The Carnarvon Castle pub in Liverpool’s Tarleton Street was the scene of a dreadful suicide in 1894 when a man shot himself in front of horrified drinkers. On the afternoon of 26th September 1894 a 22 year old man named Charles Wood, who lodged in Oxford Street, went into the Carnarvon Castle. After ordering refreshment […]
HEARSE DRIVER STEALS CIGARS
The Railway Hotel in Kirkby was the scene of a shocking theft in 1866 when a hearse driver returning from a funeral stopped off and helped himself to the landlord’s cigars whilst buying some ale. Although Kirkby as a new town has only developed after the 2nd World War, there had been farms in the […]
SUICIDE INQUEST AT WAVERTREE’S OLDEST PUB
The Coffee House is probably the oldest pub in Wavertree, having been listed in the Ale House Recognizances as early as 1777. A key meeting place, it was the scene in 1883 of an inquest following a local tragedy when a man committed suicide on Dunbabin Road. The pub was a popular day out from […]
ENGLAND’S SMALLEST HOUSE IN A PUB
The Cock & Bottle pub in Wavertree High Street has absorbed into it what was once the smallest house in England. The pub’s address is 93 Wavertree High Street, with the house formerly being 95. The house was built in the middle of the 19th Century in what was a passageway. At 6 feet wide […]
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