5472 x 3648 px | 46,3 x 30,9 cm | 18,2 x 12,2 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
11 giugno 2022
Ubicazione:
67 Moorfields, Liverpool , Merseyside, England, UK, L2 2BP
Altre informazioni:
Read more at https://pubheritage.camra.org.uk/pubs/108 A very fine pub in central Liverpool which is one to compare with other excellent Heritage pubs on Merseyside - the Stork;in Birkenhead, the Prince Arthur; in Liverpool and the Edinburgh; in Crosby Like them it is a Victorian building (in this case of c.1865) re-modelled about in the early 20th century. They all share corner sites with the public bar occupying the angle and surrounded by an L-shaped corridor. All too have beautiful tiled dados in their corridors dating from Edwardian re-modelling schemes (as seen in our picture). A further similarity is the way the corridor works to provide a drinking area. Discovery of the documents submitted to the licensing justices enabled former licensee, John O’Dowd, to trace the evolution of the pub to its present form. Back in 1903 a plan shows the public bar laid out as it is now. There was a snug behind it in the heart of the building and left of this, and on the site of the present toilets, a public room labelled ‘parlour’. Then in 1915 the Lion expanded by taking in the building next door at 28 Tithebarn Street also a licensed premises. This enabled the L-shaped corridor to be created round the public bar and the formation of two rooms behind this - a news room in the newly acquired area (the name still survives in the window glass) and a lounge where the skylight is today. Then in 1967, when pubs everywhere were being opened up, plans were drawn up to remove the walls to the corridor from these rooms. These were duly implemented and the corner entrance was blocked. (hence the pub does not merit entry in the Part One of the National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors. In 1979 they added glazed partitions, one outside the gents and one on the right as you enter the news room. The porch on Moorfields side has mosaic floor and one tiled wall from floor to ceiling.
