A pub named one of Britain’s roughest boozers has undergone a complete turnaround and become a favourite of locals and tourists after being taken over by an England rugby star.
The Swordfish in Newlyn, Cornwall used to be infamous for mass brawls involving drunken fishermen as well as the Newlyn Knockout - a potent cocktail of vodka, drambuie and absinthe.
The whitewashed harbourside venue featured on Sky TV’s Roughest pubs in Britain where former landlord Pete Bell said: ‘It’s a good old pub. It’s a rough pub. You have the odd instance where people throw glasses about or just break them on the floor for something to do.
‘Landing day is the most crucial day. That’s the first day they want to come in and they all want to get totally rat-arsed.’
Mr Bell also fondly remembered ejecting French fishermen from the pub for speaking their own language. He said: ‘The French - not a good one in my book.
