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unusual facts about barmaid



Beast from Haunted Cave

Although Marty, accompanied by a local barmaid (Linné Ahlstrand), succeeds in setting the explosive, he encounters a beast (Chris Robinson) in the mine.

Donna Ludlow

She works as a barmaid at The Queen Victoria public house and takes to anonymously ringing up the Samaritans, where Kathy volunteers, but Kathy starts to suspect the caller's identity.

Gordon McDougall

He subsequently found his widest audiences through his portrayal of amateur inventor Les Whittaker, husband to brassy barmaid Norma (Sheila Kennelly), in the phenomenally successful sex-comedy television soap opera Number 96.

Hannah Twynnoy

Twynnoy, by repute and according to a memorial plaque now lost, was an early 18th-century barmaid working in a pub in the centre of the English market town of Malmesbury in Wiltshire.

Iona Banks

She played Mrs. Roberts in Our Day Out (1977), Mrs Roberts in Part 2 of Willy Russell's 1983 TV series One Summer and barmaid Gwladys Lake in the Welsh television soap opera Pobol y Cwm.

Prince Ludwig the Indestructible

On meeting Blackadder, he claims to have been disguised as "Big Sally", a barmaid Blackadder knew at a pub in Dover called The Old Pizzle he once frequented.

Sebastian Beach

His mother lives in Eastbourne and his niece, Maudie, the bohemian of the family, ran away from home to become a barmaid at the old Criterion (where she was familiar with Galahad and Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe) under the name of Maudie Montrose; she later married several times before getting back together with her old flame "Tubby" Parsloe.

Six o'clock swill

Caddie, the Story of a Barmaid, an autobiography of a depression era barmaid, describes the six o'clock swill, at a time (1952) when it was presumed that the reader would be familiar with the concept.

Swear box

Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker played customers in a public house who keep swearing and are repeatedly told to put coins in a tin by a barmaid.

Veronica Henry

Her first job in the media was with the BBC where she secured a job on The Archers, her duties ranged from organising Shula Archer’s wedding photographs with Patrick Lichfield to acting the part of Peaches the barmaid in the Cat and Fiddle.


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