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Albany
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A very pleasant old pub, converted from a couple of terraced houses and hidden on a side street. This seems to be a great 'local', with friendly staff and regulars.
Last visited February 2022.
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Albany Road / Derby Lane
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Alhambra Bar (Corner Tavern)
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This large corner house has an open wooden-floored bar area and a former side room now knocked through. It is plainly decorated and kept nicely.
Not visited since it became the Spanish-themed Alhambra.
Now closed.
Last visited 2018.
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Prescot Road / Green Lane
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Black Horse
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An enormous pleasant well cared for lounge with wood panelling, plus a plain clean and tidy public bar. This place concentrates on food, being a member of Greene King's "Meet & Eat" chain. In 2017 the pump clip was Ruddles but the barman said it was actually the house ale - Tasty anyway. Owing to a missed delivery, this was the only real ale available from the four handpumps on that occasion.
Last visited November 2022.
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Prescot Road / Black Horse Lane
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Brambles (Dickie Lewis') (Old Omnibus)
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This classic 50s pub had a plain cheap & cheerful parquet-floored bar side, and the lounge side was exactly the same. After a couple of years as Dickie Lewis' it shut following a fire in April 2003 and after refurbishment re-opened under its original name. Later, it became Brambles. The pleasant decor is nicely restrained, and the parquet floor has been carpeted. Unchanged, but looking a little tatty in 2022
Last visited February 2022.
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Saint Oswald's Street / Mill Lane
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Cygnet
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Rather faded before its January 2000 refurbishment, and afterwards pleasant, plain, clean and tidy, this is a knocked through corner house with an unusual shape. Now closed and converted into a shop.
Last visited 2004.
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Prescot Road / Derby Lane
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Derby Lodge
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Two bars plus a separate back room in this pleasant friendly boozer, popular for Everton matches on the multiple TVs.
Last visited November 2023.
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Prescot Road / Derby Road
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| Garfield |
Now closed, to become a Wetherspoon's. One large opened out room in this scruffy conversion from a former supermarket. Food. LSTV.
Last visited 1998.
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Prescot Road / Queen's Drive
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Hoggin's
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A cheerful friendly "Irish" pub in a row of shops. Opened in 2020.
Last visited 2021.
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St Oswalds Street / Prescot Road
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Masons Arms
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A large pleasant pub knocked-through into one room, aiming for the dining market.
Last visited November 2022.
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Prescot Road / Fernleigh Road
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Melbourne
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In 1998 I noted a plain functional clean bar, and a separate lounge nicely decorated with a somewhat uncomfortable bench seat round the room. The lounge only had hatch access to the bar. They had the same gas fire as in my house!
After a period tinned up it has re-opened and in 2018 I found they've partly knocked through but still kept two rooms, and the whole place is comfortable and well cared for.
Last visited November 2023.
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Green Lane / Sandstone Road West
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Millfield Inn (Ferndale Inn)
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A nicely decorated one bar pub on three levels. Pool table and LSTV. Another in the "Oak Lodges" style.
Last visited February 2022.
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Prescot Road / Day Street
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Old Swan "White House"
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This is a popular pub, busy even on a cold Thursday afternoon. The pleasant knocked through interior has a low ceiling in parts.
Last visited February 2022.
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Saint Oswald's Street / Broad Green Road
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Old Tavern (Ale House)
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The Ale House was a micro-pub opened in 2016 in a former shop, serving excellent ales of course. Being larger than most micros it's probably possible to have a conversation without the whole pub joining in!
In 2021 this became the Old Tavern, and ceased to serve real ale.
Last visited 2021.
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Prescot Road / Leinster Road
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Red House (First Avenue)
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In August 1998 I visited the First Avenue and wrote "a scruffy tatty dump which looks like a youth club. Disco. Very cheap beer, absolutely no atmosphere."
In 2004 restored to its traditional name and a more traditional interior this was much improved!
Now closed.
Last visited 2004.
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Broad Green Road / Prescot Road
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| Regency (Piano Bar) |
The bouncers wanted to charge for admission in 1998, so we went elsewhere.
Closed and being rebuilt in 2018.
Not visited.
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Derby Lane
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Taff's Tavern
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A plain flat house in a row of shops. Rather nice wood-panelled interior and a varnished wooden floor. I'm told that since my visit it has expanded into the property next door and also gained a function room upstairs.
Noted closed in 2018.
Last visited 1998.
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Derby Lane / Ionic Road
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Wellington
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A very pleasant and comfortable traditionally styled two sided pub.
Last visited November 2023.
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Green Lane / Ellison Street
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Wetherspoon's Navigator (Garfield)
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A standard Wetherspoon's, cheap good beer and food, and always popular.
Last visited November 2022.
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Prescot Road / Queens Drive
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