Sporting Parson pub

[Artemis.]

Did this pub used to have a horse on the roof terrace?

 

[joshuahj336]

The White Horse ever had a horse statue or model on its roof terrace.
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[pjmburns]

Not the same pub as in the titlle
The Sporting Parson is on Parson's Hill but is now a McDonalds

 

[Artemis.]

Has anyone any pictures of the sporting parson when it was known by that name?

 

[Taxi Tom]

Not the same pub as in the titlle
The Sporting Parson is on Parson's Hill but is now a McDonalds
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The Sporting Parson was originally called The Cartland Arms, a M&B pub

 

[mikejee]

Here it is as the Cartland Arms

 

[Godber]

I don’t ever remember seeing a horse on the roof when it was the Sporting Parsons, though I only ever drank there twice and that was when it was called the Cartland Arms in the mid ‘80s. On both occasions it kicked off into a mass brawl and I remember a glass smashing on the wall a few feet from my head. Never bothered again as I couldn’t see the point of drinking in a place where so many of the clientele wanted to banjo each other. The Red Lion and the Hare and Hounds were far better pubs though they weren’t immune to a punch up now and then, either.

 

[Keith R]

I don’t ever remember seeing a horse on the roof when it was the Sporting Parsons, though I only ever drank there twice and that was when it was called the Cartland Arms in the mid ‘80s. On both occasions it kicked off into a mass brawl and I remember a glass smashing on the wall a few feet from my head. Never bothered again as I couldn’t see the point of drinking in a place where so many of the clientele wanted to banjo each other. The Red Lion and the Hare and Hounds were far better pubs though they weren’t immune to a punch up now and then, either.

One of the reasons I never went to pubs was the tribal nature in them........"get outa my pab"...idiots.