The Cock and Whistle

BERNADETTE · 11-09-2007, 14:08

Does anybody know where the Cock and Whistle pub was? I am reading Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit and it is mentioned, was just wondering if anybody remembered it.

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flashy · 11-09-2007, 14:12

it might be a fictional name for a pub Bernie

beechy · 11-09-2007, 14:14

cock and bottle was on east gate

BERNADETTE · 11-09-2007, 14:24

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Originally Posted by flashytart

it might be a fictional name for a pub Bernie

Don't think it is fictional though I could be wrong. Sounds like it was somewhere near the Factory Bottom or maybe Black Abbey Street.

cashman · 11-09-2007, 15:02

never heard of that one bernie

but who knows? also was told about one many years ago called The Farting Donkey, which was supposed to be what became the Woodnook? never bought that story but the guy was insistent.

beechy · 11-09-2007, 17:05

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Originally Posted by cashman

never heard of that one bernie

but who knows? also was told about one many years ago called The Farting Donkey, which was supposed to be what became the Woodnook? never bought that story but the guy was insistent.

i thik the actual name was the farthing donkey
a miniture donkey of that era

Mancie · 11-09-2007, 17:31

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Originally Posted by cashman

never heard of that one bernie

but who knows? also was told about one many years ago called The Farting Donkey, which was supposed to be what became the Woodnook? never bought that story but the guy was insistent.

I was told it was called Farting Donkey because they used Donkeys to cart stuff up the steep hill from Victoria street.. and the donkey's would let off because off the strain! (strange but true?)

cashman · 12-09-2007, 08:38

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Originally Posted by Mancie

I was told it was called Farting Donkey because they used Donkeys to cart stuff up the steep hill from Victoria street.. and the donkey's would let off because off the strain! (strange but true?)

the guy that told me also said the old sign was in the yard when he went in, a few years previous, of coarse i went straight up to the woodnook from the commercial, but if it had been there,it had gone.