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The white stools are a bit poncy!
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Originally Posted by pablo42
The white stools are a bit poncy!
Yeah, reckon it's a fashion statement. Lost on me.Quote:
Originally Posted by kevin
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2553/...b81caf48_o.jpg
The Jupiter bar in Hackens Hey
Nice one Joe.
This pub used to be called "Walters",with a sign, of some 30's,40's, looking guy,with glasses! I always meant to call in and find out who,or what he was, but when I finally got round to it,the name had changed! This was up to the 80's I think,does anyone here remember?Quote:
Originally Posted by gregs dad
I remember it being called something else in the seventies. Can't place it though.
... another interesting pub is the Herculaneum Bridge "Peggy's" on Herculaneum Road, L8.
This pub is very well hidden away, and to be honest I'd wondered where it was for a number of years despite driving practically past it most days.
Can anybody tell me what this one was called?
Mill Street - L8
Mill Street pub was the Hollow.
Steve, I do remember Jupiters as the Walter. It is now a gay bar.
Ha,really! Just as well I didn't go looking for info' on him then!:unibrow:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ged
By the way Ged',did you ever find out the name of the pub' opposite the "Glasshouse",in Eldon st? No one I've asked, could even recall a pub'!
In the 80s I once had the temerity, when visiting "The Breeze", just off Breeze Hill Walton, to ask for a Cointreau. I was told by the Barman "Get lost, Love, this is Walton". Serves me right....
Because I am an arkward cuss, I also asked for a Cointreau and Bitter Lemon in the "Salutation" on County Road, Walton which could be a bit of a rough house. I was given a Cointreau and a slice of sad looking lemon. When I asked for the mixer I was told "Wharraryouonabout? Theres yer bit `o lemon in the glass!!". I am not joking.
Worse pub ever was the Eagle and Child in Page Moss which was down my Nans end of the world. Mad place
Must say i enjoyed the great mersey pub guide in tonight's liverpool echo, informative and some nice pics :PDT_Aliboronz_24:
ha,ha, I can just imagine it ! I've been in the Salutation once or twice.Quote:
Originally Posted by Partsky
Trust you to know that:PDT_Xtremez_42:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ged
Naw, you sure about that Ged. Not having that. Me and me boyfriend never seen no gays in there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ged
Yes, certainly looks like the Hollow. Used to go there. Sad it's shut. Was a bit rough though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ross08
No doubt people will think this a joke, but it isn't. I was on a pub crawl in Lancaster (about 1979). One of the girls with us had grown up in a pub and realised that the barman in the pub we'd just entered used to work for her dad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Partsky
She went to the bar first and pretended to be a grumpy customer.
'Give us half a bitter and make it snappy'.
He looked at her but said nothing as he pulled her beer.
He put it in front of her but before she could take a drink he whipped his false teeth out and dropped them in her beer!
He then said 'there ya go, aperitif'.
Think about it.
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Never did Steve, a real mystery that one but it deffo looks like a pub and has the hoarding/advert up on the wall etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by wsteve55
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Originally Posted by Partsky
You Wwent in some classy pubs there Partsky :)
We used to meet in the Saddle on the corner of that street, about 4 or 5 couples - a bit of karaoke then up to Jupiters as a few of the crowd we were with liked it there. The staff got up on the bar at the end of the night doing Rolf's the court of king caratacus. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by ItsaZappathing
Another one bites the dust...
The Coronation is a nice 50s pub in Belle Vale, now closed.
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.?
I've heard the plans - and it is great news for anybody looking to work in that industry.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oudeis
Wetherspoon provide pubs that are very different to what we'd call old, traditional pubs (though they are very good). They offer decent food at good prices and a wide selection. They have guest beers and that sort of thing, if you want it.
I like Wetherspoon pubs and I say good luck to them.
I think there will be a day when all we'll have is these chain-style pubs...
My wife Donna and I almost went in a Wetherspoons in Banbury but then heard and saw the screaming kids so went elsewhere. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Oudeis
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The Childwall Fiveways is currently closed and to become a Wetherspoons.
If it became a gay Wetherspoons could it be more than Fiveways? http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3301/...386cb6de_o.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Ged
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ged
I'm amazed it took that long. I've never known it had a good press in all the time I've been here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ross08
Was'nt this pub called the 'Belle Vale' when first built?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ross08
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Norm NZ
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!
I left Gatacre in 1949, it was always the Coronation for as long as I remember, I think it was built just before WW2.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cadfael
Yes it's definitely a 30s design, not a 50s.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bernie
The Albany, Albany Road, off Derby Lane, Old Swan. :PDT_Aliboronz_24:
Earlier pic, on the wall inside.
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Originally Posted by Ged
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:
Nice photos Ross.
That pub brings back memories of the early sixties when you could have a good game of darts in the bar.Quote:
Originally Posted by hmtmaj
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.