Iconic LIVERPOOL PUBS Abandoned, NEGLECTED and left to ROT!!

[@JacquelineIthell-t7s]

The Local for a lot of people especially lonely older people was like a second home , and people looked out for them

[@pooleywooley]

I still have a photo of my mum and dad having a drink in The Glasshouse, either during WWII when dad was on leave from the Navy or just after. This and The Old Omnibus were their locals. These old pubs hold a lot of history and it makes me sad to see them go.

[@brendanmallon1479]

Thank you Billy for taking the effort to get out there and show and share ❤

[@anthonyb5139]

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!

[@Theoriginalbigbrillo]

Buy that for a Dollar 👍👍

[@Chris-yb6eh]

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.

[@Ian-2022]

That Anderson fella responsible for lot of them fires I bet, I heard he had something to do with Littlewoods one 😂

[@anthonyb5139]

@@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!

[@ronniechambers2555]

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.

[@maysloman5313]

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.

[@Theoriginalbigbrillo]

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

[@1984petrus1]

Great to see you getting the love from your own people

[@garry1450]

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

[@davidmckay2386]

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.

[@thechunkyone7118]

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

[@Theoriginalbigbrillo]

@@thechunkyone7118 Fair point , but a lot of family friendly pubs did start to spring up in the mid to late 90,s if my memory serves me right 🤔🤔

[@alanwann9318]

British ways are being removed along with recreation perhaps we are wise to the system CIC (criminals in charge) we are being replaced by brain washed idol worshippers.

[@paulhugo2180]

@@thechunkyone7118 ye, really! What are them families doing? On their phone or computer , they ain't doing shit pal.

[@milesfielding6584]

I think its heartbreaking to see all these pubs lying derelict and more closing every day. All the life that went on in them over the years. So sad.

[@pleasantville4529]

That was my first thought. I'm sure many of our parents, and grandparents frequented these boozers. All that history, now gone forever.

[@Johnmillard365]

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 👍👍

[@Tired238]

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

[@Ology3121]

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😂😂😂

[@JayEFC1969]

Lived in the Criterion 69-76

[@Ology3121]

​@JayEFC1969 well we use to be friends and come round to your pub. Do you remember the twins Don and Keith from the Old Fort?.🍺🍺🍺👍

[@JayEFC1969]

@Ology3121 You're probably thinking of my cousin Michael whose parents had the pub around 1977.

[@TampaBay-ir2wp]

Keep voting in your Labour council la’ - that’s worked out so well for you.

[@ROUTEPLANNERPAUL]

Billy,, ive mentioned your channel in my video ,, cheers for the glasgow videos

[@garyrigby21]

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?

[@jaydre5787]

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 🙏🏻

[@markjames9487]

Them Victoria tiles. Stunning. Went in the Boundary about 30 years ago.

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

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.

[@chebailey950]

Was a boss pub the glass house. I grew up there in that road behind you. Maddocks Street. I pinch a Brand New stool from there when it was renovated in the 80s. Still got it 😂..

[@Choppy698]

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

[@Stormy471]

Excellent video as always Mate is Wayne Rooney Morphing into Billy Moore❤😊

[@TraitorVek]

Botanic Road - Lovely Looking old Building There! Glad to see it being Preserved. - "Is that You Billy?" :)

[@davidregan8152]

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

[@griswald7156]

The little woods tower looks like mannings in Felixstowe….which is a lovely thriving port…the little woods tower could have been another beach street….

[@gary1961]

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.

[@vonroon23]

I only went into the Glasshouse once but it had a fantastic wood-panelled interior. A terrible loss. Some of it down to Covid.

[@alanplant2546]

Used to play football in front of the littlewoods building back in the early 70s

[@DaveCoakley]

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

[@s1dew1nd3r4]

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.

[@ronniechambers2555]

@@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.

[@s1dew1nd3r4]

@@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.

[@alex007skem]

loads of pubs on Scottie road gone as well Bill,heart of the community some of them.

[@Theoriginalbigbrillo]

None left Boss 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@alanplant2546]

All those pubs on lodge lane and smithdown rd were jam packed when I used to walk back from school back in the early 70s the school was Arundel comp

[@sslightningbolts4784]

My dads local , the Glass house . He hasn't been to another pub since they shut it down .

[@kenjewell5619]

I remember well as a kid, with my dear dad there were pubs on every corner of the dock road, all full too. All gone now of course.

[@geoffrussell2471]

Brought up there Maddock St 1972 it used to have revolving doors

[@eugenecato3693]

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

[@chebailey950]

That private land was where we had our bommies ever 5th of November. There was blocks of flats around there then, a bingo hall and a club. The las Vegas..

[@barrymac4431]

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

[@OBICLARKEKENOBI]

The Glasshouse was open until 2021 (except for the pandemic) it closed due to local residents opposing the renewal of a licence

[@Signaman-z9d]

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.✌️☘️

[@PAB86]

Smoking ban killed most of these boozers off, couldn't beat ya local no matter how bad it looked or was lol

[@jinkylarsson2869]

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.

[@ronniechambers2555]

@@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.

[@Teepeeformybumholio]

Smoking covered up punters bo and farts....

[@mci6830]

Many factors, but that was a big one. I noticed that.

[@Signaman-z9d]

Totally agree smoking ban fucked it up for us two.✌️☘️

[@GaryJohnson-ns9fu]

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..

[@michaelwalsh5758]

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 😂

[@cliffrobinson-t2l]

councils are hard work Billy when it comes to change of planning use, unless there is something in it for them

[@BobAt101]

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,.

[@spiritofthebluesefc8177]

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

[@ACNC1]

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.

[@stevescott6879]

Same here in Kent drink indoors now used to go out every night but paying 5:50 for a pint of fosters is a joke if I do go out it's in Wetherspoon

[@Signaman-z9d]

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.✌️☘️🇮🇪

[@dreddykrugernew]

Pubs shouldnt have to pay lease rates to the government, they are a community meeting place and thus should be exempt from such taxes.

[@pjohnwilliams6941]

I remember all the pubs on scotty back in the day, theres hardly any now

[@quietman3234]

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.

[@worldVHS]

Loved this

[@stewartmckeand6099]

That GP surgery at the top of parly had a guy called Dr Woolfman!

[@ZenThomas-hm6pt]

Alright Bill hope all is well ☘️✌🏻peace✌🏻☘️🎭

[@normski32]

It’s a real shame our history dissipating like this 😢

[@benwinter2420]

The bankers big are mafia Arabs . . the special ones tribes supposed saved from oven . . not our kin & trying a play actual cull of west

[@Lynnimod]

The young ones go to the latest bars, and the older generation that used to go the pub ,can't afford to go anymore.

[@carld9451]

The smoking ban and the price of the ale has seen the local pubs off not just in Liverpool but up and down the country

[@Theoriginalbigbrillo]

Smashed it Lar 🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫

[@garyrigby21]

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

[@Ian-2022]

I'd heard he did, rumors have it the Anderson fella had a hand in most of them fires and the Littlewoods one.

[@magnuswalker7957]

Useless mayors have been the bain of Liverpool for decades.

[@garyrigby21]

@@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

[@leebiker1488]

Hi can you do any Sheffield videos mate much appreciate it

[@allkindsofgainz6988]

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.

[@OfficialDixonMayaz]

Is right I live in the swan. The glasshouse used to be all boarded up but kids must’ve got in still

[@davet9900]

councils charge vast and crippling amounts of tax. add this to regulations that don't need to be.

[@neilmoore2903]

Billy your podcasts are brilliant m8 im a Geordie who worked in Liverpool for years

[@criartoros]

Sad to see all these community pubs closed down. The Merton in Bootle closed down now to

[@roblamble1519]

The land at the rear of the glass house used to be a bowling green !!

[@andybiggy]

alreeet billy lad ... how thee doing.. im sure i was locked up with thee in hindley back in 90s.. could of been werrinon house or stoke heath but deffo been on same wing has the somewere

[@johnmiller1300]

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

[@BiffTannen-lo3gf]

Social engineering

[@ronniechambers2555]

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.

[@nemesisc8341]

The boundary looks like a boss pub proper old school

[@davesmith2413]

Too many good Boozers have gone now Billy it's the same here in seacombe and wallasey in general has lost loads . Much love to you Joe and judder ❤ X

[@fredgiles5768]

The Boundary,my late fathers local.

[@Johnjones0151]

I was on remand with Jimmy Murphy and heron and then for the shooting at the thatched pub 2003 they were on remand in HMP walton

[@theallornothingpodcastwith4442]

That was the Thatched Pub in Wavertree

[@Johnjones0151]

@@theallornothingpodcastwith4442 yes m8 got the pub mixed up lol

[@Theoriginalbigbrillo]

@einsteines 😂😂😂😂😂

[@DianeBonner-g3d]

Reminds of the old cabbage nerthton flats know and not nice ones I expect same again in the future shame really

[@chebailey950]

I went to that little School there aswell, when it was Broadgreen infants.

[@davidedwards7835]

fountains abbey,on walton road,bought by chinese I think years ago and just left,with no developement

[@munichmunich5868]

Yet again its good

[@johnweaver5321]

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. 🤔👍

[@marcus3060]

Billy made it on to tv talk speacial!!

[@Allegedly2right]

Sorry to hear that most will catch fire as usual.

[@davegonnaway6007]

Used to drink in the boundary now and then about 25 to 30 yrs ago play pool and that was alright..

[@mci6830]

Sad to see. Same in all cities. Very Expensive to drink nowadays . Its not always cost so much , relative to an average wage has it ?

[@JimBow-d2y]

Around 29 pubs close down every week in Britain, such a shame.

[@wow1221]

All by design. They want control. Some of the strongest and patriotic people are devolved in those surroundings. The establishment can't have that.

[@michaelakinshinroju2567]

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 💙 👍🏽

[@williamroberts7919]

Not just a pub its a focal point , history, where we meet, and their being destroyed by pubco's and spiv's.

[@InmyHumbleOpiniontube]

What about the throssels nest or Dillans pub or Dylans pub? Both in and around the Scotland road and Wilbraham streets area?

[@InmyHumbleOpiniontube]

Thanks Billy! Massive fan from a far,born on scottie and now living in CANADA 🇨🇦 east of Toronto

[@griswald7156]

There’s a lot of mock Tudor in Chester….

[@debut71]

so surreal walking inside the old roan pub now

[@GravelGorauGwynedd]

Allegedly, Bet Lynch from Corrie was based on the headbarlady, Angie who ruled the Glasshouse for over 30 years!

[@davidmckay2386]

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

[@Redman-zf6zd]

Alright bill do you ever remember the easby pub on the easby estate in kirkdale?

[@colinblackshaw971]

Wasn't there a little hotel by the Glasshouse could be wrong

[@Lewis-wq8de]

It’s only town now where you get abit of atmosphere

[@arseface7792]

It's sad to see, there's only three boozers left in Speke now

[@Bigtimecharlie1349]

Can you take a tour of the places where they filmed shooters.

[@andrewbennett7756]

I drank there great pub the old Liverpool going fast the great glass house coped of a few times there

[@donalddorman17]

How did Glasgow compare to your hometown of Liverpool? Any similarities at all in the people?

[@theallornothingpodcastwith4442]

Yes Scouse and Glasgow are very similar

[@BillyBigTop]

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…😢

[@spookybaba]

Was that the Old Roan in Aintree, or not far away??

[@BillyBigTop]

@@spookybaba yes old roan in aintree

[@spookybaba]

@@BillyBigTop cheers, Mate. I had a guitar fixed by a Luther in a house nearby in 1999. It seemed very much alive then.

[@Gang-zy7lq]

Did see your vid on the start talk tv billy

[@RossGlass-bj2yu]

20% of people born after 2000 have never drank, and 8% of the population is muslim, that means 15 % of the UK doesn't drink. It won't last another 40 year.

[@QuickyA2011]

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.

[@DoktorHeinrichWoodman-ut5gf]

William why don't you do a Collab with Millie B?

[@andybowyer3602]

Used to score in the rob roy😮