Worst Boozer in Sussex

[Barrel of Fun]

Good Companion?

I haven't been in there for a few years now. Don't know why I even went back after they threw a group of us out on NYE at 11.50pm, despite having sold us a round of drinks..! (We were underage at the time, though).

Is it still covered from head to toe in that ghastly wood panelling?

 

[Durlston]

The Whistlestop next to Portslade station

I used to go in there quite a bit about five years ago while i was waiting for beak.

Not the worst pub i've ever been in but always very lively in there.Didn't it get shut down for a while after a massive fight?

 

[R. Slicker]

. Absolutely agree, if you mean the one in Worthing. Full of drunken arseholes, they serve school kids with booze. 2 or 3 fights a week, police seen permanently camped outside, but do nothing. Should have been closed years ago.

Yep, thats the one. Like going back to 1977 when you walk through the door.

 

[southwickseagull]

Yep, thats the one. Like going back to 1977 when you walk through the door.

. Yep, and the state of some of the regulars, they've been in the dump since 1977. As a cab company we refuse to pick up there, have done for years.

 

[smiler]

Portland

 

[33057 Seagull]

Surprised no one has mentioned the Swan at Falmer!

 

[perseus]

The Pilot in Southwick has an unenviable reputation. I have not actually been in there, but a pub that closes at nine o'clock and the landlord goes down the road for a drink. They even run out of beer. I kid you not. Not just once. And then there are the fights and the Police presence. Does anybody want to fill in the other murky details? Allegedly.

And they do not run out of beer because they sell out. Other reasons which makes Fawlty Towers a well run business.

 

[sam86]

The Whistlestop next to Portslade station

I used to go in there quite a bit about five years ago while i was waiting for beak.

Not the worst pub i've ever been in but always very lively in there.Didn't it get shut down for a while after a massive fight?

Only a couple of days, and it wasn't that massive

 

[sam86]

The Whistlestop next to Portslade station

Only pub I have ever been chased out of!

When was this, and by drinkers, or bouncers?

 

[willingdon_seagull]

A few contenders from my neck of the woods:-

"The Pubb" at Hampden Park - simply a dump and the clientel leave a lot to be desired

The Kingfisher - Langney Shopping Centre - see above

The Terminus - Hailsham - Ditto

Another dive ofa boozer in sussex has to be the Neville in Hove surely?

 

[JonathanLivingstonSeagull]

The Bat and Ball, yet unbelievably it was the only pub in the area that asked my 24 year old son for i.d.

very menacing 'you ain't from round 'ere' vibe in there

i was only delivering their f***ing post and all

also: rude

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

Not forgetting The Palmeira , used to be my local about 2 years ago. It may have changed now although “Beer in the evening” is still only giving it a rating of 2.1. Full of wealthy foreign language students looking for a fight with any Brits in there, most of which were the local nutters. Landlady also had a face like a slapped arse. Shame – as it used to be a good boozer to stop off at on the way into Brighton.

 

[Gully]

They didn't like outsiders did they? as I found out to my cost a couple of times.

Nope, not much...it is a bit of a land that time forgot type of place, local shops for local people, if you get my drift...they also have a rugby club, which struck me as paricularly strange for West Sussex.

 

[aberllefenni]

The Pilot in Southwick has an unenviable reputation. I have not actually been in there, but a pub that closes at nine o'clock and the landlord goes down the road for a drink. They even run out of beer. I kid you not. Not just once. And then there are the fights and the Police presence. Does anybody want to fill in the other murky details? Allegedly.

Another vote for the Pilot here. Had to meet in there in the early 80's, stayed for 15 minutes, never again.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

what about the northern near there?? shysters unlimited in there!!

With a load of mates, I got BANNED from the Northern way back in the early seventies. A banning that I have NEVER thought about challenging.

 

[Notters]

Is it on the seafront or something?

Is this dude serious? The bat and ball is awful but at least it has character.

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

Tophouse in Burgess Hill

Good Companions at 7 dials

 

[HAILSHAM SEAGULL]

The Toby in Woodingdean was something to behold in the 70's, I belive in got even worse in later years.

 

[Gully]

With a load of mates, I got BANNED from the Northern way back in the early seventies. A banning that I have NEVER thought about challenging.

I got refused entry to the Thieves Kitchen in Worthing...after being spotted by the doorman rubbing out a couple of letters on their menu board so that 'unbeatable prices' became 'uneatable rices'...I saw the funny side of it, he didn't.

I think he did me a favour, it was a crap pub anyway.

 

[Northstander]

the ______ Pub, Lancing....fill the blanks in