WAVERTREE

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21st Amendment
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New in 2021, I think, this is a rather good modern bar which has a large comfortable interior with attractive slightly quirky decor.
Last visited January 2022.
Church Road / Heathfield Road
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Arthur Guinness (Jalons) (Grog House) (Dirty Nellies)
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The grog House was a rather fine, slightly odd, bar with a gentle Irish theme.
Last visited 2018.
Smithdown Road / Weardale Road
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Ashdale Inn
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The usual style of pleasant decor in this "Oak Lodges" one bar flat house, with split level seating areas plus a pool table at the back.
Last visited April 2023.
Lawrence Road / Liscard Road
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Ashgrove
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A recently decorated (very green) interior in one long room in this former Vaux house. The floor is wood and quarry tiles. There is a raised seating area opposite the counter, with 3 large murals behind. Two hand pumps not in use.
Noted closed in 2018.
Last visited 2002.
Picton Road / Picton Crescent
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Bar Oasis A Wednesday visit found a £5 entry fee to this disco. We declined.
Closed and burnt out.
Not visited.
Picton Road / Larkfield View
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Barley Mow
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This tiny corner house has been nicely decorated in a plain and pleasant traditional style. The floor has a slight slope to it.
Last visited May 2023.
Wavertree High Street / Waterloo Street
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Beeswing (Evil Eye)
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Evil eye was a pleasant trendy burrito bar.
Beeswing is a very good, popular corridor bar with more seating in the back yard.
Last visited October 2023.
Smithdown Road / Harwarden Avenue
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Belle Vue A plain, scruffy and grubby bar side with customers to match. The enormous lounge is much nicer looking but was completely empty. There is also a back room, completely unfurnished, which contained one bike when I was there. The exterior has been redecorated since my visit. Now closed.
Last visited 1999.
132 Picton Road / Picton Crescent
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Black Bull
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A very impressive mobile pub, complete with wooden floor, solid walls and a canvas roof, serving four or five Theakstons real ales including the special Black Bull Bitter. Including it in the guide is a bit of a cheat but it does turn up at the Liverpool Show in Wavertree so I'm going to count it. Highly recommended, much better than your usual "beer tent".
Last visited 1999.
Wavertree Playground
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Black Cat (Craft Taproom)
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I never visited the Craft Taproom because it didn't seem to keep to published hours. The Black Cat is a rather fine multi-roomed pub serving quality ales, cask and craft. Live music features.
Last visited October 2023.
Smithdown Road / Cresford Avenue
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Brookhouse (Finch & Firkin)
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A very large pub with two bars in three large rooms with very high ceilings, nicely done out with wooden floors, old wooden tables and very comfortable sofas. Until October 1999 the on-site brewery provided Firkin Ales for this and other local branches but sadly these are no longer available.
Last visited 2018.
Smithdown Road / Weardale Road
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Chequers This large open two-bar pub is in a former bank (Chequers - get it?), although you wouldn't know it from the inside, nicely done with a wooden floor except for some raised seating areas. There's a pleasant beer yard at the back.
Now closed, I'm told.
Last visited 2003.
Wavertree High Street / Grange Terrace
Chillies
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Nice well cared for modern stylish decor.
I believe this is now closed.
Last visited 2004.
Wavertree High Street
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Clock
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This small friendly cheerful boozer has a nicely done interior.
Last visited May 2023.
Wavertree High Street / Waterloo Street
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Cock and Bottle
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The interior decor is plain and tidy in this pub with one large front room plus another at the rear sometimes reserved for functions.
Last visited May 2023.
Wavertree High Street
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Coffee House
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This pub has a splendid interior which includes nice ironwork and a fine plaster ceiling. One very large main room with some raised seating areas, plus a side bar. Beer garden not visited.
Last visited June 2023.
Church Road by Picton Clock
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Crafty Swine
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Mainly aimed at diners, this large pleasant place also offers quality real ales.
Last visited November 2023.
Smithdown Road / Cramond Avenue
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Cuffs
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A well cared for modern interior in this popular lively boozer. The sofas are very comfortable. Became a "Pound Pub" in 2015.
Now closed and boarded up.
Last visited 2018.
Wavertree High Street
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Dog House
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A friendly modern pub serving quality real ales and a good choice of beers, both common and unusual. Large windows onto the street on two sides give the place an open feeling.
Last visited January 2022.
Church Road / Kenyon Road
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Dovedale Towers
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A rather good antwacky interior and a fine pint of real ale.
Last visited 2018.
Penny Lane / Dovedale Road
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Edinburgh
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This beautiful tiny back street local is in a Victorian terrace. It has two pleasant rooms. They serve excellent real ales.
Grade II listed building.
Last visited June 2023.
Sandown Lane / Orford Street
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Ei8ht Bar Now closed.
Not visited.
Allerton Road / Carsdale Road
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Fanny's Bar
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A corner house with nice, totally fake, decor - bare brick walls and wooden floor - but looking rather tatty in places. Now a Chinese Restaurant.
Last visited 2003.
Smithdown Road / Russell Road
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Fogherty's (Dudley)
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A large comfortable traditionally decorated one-room boozer, with a function room next door.
Last visited January 2022.
Smithdown Road / Blenheim Road
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Frank's Bar (Vine Inn) (Clachan)
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This unusually-angled corner house contained one counter and three rooms when it was the Vine. It has been knocked through since then, creating one pleasantly decorated open room.
Last visited October 2023.
Smithdown Road / Gresford Avenue
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Grosvenor
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A fairly unspoiled traditional boozer, nicely decorated, in an impressive building well hidden in the middle of this Victorian housing estate. Hand pump not in use when I visited.
Reported boarded up in 2009.
Last visited 2003.
Grosvenor Road / 123 Bishopgate Street
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Handymans Supermarket
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Perhaps too big to be a micro-pub, but it's like one. Quality real ales, their own and others, are served in this intentionally tatty shop conversion. The brewery is on the mezzanine above the counter.
Last visited 2018.
Smithdown Road / Lidderdale Road
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J. P. Merryweather's One large room with big windows on to the street in this slightly down market but clean and tidy pub.
Now closed.
Last visited 2003.
Wavertree High Street
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Kelly's Dispensary
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Opened as a Cains house on 25 August 1999, this place served a good pint of real ale. It has a flat frontage in a row of shops, while inside is one bar plus a side pool room. More recently it has an Irish theme and serves a fine pint of Guinness.
Last visited October 2023.
Smithdown Road / Arundel Avenue
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Lamb (Fold & Firkin)
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Some rather fine original-looking features including wood panelling, leaded glass and ceiling plasterwork in this large building which dates from the 1850s. The selection of ales provided when it was a Firkin pub have gone.
Grade II listed building.
Now closed.
Last visited 2004.
Picton Clock
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Leaf Smithdown
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This branch of the Leaf chain is located in the former Hatton's model railway shop.
Not visited.
Smithdown Road / Calton Avenue
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Legends (147 Club) Formerly a snooker hall this large shed is now full of pool tables with a small lounge at the front and a disco to one side (closed when I visited). The drinks were surprisingly expensive for the area. Now closed.
Last visited 1999.
Picton Road / Larkfield View
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Love Bar A large two-sided split level place with rather ordinary decor, full of young people. "Sizzling Steak" food. After a time as an Indian restaurant this is now a pub once again.
Last visited 1999.
Smithdown Road / Bagot Road
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Masonic Bowling Club
Not visited.
Long Lane / Olive Lane
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Penny Lane Wine Bar A busy place with a number of small rooms, and not much sign of wine drinking when I visited. Inevitably decorated with some Beatles memorabilia, but not to excess.
Last visited 2018.
Allerton Road / Elmsdale Road
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Picton
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A plain comfortable shop conversion with friendly locals.
Last visited April 2023.
Picton Road / Wellington Road
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Prince Alfred
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Rather good, fake I think, decor with large wood beams and an impressive fireplace, in this friendly locals' boozer.
Last visited 2018.
Wavertree High Street / Chestnut Grove
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Railway
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A very nicely done out one bar knocked through corner house, run by "Pubmaster". Noted closed in 2008, open again in 2009, but now closed.
Last visited 2003.
Wellington Road / Nelson Street
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Richmond Tavern
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Fine fake decor in this large up market opened out one bar pub, now a member of the Ember Inns chain. Good real ale available. The food looks good and is very popular. On one visit the roof was blowing off into the car park!
Last visited January 2022.
Church Road / Prince Alfred Road
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Rose Vaults
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This traditional one-room split level boozer is nicely done out.
Last visited 2018.
Wavertree High Street
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Salisbury
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A giant two bar pub much bigger than the outside suggests. The really nice interior decor includes lots of knocked through walls and dark wood panelled pillars and walls. One side has a row of individual booths.
Now closed.
Last visited 2003.
31 Lawrence Road / Tabley Road
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Sandown
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A friendly boozer, nicely done out and well cared for, with two bars plus a partially knocked through back room. I enjoyed an excellent pint of Tetley's when I visited.
I'm told it closed down in 2009.
Last visited 2003.
Wavertree High Street / Sandown Lane
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Tavern Company
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This dark atmospheric wine bar / restaurant is always busy. It featured in episodes of Brookside.
Last visited 1999.
Allerton Road / Hallville Road
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Thatched House
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A pleasant enough ordinary pub, full of lively regulars on my most recent visit.
Noted closed and boarded up in 2019.
Last visited 2018.
Wavertree High Street / Prince Alfred Road
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Tipsy's (Corkers Bistro) A tiny one bar place opened in 1995 (by the Lord Mayor of Liverpool according to the plaque). Nicely decorated but the parquet floor is a bit tatty.
Now closed.
Last visited 2003.
Lawrence Road / Wellington Avenue
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Town Hall
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A very well done blend of traditional and modern styling inside. There's a front bar, a bigger room behind and a large function room / restaurant at the back.
Noted closed and To Let in 2018, but back in action since.
Last visited May 2023.
Wavertree High Street
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Waldeck Hotel
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A large pleasant two bar pub with a plain friendly bar side and a nicely decorated lounge, plus a back pool room.
Noted closed in 2018.
Last visited 2003.
113 Lawrence Road / Whitman Street
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Washie's This is a function venue, I think.
Not visited.
Long Lane / Victoria Court
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Wellington "The Welly"
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This traditional pub has a pleasant L-shaped front bar plus two back rooms partially knocked through. It has a fine ceramic exterior.
Last visited June 2023.
Picton Road / Wellington Road
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Willow Bank
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Beautiful partly fake decor in this two bar multi-roomed pub with a good selection of real ales in fine condition. Real cider is also available, and the menu looks good value.
Last visited October 2023.
Smithdown Road / Gainsborough Road
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