Leary drinkers in a flat roofed pub downing pint after pint while women blast out 'Roll out the barrel' on a karaoke machine, was what treated viewers in a documentary on Britain's toughest pubs in the noughties.
With the boom of satellite channels in the nineties and noughties, in 2004, Sky 3 produced a show called 'The Toughest Pubs in Britain'. Whether you remember it or not, it certainly shined a light on some of the dodgier drinking holes that litter towns and cities across the nation.
Each episode would delve into the seedier side of a couple of pubs that had made a name for themselves as 'tough boozers' as the show's producers would get prime anecdotes from a motley crew of patrons. No doubt they were encouraged to share their most lurid tales as colourfully as possible.
