Last orders could soon be called on the area around Liverpool’s Scotland Road, which was once home to more than 200 pubs, reports the BBC.
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… last remaining pub on what is affectionately known locally as ‘Scottie Road’…
BBC News writes:
The Throstles Nest, which opened in 1804, is the last remaining pub on what is affectionately known locally as “Scottie Road” and has recently been put up for sale.
Now part of the A59, the road runs for about a mile through Vauxhall and into the city centre.
It took its name from the original stagecoach route it was once part of and remains one of the city’s busiest thoroughfares.
However, the area around it has been in steady decline since the 1960s, when rehousing and road development schemes started a population decline that saw residency fall by 67% in 20 years.
Previously surrounded by rows upon rows of tenements, ice cream parlours, tailors, grocers, pubs and cinemas and a stone’s throw from the childhood home of one of the city’s most famous daughters, Cilla Black, the Throstles Nest is now a lone outpost from a bygone era….
Landlord Kevin McMullen, who has owned the pub for 40 years, has vivid memories of its heyday.
“You wouldn’t be able to see the door for people,” the 78-year-old said….
Scotland Road
- Scotland Road was built in the 18th Century as a new route to the north, one of two original turnpike roads out of Liverpool
- It became the focal point of Irish immigration and in 1847 and 1848, 300,000 Irish people came across a 12-month period…
Peter Leeson, who quit Liverpool City Council’s planning department in the 1960s after becoming disillusioned with the direction it was taking, said the impact of “horrifying” rehousing and road development schemes had a huge impact on the north of the city….
Liverpool City Council’s Deputy Mayor Jane Corbett….said her predecessors “didn’t get everything right” when it came to town planning….
Like the deputy mayor, Auxiliary Bishop Williams said he also remained optimistic about the area’s future….
“Hopefully, a younger man will have a go,” he said.
“I would be very sad to see it close for good as a pub.”
