Remember lodge lane and smithdown back in the day.. coach and horses, the grapes, Rob Roy, the dart, the Albany, the mulliner, the Royal Hotel and more all gone.. City is finished mate, too much cultural change!
Cultural change has nothing to do with pubs closing down. Cost of alcohol, smoking ban and drugs being chosen over alcohol. Cheaper to drink at home. Also all our great restaurants serving alcohol attracts people away from traditional pubs.
@@Chris-yb6eh if your not from lodge lane area mate you wouldn’t understand… everything is Muslim and halal now. Everything that closes down then opens up again as something with an Arabic sign. That IS cultural change!
Depends what the poster means by cultural change. I think I can guess. It has played some part but not as much as the reasons you mention, and other reasons, that have impacted on pubs and forced them to close.
Its why a lot ov older people are lonely because the pubs shut and social interaction has stoped for a lot ov them .there making them prisoners in thete own home.the cultures are changing and pushing ours out in my eyes.
That and you get families want to be more involved with the kids there days , family's do alot more now , the weekend ain't just centred around the pub
The smoking ban was one of the reasons , but the constant taxing of drink is the death knell. Here in Ireland it's the same. Middle class politicians putting extortionate taxes on the pub trade has killed it.
@@jinkylarsson2869 Many reasons, but I think supermarkets and convenience stores selling alcohol cheap and 24/7 has had the biggest impact, that and the price of a pint in a pub.
Brilliant video again Billy. Keep up the good work mate 👍🏻😁 Drive past the old roan weekly & used to drink in it years ago, can’t believe how bad it is inside! Really sad, looks like it will eventually collapse before it’s demolished, sad to see these once great establishments buzzing with people, stories, tales, friends & memories being made… now they are disappearing…😢
Why doesn't our useless Mayor do something about all this? i can still name every Pub that stood on Wavertree road! there was one on nearly every corner they moved everyone out of the area in the 70s to Netherley and Kirkby and even Runcorn and Skem
@@magnuswalker7957 I agree why do we keep voting them in? I reckon Frank Carlyle would make a great mayor he's passionate about Liverpool and it's history and a true Scouser
I grew up from 1972/79 in the Old Fort Prescott Street. Watched the hospital being built now I'm watching it get knocked down. I remember all the pubs in the area. The 2 Gregsons Wells, The Critereon, The Dart, The Coach and Horses, The Prince of Wales, The Windsor The Falkland Arms. And Tommy Lees😂😂😂
Hi Billy I met some friends and had a drink in the globe city centre. Lots of beautiful woodwork. First time in there. I couldn't believe how small it was. Saw a plaque apparently it was the place were the first CAMRA beer festival started in 1970's . Also it won an award for the best local community pub. You can't go anywhere without someone knowing you.
Little bit of trivia for you budd, the Roscoe Head Pub , Liverpool City centre is the only Merseyside pub to ever appear in every CAMRA nomination Awards since its inception in 1971
It's the same in Scotland bill mate empty pubs everywhere, watched the movie bout yi mate my path is identical except I was in jail in change mai good to see you come out the other side mate
They would rather fund a phoney war than fix/support our own city’s absolutely disgusting am fae Glasgow & as you seen that’s in disrepair aswell Tc 🙏🏻
Good video. Who doesn’t love Joe! Let’s be honest habits have changed from my old man’s days when every single one of these pubs would have been ram packed most nights. Nowadays people will blow all their weekend money on beak and sit off at house parties, or (even sadder) just do drugs on their own
the problem is mate - nobody can really afford to go out and pay the rates now to drink out either... £5.40 a pint now in most boozers or you can get 8 cans for about £8.
@@s1dew1nd3r4 Some can, plenty of people willing to pay 7 or 8 quid for a can of syrups and flavourings AKA as Craft Beer. I think what you find now since Thatcher is a 2 tier working class, those that did okay out of the chaos and those that where thrown under a bus, unemployed and or on low incomes, the latter being the type that used to keep these unpretentious old school boozers going.
@@ronniechambers2555 yeah that could be a valid point (two tier working class) but you cannot deny that paying almost £6 a pint even for someone who "can afford it" when you can pick up X amount of cans for the same price in a shop has helped with the demise - its simple maths.
Me old fella used to booze regularly in the Glass House in the late 60s when we lived on Edge Lane Drive. So sad to see it like this. A sign of the times.
Pubs are closing at a phenomenal rate now not just Liverpool but up and down the country with the cost of living crisis prices for a pint are going up the pub is expensive now most people go to Wetherspoons for a cheap pint
I was born in Maddox St. Went to Broadgreen infants school in the background and love the fact that you are documenting it Bill. Ange & Matty deserve a mention
Can’t believe what has happened to the Liverpool I was brought up in, I left in 1985. And move to a Essex but it never felt like home. Back in Liverpool I managed the bridge inn now B+M was devastated last time I passed it and it was a building site. Great city but can’t see a way back but the is always hope
Lived in Marmaduke street for years before we moved down the road to Janet street until they built the new houses along wavertree road and edge lane my granddads local was the weighing machine well over a hundred years old that place. Loved it around there when I was a kid great memories growing up there had mates on Chatsworth estate those were the days . Nice one for this Billy keep up the great work 👍👍
The same in Dublin, nearly every place in GB has a twin in Ireland for obvious reasons. It feels like weve all been abandoned. The Facade looks good but the real story is not told. The marginalised are still marginalised. There's a war looming in Europe and call up is not far away.✌️☘️
Hiya Billy, I found your channel yesterday (20/06/24) and I've subscribed to your channel, I've already subscribed to KC Imageworks and Mr. Drone, you do some good vlogs, its getting like this in Whitehaven with abandoned pubs and business's, its like a ghost town now, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England
Going into town these days is more about bars than clubs for ALL ages. The old days of local pub-crawling before going to a club in town are long gone. It's far easier these days to just go into town and crawl around the free-admission bars, than sit in the one dump still open locally before heading to town. The best time to own a boozer in Liverpool was the 70's and 80's when the clientele had nothing better to do than get bladdered, because there was fk all better to do.
Its all cars, big roads with big dome shopping centres, but with no buses for the oaps means no drinking establishments... With weed becoming cheaper than ale n ciggies...your best nights out now, is a night out at home with your feet up watching the telly.
I live by the glass house and it’s been left for a while like that and there’s scruffs from nearby using it as a rubbish dump now and they’re plonking their household crap in the Cunningham Road side of the pub. Bad Tramps some people.
i grew up in Botanic rd Edge Hill and it breaks my heart to see The Botanic Pub gone and Botanic Park looking neglected and over grown! even The Durning has closed now that was the last Pub on Wavertree rd. The Top bents is still open but not very often. i was in the Boundary a couple of weeks ago on a Sat night it was rammed! good to see great music as well top DJ . glad something is finally getting done to Littlewoods but why knock the Tower down?
Round the corner from mine ! There was work going on in the Glass House last year as you can see still has bin chute in window, work just stopped? as it does. 👍
Used to get a lock in back in the day in the Denbigh castle and St Ann's vault in St Ann's Street by the old bill shop following chelsea in the 80s . Sound people curtains drawn lights turned down box on 😂
If someone had of said 20 years ago most pubs will be closed I would have said no chance. Unbelievable the way it is now no local pubs. How has this happened
Amongst many reasons , the demise of industry, and health and safety legislation that put the kibosh on workers going for a lunchtime pint, in fear of getting sacked, sued or not able to get compensation if injured at work in the afternoon etc.
This would be a good opportunity for the scallywag in the area to become entrepreneurs and invest in the community where they made their money. A way of giving back to a place where they took so much from.✌️☘️🇮🇪
Used to have many great times in the Glass House buzzin in the 80s boss jukie last bev had in there was about 3 years ago sad to see it boarded up now ......👍Billy
Culture has changed as well. Kids don't bother, or aren't bothered about the ale. They are way more health conscious (hence the juice bars, vegan restaurant splurge). Yes, left to rot - but more likely to be down to cultural change than anything else.
Supposed to be turning the Glass House into a B&B billy which will do so well as it’s on the edge of the city and the end of the M62 so will be good for when the football and other live sports events or music events are on in the city
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Used to have a pint in the old roan before we went the paradox up the road.Sports direct now..when the ale went to pricey an the smoking ban happened it closed down all the old school boozers.Too costly to run..
When I was a kid I was always in them pubs with my old fella. He had a few of them pubs on Wavo years ago. Id just look for a jag outside and knew were he was and who he was with. He had the old coffee house over the road from the weighing machine before it burnt down. Those were the days playing pool and on the fruities.
Just looked up Old Swan and the Technical College I went to in Old Swan has been knocked down and there is a Aldi in it's place, but the Queens Arms on Warbreck Moor near where I lived as a kid is still there but is now the Queens not the Queens Arms,.
Heartbreaking to see so many pubs shutting down all over the country,the history of this country being eroded by mass immigration and government after government taxing every fucking thing to the max.should be a law introduced not allowing the closure of pubs{places of worship}
Remember the Chatham locally known as the catholic house next door to St Annes church? Full of local characters back in the 90s. Now student accommodation.
The death of the British pub is obvious, it is very difficult for pubs to turn a profit, breweries want too much profit line and force landlords 59 charge 3 4 or 5 quid a pint, weigh up the options and alot of people go to new shiny corner shops (mostly staffed by certain people,) the good days are gone, work on yourself, because you are valued ✌️
everyone that will meet joe will support him as he is class so pure he is no badness in him at all n in this Shitty world unfortunately its rare to come across people pure like that these days keep being you Joey matey One 💙 👍🏽
Nobody uses local pubs anymore. Credit crunch, smoking ban and all that. I'm from Stoke, visited Liverpool, 4 weekends ago for my little bros stag do. Gets married in another 2 weeks. TBH I was shocked how much of Liverpool, is busy especially in the city center. Visit Stoke, the boozers in the city center are empty on a Friday/Saturday.
Hi Billy, thanks for your vid mate. I really enjoyed it and found it very interesting!. It got me thinking why Billy?. The smoking ban 🚭 which came in back in 2007 was the worst thing to happen to pubs because loads of people stopped going to pubs because of it!. Then more recently COVID lockdowns and the cost of living really was the last straw for alot of pubs who went out of business. Also people's habits changed, they started to buy a 4 pack of lagers and bottles of wine from the supermarkets, which is also alot cheaper. All this finished alot of pubs off. The pubs which remain are mostly empty during the week now Billy, alot of them survive because of the money they make on a Friday and Saturday night. The rest of the time they're practically empty. It's such a shame mate. Anyway Billy, Thanks again for your vid. John. 🤔👍
Same everywere Birkenhead hard to find a pub .loads shut down .smoking ban price of ale .olders scared to drink local because of rats sad state .used to pop bow arra ur side years ago and yew tree
My Local which is a working - class pub on Merseyside is now charging £4.20p for a pint of John Smiths. Hence to say no one is going in there. Just pure greed by the landlord yet again. Electric /Gas bill have come down, so have Rates. People are not going to pay Scandinavian prices for a beer at the Local. Apparently he's charging £5.80 for a Lager !
All the legendary pubs in Huyton are gone except for the Huyton Park on St John's estate..The Eagle and Child The Quiet Man , The Bluebell , The Hillside , The Bow and Arrow , The Dovey all gone replaced by flats and care homes..The characters the football teams the local community spirit all gone it's a shame.
