Barking Dog Pub - A film Set for the Movie "SAW" and other Barking Town, United Kingdom Warning Or Danger Tips

This pub, which opened in 1993 immediately adjacent to Barking Station, is so awful it could be the setting for the next installment of the Hollywood horror movie “SAW” !

To get in the place, you have to push your way though a noisy flock of cackling, pregnant, teenage girls standing in the doorway, chain-smoking, swearing and arguing with their hapless partners.

Once inside, this huge, charmless bar, which used to be a supermarket, you find it is populated by toothless, greasy-haired, unshaven, drinkers with scarlet, alcohol-induced faces. And that's just the women !!!

In the so-called “Family Area” at the back of the pub, you cannot move for young mums with prams. As you gingerly pick your way through them with your pint, watch out for discarded fluffy toys & shoppng bags filled to the brim with pink toilet rolls & assorted own-brand junk from the nearby LIDL supermarket (Barking's answer to Harrods!)

To make this convivial atmosphere complete, add a sprinkling of noisy, snotty-nosed brats with daft names like Topaz, Jacinta, Destiny and MacKenzie. While mum spends her unemployment benefit getting pleasantly plastered on cheap Smirnov Ice, little Topaz and her pals run about, reeking havoc.

On Saturdays, when the local football team are playing at home, this delightful establishment is crammed to bursting with gangs of pot-bellied, drunken, foul-mouthed men, sporting tattoos and wearing tight, ill-fitting football shirts ... Avoid their eyes at all costs !

The pub's only saving graces are that there is usually a good selection of very cheap, real ale and beers from around the world. Plus if you are feeling particularly masochistic and cannot be bothered finding somewhere better to eat, you can get a reasonably priced pub meal for about a fiver! Bolt it down quick and get out.

Strangely enough, just next door to the "Barking Dog" is one of "Barking Town's" best pubs, the similarly named "Spotted Dog" - (See Separate Tip) - Confuse the two pubs up at your peril, Beryl !

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If you want a mini cab to take you to see "Barking Mill", "The Lighted Lady of Barking", "The Catch", "The Secret Garden", "Holding Pattern" or indeed ANY of the places mentioned in my Barking Town tips, please do not expect the driver to know where they are.

Often these drivers are not originally from Barking and some of them may not have lived here very long. It has to be said also that the average person in Barking Town does not seem that interested in our heritage or the various tourist sights. They blindly walk right by something every single day without even once stopping to find out what it is called or why it is there.

It is sad but true !

So print out my tips, AND the pictures - Show them to the driver and he will probably then be able to take you wherever it is pretty quickly - Barking Town is not a huge place.

I would recommend that you use the Black London Taxis on the taxi rank near the station, rather than call a mini cab.

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