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NO FLIES IN LOAF OF ROYAL BAKERS

September 2, 2014 By Steven Horton

NO FLIES IN LOAF OF ROYAL BAKERS

One of Liverpool’s most popular real ale pubs is the Fly in the Loaf in Hardman Street, so named as it is situated in the old Kirklands Bakery, who used that phrase as their slogan. This certainly was the case of a bakery that was renowned for its Vienna Bread and supplied members of the […]

VICTORIA’S FORGOTTEN CHURCH

June 4, 2014 By Steven Horton

VICTORIA’S FORGOTTEN CHURCH

Queen Victoria’s monument in Derby Square has a plaque commemorating the fact that Liverpool’s castle that once stood on the site. However that was demolished nearly 200 years before the monument was unveiled, with a church being there in the intervening period. Even when that closed, there were other plans for the site before it […]

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