Franglais:
We’d be stood outside the Lock Inn or the Juniper Berry touting for work, doing owt for cash.
Juniper Berry? 
‘The Lock Inn’ was bad enough,… you’ll be name checking the Aldgate ‘Red Lion’ and the Northampton ‘The Criterion’ next, …you’re showing your age mate ! 
, and I thought it was just me on here who had frequented such past QUALITY establishments. 