Photo-a-Day (Sunday, 29th September, 2024)
A Warm Welcome Awaits You
Perhaps because the only photographs we see from those times are in a faded shade of sepia many think of that era as being drab and colourless.
Personally I don't believe the Victorians weren't quite as somber as many people think, this floor looks warm, inviting and colourful.
Photo: Colin Traynor (iPhone)
I have read that this pub was fully refurbished last year.The walls look chipped maybe by prams/buggies by families using the beer garden?
Right get your coats on we will give it try cheers Colin.
That looks warm & as you say Colin...inviting. Also who ever was responsible for the paint colours chosen, is to be applauded.
This is the sort of thing that visitors to towns look for....but what does the outside look like, as inviting ?
Apologies for the contradictory oxymoron in the last sentence!
These things do grate on my senses.
How wonderful just an old traditional pub just like they should be there is not so many off them left they have closed or turned into something else. I hope it can keep its look for many years to come. We have not got a lot of things left this country.
Those tiles look as if they were laid yesterday.
I wonder if they’ve been covered up ..I think I have only been in there no more than a dozen times. I don’t remember seeing them really.
My choice of title for this photo just seemed to come naturally, then I have just zoomed in on that sign above the table at the far end!
Tidied up and painted many times over the years but it does look like a time capsule from the Victorian period.
It reminds me of some of those quaint pubs down the side streets in central London where it would probably cost £20 a pint.
Perfect floor for a Flash advert.
It looks Victorian/Edwardian and very warm and welcoming, and I must admit that my aspidistra and my "Players Navy Cut" pub mirror wouldn't look out of place in there!
Those pub stools are very well made and last forever, I'm sitting on one now as I type that came from my husband's local when it was shutting down.
Just sat in a restaurant in Southport and notice that my comment this morning seems to not to have appeared, so will try again.
Helen, there was a photograph of the outside on PAD, I think this was 25th February or there about.
PeterP I am sure I commented in February that it was due to be refurbished this year, if this happened I hope they did not change the character of the place, it looked fine to me.
John (W) name a date and time, I bet Irene and Veronica have their coats on and sat at a table before we get there.
I’ll pick up some pies on the-way.
PS most trains seem to be cancelled today, shocking. I think the drivers have pocketed their big pay rise and given us commuters a rude hand sign and flown off to Benidorm.
Colin. The Victorians generally (it was a long era) loved colour and decoration often extravagantly so especially in the Strawberry Hill Gothic revival style- Think St Pancras station, the Houses of Parliament etc. Indeed many of the Victorian arbiters of style eg John Ruskin absolutely hated the previous Georgian era architecture (which is now much loved) precisely because in their view it was far too plain and unornamented.
Irene I grew up about 100 yards away and in those days Players Navy cut were well in evidence not just the mirrors.
Carolaen, that's very true! I also have a 1959 calendar made out of Players Navy Cut cigarette packets and a little box made from 1950s Christmas Cards sewn together with silk thread. It seemed popular in the 1950s to make things like that; I remember having a little musical box made out of a tobacco tin which a mate of my Dad's made for me, and I also recall little paper dogs very cleverly made from cigarette packets.
Colin you couldn’t possibly have been to the Sapori Italian restaurant on Lord Street Southport today could you as we dined there a couple of weeks back?
John,it used to be our favourite as well.
Maureen isn’t it good there and a decent bottle of house red for £18.50 you cannot grumble at that price.
It was last year in June when we went there with in-laws from Cambridgeshire, lovely meal and staff. It was a warm sunny day so we had drinks outside Casablanca next door and I could not resist taking photo of the Humpty Go Cart mural on the wall.
I will send you a copy. Maureen I don’t think I have your email address, only Irene and Veronica’s.
Colin,it’s … cliff560@gmail.com.
John,it’s the fish and chips that drew moi..I just love Southport itself,always have done..did you know Bonaparte once stayed next to Lord street,there is a plaque on a wall that’s near
Lord street,he also loved the the set out of the street so had the idea of the whole of Paris boulevard fashioned on Lord Street.…one of my grandparents lived in Southport…I would love to live there myself.
Maureen I’ve just been reading about Napoleon who lived in Southport quite interesting 1838 Napoleon 111…….Napoleon Bonaparte who married Josephine died in 1821 but must be related.
John,I corrected myself but it seems to have gone walkies..it was Napoleons nephew that lived there for a while..
Maureen no problem.