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Chairman’s Page
Dear Members and Readers Since the last edition of our magazine we have had a most glorious spring and an awful summer. I do hope it has not spoiled your holidays. As an extra treat the Club is having a “Day Out” in Blackpool on Tuesday 2nd October so that is something to look forward to. On behalf of your committee I wish you Good Health and Good Cheer Alf Bordessa
Red Lion Tavern drawn 1840 by artist Magenis, later to be worked up into a painting. The Red Lion was next door to the Trawler (see Stockpot Page 3) and a more “up market establishment” being much patronised by PSNC officers attending the nearby office in James Street for their end of voyage interview. Both pubs were in what was called Sea Brow; they were Georgian buildings with a big brick archway between them, possibly to allow a coach and horses through. This terrace of buildings was one of the gems of Liverpool Georgian heritage and stretched from James Street into Canning Place to South Castle Street. It was largely undamaged in the Blitz while all around was flattened. The City flattened it to make way for the Inner Ring Road that never got built. (The Trawler is just off the drawing to the left. There were two upended gun barrels either side of the arch to stop the coaches hitting the walls. The gun barrels were said to have been captured at the Battle of Waterloo.