Possible Clues:

• Pub, a terrible hole to resort to
• Boozer in a hole, drunk before work
• Setting where you might get stout
• Place for a pint
• Pub kin
• Local area parasite must drink meths regularly
• Frequent locale in the comic strip 'Andy Capp'
• He turned up to stop a bounder in the pub
• A trainee – he returned to river pub
• No place for a draft dodger?