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the pub you refer to is the swan hotel known locally as the blazing stump,it was supposed to have got its nickname from an old sea dog with a wooden leg who used to poke the coal fire with the same leg,the pub is on the wallasey.

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Originally Posted by parkgater
mark,thanks for your help,but i could not help but notice that the pub listings are mostly for bikenhead, wallasey is hardly mentioned :)some of the pubs i remember were on the tower grounds new brighton, including the lakeside,the rock point,the algerian and the woodlands.


I have an updated list from derekdwc which i will update as soon as i get a mo smile

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Remember the "Blazing Stump", had a few in there in my time!!


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I remember the swan it used to be our saturday night local,some wild nights in there grin

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If you go to http://www.ukpubfinder.com/list/44
You can find quite a few local pubs and get a map of where they are

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Chetwyn Arms Bidston Road not far from the Wirral Ladies Golf Club, but on the opposite side, and was built to accommodate the Quarry workers before Flaybrick Cemetery was opened. It was converted into two cottages which can clearly be seen today

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Mark - we seem to have two 75s (Pier Hotel)




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ok finally split all of dereks posts into there own topics.
I still have to re-index the main list with them.

Derek please read your private message please.
Start new topics not list them one after the other
in the chat forum please wink

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Railway Inn, Gt Meols/Hoylake

Theres a pic of the old pub in one of the Ian Boumphrey books,,, but can't find the book at the moment cry

In 1891 was run by Joseph Price. Also named on the census was my grt grandmother working as general servant.

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Any chance of someone taking daylight pictures of pubs andtheir signs in
West Kirby
Hoylake
Greaby
Ellesmere Port
Neston
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Eastham
Bromborough

I'll still cover Birkenhead

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Neston, Parkgate, Eastham, Bromborough and Birkenhead shouldn't be a problem for me.

Won't be able to get daylight pics til next weekend though - send me a PM


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mark.just thought of a pub we used in 1963 or there abouts it was called the york hotel victoria road new brighton very much a seaside pub with a glass dome roof.incidentally my father was the landlord of the travellers rest at the bottom of rowson street,between 1958 and 1964 it now has an irish name ,between 1964 and 1966 my father was landlord of the black horse lower heswall,hope this is of some use to you,regards.

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419 York hotel (Added to List)
Victoria road new Brighton

Travellers Rest (Not Added Need Street Name)
at the bottom of Rowson street,between 1958 and 1964 it now has an irish name

Black Horse (Not Added Need Street Name)
lower Heswall

All great stuff smile
Ive added one and we need more info with the others,
i will up date this post when there added to the list.

ive just added another 225 + 1 to the list thanks to derekdwc,
boy are we a county of drunks or what lol.

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