The Merseyside Pub Guide

by Phil Wieland

PRESCOT

PubBeerCommentsLocation
Bath Springs (John Kemble) Tetley / Carling, Carlsberg, Foster's In 1999 I visited the John Kemble, a two room boozer with a plain bar and a nice (but deserted) lounge. It is now very different, nicely decorated and knocked round with just one bar.
Last visited 2003.
Kemble Street / Bond Street
Clicks (Plough) John Smith's, Theakston This one bar pub with a nice layout with raised areas and a tiled floor has been badly neglected and was very tatty and grubby when I visited, although one area was being refurbished. LSTV. Now CLOSED and converted to flats.
Last visited 1999.
Kemble Street / Bond Street, next to the Eagle & Child
Clock Face Hand pumpThwaites This large old house was converted to a pub in the 1980s I think. A very nice interior and excellent ales.
Grade II listed building.
Last visited October 2006.
Derby Street / Liverpool Road
Crown Tetley / Carling The pleasant plain bar and a nice lounge are on different levels to match the gradient of the street in this clean and tidy boozer.
Last visited 2003.
Kemble Street / Aspinall Street
Deanes House (Legs of Man) John Smith's / 1664, Foster's An enormous old house converted into a multi-room pub and nicely decorated. Food lunch time. Function room available.
Last visited October 2006.
Church Street / West Street
Dog House (Imperial)
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Boddingtons, John Smith's, Tetley / 1664, Carlsberg, Foster's The Imperial was a plain corner house with two bars plus a lounge and a pool room standing in splendid isolation in a formerly built up area. It was kept clean and tidy but was perhaps a little tatty in places. There was a bar, a small lounge, plus another room served from a hatch in the corridor.
It closed in 2006 and after being boarded up for some months it re-opened in 2007 as the Dog House. Not yet visited under the new name.
Last visited 2004.
Bridge Road / Station Road
Eagle and Child Stones, Worthington This pleasant plain two bar pub spent a period closed in 1998. It has original leaded windows. The lounge side is nicely done out, with plain wood walls and a partially tiled floor, and is well looked after. LSTV. Don't leave your bike outside! Now CLOSED.
Last visited 2003.
Warington Road / Kemble Street
Engine CLOSED.
Not visited.
Sewel Street / Manchester Road
Fusileer (Kings Arms) John Smith's / Carlsberg, Stella This large two-sided pub which was built in 1978 on the site of the Kings Arms is looking a little threadbare in places. LSTV   DiscoDay5 Day6
Last visited 2003.
St. Helens Road / Warrington Road
Grapes Hand pumpCains, Hand pumpGreenalls A very nice up market pub in a very old building, concentrating on its "Miller's Kitchen" food. QuizMon
Last visited 1998.
St Helens Road / Portico Lane
Hope and Anchor
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Worthington / Carling, Stella A plain, clean and tidy one bar pub, partly stone-floored. Take a torch if you're going to the gents!
Last visited 2003.
High Street / Hope Street
Old Mill (Nelly Kelly's) (Victoria)
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Hand pumpHydes, Hydes / Harp The Victoria was the roughest pub in Prescot, they tell me.
Nelly Kelly's was a typical plastic "Irish" bar and my notebook recorded "Music too loud, barmaid deaf/stupid, short measures."
I am pleased to report that the Old Mill is a total transformation: It has a very nicely done interior with partially knocked through seating and games areas. They serve an excellent pint of Hydes Bitter and a seasonal Hydes brew is also available. There's also a beer garden and a separate restaurant which was shut when I visited.
A revisit in August 2004 found no real ale available and the atmosphere seems to have gone downhill recently.   DiscoDay5 Day6   KaraokeDay4
Last visited 2004.
Mill Street
Prescot Suite
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Not visited.
Warrington Road / Ash Grove
Print House Wine Bar Worthington / Budweiser (US), Carling This up-market wine bar is nicely decorated with prices to match. The leather sofas are very comfortable.
Late licence to midnight, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.   Live entertainmentDay7
Last visited 2003.
High Street / Leyland Street
Red Lion Hotel
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Tetley, Worthington / Carling, Carlsberg A traditional pub with two sides round the island bar plus a front room closed when I visited. Some original features remain, including mosaic floor and stained glass windows. The rooms have odd shapes, to fit the street corner.
Last visited 2003.
21 Market Place / Kemble Street
Royal Oak John Smith's, Tetley / Foster's A pleasantly decorated two bar pub with LSTV. Live music on a Saturday night.
Last visited 2002.
 
Sun Inn
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Hand pumpguests A beautiful traditional small two bar local serving excellent beer. Three or four small side rooms, and real fires, give it a very cosy atmosphere.
Last visited October 2006.
Derby Street / Church Street
Tommy Hall's (Hare & Hounds) Hand pumpCains Traditional local, wedged on a Saturday night.
Last visited 2002.
Warrington Road
Wellington Hand pumpCains, Hand pumpGreenalls, Hand pumpTheakston A large up-market very nicely decorated building with small rooms partially knocked through, and original wooden panelling. The exterior is nice, with lots of hanging baskets. The beer was excellent, and the all day food looks good.
Last visited 1998.
St Helens Road / Burrows Lane