Jumping on the bandwagons of Eurovision and warm beer in the same post, I’m off to the sand dune capital of the UK.
I’d hoped the micro pub at Waterloo would be my last tick on Merseyside, but minor issues such as not actually visiting all the pubs conspired against me, even when Simon had reserved my table on the Wirral.
Still, only three to go now.
I arrived in Waterloo for an 11am opener that had clearly moved to noon, which gave me time to admire Art Deco,
an art piece called “closed micro“,
and some proper beach art…
Great views over to Bootle container depots from here. The only better viewing points are on the ferry to the Isle of Man.
Loads of tourists of all sorts here on an increasingly chilly morning which prompted me to stop in a branch of Crosby Coffee near this lovely house. Crosby really is charming.
Off to the Liver, which turns out not to be a micro, but a Proper Pub.
So if it’s in Sefton, and isn’t a micro, how can it be in the Beer Guide in 2018 ?
They can spot a CAMRA member a mile off here. They’re the ones who look at hand pumps.
“Have ya got yer card” How could I deny CAMRA with 33p at stake ?
Of course, I still claimed my 20% discount, one of the most generous outside that posh place in Lancaster.
And the Liver is splendid, a really enjoyable “all welcome” sort of a place, with Old Boys, lasses who lunch (dead cheap), and a sense of real life. George Michael and Sophie B Hawkins kept us musically in 1992, competing manfully with tennis from Romania.
Open plan, but with loads of separate areas and Merseyside character. Welcome relief from a sea of you-know-what.
Shame about the beer, well kept but suffering in the heat.
I’d give it another go when I inevitably come back in the autumn to count the iron men. Perhaps still more of them than micro pubs.
Surprised you couldn’t get a Crosby, Stills and Nash reference here?
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With a(nother) picture of a closed micro, I would have thought a Deja Vu reference the obvious one.
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Going by some of your shots of the interiors of micros, the iron men might be used to make the clientele appear a bit livelier?
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Whatever happened to Sophie B Hawkins?
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Still around :-
http://sophiebhawkins.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_B._Hawkins
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Iron Man on the beach…why?
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Looks like a nice pub Martin.
I have another why…Why have they got washers and bolts on their backsides…?
The plastic seaside bucket raises the quality of the sculpture…
Absolutely lovely proper dimpled glass – envious…
Really nice Tetleys sign – did they do Tetley’s on cask in the pub or was it just historic decoration?
Don’t forget to check the tide times for the iron man count…
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Still Tets ! Washers and bolts are “in”.
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Great headline young man.
You are the winner who takes it all.
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Voulez vous. A-ha.
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“Not a picture of me on Crosby beach in the heatwave, you’ll be delighted to hear.”
Of course not. He’s not holding a Good Beer Guide and marker. 🙂
“All going on here”
I think the drinking water to the east causes lisps. I see the Liver hotel is to the west of Litherland. 😉
“even when Simon had reserved my table on the Wirral.”
(guffaw)
“Another Place”
I think he should have those big warts on his bum seen to.
“Ah ! Dimpled mugs”
Remind me again. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
Cheers
PS – “which turns out to be a micro”
Methinks a not is missing?
““Damn, I wish was your lover” plays to an empty room”
I wish there was another ‘I’. 😉
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I’m so glad you’re back, Russ. Duly corrected.
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Just dug this post out for Tim from Newbury and laughed reading the thread of comments. Are you allowed tolike your own posts ?
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