Many UK cities have a lot of derelict or dying pubs - Liverpool in particular has a high concentration near the docks, due to the thirsty dockers.
In my experience the only pubs really worth exploring are nice, usually listed, Victorian buildings, and I’ve done a few of this sort in Liverpool (International Hotel, Westminster Hotel, Seaforth Arms).
However the three in this thread don’t fall into that category - they’re just run-of-the mill local boozers fallen on hard times.
I never visited any of them when they were still open, but I suppose the images may be of interest to those who did - there don’t seem to be any other reports of the insides.
Pictures are ordered from the basements up.
The Alexandra. This was on the main road past the Garston docks, closing some time after 2015 and demolished in 2019 to make way for a KFC.
According to the portrait of Princess Alexandra on the sign outside may be a clue to the date of this building, since she married the future Edward VII in 1863.
It’s shown as the Alexandra Hotel on an 1893 map.
There used to be a huge gas holder on the other side of the road which has also been demolished - I regret never having bothered to climb it now.
The Talbot. On Derby road near the Liverpool docks, closed for at least 10 years - I don’t remember it ever being open for business.
Old maps show the building appearing sometime between 1850 and 1891, then named The Railway Inn.
Nothing inside except a dead weed farm on the first floor. Exterior from street view.
The Old Roan. A once popular place not far from Aintree racecourse, predictably known in Liverpool as ‘de oldy’.
It shut in Aug 2013 after a brawl and never reopened.
According to “First licenced in 1620,in the 1800`s a smithy was built at the back with stables which are still there today. The wall surrounding the base had rings set in the wall to tie horses to.”
The present building looks like it was last modified in the 1940s or 1950s.
Little inside except pigeons, and some sad memorial plaques to young regulars who died, mostly in car crashes.
In my experience the only pubs really worth exploring are nice, usually listed, Victorian buildings, and I’ve done a few of this sort in Liverpool (International Hotel, Westminster Hotel, Seaforth Arms).
However the three in this thread don’t fall into that category - they’re just run-of-the mill local boozers fallen on hard times.
I never visited any of them when they were still open, but I suppose the images may be of interest to those who did - there don’t seem to be any other reports of the insides.
Pictures are ordered from the basements up.
The Alexandra. This was on the main road past the Garston docks, closing some time after 2015 and demolished in 2019 to make way for a KFC.
According to the portrait of Princess Alexandra on the sign outside may be a clue to the date of this building, since she married the future Edward VII in 1863.
It’s shown as the Alexandra Hotel on an 1893 map.
There used to be a huge gas holder on the other side of the road which has also been demolished - I regret never having bothered to climb it now.
The Talbot. On Derby road near the Liverpool docks, closed for at least 10 years - I don’t remember it ever being open for business.
Old maps show the building appearing sometime between 1850 and 1891, then named The Railway Inn.
Nothing inside except a dead weed farm on the first floor. Exterior from street view.
The Old Roan. A once popular place not far from Aintree racecourse, predictably known in Liverpool as ‘de oldy’.
It shut in Aug 2013 after a brawl and never reopened.
According to “First licenced in 1620,in the 1800`s a smithy was built at the back with stables which are still there today. The wall surrounding the base had rings set in the wall to tie horses to.”
The present building looks like it was last modified in the 1940s or 1950s.
Little inside except pigeons, and some sad memorial plaques to young regulars who died, mostly in car crashes.
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