more of a mess about but i deffo wanna check out dodgy estate pubs and that and yeh i can't seem to find people doing it so i thought i'd do em myself👍
I'm in my late 50s. When I was in my 20s and 30s I lived for places like this. They dominated my life. Now I can't think of anywhere worse to be. Looking at it I just don't know what the attraction was.
@davewalkden7248
2 ай бұрын
Like you, I'm in my mid-50s & used to frequent pubs like these. In fact, being from Salford, I've actually been in the pubs in this video. And also like you, I genuinely cannot think of anything worse to do than waste a day trawling round these dumps full of no-marks, piss-cans & chavs.
@goaboy2294
2 ай бұрын
Same just turned 37 last week not been to the boozer since NYE I’m totally over it , couldn’t think of anything worse than turning into the losers who live in there and leave their mrs at home all day it’s sad
@mufc99ok
2 ай бұрын
Some as that wouldn't be seen dead in one now
@shaneodwyer6132
2 ай бұрын
It's called being young and stupid, it's all part of the process. Unfortunately, some don't ever grow out of it
@goaboy2294
2 ай бұрын
@@shaneodwyer6132 so true
"IS IT EVEN OPEN ?!" That should be your catchphrase m8😂. Really enjoy your channel, recently subscribed 😉👍
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
It might have to be! 🤣 cheers pal. Appreciate it
Can’t even go for a pint now without you weirdos filming.
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
Big Brother
@darrenfarrell-bn2cb
2 ай бұрын
Yep Behave or you Will be caught out , Women Included, 😚
@gbwildlifeuk8269
2 ай бұрын
Hes got to find something to do, seems to have more time on his hands than someone with a job! 😂😂 @mclarenf1711
@gavinobrien3654
2 ай бұрын
Can't move in the street for some cunt trying to film their existence these days. Pointless fuckwits the lot of them
@user-kn9oq2kt5z
2 ай бұрын
Total piss can,u unable 2 gain meaningful employment cos of shit tattoos on ya Gregory Peck? Karaoke? Please give it a miss,listening 2 u talking is bad enough 😂
They look quite presentable. Some of the places I've been: two terraced houses knocked into one in Swindon, the 'bar' is upturned wooden crates, the furniture is salvaged from some tip and although it's a cliche, there is literally sawdust all over the floor. A dark basement in Manchester where a huge African guy wearing a robe and fez hands you rum unbidden from behind a curtain. A pub on the outskirts of Middlesbrough that has chicken wire over the bar and you get served through a hatch. A hovel in Morecambe that is suddenly filled with 50 skinheads who unravel the flag of the Austrian Painter and start chanting. And so much more. All this was in the 80s and 90s, I think everywhere's cleaned up a lot now.
@47nrubreddew
2 ай бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
@davekennedy6315
Ай бұрын
The flag of the Austrian painter haha! Then the music starts and it's Skrewdriver! I'd LOVE it!
That Woman taking a sip put you off. Terrible split of the G 🤣
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
Slapped her off camera for it 🤣
New sub here mate! I love a look around spit and sawdust pubs and dingey dives, cant beat a sticky floor haha
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
Cheers pal.....lover of the same thing 🤣🍺
We had a pub on our estate everyone knew each other and if a stranger came in all the pub would go quiet even the juke box was turned down 😂 old uns used to be in on the game too ... anyone who didn’t sup up quick and move on was cheered and given a free pint 😂😂😂 .... and I may add everyone was absolutely sound ❤
Millstone is a great boozer had some cracking days in there !!
Head over across the pond for a pub and bar crawl in Chicago and NY, maybe Miami. Talk about dodgy and sketchy scenes. We got 'em 😁 Cheers for this channel.
@illlli9114
2 ай бұрын
No you don’t, tit
You're paying for the card machine in that price. Cash is king.
@honestplaces
3 ай бұрын
Cash on a night out always goes missing with me! 🤣
@PamelaD963
2 ай бұрын
Use it or lose it
@ChrisLonsdale67
29 күн бұрын
@@PamelaD963 You are SPOT ON! :)
100% my new favourite channel
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
Best compliment so far! Cheers pal 👍
Fist pub and OMD Souvenir playing - who wouldn’t want to drink in there 😂
I live in Brazil now and this reminds me of home and all the incredible pubs we have. Wonderful channel.
@ITPFS
14 күн бұрын
Give me a plastic chair over this any day of the week. Saudade do Brasil.
@Cal900
13 күн бұрын
@@ITPFS Just because we miss something doesn't make it great! Ice cold beer please!
@ITPFS
13 күн бұрын
@@Cal900 when they say gelada they bloody mean it!! Delicious
The Millstone is a top pub full of characters. Too many poncy gastro pubs these days can't beat a good old boozer 🍺🍺🍺
Looked quite tame, get yourself to Nottingham City Centre, try The Thurland, Dog & Partridge & Coach & Horses
Love the content .. happy travels
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
Cheers pal. Appreciate it 👍
The Wheatsheaf playing OMD 'Souvenir' was a welcome introduction. Haven't heard that song in ages
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
Get yourself down there 🤣
@Jon14141
2 ай бұрын
Nice
@deeman0888
2 ай бұрын
I’m going to see them this weekend. Hearing it has got me in the mood 🍻
First time watching in my late fifties now and the pubs were rough as f##k in the early eighties if you were a stranger the room would go quiet when you walked in and everyone would stare at you the good old days really enjoyed the video and have subscribed
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
Like that scene from American Werewolf In London? 🤣 cheers pal 👍
@alankirkby465
2 ай бұрын
@Zpeter84 Hello to you. Your comment, I know what you mean. ATB.
@peakyblinder777
2 ай бұрын
Yes, i remember back in the early 90's me and my mate camping in remote area of north wales . We decided to go for a pint in the local one night...and the rest is history 😅@@honestplaces
Hey buddy, found your channel last week, liking your vlogs pretty cool, i hope your channel grows and everyone give your vids a thumbs up! cheers pal, from down in sunny Southampton!
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
Cheers pal, appreciate it. Goinfg down south soon 👍
Karaoke bar looks banging 🤣🤣
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
It was 🤣
Used to drink in the wheatsheaf in the 90s best pint of old English cider ever,great days.
Love your videos mate. ♥️
The Milestone always same vibe, great place haha 🍻
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
Init!
Love the elvis guy😂
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
How people should be enjoying their night!
@carlwilliams9565
2 ай бұрын
😂 iam the guy singing someone sent the video to me .
Bit too cold, bit too fizzy. Drink ya pint mate. 😂 joke. Cool vid
Love these pubs bit busier on Saturdays though 😅
Bit of an old school 90s style nightclub downstairs in the Blockbuster Bar you wouldn't even know it was there.
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
Was taped off....probs for later init, gotta be better than that upstairs!
@honestplaces you said at the end of the Manchester video you were going to Dumfries ? When you uploading that one ? Superb stuff all of these btw...ps : did you not head out to the schemes of Glasgow ? You did the city centre
@honestplaces
Ай бұрын
Yeh i've done too many estates do wanted to hit a center. I'm in Dumfries tonight mate 👍
I'm definitely not missing out by staying away from pubs LOL
@honestplaces
26 күн бұрын
Mugs game in the long run pal 👍
A friend lives in one of those council houses near The Wheatsheaf. When she originally took the property as a teenager - it wasn’t very fashionable to live so close to town and everything was dead around by 8pm except for a few clubs pubs. Crazy how times have changed - she bought the flat from the council for something silly like £20k and it’s now worth £200,000
@honestplaces
3 ай бұрын
Mad! Proper spot to be that if you love a drink!
@simonmcmullen1129
3 ай бұрын
Cool story bro
@Jon14141
2 ай бұрын
Nice
@Mokum1961
2 ай бұрын
Think that area and even those houses look pretty good!
Just subbed. Places that show a great bit of working class culture. Love it.
Outside of wheatsheaf wouldn’t say many are too rough! Good video though, the first one you’ve done where I go/have been to
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
Need to do outskirt pubs next! Cheers pal 👍
Love this content, I'm not the most self confident person when it comes to going into a pub on my own but this is a good help for trying to overcome it
@Test-Tube-Baby-xo8xx
Ай бұрын
I wouldn't bother mate. There are far better places to visit than a pub these days.
What day was it you went on i went in millstone years ago seems still as busy
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
Yesterday this!
@chris-jx1le
2 ай бұрын
The Millstone is always full
@chris-jx1le
2 ай бұрын
I haven't been for awhile gets to full for me, but it a great venue for music
Another great video. Hopefully, we'll see you covering some Southern areas in the future.
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
Need to make a week of it down there....deffo some dodgy good pubs near london!
@johnf7801
2 ай бұрын
@honestplaces Hello mate, from what I saw them pubs in Manchester are full of people out for a good time, as a Londoner myself the pubs you're looking for would be classed as 'clicky' and the locals unwelcoming, they are mostly in the outer boroughs with very few near Central.
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
@@johnf7801 Gonna do an outskirts one, some right pubs i've heard of. Need to get to london too!
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
@@johnf7801 those descriptions sound mint pal!
Is the St Vincent and the Band on TheWall still open
Nothin like being in a dingy pub pissed up on a Tueseday afternoon to feel that flush of success I have found
@apintofbeer1667
2 ай бұрын
Life in the bus lane
Loving the 80s music
I love it. Reminds of bars in the US.
5.70 a pint lol can get a pack of 4 from the shop for that 🤣🤣
@honestplaces
3 ай бұрын
Probs better atmosphere too
@cosmicwartoad2587
3 ай бұрын
Well said. something's wrong if a pint cost more than four cans lof lager
@LiClan
3 ай бұрын
@@cosmicwartoad2587it’s the tax on it.
@user-fj5uk4nj8j
2 ай бұрын
Strong Polish gear as well
@chipbuttytime3396
2 ай бұрын
£3.70 at our local also in a working class pigsty
Liking these , Crawley looking like Monaco now .😅
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
Crawley?
@Happy_Limpet
2 ай бұрын
@@honestplaces down sussex , used to frequent years ago , was a tad rough round the edges back then .
The Millstone..Some characters in there!
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
Banging init
@Fishman1234.
2 ай бұрын
Yeah karaoke is amazing on Saturdays proper laugh 😂
I did some electrical work in that Wheatsheaf years ago 😂😂 Nice to see its still trading
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
Still banging....light were abit dodgy though 🤣
@thetruth6693
2 ай бұрын
@@honestplaces 😂😂😂😂
Just found this channel am liking 👍
Man it is good to see Leroy on the doors of Jacksons looking so well. A top bloke.
Glasgow had some tough pubs remember some of them having no windows either lol, the 3rd pub the dark haired 40 plus was eyeing you up mate
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
Need to get up scotland!
@richardevans7035
2 ай бұрын
@@honestplacesI'm from South Wales some tough ones down here too mate
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
@@richardevans7035 where abouts pal?
jesus that was entertaining, can't wait for your next video
These pubs look great. Far from dodgy I’d say. You should come to Sheffield!
Fantastic ❤
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
👍
Yeah, I'm an old git now but £4 for a pint? I recall a time in 1972 when Boddies was 14p a pint and yes - with one quid, I could buy a small round, get a bag of chips and still have enough for my bus fare home!
@Caskchap
2 ай бұрын
I started going in pubs in 1970, still proper money, 10 pints for a pound so two shillings a pint, or in some pubs it was one and tenpence so ten pints and one and eight pence change left which is one shilling and eight pence in proper money Enough for the bus home and some chippy. What glorious days the were and no badgering about non existent climate change or bloody pronouns ( whatever they are)
If i walked into a pub and they had cricket on the telly, I'm walking straight back out. Unless its the middle of summer and there's a beer garden. 😂
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
🤣🤣🤣 fair enough
@jr5993
2 ай бұрын
Yeah it is so boring
Go to Pendlebury estate in Salford and go into the pubs there on Friday evening. That would make interesting viewing
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
Any good?
Mint channel mate , come Stoke lol 👍🏻
Dumfries is a good one tbf - lot of places that look dodgy until you get in there but they're sound... recommend the Hole i' the Wa' for the proper Doonhamer experience Though if you really want a night to remember, stop just before the border... think you might appreciate Botchergate. It's so lively they close the road on Friday and Saturday nights!
@honestplaces
3 ай бұрын
Will make note....Scotland is way too big to get to loads of places 😭
@swiss300173
2 ай бұрын
I agree on Dumfries , good craic tho, Carlisle my stomping ground , get in The Rambler on Botchergate ✌🏼
@stephenconchar7188
2 ай бұрын
Dumfries 8 or 9 pubs with in 100 yards of each other
That blockbuster gaff is well just a front 😂
£5.70 a pint ? double the duty on takeaway beers from shops and half it on the stuff sold in pubs . Those who are sat in doors with 2 4 packs might be temped to leave their home if it was cheaper to do so .
Got yourself a new sub here mate. Great content. 👍 Originally from north London so been in my fair share of shitty pubs. In Hertfordshire now, Hatfield is as shitty as it gets for me now. I remember going to the Cat and Fiddle with my pal, places where the bar too is as sticky as the floor 😂
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
Cheers mate 👍 been in that cat and fiddle....always been a dive that joint 🤣
Public Houses gotta love em
So do they sell pints and dvds
Blockbuster is a bar now?? Did I miss a meeting? Bit of class playing George Harrison though. Lots of decent tunes actually
@honestplaces
3 ай бұрын
Yeh there was decent tunes. Blockbuster bar was junk, atmosphere is just off!
@jaimer6907
2 ай бұрын
I've seen it all now, Blockbuster a pub 😂
@Damaz22
Ай бұрын
It’s themed 90s bar in the northern quarter. Def not rough as with all of the bars in this fashionable area.
Millstone is classic!
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
Banging!
There isnt a dodgy pub in town now...now 15 years ago...yeah fuckin right there was
Good video mate 👍
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
Cheers pal 👍
Top Channel Pal 👍🍀🇮🇪
Those bars look sweet. Id love to travel there.
the street you had the 2 for 1..is called oldham street....back in the seventies, it had 3 yates, all on the one street...(before yates went upmarket)...we had, top, middle and bottom yates's we called them....they all had sawdust on the floors, and "brass spitoons" all along the bottom of the bar...long wooden tables, and equally long benches, was all you had to sit on...the speciality drink was the "BLOB"...austrailian rough wine, drawn out of huge barrels, behind the bar..so, a blob itself, is made up of half aussie wine, half hot water, tablespoon of sugar, and a slice of lemon to finish it off...after you have had about 4 or 5 blobs in yates..you were ready to hit the discos, which were all over manchester back then....they were really rough places..sort of like a wild west saloon...(guaranteed fights breaking out every night)...i myself, in yates's had many a fight back in those days, it was just the culture back then...but that never put people off...everbody would start their weekend in one, or better still, all three yates..before they went on to the nightclubs...happy days eh!!!
LOL OMD when You walked in .. Gotta love the Tunes in these CrapHoles
thats so weird video shop sales pints 😂 😂
Hey man I like your videos it’s a fun thing that you’re doing. Reckon you’d come to Bury? You’d have plenty content
As the Millstone Doorman gotta love the Millstone, Weatsheaf and Unicorn on nights off or after shift pint 😉
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
Need to get in the Unicorn!
@DLodhiA7X
2 ай бұрын
@@honestplaces Thanks for my 15 seconds of fame 😊
Blacon estate in Chester has got a propa tasty little pub with a tiny betting shop in the car park…rite on the estate, looks like the shameless pub!
6:17. Wow 😅
You need to go boro tje bongo & the shipmate Inn and the greentree. Loads of them in boro
Mate I buy McEWAN'S CHAMPION BEER 7.5 percent 500mle for £2 I buy 6 bottles on a Saturday watch KZread vids etc I save a fortune...pubs now are taken the piss. Next video stay in with mates and have 6 bottles each of McEWAN'S CHAMPION HAVE A HOUSE PARTY IT'S CHEAPER, SAVE A MINT. Love your vid's........... Nice
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
Proper saving that....althoughi'd be floored off 2 cans mate! 🤣 cheers pal? Appreciate it 👍
@Gandim45
Ай бұрын
That's a bloody good beer. 6 would put me in a coma. Where's my wallet?
You visited some of the old type pubs in the Northern Quarter not been in some of them for a good while - was in town a couple of weeks back on Deansgate - went i three differenet pubs and hada pint of Guinness in each one the first was £4.95 the second was £6.90 and the third was £5.80 a difference of £1.95 in prices can tell you which ones I wont be going in again....wonder what the cheapest and most expensive Guinness is in Manchester City Centre
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
Yeh mad how it changes so much....there is a 2-4-1 where you can get one for £3.60
you want rough pubs go into the estates round manchester not the centre, nothing like that in the centre these days,,go to wythenshawe and see the pubs round there
The Wheatsheaf isn't too bad, I've been in there a few times.
Crackin pubs
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
👍you know it
😂😂 Manchester dodgy pubs ??? You havin a laugh mate there the trendy pubs in Town ..get in the council estates where we live ..you'll get a kickin filming.
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
What ones?
@rikalex7617
2 ай бұрын
Check out some wythenshaw pubs mate
@k9vibez
2 ай бұрын
Eccles pub crawl used to be a mad one
@LeetheLank
2 ай бұрын
@@rikalex7617found myself in a Wythenshawe pub after some work drinks, only time I’ve been told not to speak to someone unless they speak to you 😂
@rikalex7617
2 ай бұрын
@@LeetheLank doesn't work for me I'm a gobshite after a few vodkas hahhaha
Go spiders hull 😂
good on ye getting the Guinness in
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
Only way!
@niall1437
2 ай бұрын
@@honestplaces to right bro can't beat good pint of stout 🍺🍺
What day was this on
Be careful they don’t think your a fed with that camera la 😂
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
Had that afew times 🤣
There are no roughpubs in man city centre unfortunately.
Guinness is the new Stanley's cup trend 🤣
Lol i go in the nags or the millstone just round the corner from there. But always avoid the wheatsheef and even more so absolutely avoid the walkabout!
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
Walkabout do good beer but always too loud 🤣
@andysutils
2 ай бұрын
@@honestplaces too many Salford massives in there for me and I'm barred from there! 😂😂
Iv been in some of these and yes hahhaa still awesome places
Fizzy Guinness 😮
Did you pull any birds ?
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
Loads....bloody camera stopped working then though so you're gonna have to take my word for it....typical init
1990 £1pint in town center sheffield
How much a beer? I'm glad I live there in non touristy Spain. Bar looks fun but this will be every week
@honestplaces
2 ай бұрын
Where abouts in Spain pal?
@tonytoonstours
2 ай бұрын
@@honestplaces El Puerto de Santa María. Close to Cádiz. I call it real Spain
Wow, £5.70 for a pint! When supermarkets are selling 4 cans of draught Guinness for that its no wonder people drink at home these days! I can remember when a pint in a pub used to be an affordable £1.10 (late 80s, approx £2.80 in today's money), now it's become a luxury that many can't afford and we're losing 30 pubs every week in the UK as a result.
@honestplaces
28 күн бұрын
Madness init. Drinking is so expensive 😭🍺