Forums Forums Wirral History : Chasing the Past Wirral Pubs Past & Present 745 Stanley Arms 76 Borough Rd/ Victoria Rd Seacom

Found it in the 1982 phone book, then that's it. haven't got the 83, its not in the 84.

I thought it may have been a Post Office not a Pub?.

Did the Stanley have a mosaic of a Higsons Liver Bird on the floor outside the front door? I seem to remember it. The shop before the Stanley, with the jigger between them, was the doll's hospital if I'm not mistaken.

Little bit further up was the hospital, 76 was the stanley arms and 82 was the dolls hospital.

here is a map of the bowling green, with another pub listed just to the right in Brighton Street 1875

On the 1836-51 Tithe Maps, the complete L shape plot of land (plot No. 57) is recorded as being owned and occupied by Thomas Odell, and the plot name id 'The Stanley Arms Hotel' and includes the Bowling Green. It is immediately recognised by the angle that the building makes with the road.

Meanwhile, plot No. 56, the two premises to the west of the hotel, beyond the passage in the above map, are owned by Thomas Affleck and occupied by Alice Dorothy Darby & Margaret Dean, and described as 'Two Houses Gardens and Yards'.

Plot 58, to the east of the hotel, was owned by John Mawdsley and occupied by John Brown & John Roberts, with the property described as 'House Shop Cottages and Yard'.

What we need now is a street directory for the lower end of Brighton St. to help identify the pub by the BM 49.6 mark, and to see if there was one, or if it was a Post Office, on the corner of Tabor St - something that was raised earlier in this post.

And I'd like to find the map I saw that indicated that at one time the pub and Hotel may have been seperate.

Sure looks like PO and not PH when blown up.

1938

1911

The doorway on the left is not the Stanley Arms but the shop next to it as seen in this photo , both pics show the preceding properties outlined in red & then blue , the top pic shows the Stanley outlined in yellow .

Think i may of solved the pub problem in Brighton Street.
Listed as being the victualler for the Brighton Hotel.