| County | Brewery | Location | Premises | Description | Contributors | Photo? Gone? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Merseyside: Wirral |
Birkenhead Brewery Co Ltd Birkenhead | Birkenhead - Tranmere, 228 New Chester Road | Lord Raglan Hotel (former) | Converted to a restaurant by 2018. On the front elevation at first floor level, a large panel with an elaborate brewery logo, including 'BIRKENHEAD BREWERY COMPANY LIMITED', 'PEERLESS ALES & STOUT' and 'TRADE MARK', topped by a liver bird standing on a cask. On each elevation, there is also a large panel with 'LORD RAGLAN HOTEL' in raised lettering. | MD photo 2005; Google 2018 | Picture |
Merseyside: Wirral |
Higson's Brewery Ltd Liverpool | Birkenhead, 103 Oxton Road | Vale (former) | A Victorian corner pub with a relatively modern Higson's livery. Fascia board signs with 'HIGSONS'; the hanging sign features 'HIGSON'S in the top-piece, and a liver bird holding a hop-leaf. By 2017, the pub had been converted to residential use, and all brewery signs were removed. | BHK photo 2008; Google 2017 | Picture GONE |
Merseyside: Wirral |
Daniel Higson Liverpool | Birkenhead, 128 Conway Street | Crown | Interior. The bar has a spectacular bar-back; from the side wall and along the bar-back is a glazed fascia, gold coloured with elaborate decoration and black lettering: 'D.HIGSON. WINE MERCHANT & SPIRIT MERCHANT. BREWER. CHEAPSIDE BREWERY. LIVERPOOL'. In CAMRA's list of historic pub interiors. | SP 2008 | . |
Merseyside: Wirral |
Threlfall's Brewery Co Ltd - Liverpool & Salford | Birkenhead, 26 Market Street | Market Inn (former) | The interwar faience frontage features tiled lettering 'THRELFALLS' above the second floor windows. The former Market Inn was combined with another adjacent pub to form 'Hornblowers'. | AH photo 2008; AMR 2008 | Picture |
Merseyside: Wirral |
Wilson's Brewery Ltd Manchester | Birkenhead, 36 Oliver Street East | Firemans Arms | A Victorian corner pub. Applied 'WILSONS' lettering to the fascia and to the back wall, and a Wilson's hanging sign and lantern. Also an internal etched window with 'WILSONS' above a chequerboard image. The fascia and back wall lettering were removed by 2012. | RWo 2006; BHK photo 2008; WRB photo 2010; Google 2012 | Picture |
Merseyside: Wirral |
Threlfall's Brewery Co Ltd Salford | Birkenhead, 41 Price Street | Stork Hotel | Two decorative etched windows on the front with 'THRELFALL'S SALFORD ALES'. On CAMRA's National Inventory. According to the Tile & Architectural Ceramics Society, the fabulous tiled frontage was probably installed by the Birkenhead Brewery Co in about 1903; they say that the tiles were fixed by George Swift and may have been made at his Swan Tile Works, Liverpool. By 2022, the Threlfall windows had been replaced by modern ones. | TACS; RWo 2006; SP photo 2008; Google 2022 | Picture GONE |
Merseyside: Wirral |
Yates Castle Brewery Ltd Manchester | Birkenhead, 44 Oxton Road | Windsor Castle Hotel (former) | Good green-tiled frontage. White-tiled fascia with gold lettering around two elevations: 'YATES'S CASTLE BREWERY Ltd ... WINDSOR CASTLE HOTEL'. In 2022, this classic pub frontage was removed and replaced by an anonymous modern shop frontage. | BHK photo 2008; Google photo 2017; Google 2022 | Picture GONE |
Merseyside: Wirral |
Higson's Brewery Ltd Liverpool | Birkenhead, 476 Price Street | Pacific (former) | Above the hanging sign is a 'liver bird with hop leaf', painted red. Feature removed by 2014. | BHK 2012; Google 2014 | . GONE |
Merseyside: Wirral |
Birkenhead Brewery Co Ltd Birkenhead | Birkenhead, 55 Duke Street | Grand Trunk Hotel (former) | Following its closure as a pub, by 2012 original raised fascia lettering was revealed along two elevations: 'GRAND TRUNK HOTEL ... BIRKENHEAD BREWERY CO LTD'. The former 'Peerless Ales' lettering on the third elevarion has disappeared. At high level on the front elevation, a round plaque with 'BIRKENHEAD ALES' and an illustration of a liver bird on a cask - all in relief. In 2008, it had a large etched window with lettering: 'BIRKENHEAD BREWERY Co Ltd ... ALES & STOUTS'. | BHK photo 2008; Google 2012 and 2018 | Picture |
Merseyside: Wirral |
Higson's Brewery Ltd Liverpool | Birkenhead, 56 Vittoria Street | Vittoria Vaults | An etched window with 'HIGSON'S'. | BHK photo 2012 | Picture |
Merseyside: Wirral |
Birkenhead Brewery Co Ltd Birkenhead | Birkenhead, 72-76 Oxton Road | Former Birkenhead Brewery offices | On the frontage are two identical terracotta tiled panels: 'BIRKENHEAD BREWERY COMPANY Ltd ... 1896'. Now a motorcycle shop. | BHK photo 2008 | Picture |
Merseyside: Wirral |
Birkenhead Brewery Co Ltd Birkenhead | Birkenhead, Hamilton Street | Pier Hotel (former) | Has a very attractive corner frontage of green faience. Around the fascia: 'BIRKENHEAD ALES & STOUT ... PIER HOTEL ... BIRKENHEAD BREWERY Co Ltd ... PIER HOTEL ... WINES & SPIRITS'. On the corner splay, a tiled panel with elaborate brewery logo, including 'BIRKENHEAD BREWERY COMPANY LIMITED', 'PEERLESS ALES & STOUT', a liver bird standing on a barrel and 'TRADE MARK'. The building has been redeveloped but the pub frontage was retained. | TACS; WRB photo 2005; TB photo 2006; SP photo 2008 | Picture |
Merseyside: Wirral |
Birkenhead Brewery Co Ltd Birkenhead | Liscard, Seaview Road - Wallasey Road | Wellington Hotel / Duke of Wellington | A large pub built by Birkenhead Brewery; it has a date plaque with 'AD 1937'. More recently named 'Dukes'. Two stone plaques at high level with 'B B Co' - one on each road elevation. | WRB photo 2008; AH photo 2008 | Picture |
Merseyside: Wirral |
Tetley Walker Ltd Warrington | New Brighton, 19 Hope Street | Commercial (renamed Harbour) | At first floor level facing Grosvenor Road is an old round Peter Walker plaque saying "THE COMMERCIAL ... BY VIRTUE OF ITS HISTORIC INTEREST MERITS THE TITLE ... A PETER WALKER HERITAGE INN". | TB photo 2006; Google 2024 | Picture |
Merseyside: Wirral |
Yates Castle Brewery Ltd Manchester | New Brighton, 7 Grosvenor Road | Perch Rock Hotel | Magnificent mosaic on the floor of the lobby - stylised writing - 'YATES'S MANCHESTER ALES & STOUT'. | MA 2003; BHK photo 2006; TB photo 2006 | Picture |
Merseyside: Wirral |
Bass, Ratcliffe & Gretton Ltd Burton-upon-Trent | New Brighton, Magazine Brow | Magazine Hotel | Each side of the front door is a glazed plaque with the red triangle logo, 'DRAUGHT BASS' and 'TRADE MARK'. Above these are half-lanterns set into the wall. There are also modern Bass signs, including 'Bass' in script on the south wall. Still sells Bass. | SP photo 2008 | Picture |
Merseyside: Wirral |
Peter Walker & Sons Ltd - Warrington & Burton-upon-Trent | New Ferry, 43 New Chester Road | Farmers Arms (former) | A large tiled panel with the pub name in applied lettering, and in the centre a roundel featuring the brewery's 'queen on horseback' trade mark. Converted to a restaurant; the pub name has gone, but the roundel survives, painted black. | WRB photo 2009; Google 2024 | Picture |
Merseyside: Wirral |
Threlfall's Brewery Co Ltd - Liverpool & Salford | Rock Ferry, 379 New Chester Road | Star Hotel (former) | Good beige and dark green faience frontage with tiled fascia lettering: two examples of 'THRELFALL'S'. The former lettering 'STAR HOTEL' and 'BLUE LABEL' has been chipped off, but is still visible. The porch has a fine mosaic floor with a large image of a star enclosing lettering: 'STAR ... THRELFALL'S ... HOTEL'. Converted to retail. | BHK photo 2008 | Picture |
Merseyside: Wirral |
Higson's Brewery Ltd Liverpool | Wallasey, 2 Wallasey Village | Cheshire Cheese | An etched window with 'HIGSON'S ALES'. | BHK photo 2008 | Picture |
Merseyside: Wirral |
Higson's Brewery Ltd Liverpool | Wallasey, 225 Wallasey Village | Farmers Arms | An attractive pub, dated 1924, which until 2016 retained its Higson's livery, including a letter sign on the front, a board sign on the end wall, and a hanging sign with 'HIGSONS' topped by a gold liver bird with hop leaf. Higsons signage replaced by Greene King livery by 2017. | TB photo 2006; Google 2016-2017 | Picture GONE |