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Pub	Alias	Comments	Location
Alabama		Long size demolished along with the area, no trace of Tavistock Street even exists. A stub of Anglesea Street, with the Anglesea Pub, still remains.	Tavistock Street / Anglesea Street
Albany		A very scruffy plain bar side, lounge was closed. Very congenial regulars and staff. Last visited 2005. >Standing but closed and boarded up.	100 Smithdown Road (the even side at this point is within Toxteth Park).
Albion		no longer exists	71 Park Street / Llanwrst Street
Alexandra Hotel		The building is in poor condition, but there was a light inside in Jan 2005, so I assume that the building is still functional in some way.	135 Upper Hill Street / Gibson Street. Close to Princes Avenue.
Alton Towers			39 Mill Street
Angel Vaults)		Now CLOSED and boarded up. Last visited 1999. Revisited in 2005, intact and for sale but in tumbledown condition	29 Stanhope Street / Caryl Street
Anglesea		Two-sided pub with a plain bar and a nicely done out lounge. The name is spelled correctly and refers to Anglesea Street and, in turn, to the historical spelling of Anglesey. Last visited Nov 2004.	94 Beresford Road / Tavistock Walk. Tavistock Walk is the renamed stub of Anglesea Street, (now demolished).
Bank House	Banky	There were originally two pubs at the junction of Windsor Street and Upper Warwick Street. Nearer the river was a Bent's pub, this one. The other was a Walkers house called the Sefton Arms and known locally as Brown's. CLOSED. Burnt out.	144 Windsor Street / Upper Warwick Street
Beaufort Arms			228 Beaufort Street
Beaufort Vaults			247 / 249 Beaufort St. / Rutter St.
Belgrave		Nicely preserved, red brick exterior	Bryanston Road
Beresford Arms	The Nutty	This small street corner pub has a tiny plain clean and tidy bar and a larger lounge not visited. Last visited June 2003.	Beresford Road / Cockburn Street
Beresford Hotel		demolished 1960s	411 Mill Street/ Beresford Road
Bessemer		no more details as yet	2 Harlow Street / Paulton Street
Bishop		still standing in 1976, now gone.	27 Beaufort Street
Bleak House		This pub with a bar, a lounge and a side "library" is nicely preserved and well cared for. The lounge is served from the traditional hatch at the back of the bar. Last visited June 2003.	131 Park Hill Road / Cockburn Street
Boundary		A wonderful interior with high ceilings, wood panelling and tile work in this very large pub where there is a significant slope to the floor in the lounge side. 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 Road / Lodge Lane
Brewery Tap	Grapes Inn	Very small excellently preserved pub, built into the corner of the brewery. Last visited April 2004.	Stanhope Street / Grafton Street (in Cains Brewery)

Britannia		A new pub built for the garden festival in 1984. Sited somewhere in the region of what was Dingle Point.	Riverside Drive
Brook House		Named after the Upper Brook which once flowed above-ground through the grounds of this, the second building on the site. The earlier Brook House stood here first.	Smithdown Road, opposite junction with Greenbank Road
Brunswick Hotel	Seven Steps	Refurbished, still standing this now houses a new business and is no longer in use as a pub but the Seven Steps from which it gained its local name, are still there.	Sefton Street (Dock Road) and Northumberland Street
Cambridge Vaults	The Cam		Alt Street / Cam Street
(New) Campfield Hotel	refurbished 2006	A rather tatty but clean and tidy one bar pub with a very scruffy exterior. Now closed and boarded up. Last visited Aoril 2005, still standing. Refurbished and to let July 2006.	16 Smithdown Road / Yanwath Street
Carnarvon Castle		A short-lived pub,	94 Wellington Road / Bembridge (Francis) Street
Castle Inn			31 Miles Street / 58a Clevedon Street
Channel Fleet		Just behind the bombed air-raid shelter.	Grafton Street / Park Street
Chesterfield Arms		Started life as a lodging house, then a pub, finally demolished between 1936-1946	1 Chesterfield Street / Upper Stanhope Street
Childe of Hale Vaults	The Ship Inn (1894)	seemingly a short lived 19th century pub, later a fish and chip shop then it vanished.	50 Hill Street
Clevedon Arms		Long since demolished	292 Upper Parliament Street corner of Embledon Street
Coach and Horses			Park Road / Aberdeen Street 259 - 263 Park Road
Coach and Horses	The Sportsman	A large, open pleasantly decorated social club style bar. Last visited June 2005. Closed, shuttered and possibly burnt out.	Lodge Lane / Solway Street/ Eden Street
Coburg Arms	The Devil(s)	Plain pub with two bars plus a pool room. Much larger inside than the small frontage on Sefton Street would suggest. Last visited April 2004. Thought to have been nicknamed 'The Devils' in contrast to 'The Angel' further up Stanhope Street.	Sefton Street / Stanhope Street
Combermere Arms		Was there in 1894, appears to have gone by 1938.	1 Combermere Street
Comet		now demolished	12 St James Place / Ashwell Street
Conway Castle	Conway Castle Vaults	now demolished	22 Park Street / Beaufort Street
Criterion			78 South Street / Hawkstone Road
Crown	Maggie Backford's (1950-60s) Wilkies (60s-90s)	CLOSED and demolished in the late 1990s.	120 Park Road
Crow's Nest	Clanceys	A nice, clean and tidy, plain wood panelled interior to this two bar pub, rather let down by the scruffy exterior. Now CLOSED. Last visited 1999.	133 Mill Street / Warwick Street
Croxteth Hotel	Chaplins Bar	At one stage closed and crumbling, this was restored and re-opened under a new name.	145 Lodge Lane / Moss Grove
Cuckoo Vaults			Lodge Lane / Solway Street
Darnley Arms			Warwick Street / Darnley Street
Dart			39 Lodge Lane / Longfellow Street
Denbigh Castle		hardly any information	19 Frank Street
Derby Arms		a.k.a. The Dead House. A plain, clean and tidy knocked through pub with a small stage for live music. The new building sits on the site of the earlier pub with same name. Visited June 2003	365 Mill Street / Wellington Road
Dick Jennings	The Grapes Wood's House The Jennie	A plain tatty traditional street corner pub, one bar plus a scruffy back lounge. Formerly the Grapes then Wood's House, it was renamed after Richard Jennings, the manager in the 1930s. Now CLOSED and boarded up. Last visited April 2005. Apparently now being converted to housing (Aug 2007)	106 Hill Street / 55a Mill Street
Dingle Arms		Long since demolished. The address is actually in Wellington Road.	Park Road / Wellington Road
Dingle Hotel	a.k.a. Jessie Appletons	Here shown in 1952 and 2005	Park Road / Leonora Street 347 Park Road
Empress		An unusually tall, narrow building but a well looked after pub with three rooms front-to-back but only one counter. Ringo Starr was born a few streets away, and spent part of his childhood living in the area. An exterior view features on the sleeve of his album Sentimental Journey.	93 High Park Street / Wellington Terrace
Eureka			20 Park Street / 306 Beaufort Street
Farmers Arms	1992	In 1999 the exterior was so scruffy and run down we thought the place was closed. Inside was much better and included an impressive mirrored ceiling over a small dance floor area. This was later closed and was demolished and grassed over by 2005.	Park Road / Gelling Street 62 & 64 Park Road
Flat Iron		This formed the apex of a triangular block at the junction of St. James's Place and Mill Street.	1-3 Mill Street
Gladstone	The Gladstone Vaults	Demolished	32 & 34 Dove Street, this is the junction with Thames Street
Globe		There are two bars plus a back lounge served from a hatch (with "Newsroom" etched in the glass in the doors) in this nice ale house which retains some original features, including leaded windows. Last visited Jan 2005.	Park Road / Combermere Street 44 & 46 Park Road
Grapes		A plain, comfortable enough, two-sided boozer. Now CLOSED and boarded up. Last visited 1999 by Phil but revisited by Paul in January 2005 and open again.	Windsor Street / Grey Street
Grapes		No longer standing	Lodge Lane / Windsor View
Grapes		later became 'Wood's House' before finishing life the Dick Jennings,	55a Mill Street
Grapes			111-113 Mill Street
Grapes			34 Mill Street
Grapes			44 Warwick Street, Beaufort Street junction
Grapes			148-151 Beaufort Street, 1926

Grapes			2 Northumberland Street / Upper Mann Street
Great Eastern		A plain two-sided boozer. Last visited February 2004. June 2006 boarded up and closed.	Mill Street / Harlow Street
Grosvenor		Closed and for sale April 2005, brewery board and even the pub name board removed but standing well against the surrounding dereliction.	Lodge Lane / Ritson Street
Harrington Arms			Lodge Lane / Yanwath Street
Herculaneum Bridge	Peglegs	This pub, sits alone in an area of, largely, new housing. It is completely unspoiled and well cared for. The interior includes the traditional arrangement of a lounge served only from a hatch at the back of the bar across the corridor. The bar back is a splendid wood and glass partition and the bar room and corridor have nice tiled walls. Last visited June 2003.	Wellington Road
Herdman			59 & 61 Hill Street
High Park Inn	1992	a.k.a. Knob Hill (and Nob Hill) CLOSED as a pub. This is now Charlett's Funeral Director's. Not visited! The nickname comes up often but I do not know the derivation for certain, it probably relates to an imagined wealth of local inhabitants or the area.	187 Park Road / High Park Street
Highland Home		CLOSED and boarded up. Looks like an 'Insurance job' fire waiting to happen. Not visited.	Sefton Street / Hill Street
Hollow		CLOSED	102 Mill Street
Jessie Appleton's		See Dingle Hotel above. Now closed as a pub, this is a funeral director's premises now. Not visited.	347 Park Road
Jolly		A sadly ill conceived and short lived pub, victim of demographics and recession. Now demolished.	Hawkstone Street/South Street / Aberdeen Street / Digby Street
Lagos Hotel	The Grapes		86 Hill Street
Little Woodman		Thought to have been demolished, but it lasted under another usage. Still standing, though awaiting demolition.	3 & 5 Hill Street
Lord Clive			28 Northumberland Street / Clive Street
Lothian	Sefton Arms	A nicely done out friendly two sided pub. Last visited June 2005.	North Hill Street / Lothian Street
Maid of Erin			23 Mill Street
Masonic		My grandfather was born next door - does anyone have a picture please ?	Park Road/High Park Street. 211 Park Road
Masonic		Little else stands near this derelict looking pub except new housing.	19 Lodge Lane at the junction of River Avon Street.
Merseybeat		CLOSED and demolished. Not visited.	56 Park Street
Mersey Forge		long gone	42 Harlow Street / 346 Mill Street
Mersey View	'Dirty Dicks'	CLOSED and demolished	277 Grafton Street / Park Street.
Millom Castle		After 1962 used as a surgery, later demolished.	223 & 225 Mill Street
Mosley Arms		In this nice plain friendly two roomed boozer, the lounge is served only from a hatch at the back of the bar. Last visited October 2004.	Mill Street / Laxey Street
Mount	Sixie	A plain pub with two bars plus a side room. It was very quiet and the lounge side was closed when I visited. Visited 2003. Now CLOSED, demolished and grassed over. Gone by 2002	South Hill Road / Dingle Mount
Mulliner		This large pleasantly decorated one room knocked round bar has areas chained off at quiet times.	Smithdown Road / Mulliner Street
Napier	The Irish House		76 Windsor Street / Upper Hill Street
Neptune	The Turtle Dove	Demolished	45 & 47 Dove Street, junction with Liffey Street.
Neptune Hotel		One of two pubs on Hill Street at the Beaufort Street junction, the other being The Woodman Inn	58 Hill Street / Beaufort Street
Newstead Abbey		A friendly plain pub with one bar plus a back room, clean and tidy and decorated with lots of pictures of old Liverpool. Last visited May 2003.	Smithdown Road / Newstead Road
Northumber- -land Arms		now gone	116 Northumberland Street (Park Road junction)
Old Stingo			High Park Street / Greta Street
Parkside Hotel			28 Smithdown Road
Parliament			Alt Street / Thames Street
Pheasant		A Tetley Walker house now long gone	Park Road / Tavistock Street 232 Park Road
Phoenix	Wilsons Tavern	A well looked after and nicely decorated two bar pub. There are some unusual low arches at the rear of the bar side, over a small dance floor and stage. Last visited January 2005 and still open.	125 Cockburn Street / Ruby Street junction
Pineapple		The plain well kept front bar, lounge to the rear not visited. The site of a famous historical pub dating to the 1760s or before. Last visited October 2004.	258 Park Road / Moses Street
Poet's Corner	Fitzy's	A plain bar and a nice lounge in this traditional busy friendly local. Last visited June 2003.	27 & 29 Park Hill Road / Bowring Street
Prince		no details yet	2 Bessemer Street
Prince Arthur			33 & 35 Arthur Street, corner of Jevons St
Prince of Wales			80 Wellington Road / Bessemer Street
Prince of Wales Inn		Demolished	1 Northumberland Street / Grafton Street
Quarantine Inn		Demolished	2 Warwick Street
Queen's Arms		A pleasant, large, free standing two-sided partly knocked-through pub with some nice dark wood panelling. Last visited January 2005.	100 Admiral Street / South Street
Queen's Arms		now demolished	104 Northumberland Street
Queen's Head		This is a well kept tiny one-roomed corner house. Last visited February 2004.	Park Road / 1 North Hill Street 149 Park Road
Rob Roy			101 & 103 Beaumont Street, close to Lodge Lane
Royal George	Blacks	Now CLOSED and boarded up. Was running as a pub in 1999. Still there, but crumbling, in January 2005	99 Park Road. junction of Upper Park Street
Royal Hotel		This plain, slightly run down but spotlessly clean pub retains the traditional layout inside, where the two lounges are served from a hatch at the back of the bar. The exterior features some tremendous tile-work. This straddles the boundary - the front of the pub is in Toxteth, the rear is in Edge Hill!	Smithdown Road / Langton Road
Royal Oak		The interior of this large corner house is one very nicely decorated and well looked after room knocked round the bar. Last visited April 2004. Replaces an older pub of the same name.	Park Road / 1 Upper Warwick Street. 51 Park Place (Park Place becomes Park Road at this junction).
Royal Park Hotel	The Admiral The Royal Oak	no longer stands, the pub was demolished some time after 1966	84 North Hill Street, junction with Windsor Street / Admiral Street
Sefton			49 Upper Warwick Street
Sefton Arms	Top of Lacky		Park Road / Laxey Street 32 & 34 Park Road
Sefton Arms			Ouse Street / Greta Street
Sefton Arms	Lothian	Entry is under The Lothian, 132-134 North Hill Street	North Hill St, Lothian Street
St James		no longer a pub	Upper Parliament Street
Ship Inn	Childe of Hale Vaults	A short-lived 19th Century pub which later vanished	50 Hill Street
Showboat			6 Mill Street
Sportsman		see Coach and Horses	Lodge Lane/ Eden Street
Shropshire Arms		Almost lost in the grandure of the adjacent Boundary, but this one IS within toxteth	4 Smithdown Road
Solway Arms			87 Alt Street / Solway Street
South Hill	1992	This corner house with three rooms was neat and tidy, apart from the gents. Last visited Jan 2005 - I am told that it was burned out in late 2005. November 2006 demolished - another one gone	South Hill Road / Stillington Road (formerly 2 Menzies Street)
Stag			290 Mill Street
Standard			Park Road / Parkhill Road 318 Park Road
Star Hotel	The Three Bells	The Star started life at No 24 Warwick Street, it moved to 22 and was later renamed to The Three Bells before its eventual demolition.	22 Warwick Street
Swan Hotel			Park Road / Drysdale Street 370 Park Road
Three Lamps			89 Mill Street
Toxteth		A very nicely preserved two bar pub. Closed as a pub prior to 1999 but in use as offices of Dingle Online in Sept. 2004. Junction of Park Road and Park Street (by North Hill St), opposite the Royal George.	Park Road / Park Street (address is 141 Park Street) see Dingle Online and Park Place file
Turk's Head			29-31 Harlow Street / Clive Street
Two Lions			190 Mill Street
Union Vaults			76 Hill Street / Wolfe Street
Volunteer		confusingly close to the second pub of this name. Now vanished this does not occur in directories after WW2	37 & 39 Upper Hill Street
Volunteer		A tatty but clean and tidy, friendly three room pub but CLOSED and demolished. Last visited 1999.	2 Park Place junction with Upper Hill Street
Warwick Castle		opposite the Crows Nest, now demolished	134 Mill Street
Warwick Castle		Thought to have been demolished in the late 1980s	56 & 58 Warwick Street / Henderson Street
Warwick Hotel		Demolished	1 Warwick Street
Warwick House		now demolished	123 Warwick Street & 48 Park Place
Weathercock			117 Hill Street / Mill Street
Wheatsheaf			Park Road / Byles Street 309 Park Road
Wheatsheaf			Alt Street / Eden Street
Wellington Butts		A slightly tatty, friendly two-sided local, knocked round a central square counter. Last visited February 2004.	Windsor Street / Upper Stanhope Street
Wellington Vaults	'Wellie'	A pleasant three room pub with a small front bar, a larger lounge and a side room served from a small counter. A busy popular local, kept clean and tidy. Last visited June 2003.	376 Mill Street / Shelmore Drive (this was formerly the lower end of Wellington Road)
Windsor Castle		CLOSED. Now converted to studios for toxteth.tv Not visited.	Windsor Street / Grey Street
Windsor Castle			Bowring Street / Drysdale Street
Windsor Castle			Beaumont Street
Windsor Hotel	1986	a.k.a. 'The Clock' A magnificent red-brick building, demolished recently and no longer standing, new buildings occupy the site.. The official entrance (postal address and Landlord's entrance) is on Kingsley Road, however the longest face being on Beaumont Street, this was regarded as its location.	Beaumont Street
Woodcroft		An old farm building , later a pub, this is part of an un-named hamlet on the edge of toxteth which pre-dates the Victorian development of the area by 50-100 years.	Smithdown Road / Bagot Street
Woodcutters		Not visited.	Hill Street (approx)
Wood's House	Grapes Dick Jennings	see Dick Jennings

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Last update 03/08/2007	TOXTETH pubs toxteth.net > pubs
(originally adapted from The Merseyside Pub Guide by Phil Wieland with Phil's permission) with many thanks to the many other people who have generously helped to develop this page with bits of information about their old 'local'