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The Mersey Vaults Pub.

Does anybody remember where this pub was? It was somewhere in the side streets off Dock Road. Not to be confused with the Mersey Arms.

It may have been demolished by now.

99% sure that there has never been a "Mersey Vaults" on the Wirral, quite a few other Vaults, but not Mersey.

Mersey Vaults Mersey Hotel
not sure if Mersey Vaults became Mersey Hotel or vici versa the other way round
I've seen both names same address somewhere

the map is 1953/54 see street number
This is from 1916 street directory

google map

reckon there must be cellars under those spots where the pubs were
may have shaded in the wrong part for the vaults

may possibly have become the Commodore
same Lord Street/George Street unless it was on one of the other corners of that crossroads

Has the Royal Castle Hotel Hotel/California 2 New Chester Road
now been renamed as
Revolver
2 New Chester Road
Birkenhead

Yes Derek it is now called Revolver, I couldn't tell you when it changed though.

Ha Ha very funny!!!!!!!

not the commodore mate!

sorry mate it is deffo the commdore bud just searched map

Commodore was on the corner of Lord St/George St, entrance in George St. Excelent Bikers pub with some great bands on a Saturday.
Sadly missed now.

Birkenhead has lost some great drinking venues in the last couple of years paticularly in the town centre and the situation gets worse.
Its a shame to see many of these once great bulidings going to rack and ruin.



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It is a shame that they have closed, but some of them exist where there is no business anymore, particularly around the docks. Huge estates have been demolised, so these places exist quite literally in the middle of nowhere. Hardly the sorts of places you could imagine young couples going. I remember speaking to staff in the old English gent on Cleveland St, they asked our opinions on what they could do attract the younger clientele. "pick it and move it to the centre of town" was our answer.

I watched a similar decline of the Legion in Croxteth. Used to be heaving on a Sunday, queues going down the road, but as their members got old and stopped going, they didn't do nothing to attract new customers.

The smoking ban has had a lot to do with closures, but ultimately these places haven't moved with the times. I remember when I first took a job in a nightclub and the answer to decor was "just paint the place all black it hides anything". Like club owners could get away with that now.

growing up in birkenhead there seemed to be a pub on every corner.there used to be a lot more housing in birkenhead with till they reshaped the place and moved people out and demolished a lot of the town.these days its cheaper to go to the supermarket or offy and sit in watching the tv with all the channels people have these days. even the pubs by us arent that busy,if ale was cheaper more people might go out.