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[chris q]

Thanks Ged and Helen,
the photograph is fantastic!
Chris

[wsteve55]

yes, you are quite right

Ha,ha,.......bonkers!!!

[Ged]

Ha,ha,.......bonkers!!!

No, Bonkers was a fun pub on the Dock Road back in the 1980s.

[gregs dad]

Ged have you got a pic of the Bath House pub a few doors away from the Claremont ?

[lindylou]

Ha,ha,.......bonkers!!!

Nitwits ! ... probably kids messing around.

[Ged]

Ged have you got a pic of the Bath House pub a few doors away from the Claremont ?

It doesn't ring a bell Joe, is that the real name or nickname. I'll take a look.

[gregs dad]

It could be the nickname Ged, as it was across the road from Westminster Rd baths . Used to get taken there by my elder brother when I was courting my wife in the early `50`s.
The thing is we had to pass plenty of pubs to get there as he lived in Turton St which is or was next to Boundary St.

[Ged]

Ged have you got a pic of the Bath House pub a few doors away from the Claremont ?

The Queens Arms photographed in 1912. Located at 63-65 Westminster Road which was originally called Bootle Lane as an old highway leading to Bootle. Known locally as the bath house due to its location close to the swimming baths.

Photo and information with thanks to Freddy O'Connor.




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[Billy D]

No, Bonkers was a fun pub on the Dock Road back in the 1980s.

And it was fn BONKERS,,,,,,,remember it well

[Ged]

Yep, pink and light blue with barmaid dancers inside, one of the first 'fun pubs' of the era. Porkies was a little further along

[Red Tom]

While I have access to this laptop, I thought I would mention something that has me puzzled (again).
While researching some family history,I discovered that a great uncle, who lived in the Tarbock/Cronton area,wed a local lass, yet they were married (in 1893) at St. Mary's, Kirkdale, and my grandfather married his second wife (my grandmother), again a Cronton resident, at this same church in 1916.
It has me wondering why?, then,most things these days make me wonder a lot.

[ChrisGeorge]

While I have access to this laptop, I thought I would mention something that has me puzzled (again).
While researching some family history,I discovered that a great uncle, who lived in the Tarbock/Cronton area,wed a local lass, yet they were married (in 1893) at St. Mary's, Kirkdale, and my grandfather married his second wife (my grandmother), again a Cronton resident, at this same church in 1916.
It has me wondering why?, then,most things these days make me wonder a lot.

Hi Tom

Isn't it probable that St. Mary's, Kirkdale, was your great uncle's parish church and that after the weddings the couples lived in Kirkdale? Do you have an address or addresses where the couples lived?

Chris

[gregs dad]

The Queens Arms photographed in 1912. Located at 63-65 Westminster Road which was originally called Bootle Lane as an old highway leading to Bootle. Known locally as the bath house due to its location close to the swimming baths.
Thanks for that Ged,what I remember about the Bath house was 2 records always playing Hank Locklin singing Geisha girl,and Send me the pillow that you dream on.
Regarding Westminster Road the last pub before it went into Hawthorn Rd, was the Stanley Arms which must have been an old coach pub because it was set back off the road.With a fine bowling green and paid artists on stage on thursdays and fridays it was the first pub I ever frequented. I think Ronnie Whelan of Liverpool was manager near the end of it`s life

[Ged]

Is that the one that became the Sportsman and is now a row of houses?

[gregs dad]

Most probably Ged, I think it was an Ind Coope`s house, it`s were my wife and I spent some of our courtship