The Melbourne and Wellington pubs, Green Lane Old Swan.
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The Melbourne and Wellington pubs, Green Lane Old Swan.
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YE CRACKE - RICE STREET - LIVERPOOL CITY CENTRE
I know Max posted a photo of this pub early this year, but I'd never actually seen the place until I went looking for it yesterday. I never went in, but it looks a "crackin'" little boozer.
Ye Cracke has to be one of Liverpool's best kept secrets.
Hi steH,Quote:
Originally Posted by SteH
I am trying to trace a great uncle fred Fitzgerald who had a pub called the "Liver" My dad said they lived near Scotland road. I met a woman who a few years ago and she said her late husband of 2 months had played in a pub they called Fitzer's could that be where they are now.
any ideas
[QUOTE=Ross08;79356]YE CRACKE - RICE STREET - LIVERPOOL CITY CENTRE
I know Max posted a photo of this pub early this year, but I'd never actually seen the place until I went looking for it yesterday. I never went in, but it looks a "crackin'" little boozer.
Ye Cracke has to be one of Liverpool's best kept secrets.[QUOTE]
nice plce, ive had many a beer in the cracke, and in the pilgrim a minutes walk away.
Does anyone have any pics of Wilsons Bar, Wood Street ?
All the Liverpool poets used it: McGough, etc. John Lennon used it a lot as it was near the art college. For years to the right was open ground - I think from a bombed building in WW2. I used it a lot, after playing football in the nearby Institute.Quote:
Originally Posted by horseflapsQuote:
Originally Posted by Ross08
Hi lord edwardQuote:
Originally Posted by lord edward
I know of a pub called the "Liver" but it`s on the corner of South Road in
Crosby, also a "Fitzies" on the corner of Latham Street and Commercial Road.
pubs were called by the people that ran them in the old days.
gregs dad
Are Pubs as we once knew them, one on nearly every street corner, becomming a thing of the past ??
Answers on a used beer mat please.
Phredd
Sadly yes as the density of housing reduces and staying in becomes the new going out. There are some areas of the city though where the number of pubs is still healthy and very few close, County Road for example.Quote:
Originally Posted by phredd
Skelhorne Street.
Saturday night. 9 pm.
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Winchester arms. Townsend lane, Anfield.
That,s a nice photo of the Winny Lindy
The Phythian, Farnworth Street...in the news today (pic from July 2007)
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That,s on the corner of Max,s road, well it does say Molyneux
Nice on Mark:)
The first pub I regularly drank in was The Grapes, on Victoria Rd (st?), Aigburth - the continuation of Ashfield Rd.
First went there in 1967 and was a regular until it was knocked down about 2 years later. There was another pub next door called The Aigburth Arms. After the Grapes and the Arms were knocked down the current Aigburth Arms was built on the site.
Anybody remember it? The landlady was Mrs Lewis, who ran the place with her dad. Wally and Sheena took it over about a year before it closed. Regulars at the time were Billy & Peter Parkes, Alan Clegg, Mike Dean and Jimmy McHale.
Aigburth Arms has now been re-named The Victoria. Sad really.Quote:
Originally Posted by kevin