The Ale House - Is it even a thing now?

[gonetomorrow]

A pub with ales, crisps, wooden floorboards and benches round the wall.

 

[Ducans elbow]

5.00pm by us, we'd finish work, clock out, pick up pay packet, shout out the car window to all the girls who were also getting paid at their gate...anybody goin' the Hillfoot? and be at the door as the guy was sliding the bolts at 5pm.
Bail out at 7, home for the 3 'S's...shave and shower being 2 of the 3 and into town.
Or;
10.30 finish in lpool /Speke, double up last orders in the Peg or Noahs depending, swig them, leg it to The Dove, which was just over the border by about 4yds and do their 11.00 last orders.

I use to work in Broughs drums on Woodend Ave, the Hillfoot was our pub after work , I even remember they didn’t do food in them days, a packed of crisps or nuts was the menu

 

[bigjonny]

George Orwell got it right in 1943

The Moon Under Water | The Orwell Foundation

Orwell's classic essay on his quintessential English public house. Other pubs are available.

www.orwellfoundation.com

 

[coollino]

CAMRA re-need to think their position too.

The whole 'we want save pubs yet we expect a discount and to pay under £4 a pint' doesn't help

 

[COYBL25]

CAMRA re-need to think their position too.

The whole 'we want save pubs yet we expect a discount and to pay under £4 a pint' doesn't help

In fairness, you can only use the CAMARA discount vouchers in for he likes of Spoons and Lloyds places, who are big enough to swallow the discount.

 

[coollino]

In fairness, you can only use the CAMARA discount vouchers in for he likes of Spoons and Lloyds places, who are big enough to swallow the discount.

But why are they encouraging drinkers to go there?

 

[COYBL25]

But why are they encouraging drinkers to go there?

I’ve always thought that and it’s a point frequently raised too.

A Wetherspoons opens and within six months all the proper boozers nearby are shut. Yet CAMARA gives out tokens with their membership, that discounts drinking in Wetherspoons !!

 

[PITA]

The “ Georgian Quarter “ as it’s now called, is without doubt the nicest part of town.

You’ve got the Caledonia, the Blackburne Arms next to each other and the Belvedere a couple of minutes away.

Peter Kavanaghs over the road, the Phil, Ye Cracke, the Whisky bar in Rodney St and the Pilgrim, that’s before even going anywhere else, The Fly, the Roscoe Head, the Casa, the Everyman, the Cambridge etc

My favourite part of town now by a mile.

Safe, by and large decent people and not full of dangerous beak heads.

Is that one or two different pubs?

 

[COYBL25]

Is that one or two different pubs?

The Philharmonic > the Phil
Ye Cracke > the Crack

Apologies, I sometimes forget not everyone is from Liverpool !

 

[PITA]

The Philharmonic > the Phil
Ye Cracke > the Crack

Apologies, I sometimes forget not everyone is from Liverpool !

I'm from Kirkby. I was taking the piss. Fill the crack!

 

[Ray Purchase]

 

[degsy]

I use to work in Broughs drums on Woodend Ave, the Hillfoot was our pub after work , I even remember they didn’t do food in them days, a packed of crisps or nuts was the menu

Did you, when?