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 […]
THE DUNBABINS OF CHILDWALL
A long road that straddles Childwall and Wavertree recalls a time when the area was farmland not the mass of semi detached houses that it has been since the 1930s. Dunbabin Road, which stretches from the Childwall Triangle end of Taggart Avenue to WooltonRoad and is 800 metres long, remembers Dunbabin farm that was there […]
TOXTETH PARK PLOUGHING CONTEST
Nowadays the Brook House pub in Smithdown Road is a favourite haunt of students living in the locality, surrounded by streets of densely packed terraced houses. This is vastly different from the mid 19th Century when fields in the vicinity were the venue for annual ploughing contests amongst farmers. The current Brook House dates from […]
GOING FOR A BEVVY
Many roads were obliterated as a result of the Liverpool to Wallasey tunnel being built in the last 1960s but some have survived, remembering a long gone hamlet which gave the name to the traditional Scouse phrase of ‘going for a bevvy’ (aka pint, few ales, few scoops etc etc). 300 years ago the built […]
THE WELSH CATHEDRAL
Standing in a sadly derelict state on Princes Road in Toxteth is the Welsh Presbyterian Church, which once laid claim to the title of Liverpool’s tallest building. Plans for the new church for Toxteth’s growing Welsh community were unveiled in January 1865, when a public meeting was attended by over 1,000 people at their Bedford […]
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