^Picture taken in 1960.

I've always presumed that this pub was the old 'Nags Head' on Rake Lane, Wallasey but the licensee of the Pub says it is not. John Humphreys, the licensee, asked regulars and all confirmed that its not the pub that once stood where Stanleys Cask stands today (Rake Lane). The pub being demolished and the new Nags Head being built a little further down.

In a book called "Wallasey From Old Photographs" it does have the same photo listed as the Nags Head on Rake Lane. All very confusing.

Anyone shed any light on it?

could it be the farmers arms in wallasey village

Its got a Nags head on the pub sign.

The general feeling is its a "Nags Head" in a totally different part of England! For years this picture has floated about and people have said its the old Nags Head on Rake Lane...but...could that be a mistake that has continued on for some years? Looking at the buildings next to the pub they don't fit what was there before!

It's a bobby dazzler!

I was going with that thinking as the design is similar. The building to the right would then be the Phoenix Cinema and the buildings to the left being demolished to make way for a car showroom. Without pictorial evidence I can't verify that thinking.

...but...there is this picture :-

Should of added The Farmers Arms modern day picture

Paul , I have a faint memory of a very similar type of pub up on Moreton Cross, years and years ago, when I was a kid. Haven't been up there for ages so don't know what the cross is like now.

That could be The Grange you are referring to?

https://www.wikiwirral.co.uk/forums...ange_47_Hoylake_Rd_Moret.html#Post289061

this looks like the pub at moreton cross to me too. the buildings surrounding it do no look like any in wallasey old or new.

The only one I can think of that even comes close to the design is the Plough Inn in Moreton



Will have to dig out some maps...

Hi Paul this is the royal oak in liscard. i remember it as a child. Hope this helps

i was going to say that too mate.

That's not the one Paul, I distinctly remember a pub with mock Tudor frontage, the missus remembers it too, it's just a bit hazy about the exact configuration of it. It's just that it was so impressive at the time. When we saw it we knew that the shore wasn't far away. Hopefully someone will come up with a solution. Even the candy twist chimney stacks are striking, a lovely building.

Bandy, your thinking of the Coach and horses on Moreton Cross or is it just the Coach.

is there still a Nags Head in Wallasey
if so any pics of it please

I can't see it being the Royal Oak as the shape just doesn't fit right. Unless the origianl Royal Oak was pulled down and the one pictured is the new one then it makes sense but the roof is completely different and so are the windows. I appareciate some windows can be knocked together but thats a lot of work.

The question therefore is..if it is the Oak then the one that is present in Liscard has to be a rebuilt one? I've never heard of the Oak being demolished as it was part of 'Dean's Terrace' which were built in 1782 and the Oak is the only surving part of it.

Hmm, food for thought!!

Perhaps this link might solve the problem?

http://www.chesterwalls.info/nagshead.html

Well done that man!! Huge thank you for solving the question.

Reckon so.

There are a few Royal Oaks on the Wirral maybe it's a completely different one like Neston or Bromborgh??

Just noticed along the CHESTER Nags Head it now has "built 1597, rebuilt 1914" written along the top of the building, it also has a rebuilt date of 1920 or 1980 (can't tell from photies), as well, guess it is "restored 1980" when Boots took it over.

Stanley's Cask is the old Nag's head. Whitbread's built the new one further down and transferred the licence at midnight as was the custom. They sold the old Nag's Head and were very concerned when it re opened as a pub. They had slipped up badly and not thought about this happening. They tried to take legal action but failed. The old Nag's Head had a public bar in the front. It had a huge gas lamp still fitted in the ceiling but not working right up until being sold. The site where the 'New Nag's Head' was built was previously occupied by prefabs.