Sheffield’s ‘hardest’ pubs remembered, including ‘infamous’ boozer and ‘very scary’ toilets
Three old Sheffield pubs have been listed as some of the “hardest” in British history.
People were asked by comedian and DJ Danny Baker which local bar was the “hardest” when they were growing up.
Hundreds of individuals nationwide responded, including the Manor Hotel, the Domino and the upper bar at The Cannon in Sheffield.
All three had a bit of a reputation back in their day for being a bit rough, but they have long since closed.
The Domino
It was later demolished to provide room for the Domino House student housing complex, but it survived the original demolition of the apartments.
One individual remembered: “I saw a couple argue, and a guy hit them over the head with a bottle.” Toilets are really frightening.
The Manor Hotel
According to reports, in the 1990s, the Sun tabloid named the Manor Hotel tavern on Fretson Road the roughest pub in Britain.
“Shut now, but when I started drinking in the late 1980s, the Manor Hotel in Sheffield was notorious,” one commenter said. Even though it was only a short drive away, I was too timid to enter!
There are differing views regarding the Manor Hotel on the Lost Pubs of Sheffield Facebook group.
There were a number of “great nights” there, according to one attendee, while another said that bouncers “refused to work the door there” and that they witnessed “many fights like western style hitting people over heads with chairs.”
The fourth person claimed to have the “best memories” of the pub, adding that there was “so much laughter back then,” while another former patron explained how “some good folk went in (and) some rough uns.”
According to a former employee of the bar, the place had a “brilliant” environment and was a “very friendly place” with “very nice people.”
The Cannon
into apartments.
A ‘den of iniquity’, The Cannon on Castle Street in the heart of Sheffield shuttered almost ten years ago
and has subsequently been turned into apartments.
In the early 1980s, the upstairs bar at The Cannon in Sheffield was a little rowdy, according to one
commenter. However, there is a good club downstairs and excellent bar personnel. We adored it.
The Magnet on Southey Green Road, which frequently appears on lists of Sheffield’s “roughest” pubs
from the past, received no nominations.
Additionally, no mention was made of the former Samuel Plimsoll bar located in Sheffield’s Hyde Park
Flats.
Other pubs that have been mentioned as some of the most notorious in the city but did not make the
discussion this time include the old Market Tavern pub on Exchange Street in the city centre, the Robin
Hood and Albion pubs in Pitsmoor, and the Roman Ridge pub on Sheffield’s Flower estate.
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