Pubs of Liverpool and Merseyside

[ChrisGeorge]

BTW-ish

You will have heard the news that Witherspoons are to expand.
Does this company have what it takes to make a 'pub'? They have one close to me, it's been a pub for a very long time, yet I am unsure as to how well they do at keeping a real public house 'real'.
I suppose the question is what is it that makes a pub a pub?
1. Service, I say.
2.?

My wife Donna and I almost went in a Wetherspoons in Banbury but then heard and saw the screaming kids so went elsewhere.

C

[Ged]

The Childwall Fiveways is currently closed and to become a Wetherspoons.

[ChrisGeorge]

The Childwall Fiveways is currently closed and to become a Wetherspoons.

If it became a gay Wetherspoons could it be more than Fiveways?

[Cadfael]

The Childwall Fiveways is currently closed and to become a Wetherspoons.

They're going to utterly ruin the pub. For many, it's a meeting point before you climb in to a cab for town, it does decent beer and you can get the duke to the dustman in, but if they go tarting it all up from the outside, it's going to stand out like a sore thumb. I just hope it doesn't start to attract the bad crowd.

[Cadfael]

Another one bites the dust...

The Coronation is a nice 50s pub in Belle Vale, now closed.

I'm amazed it took that long. I've never known it had a good press in all the time I've been here.

[Norm NZ]

Another one bites the dust...

The Coronation is a nice 50s pub in Belle Vale, now closed.

Was'nt this pub called the 'Belle Vale' when first built?

[Cadfael]

Was'nt this pub called the 'Belle Vale' when first built?

Asked the folks and they think it was. It was always known as a rough pub but probably through no fault of its own. It's on the border of Belle Vale and Huyton/Childwall and Belle Vale always had a 'name' to it. I drank in there once and while it wasn't the Ritz, I never came across any trouble myself but as of late, gangs from 'opposite' sides used to sit on each side of the bar and you could smell trouble. I hope it doesn't go the same way as the Highwayman and demolished but once a pub has a name, it always stays.

If they demolish it then it can only go to housing as it's got a decent amount of land.

On another aimless point, me ma can remember the opening night of the Falstaff Pub just up the road on Gateacre Park Drive!

[Bernie]

I left Gatacre in 1949, it was always the Coronation for as long as I remember, I think it was built just before WW2.

[kevin]

On another aimless point, me ma can remember the opening night of the Falstaff Pub just up the road on Gateacre Park Drive!

I remember going in there occasionally at lunch time, when I worked across the road. That would be in 1967 and the place was fairly new.

[Ged]

I left Gatacre in 1949, it was always the Coronation for as long as I remember, I think it was built just before WW2.

Yes it's definitely a 30s design, not a 50s.

[hmtmaj]

The Albany, Albany Road, off Derby Lane, Old Swan.
Earlier pic, on the wall inside.

[Ross08]

Yes it's definitely a 30s design, not a 50s.

Yes... Most definitely a 30s style building, but I have read elsewhere that it's later - i.e. 50s. I need to find out about this.

... and another pub of the same era - the Bowring Park at Roby Road / Rimmer Avenue:

The Village Inn at Stockbridge Village... I don't know the original name:

[pablo42]

Nice photos Ross.

[Samp]

The Albany, Albany Road, off Derby Lane, Old Swan.
Earlier pic, on the wall inside.

That pub brings back memories of the early sixties when you could have a good game of darts in the bar.

[Samp]

The Coronation and a few pubs like it on the outskirts were built two or three years before the housing estates went up. It was common knowledge that someone had inside information regarding the housing programme.