Quote Originally Posted by splott parker View Post
The Addie was another crackers establishment. My mate Murphy brought a workmate of his down from Manchester who reckoned he’d seen it all up there. How shocked was he when he witnessed a punter dragging the fruit machine out of the door arguing that he reckoned it was his due to how much he’d put in it. Also The Eastern was top notch for MOT certificates and, you know what, they never even had to see your car.

For a small area, Adamsdown , the characters and goings on were unbelievable. I reckon the Krays would have needed security had they ventured.
I also used these 2 pubs and it is true what you say the whole place (Adamsdown) seemed to be full of bonkers people but fantastic times were had in both these pubs.
The Eastern was the place to go to get almost anything you wanted as long as you knew the right person.
I remember going in there on Sundays as it was shoplifters sale day. Out the back room all the jewels were on display to start a bidding war, the array of goods was mindboggling,there was even a sit on lawnmower there one day ,how they got that out of the shop is anyones guess.
Both mad pubs but full of wonderful colourful characters