Talk:The Troll's Head

The Troll's Head (and the related Goblin's Head pub) always remind me rather disturbingly of a pub in Cambridge called "The Blackamoor's Head" which featured a heavily caricatured face of a black man on it's sign. Local rumour had it that it's original name had been less polite, and started with an "N".

Billy Connolly referred frequently to his local in Glasgow, regarded as one of the hardest pubs in one of the hardest cities in Europe, the Saracen's Head, known locally as "The Sarry Heid" ("Sorry Head", a reference to hangovers or the aftermath of a losing fist-fight, or both). The Saracen's Head is a common pub name around Britain - the reference being to trophy heads brought back from the Crusades. In at least one documented case the pub sign, in more robust times, was a real Saracen's Head on a pole. Not unusual in a time when lawcourts with a zero-tolerance policy to potential repeat offenders was to order execution followed by the severed head of the guilty party being placed on a spear as a warning to others. AgProv (talk) 10:27, 7 August 2015 (UTC)