Pubs of Liverpool and Merseyside

[SteH]

A selection...


Broadgreen Road, Old Swan This scene is so much improved since those tenements went! I wonder how old this pub really is; Apparently, it was started when the turnpike between Liverpool and Warrington and Manchester was built (now the A57). This was a popular stop off for Stagecoaches which probabbly secured trade at the bar and has done ever since, but in another form of a Stagecoach!


Prescot Road, Old Swan And opposite the Old Swan pub, is the Red House which is evidently a little newer than the previous establishment.


Edge Lane Drive, Broadgreen The Gardners Arms is at the bottom of Broadgreen Road and is around the point where the old Broadgreen Village used to be. Most of that was swept away when the area became heavily suburbanised with the arrival of Queens Drive and Edge Lane Drive.

The Old swan is alleged to date from the late 1700s, notice the bricked up window which was supposedly done to avoid paying too much tax when it used to be based on how many windows were in a property.

[MissInformed]

great pics everyone

[Max]

[marky]

This used to be The Allerton...I guess a name change didn't help it. This must have been tinned-up very recently.

[Kev]

This used to be The Allerton...I guess a name change didn't help it. This must have been tinned-up very recently.

It was tinned up in the last few days to everyone's surprise. Redrow have bought the site plus the factory (comfy?) next to it. Looks like its gonna be houses .

I'm glad the pub has gone eventually though , residents must be overjoyed

[Max]

Has the parkway just closed!

I was only in there in November!

[theninesisters]

The Bears Paw Pub in Edge Hill - this has an archway in the cellar which runs across to the Williamson Tunnels in Paddington across the road!

Pics from 2004 and around the 1800's!

[Kev]

Garston:

The Alexandra

The Paletine

The Derby









The Welly



The Dealers

The Mariners

The George



The Queens

The Swnn Inn

[MissInformed]

The Bears Paw Pub in Edge Hill - this has an archway in the cellar which runs across to the Williamson Tunnels in Paddington across the road!

Pics from 2004 and around the 1800's!

thats brilliant!! More facts like this!!

Do you have pics of the archway?

[PhilipG]

Was this the Falkland?

[bunf]

heres some old buildings we stumbled across today

pretty certain they were pubs, any more info would be great!

[PhilipG]

heres some old buildings we stumbled across today

pretty certain they were pubs, any more info would be great!

For future reference.
If you can give the names of the 2 streets that the corner ones are on, or approximate address for the others, I've got a 1936 Street Directory.

In the meantime:

1. Yes, a pub. Park Lane.
2 & 3. Yes, a pub. The Eagle, Paradise Street.
4 & 5. ???

[bunf]

sorry!!

have checked on toxteth.net

no 4 is at the corner of greenland st and flint st

it used to be a wine and spirit vault so i wasnt far off

no 5 is on park lane opposite the swedish church

loving all this!!!!

merry christmas everybody!!

[Kev]

merry christmas everybody!!

To u also bunf

[PhilipG]

Hi Bunf.

1 was The Royal.
Here's how it looked in June 1992.

4 was the Greenland Arms.

5.
If it's exactly opposite the Swedish Church, and on the corner of Greetham Street, it is listed in 1936 as being occupied by Guinness, Brewers.
Even so, I don't think it was actually run as a pub - probably just their offices in Liverpool.
Does anybody know if Guinness was brewed (or even bottled) in Liverpool?