PRESCOT

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Bard
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Opened in February 2018, this is a small pleasant shop conversion serving quality cask ales and craft beers.
In my experience, always busy.
Reported closed in 2024.
Last visited July 2022.
High Street / St Helens Road
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Bath Springs (John Kemble)
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In 1999 I visited the John Kemble, a two room boozer with a plain bar and a nice (but deserted) lounge. In 2003 it was very different, pleasantly decorated and knocked round with just one bar. Now closed.
Last visited 2003.
Kemble Street / Bond Street
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Clicks (Plough) This one bar pub with a nice layout with raised areas and a tiled floor has been badly neglected and was very tatty and grubby when I visited, although one area was being refurbished. LSTV. Now closed and converted to flats.
Last visited 1999.
Kemble Street / Bond Street, next to the Eagle & Child
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Clock Face
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Hand pump
This large old house was converted to a pub in the 1980s I think. A very nice interior and excellent ales.
Grade II listed building.
Last visited July 2023.
Derby Street / Liverpool Road
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Crown
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The pleasant plain bar and a nice lounge are on different levels to match the gradient of the street in this clean and tidy boozer. Closed and converted to a Nepalese restaurant.
Last visited 2003.
Kemble Street / Aspinall Street
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Deanes House (Legs of Man)
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An enormous old house converted into a multi-room pub and nicely decorated. A bit lacking in atmosphere when there isn't a match on. A function room is available upstairs.
Last visited July 2022.
Church Street / West Street
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Dog House (Imperial)
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The Imperial was a plain corner house with two bars plus a lounge and a pool room standing in splendid isolation in a formerly built up area. It was kept clean and tidy but was perhaps a little tatty in places. There was a bar, a small lounge, plus another room served from a hatch in the corridor.
It closed in 2006 and after being boarded up for some months it re-opened in 2007 as the Dog House. Not yet visited under the new name.
Noted to be closed once again by December 2008, and subsequently demolished.
Last visited 2004.
Bridge Road / Station Road
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Eagle and Child
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This pleasant plain two bar pub spent a period closed in 1998. It has original leaded windows. The lounge side is nicely done out, with plain wood walls and a partially tiled floor, and is well looked after. LSTV. Don't leave your bike outside! Now closed.
Last visited 2003.
Warington Road / Kemble Street
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Eden
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A well done shop conversion on two floors. The house lager is tasty. Live music.
Last visited July 2022.
Eccleston Street / Leyland Street
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Engine Closed.
Not visited.
Sewel Street / Manchester Road
Fusileer (Kings Arms) This large two-sided pub which was built in 1978 on the site of the Kings Arms is looking a little threadbare in places. LSTV.
Closed in 2012.
Last visited 2003.
St. Helens Road / Warrington Road
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Grapes
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Hand pump
An rather fine old-looking building containing a very nicely done pub, concentrating on its "Pub and Carvery" food, and serving a decent pint of ale.
Last visited 2019.
St Helens Road / Portico Lane
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Hope and Anchor
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A plain, clean and tidy one bar pub, partly stone-floored. A little down market, perhaps, yet pleasant, welcoming and well cared for.
Last visited July 2022.
High Street / Hope Street
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Lord Strange
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A small shop conversion very nicely done, specialising in German beers on draft. More seating upstairs and in the street outside.
Last visited July 2022.
Leyland Street
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Mercutio's
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This pleasant corridor bar was devoid of customers when I visited.
Last visited September 2023.
Eccleston Street / Mill Street
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Mermaid Tavern (Red Lion Hotel)
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The Red Lion was a traditional pub with two sides round the island bar plus a large front room. Some original features remained, including mosaic floor and stained glass windows. The rooms have odd shapes, to fit the street corner.
It closed in 2015 having earned a reputation in its final years for anti-social behaviour.
The building was used as an Indian Restaurant for a few years before this too closed.
Re-opened as the Mermaid Tavern in July 2022, with a very pleasant remodelled interior occupying only half of the original space.
Last visited July 2022.
21 Market Place / Kemble Street
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Prescot Suite
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Demolished in 2012.
Not visited.
Warrington Road / Ash Grove
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Print House Wine Bar This up-market wine bar is nicely decorated with prices to match. The leather sofas are very comfortable.
Late licence to midnight, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Now closed.
Last visited 2003.
High Street / Leyland Street
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Royal Oak
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A very pleasantly decorated two bar pub. Spotless and well cared for.
Last visited September 2023.
Warrington Road / Houghton Street
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Spanish Caravan
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This Spanish themed bar is a shop conversion with a pleasant interior plus tables out on the street.
Last visited July 2022.
Eccleston Street / Leyland Street
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Stage Door (Nelly Kelly's) (Victoria) (Old Mill)
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The Victoria was the roughest pub in Prescot, they tell me.
Nelly Kelly's was a typical plastic "Irish" bar and my notebook recorded "Music too loud, barmaid deaf/stupid, short measures."
I am pleased to report that the Old Mill is a total transformation: It has a very nicely done interior with partially knocked through seating and games areas. They serve an excellent pint of Hydes Bitter and a seasonal Hydes brew is also available.
A revisit in August 2004 found no real ale available, but returning in 2018 I found Hydes brews on handpump once again, and very good. No cask in 2022, but "it's coming next week".
In 2023 I found that, being adjacent to the new Shakespeare Theatre, it is now called Stage Door. The cask Hydes ale was excellent.
Last visited April 2023.
Mill Street
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Sun Inn
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A beautiful traditional small local serving excellent beer. The two sided servery is between the bar side and a drinking corridor with a number of rooms off.
Last visited July 2023.
Derby Street / Church Street
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Tempest (Kitchen 54)
Not visited.
Eccleston Street / Aspinal Street
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Thomas Hall (Hare & Hounds) (Tommy Halls)
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A traditional compact two-sided well cared for local, wedged on a Saturday night, and quite popular at other times.
Last visited September 2023.
Warrington Road / Eccleston Street
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Wellington
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Hand pump
A large very nicely decorated building with small rooms partially knocked through, and original wooden panelling. The exterior is fun, almost baronial in style. The beer was excellent, and the all day food looks good.
Last visited 2019.
St Helens Road / Burrows Lane
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Wetherspoon's Watch Maker
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Hand pump
Opened in December 2011, this large open Wetherspoon's has rather good modern decor. A reliable source of quality ale and food, and always popular.
Last visited July 2023.
Eccleston Street / Chapel Street
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