At the beginning of the 19th century the small country village of Woolton, near Liverpool, boasted a population of less than 500 people and two taverns.
Their story opens a window into a bygone time, providing an insight in.
This book identifies where the lost Beer Houses once stood and what happened to them.
By the early 20th century they had mostly disappeared.
Fifty years later the population had exploded, as had the number of licensed houses, which in the 1870s numbered almost forty.
At the beginning of the 19th century the small country village of Woolton, near Liverpool, boasted a population of less than 500 people and two taverns