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132 Central Hotel 10 Clifton Crescent

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In the 60s this hotel bar had a lovely manageress called Eve who at the time was getting on, well com,pared to me she was!

Then one evening I went in and she had an assistant who, I have to say was absolutely gorgeous. At that time I freqented many of the pubs down town. But none of them had a barmaid as beautiful as she was. However, every evening as the bar was shutting her boyfriend or partner came to take her home. He had 2 alsations on leads. This went on for a couple of weeks or so. Then one night I and a friend were in the bar and asked Eve where her barmaid was. Oh she won't be coming in anymore. Why? we asked. She hung herself last night. We were stunned by this. There was a reason for it which I will only say is implicit in what I have written.

Nice to see the old place still standing.I was married in Rock Ferry in May 1960 and we spent our first night at the Central,it seemed quite posh to us.Our marriage lasted 47yrs.until my wife died 3yrs. ago.God Rest Her Soul

For sale Price £200,000.00 I can't believe it's that price
Someone will get a bargain - 36 bedrooms
or have I naively misread this

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Public House Development Opportunity.
Former Public House with 36 bedrooms.
Extending to approx. 2,052.84 sq m (22,097 sq ft).
Total site area 0.17 hectares (0.43 acres).
Fronting Borough Road (A552) opposite Birkenhead Central Station.
Property type Hotels, Pubs/Bars/Clubs, Other, Licensed & Leisure, Other Property Types & Opportunities
Tenure For Sale Freehold
Size

2052.84 Sq M

Price £200,000.00
Location

10-12 Clifton Crescent, CH41 2QH

Worth the council buying it for use as a homeless shelter or something like that

If the council bought it it would spontaneously combust!

It might be cheap but I wonder how much repair needs doing, and what will the buyer use it for?

Looks like Degs is booking his room already!

The Central Hotel ground floor gutted by an arson attack last night.

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Central Hotel on fire again tonight.

Building next to the Central Hotel was on fire earlier, big response from Fire Brigade.

Can't understand how it was allowed to get in the state it now is.
Search youtube "Central hotel" to see. It shocks me.
I've always thought the council could have taken it over and made some use of it maybe as temporary acccommadation or similar.

The 1939 register show 8 staff (live in) the manager was Charles E Lees, son of Luke Lees jnr, son of Luke Lees, Bedford Hotel.

There was also earlier a Central Hotel, 15 Grange Rd.

In 1885 ish there was shares on offer, 4,000 shares at £5 each to build a Grand Central Hotel in Argyle St adjoining the Grand Central Restaurant. The plan was to have a Hotel and Stables with access from Henry St. I don't think it took off.