| Pub | Comments | Location |
Auld Dubliner
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A great corridor bar with Irish styling, popular and friendly.
Last visited September 2024.
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Lord Street / Waverley Street
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Barons Bar
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This one room pub, nicely decorated in 'baronial hall' style is part of the Scarisbrick complex. Eight or more real ales are served.
Last visited 2018.
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Lord Street / Scarisbrick Avenue
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Beer Den
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Bah! Unreliable opening hours.
Not visited.
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Rufford Road / Brade Street
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Beer Den
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A pleasant micro-pub serving excellent ales from Parkers and guests.
Last visited 2021.
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Duke Street / Shakespeare Street
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Beer Inn (Inn Beer Shop) (Bottle Room)
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A narrow corridor bar selling a massive range of UK and foreign bottled beers, plus a small counter at the back for on-sales with a couple of hand pumps.
Last visited August 2022.
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Lord Street / Leicester Street
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| Berkeley Arms (Blakes Hotel) |
Closed, I'm told.
Not visited.
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19 Queens Road
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Blue Anchor
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This imposing building houses a comfortable two-sided pub, very quiet when I visited.
Last visited January 2022.
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Tithebarn Road / Hart Street, Blowick
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Bold (Bold Hotel)
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A very pleasant interior plus some comfortable seating out front. Cheap real ales of high quality.
Last visited 2019.
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Seabank Road / Lord Street
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Bold Arms
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A rather good multi-roomed pub/eatery with a standard chain pub menu, busy serving lots of food on a Sunday afternoon in 2012, quieter on a Friday in 2021.
Last visited 2021.
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Cambridge Road / Botanic Road, Churchtown
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| Bridge Inn |
Closed.
Not visited.
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135 Eastbank Street / Bridge Street
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Cheshire Lines
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Nice traditional decor in this partly knocked through pub, something of a backstreet gem. Excellent real ales are served, and the food is popular. Tables in the yard at the front.
After a period closed post pandemic, I'm pleased to report this has now re-opened although I was disappointed to find a lack of real ale in 2024.
Last visited September 2024.
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King Street / Wellington Street
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Cloud 9 (O'Leary's)
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O'Leary's was better than many "Irish" bars, in my opinion. It has been totally transformed to become Cloud 9, a very pleasant modern bar on two floors.
Last visited June 2024.
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Cable Street
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Cock and Rabbit (Rabbit)
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I believe this is now closed.
Not visited.
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Manchester Road / Marlborough Road
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| Cocoa House |
Now closed.
Not visited.
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Lord Street / Bold Street |
| Connolly's (Coronation) |
The Coronation, formerly a Hogshead, had one large room decorated in modern pastel and bare brick style. The long bar had an unusual heated foot-rail!
After a period of closure it became Irish Bar Connolly's in 2024.
Last visited 2004.
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King Street / Eastbank Street
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| Conservatory |
Part of the Royal Clifton Hotel.
Not visited.
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Coronation Walk / Promenade
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Coopers
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A pleasant shop conversion specialising in live music, and serving quality ales.
Last visited August 2022.
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Leicester Street / Lord Street
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Corridor
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Exactly what it says - a narrow corridor bar. They serve quality real ales.
Last visited 2018.
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Lord Street / Seabank Road
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Crown
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A nicely decorated old one bar pub, a little scruffy in places, with an impressive display of old plates around the walls. Beer excellent.
Observed to be closed and tinned up in 2014.
Last visited 1998.
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Coronation Walk
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| Cue Bar |
Now closed.
Not visited.
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Promenade / Nevill Street
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| Eighty Eight (Carlton Bar) |
The Carlton bar was an up market multi level disco bar with a late licence. The unusual decor was rather nice.
Last visited 1998.
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Lord Street / Market Street
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Enelle's Glass House
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A rather fun boozer with a quirky interior, concentrating on selling cheap lager to locals, and doing an excellent job.
Last visited May 2022.
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West Street / Bank Passage
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| Fleetwood Hesketh Sports & Social Club |
Not visited.
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Fylde Road / Marshside Road |
| Foghorn |
Part of the Scarisbrick complex.
Not visited.
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Scarisbrick Hotel, Lord Street
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Forty Seven
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An above average shop conversion, a really pleasant bar.
Last visited June 2024.
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Ovington Drive / Ingleton Road, Meols Cop
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Fox and Goose
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Busy back street boozer.
Last visited 1998.
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Cable Street
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George Hotel
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A nice spacious knocked through one room pub with a pleasant beer garden. The Cask Ales sign was incorrect when I visited.
Now closed.
Last visited 2000.
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Cemetery Road / 147 Duke Street
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Grapevine
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Restaurant and wine bar.
Not visited.
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Botanic Road / Manor Road, Churchtown
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Guelder Rose
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A standard plastic modern chain dining place with Marston's branding, popular even in winter with a number of families enjoying lunch. Good real ale.
Last visited February 2022.
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Marine Drive / Marine Parade
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Guest House
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This superbly kept pub has a very beautiful exterior and interior. There are two bars and a quiet front lounge inside, plus a yard at the rear. Top notch beer with eight or more guest ales available, and the food looks very good.
Last visited June 2024.
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Union Street / Castle Street
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| Havana |
Night club.
Not visited.
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Promenade / Nevill Street
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Hesketh Arms
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A large multi-area pleasant food-oriented pub in the Vintage Inns chain. Very busy on a Sunday afternoon with a mixture of drinkers and diners.
Last visited 2021.
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Botanic Road / Cambridge Road, Churchtown
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Hickory's (Pageant)
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Excellent decor, quality service and a tempting menu in this American Barbecue themed restaurant/pub.
Last visited June 2024.
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Folkestone Road / Redhill Drive, Meols Cop
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Hungry Monk
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A food oriented place with pleasant quirky decor.
Last visited 2018.
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Cambridge Arcade
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Imperial
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A very well done food-oriented pub, belonging to Holt's.
Last visited August 2022.
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Albert Road / Leyland Road
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John Falstaff (Falstaff)
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Nice traditional decor in this one room knocked through pub with an impressive row of ten hand pumps on the bar. (Only three in use on my last visit, but more were promised.) In nice weather you can use the tables in the front courtyard.
Reported closed in 2021, and now converted to flats.
Last visited 2007.
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68 King Street / Portland Street
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| Kingsway (Astoria) |
This night club is now closed and demolished, having burned down in 2010.
Not visited.
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Promenade / Coronation Walk
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Lakeside Inn
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In the Guinness Book of Records as the smallest pub in Britain, according to a certificate on the wall, but this place has much more space than the Nutshell in Bury St. Edmunds.
The one room interior is decorated in the inevitable maritime style, and the large windows afford nice views of dinghies sailing on the marine lake.
Last visited 2019.
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Marine Lake Promenade / Seabank Road
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| Le Grog |
Not visited.
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Seabank Road / Gordon Street
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Leo's Bar
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A small pleasant two room corner pub with a restaurant attached. The interior decor has a fishing theme - how original! LSTV.
Last visited 2000.
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Bath Street / Nevill Street
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London Hotel
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A rather nicely decorated open one-bar pub. Only one real ale available but it was well looked after. There's a beer yard and bowling green behind.
Now closed.
Last visited 2002.
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Kensington Road / 14 Windsor Road
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| Lords Cafe Bar |
Not visited.
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Lord Street / Leicester Street
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| Maloney's |
A nice fake Irish bar with a friendly clientele, part of the Scarisbrick complex. Beer only sold in halves. Late licence.
Last visited 1998.
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Scarisbrick Hotel, Lord Street
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Marsh Harrier (Shrimper)
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An extremely well done two or three room interior in this hard to date building; I'm going to guess 1980s. Food looks good.
Last visited August 2022.
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Fylde Road / Slaidburn Crescent, Marshside
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Mason's Arms
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A very nice friendly traditional boozer with wood panelling and a nice wooden partition between rooms. The log fire in winter makes the front room very cozy.
Last visited 2019.
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Anchor Street
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| Mavericks |
Not visited.
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Leicester Street / Lord Street
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Metro
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This comfortable hotel bar is keen to welcome non-residents as well.
Last visited 2018.
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Portland Street / King Street
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Monroe (Koronet) (Bar Velvet)
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Nice fake antique beam decor in this place which is more like a restaurant than a pub, at least in the part we sat in.
Now a "gentlemen's club".
Last visited 2004.
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Coronation Walk / West Street
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Monument (Hoghton Arms) (O'Neill's)
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A plain well looked after boozer in one l-shaped room. A good place to wait for a train.
Last visited January 2022.
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Hoghton Street / London Street
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Mount Pleasant
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A comfortable pub serving quality real ale. Partly food-oriented but with plenty of drinkers' space as well.
Last visited January 2022.
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Manchester Road / Alexandra Road
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| Nigel's Bar |
In the Shelbourne Hotel. Not open afternoons. I'm told this is now closed.
Not visited.
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1 Lord Street West
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Oast House
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In 1998 this small plain one bar pub had Bittburger on draught and the Old Speckled Hen was in poor condition. In 2011 there was no longer any real ale while the lager choice was more standard.
I have no recollection of the decor then, but moving on to 2024 I found a well done quirky interior in a pleasant friendly back street boozer.
Last visited June 2024.
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Stanley Street / Nevill Street
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Old Bank (Quid Pro Quo)
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An up market food, cocktails and craft beer sort of place in a very impressive room. Friendly efficient service.
Last visited February 2022.
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Lord Street / Bank Passage
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Old Duke
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A large Marstons roadhouse built in 2018 with their standard comfortable interior. They concentrate on food but do a fine pint of cask ale as well.
Last visited June 2024.
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Southport Road / Foul Lane, Meols Cop
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Old Ship
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A plain friendly down market boozer with a scruffy beer yard at the back. Only one real ale but who's complaining when it's good quality.
Noted closed in 2018.
Last visited 2007.
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Eastbank Street / Ball's Place
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Olde Post Office
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Somewhat "under construction" when I visited, this has the makings of a pleasant shop conversion.
Last visited June 2024.
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Lord Street / Seabank Road
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Peaky Blinders
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A pleasant shop conversion serving quality real ales.
Last visited 2021.
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Cambridge Road / Sunny Road, Churchtown
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Phoenix (Pavilion)
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A large, open, nicely done out pub, a bit like a Wetherspoon's in style. Quality beer and food are cheap.
Reported closed in January 2023.
Last visited 2018.
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Coronation Walk / West Street
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| Plough |
Closed and demolished.
Not visited.
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Rufford Road / Water Lane, Crossens
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| Prince of Wales Hotel |
Real ale is served in the Clubhouse Bar in this large hotel.
Not visited.
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Lord Street
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Punch Tarmey's (Mulligan's)
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An above average fake Irish bar serving decent real ale, and the menu looks good value.
Last visited 2018.
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Lord Street / Union Street
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| Ra Bar |
Not visited.
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Lord Street / Leicester Street
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| Republik (Harley's) |
Now closed.
Not visited.
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Coronation Walk
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| Reuters on Hoghton |
Not visited.
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Hoghton Street / Hill Street
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Richmond
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A Holt's pub offering their great cask ale. A friendly welcome from staff and regulars.
Last visited June 2024.
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Scarisbrick New Road / Town Lane Kew, Meols Cop
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Settle Inn
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One large hall with a bar and cafe counter at one end. A rather good blend of cafe and pub. Live music.
Last visited 2021.
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Botanic Gardens, Churchtown
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Ship and Anchor
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Not visited.
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Cable Street
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Sinclair's (Peaky Blinders)
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A very pleasant modern-styled bar where the large shop windows onto the street give it a very open feeling.
Last visited June 2024.
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Lord Street / Seabank Road
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Southport Coaster (Yates's) (Sandgrounder) (Potting Shed)
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The Sandgrounder was a large open Wetherspoon-style pub, a bit purple inside. The real ale was spot on when I visited in 2014.
Later a cocktail bar called Potting Shed which I never tried, and now a lively popular well appointed boozer called Southport Coaster.
Last visited September 2024.
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Lord Street / Hulme Street
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Southport Market
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A large hall with umpteen different food outlets arranged around a central bar counter serving decent cask ale.
Last visited May 2022.
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Market Street / King Street
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Southport Tavern (Albert Hotel)
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The Albert was a large grubby one bar pub with a rear dining area called the Albert Pantry, busy on a Sunday afternoon when I visited in 1998. Returning in 2006 I was surprised to find real ale available.
Moving on to 2022, the Southport Tavern is a well cared for clean and tidy boozer.
Last visited May 2022.
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London Street / Wright Street
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Sporting Jester (Volunteer)
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Outside, a rather impressive building which looks like it dates from the 1920s I guess. Inside it has been knocked through to make one large open bar area, plainly decorated but well looked after. On a wet Wednesday lunchtime in 2011 the Volunteer was ticking over nicely with a number of regulars sitting at the bar. I got a slight feeling of the music stopping and everyone looking round as I went in, but they soon got back to their chit-chat while I settled down to a fine pint of Thwaites' Wainwright.
Returning in 2018 and 2024 I found it had been renamed and the interior very well refurbished, but I'm afraid the real ale has now gone.
Last visited September 2024.
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Eastbank Street / Wesley Street
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Tap & Bottles
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A pleasant shop conversion with a wide range of unusual bottled beer for sale, as well as a few handpumps for excellent real ales, concentrating on local breweries. Now expanded into the unit next door, giving more space for seating.
Last visited November 2024.
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Cambridge Arcade
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Thatch & Thistle (Blowick)
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Outside, an impressive thatched building. Inside, a bog standard food-led chain pub.
Last visited June 2024.
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Norwood Road / Butts Lane, Meols Cop
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| Two Brewers |
A large rather nice bar with a pool table.
Now closed.
Last visited 2000.
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Kingsway
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Victoria
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Reported in 2022 to be closed.
Not visited.
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Promenade / Victoria Street
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| W.D.Sutton's |
A nicely done out partly knocked through one bar pub plus a function room upstairs. Named after William D Sutton "The Old Duke", who in 1798 opened The South Port Hotel next to the dunes, thereby starting the development of the town and giving it its illogical name.
Returned to its original name of the Shakespeare in 2007, closed in the mid 2010s and then was demolished.
Last visited 2000.
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Scarisbrick New Road / Virginia Street
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Waterfront
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A large modern food-oriented place in the Hungry Horse chain, popular with family diners. Only one real ale available when I visited, but it was good quality.
Reported in December 2022 to be closed.
Last visited February 2022.
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Promenade / Marine Way Bridge
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Wellington
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A proper traditional boozer busy with chatty regulars even on a cold December Tuesday afternoon in 2018, and just as good on a Thursday in 2024.
Last visited September 2024.
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Eastbank Street / Queen Anne Street
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Wetherspoon's Sir Henry Segrave
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The normal Wetherspoon's formula - Excellent beer, pleasant decor, reasonable prices and popular food - In an impressive old building. Always busy when I visit.
Last visited May 2022.
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97 Lord Street / Coronation Walk
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Wetherspoon's Willow Grove
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A long, fairly narrow room, wider at the back. There's also another bar upstairs.
Closed 5 March 2023.
Last visited 2019.
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Lord Street / Nevill Street
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Windmill Inn
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A large pleasant pub knocked round the bar counter, with a very pleasant interior. Plenty of tables and chairs in the front yard as well. The small range of well kept real ales were served in the correct glasses.
Last visited 2019.
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Seabank Road / Bath Street
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Woollen Pig Tap And Bake House
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A combined cake shop and bar with friendly staff serving quality ale and very tempting cakes.
Last visited 2021.
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Cemetery Road / Duke Street
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Zetland
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A very nicely looked after traditional free-standing pub with two bars plus a couple of side rooms. Tables and a bowling green outside. An excellent pint of cask ale.
Last visited January 2022.
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53 Zetland Street / East Street
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