EDGE HILL

???

 

No

CLOSED. A traditional corner house being rebuilt in March 1999. I dont know whether it is to reopen as a pub.

Lodge Lane

Albany

Falstaff, Tetley

G222 J

A very scruffy plain bar side and a lounge closed on my visit. Very congenial locals and staff. Closes early on quiet nights.

100 Smithdown Road

Bay Horse

Thwaites, Thwaites Smooth / 4X

G331

A very scruffy exterior hides a well cared for clean and tidy inside. LSTV. Pool table.

Grinfield Street / Sydney Place

Bears Paw

Worthington / Fosters

G331

A large (closed when I visited) lounge, small bar and a big back room with a pool table in this rather nice popular traditional boozer.

Irvine Street

Boundary

Youngers Tartan, John Smiths / Coors, Fosters, McEwans

G318

A truly wonderful interior with high ceilings, wood panelling and tile work in this very large pub. There is a significant slope to the floor in the lounge side. LSTV. Pool table. It is difficult to tell how much, if any, of the excellent woodwork inside dates back to the 1904 date on the outside of the building.

Smithdown Rd / Lodge Lane

Botanic

John Smiths, Youngers Scotch

F716

Large pub with two bars knocked through. Nice decor but slightly faded, and a bit garish in the lounge. Dance floor. Free juke box.

Botanic Road / Picton Road.

Bridge Inn

John Smiths, Worthington / Carling

G728

A busy bar and an empty lounge in this congenial, pleasantly decorated corner house. An unusual layout, partly knocked through but with a low counter between the two sides. Spotless and very well cared for. Last time I passed at lunch time it was closed.

Picton Road / Alfred Street

Cambridge Hotel VJs Bar

John Smiths / Fosters

G326

A large, very nicely cared for, two bar pub with a small raised stage area in the lounge side. LSTV.

28 Picton Road / Cambridge Street

Chatham

Worthington / Carling

G331

A pleasant quiet two room one bar pub. Bingoƒ Singalong

Overton Street / Chatham Place

Coach & Horses

Bass, Worthington / Carling

G318

A large open pleasantly decorated social club style bar. Clientele tatty! The Worthington creamflow was flat and didnt taste like Worthies. Oversize glasses.

Lodge Lane / Solway Street

Dart

 

No

CLOSED.

Lodge Lane / Longfellow Street

Durning Arms

Tetley / Carlsberg

G318

A plain, rather tatty, two bar pub. Wartime singalong when I visited!

Durning Road / Wavertree Road

Earl Marshal Dead House

Tetley / Skol

G318

Pleasant plain traditional bar, pool room and lounge side (closed on my visit). Quiz

107 Earle Road

Grapes

Boddingtons, Trophy / Heineken

G318

A plain scruffy friendly corner house.

58 Lodge Lane / Windsor View

Grosvenor

 

No

CLOSED.

Lodge Lane / Ritson Street

Howard William

 

No

 

149 Wavertree Road

Leigh Arms

 

No

CLOSED.

Picton Road / Combermere Street

Masonic

Tetley, Tetley, Falstaff

G318

A two sided pub in a triangular building, very nicely decorated, especially in the two room lounge side. The hand pump was off on my visit.

19 Lodge Lane

Mole of Edge Hill

Tetley

G331

Standard Oak Lodges decor in this large corner house. LSTV. Joseph Williamson, the Mole of Edge Hill, (1769 - 1840) was an eccentric philanthropist who gave unemployed soldiers returning from the Napoleonic wars work digging pointless tunnels beneath Edge Hill and the surrounding area, a sort of underground folly.

Wavertree Road

Mount Vernon

various

G331

A slightly threadbare old place with one bar and three rooms. Beer very good. Pool table. Quiz

Irvine Street

Mulliner

Worthington, Worthington / Carling

G222 J

A large pleasantly decorated one room bar. Disco. Darts (match)

Smithdown Road

New Campfield

Trophy, Tetley

G222 J

A rather tatty but clean and tidy one bar pub with a very scruffy exterior. Popular with the local coloured population.

Smithdown Road / Yanwath Street

Newstead Abbey

Burtonwood / Carling

G222 J

A friendly plain one bar pub, clean and tidy. Darts (match) Live music and afternoon.

Smithdown Road

Rob Roy

Tetley / Carlsberg

G318

A plain, clean and tidy one roomed boozer, popular with the locals. The school hall style parquet floor is overdue for a polish.

Lodge Lane / Beaumont Street

Royal Hotel

Worthington / Carling

G331

A plain bar and a nice enough lounge, both large, in this sixties(?) corner house, with an unusual rounded corner. LSTV. Karaoke

Wavertree Road / Marmaduke Road

Royal Hotel

 

No

 

Smithdown Rd (City end)

Royston Arms

 

No

In March 1999 this place was closed with a for sale sign outside, but I am now advised it has re-opened.

Dorothy Street, off Edge Lane

Shipperies

 

G318

This plain two sided pub has been recently very nicely redecorated. The bar side was closed on my visit. LSTV.

Durning Road / Plimsoll Street

Spekeland

 

No

CLOSED and boarded up.

Tunnel Road / Spekeland Road

Spofforth

Burtonwood / Carling

G728

Rather nice inside with an odd-shaped three sided bar counter with wooden panelling in one knocked through room, plus a pool room. Passing in February 2000 I found this CLOSED and boarded up.

Webster Road / Cadogan Street

Weighing Machine

 

No

This has now reopened after substantial rebuilding work during summer 1999.

Wavertree Road / Marmaduke Road