The Clock Face, Prescot

Posted by Mike Chapple on March 27, 2008 12:22 AM

THE trouble with “some people” is they don’t understand how fundamental the application of the wisdom of Bill Shankly is to living a full and happy existence.

That’s in relation to the great man’s famous quote: “Some people think football is a matter of life and death – I can assure them it’s far more important than that.”

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Shrewsbury Arms, Oxton, Wirral May 26

Posted by Mike Chapple on May 29, 2007 12:08 PM

Normally I would have rather have hacked me head off with a teaspoon.
But the Pub Column was caught off guard when Lady Penelope of Pensby made a request recently to which Yours Truly readily agreed.

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The Fox and Hounds Barrnston April 28 2007

Posted by Mike Chapple on April 30, 2007 10:23 AM

‘Accept that some days you are the statue and some days the pigeon.'

Wise words above the bar in the big and bountiful Fox and Hounds pub, in Barnston, Wirral, one of the locals frequented by the Pub Column’s latest visitor, Lady Penelope of Pensby.

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The Liverpool March 31

Posted by Mike Chapple on April 23, 2007 11:25 AM

‘IT’S all that Jolly Jack Tar stuff, mate.” Penge’s only honorary Scouser, Mr Phil “Wotcha Cock” Key, was reflecting on The Liverpool pub, in James Street.

The maritime theme is everywhere with special attention given to framed pictures of the city’s own flagship HMS Liverpool in its seven different incarnations since the first one, a fifth-rate frigate, built in the city and launched on July 19, 1741.

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The Blue Anchor April 14 2007

Posted by Mike Chapple on April 23, 2007 10:52 AM

THE people of Aintree can be forgiven for being a little blasé about living within a short gallop of one of the greatest sporting events.

In the case of the Grand National, familiarity doesn't breed contempt with the locals, but a continuing amusement and curiosity at the human zoo which descends on the place for three days every April.

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The Tap, Eastham

Posted by Mike Chapple on April 10, 2007 6:29 PM

FINDING great pubs around Merseyside isn’t like delving into some bottomless pit.

There’s a fear that at some stage there won’t be any more new ones to choose from and this column, to paraphrase Rutger Hauer’s Roy the Replicant in sci-fi classic Blade Runner, “will be lost like tears in rain. Time to die.”

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