KENSINGTON

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Alexandra Lodge
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A standard "Oak Lodge" with one large bar area and a back room with a pool table. The traditional decor, including some impressive mirrors, is nicely done. Now closed.
Last visited 2003.
137 Farnworth Street / Boaler Street
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Appleby's Nice plain decor in this flat house with one bar in the front room, and a separate back room with a pool table. LSTV.
Reported closed in 2008.
Last visited 2004.
Kensington / Seldon Street
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Bourne Arms Closed and demolished with no trace remaining.
Not visited.
Boaler Street / 22 Bourne Street
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Coach & Horses Very nice traditional style decor, slightly plastic in places, including antique golf clubs on the ceiling and a collection of potties. The bright green bar stools don't fit in. LSTV. Now closed.
Last visited 1999.
Kensington / Low Hill
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Cumberland Arms "The Flower House"
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Outside, a plain corner house. Inside one surprisingly large room with a high ceiling, very nicely decorated but with a bit too much green.
Now closed.
Last visited 2003.
Boaler Street / Goldsmith Street
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Farnworth Arms
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This two bar pub has a plain front bar and rather nice decor.
Now closed.
Last visited 2004.
Kensington / Farnworth Street
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Grange Lodge A pleasant interior, but looking a little worn in places, in this standard two bar "Oak Lodges" flat house. Part of the front room was boarded off, so perhaps refurbishment was imminent.
Now closed.
Last visited 2004.
Kensington / Seldon Street
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Halfway House
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Partially knocked through to create one large room with a square counter in the middle, traditionally decorated.
Now closed.
Last visited 2004.
Kensington / Gilead Street
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Holt A pleasant two room pub with plain traditional decor nicely looked after. LSTV.
Noted closed in 2009, but see the New Holt. Demolished in 2010.
Last visited 1999.
Kensington / Holt Road
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Kensington
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A beautiful two-sided pub with a small bar and a two room lounge side, traditionally decorated and retaining many original features. In 1999 this place was such a pleasant surprise in this area of plastic beer that the evening's plan - ten halves in ten pubs - was put on hold while we had a couple of pints of the house real ale, served by a waitress in the lounge! Sadly, revisiting in 2004 we found that the real ale had gone, and in 2009 I noticed it was closed. Returning in 2018 and again more recently I was pleased to see the wonderful architecture continues to survive.
Last visited December 2023.
Kensington / Coleridge Street
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Liver Vaults
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A pleasant two-sided back street boozer, doing good business on a Saturday afternoon.
Last visited October 2021.
Gilead Street / Lennox Way
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Lord Seldon Closed.
Not visited.
Kensington / Seldon Street
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MAA Social Club I think this is now closed.
Not visited.
Sheil Road / Swiss Road
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Molyneux
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An impressive floodlit exterior. Inside is a nice clean and tidy plain bar side, and a larger lounge with wood panelling and lots of mirrors.
Now closed.
Last visited 2003.
Molyneux Road / Cambria Street
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New Holt A replacement for the Holt, located on the opposite corner, but now also closed.
Not visited.
Kensington / Holt Road
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Newsham Park "Mac's"
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A pleasant locals' corner house with one room.
Last visited 2018.
Boaler Street / Butler Street
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Old Fort
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In 1999 I visited a rather splendid two-sided traditional pub. In 2007 I found it had been completely refurbished, sadly losing the original features and knocking through the two rooms into one. Located opposite the Royal Liverpool Hospital, this pub was scheduled for demolition under the now abandoned Merseytram plans.
Last visited September 2023.
Prescot Street / Moira Street
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Pawn Shop A standard plain clean and tidy flat house. LSTV.
Noted closed in 2009. Demolished in 2010.
Last visited 1999.
Kensington / Holdsworth Street
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Phythian
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This large two bar pub is nicely decorated although perhaps a touch threadbare in places. The gents is long and narrow. Now closed.
Last visited 2003.
Farnworth Street / Molyneux Road
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Picture Drome (Wetherspoon's)
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I visited at lunch time on Wetherspoon's very first day and already there were two or three handpumps with clips but no beer. The other pumps dispensed ale in excellent condition as one would expect from a Wetherspoon's. This ex-cinema has been totally gutted and very nicely done out with dark panelling and a high ceiling with lots of iron beams.
No longer a Wetherspoon's, the interior is unchanged but the real ales have gone.
Closed in 2021 and now a curry house.
Last visited 2018.
Kensington / Deane Road
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Richmond Lodge (Derby Arms)
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A well cared for two-sided "Oak Lodges" pub, extremely quiet when I visited.
Now closed.
Last visited 2004.
Kensington / Denman Street
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Royal Arch
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A nicely decorated clean and tidy knocked through one bar boozer, larger inside than one might expect. Amongst the memorabilia on display is a pub sign for The Wedding House - I wonder where that was? LSTV.
Noted closed in 2009.
Last visited 2004.
Kensington / Fielding Street
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Sheil Park
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A large nicely decorated two-bar pub, looking great inside. After a period boarded up in 2003 this had re-opened by 2004.
Last visited December 2023.
Kensington / Sheil Road
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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This nicely decorated and well cared for one room knocked through corner house is larger inside than the outside suggests. When I was there in 2018 they were installing a projector screen that seemed bigger than the pub. It was still in use in 2023.
Last visited December 2023.
Boaler Street / Sutcliffe Street
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Vinebrook (Grapes)
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A pleasant plain well cared for pub with one large room partially divided by walls. I visited during an England match in Euro 2004 and found the friendly locals all had painted faces, silly hats and hooters!
Last visited December 2023.
Kensington / Cottenham Street
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