you serouise?? This used to be a local of mine and always had a 'reputation' but half the people who drank in there were on their pensions and they was rarley trouble. (being 23 im only speaking about the last 6-8 years)
The main one for problems in HH was always the sussex which i belieive...
assuming its the northern at the bottom of Ditchling Road, i used to live right opposite. On the day it reopened there was alot of trouble and they semed to bar the whole pub from returning. they tried to do it up and at the time they had a quality chef (neil i think) who did a quality sunday...