Pubs of Liverpool and Merseyside

[Ged]

There's only 2 on Boaler street these days, the Sir Walter Raleigh and Macs but there used to be another couple at Farnworth street end.

[kevin]

There's only 2 on Boaler street these days, the Sir Walter Raleigh and Macs but there used to be another couple at Farnworth street end.

Thanks - neither sounds familiar

[shirleya]

also slightly off topic but the pub ive been trying to get a pic of-the old curiosity vaults/old curio on park lane-well it was run by the bray family and one of the lads jimmy bray was a well known welter weight boxer in the area-does anyone remember that family or is everyone on here too young???? think he was same era as randolph turpin. thats prob. far too early for you all-but worth a try-maybe your grandads knew the family.????????

[PhilipG]

also slightly off topic but the pub ive been trying to get a pic of-the old curiosity vaults/old curio on park lane-well it was run by the bray family and one of the lads jimmy bray was a well known welter weight boxer in the area-does anyone remember that family or is everyone on here too young???? think he was same era as randolph turpin. thats prob. far too early for you all-but worth a try-maybe your grandads knew the family.????????

This is way off topic, too, but I took a photo of Randy Turpin's Bar (top of the Great Orme, Llandudno) in 1960!
They were about the only times I took photos of places when I was a child - on my holidays, that is.

[shirleya]

To be honest i know nothing of randolph turpin-only that he would not fight jimmy bray-but maybe that was just paper talk. Ive been to the top of the great orme though-never knowing it was his place once-wow-thanks for that. Was randolph big in liverpool then???? I have an article cut out from one of the papers of the time-around 1943 where it was saying jimmy bray and his team were trying to arrange a fight between him and randolph but he kept backing out . Insinuating that he may have been afraid to fight jimmy-so i presume from that that randolph had a reputation ???????
sorry-gone off topic there-but it is kind of associated with pubs -kind of......

[marky]

The Botanic is almost demolished (just a small section of wall is left).
I can't believe the price of this postcard on E-bay of the Botanic:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Old-postcard-W...QQcmdZViewItem

[edwardo]

phiipg.is that the photo of the Globe in kensington???edwardo

[PhilipG]

phiipg.is that the photo of the Globe in kensington???edwardo

It's opposite Central Station in Cases Street.

Marky.
That card is rare.
It would have cost about £25 five years ago, which is about the amount of time I've not bothering buying more postcards.
In the 1960s I used to pay 6d each before Stanley Gibbons published the first postcard catalogue, which started people realising they were worth something.

[chippie]

went to Sudley House on Saturday and had a great day out, took a few snaps.

[lindylou]

Nice pic Chippie. It's a good while since I went to Sudley.

[chippie]

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[chippie]

[Ged]

I like that 3rd photo Chippie, the one of you looking in the mirror.

[PhilipG]

Good to see you with your clothes on, Chippie!
Has Sudley become a pub now?

[chippie]

I,m flabbergasted, my flab has never been so gasted Philip and Gedrick!