http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/ Read the news and views of our Liverpool Daily Post columnists. en-gb http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2008/04/19/the-saddle-whitegate-drive-blackpool-64375-20787304/ Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2008/04/19/the-saddle-whitegate-drive-blackpool-64375-20787304/ FOR SOME, Blackpool never loses its magic especially – and perversely – when it’s out of season. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2008/04/12/the-great-liverpool-pub-crawl-64375-20763055/ Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:52:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2008/04/12/the-great-liverpool-pub-crawl-64375-20763055/ SINCE the Pub Column began in 2004, we've been banging on about how if you want to get to the real beating heart of what makes this place and its people tick you should visit its pubs. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2008/04/05/the-pollard-inn-willaston-wirral-64375-20722893/ Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2008/04/05/the-pollard-inn-willaston-wirral-64375-20722893/ AS YOU might expect, it being the eve of the clocks going forward and the start of British Summer Time, it was, as they say in politer terms, chucking it down. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2008/03/15/four-pence-tax-hike-on-beer-is-a-grievous-blow-to-brewing-industry-64375-20627072/ Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2008/03/15/four-pence-tax-hike-on-beer-is-a-grievous-blow-to-brewing-industry-64375-20627072/ SING along now: “Oh my Darlin’, oh my Darlin’, oh my Darlin’ smarmy swine, You have lost the plot forever, to commit a ghastly crime.” http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2008/02/23/the-crown-hotel-lime-street-liverpool-64375-20513661/ Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2008/02/23/the-crown-hotel-lime-street-liverpool-64375-20513661/ FIRST impressions are lasting impressions. Right? Right. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2008/02/16/2008-liverpool-beer-festival-64375-20483020/ Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2008/02/16/2008-liverpool-beer-festival-64375-20483020/ IN PAST columns, the traditional image of the male strain of the real ale drinker has come under the spotlight. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2008/02/09/the-heather-brow-pub-claughton-birkenhead-64375-20455235/ Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2008/02/09/the-heather-brow-pub-claughton-birkenhead-64375-20455235/ RECENTLY we found a great little local, the Heather Brow at Claughton in Birkenhead. It was blessed with a God’s Waiting Room. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2008/02/02/the-village-inn-aintree-village-64375-20427375/ Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2008/02/02/the-village-inn-aintree-village-64375-20427375/ Targeted by arsonists the previous Christmas, it later lost its licence. Local residents – who had come to vilify the once- popular local – even celebrated as a court backed the decision to keep it closed. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2008/01/26/the-heather-brow-claughton-birkenhead-64375-20397403/ Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2008/01/26/the-heather-brow-claughton-birkenhead-64375-20397403/ LADY Penelope of Pensby has become something of a little sniffer dog for the Pub Column, snuffling out undiscovered alehouse nuggets. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2007/12/15/the-baltic-fleet-wapping-liverpool-64375-20252619/ Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2007/12/15/the-baltic-fleet-wapping-liverpool-64375-20252619/ FOR all the unfinished building work and continual civic cock-ups, the Pub Column is becoming positively up-beat about the city’s prospects in the run-up to 2008 and this Capital of Culture malarkey. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2007/12/01/the-green-man-vauxhall-road-liverpool-64375-20187774/ Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2007/12/01/the-green-man-vauxhall-road-liverpool-64375-20187774/ IF YOU want to wallow in some alehouse nostalgia, dig out a copy of Freddy O’Connor’s A Pub On Every Corner. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2007/11/24/beer-festival-st-anthony-of-egypt-scotland-road-64375-20154060/ Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2007/11/24/beer-festival-st-anthony-of-egypt-scotland-road-64375-20154060/ IN THE atmospheric twilight of the cold, late autumn, there are parts of this city where the mind can have tricks played upon it as though footsteps have been taken through a time portal into the streets of old Liverpool. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2007/11/17/royal-court-philharmonic-hall-liverpool-64375-20119648/ Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2007/11/17/royal-court-philharmonic-hall-liverpool-64375-20119648/ TIME was when the required pint or three before seeing a performance of any kind in this city meant giving a theatre bar a very wide berth indeed. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2007/11/10/the-irby-mill-irby-greasby-64375-20088594/ Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2007/11/10/the-irby-mill-irby-greasby-64375-20088594/ THE Pub Column and Lady Penelope had been looking for a cosy pub where you can be tucked away with a perfect pint or a wee dram feeling safe and secure while outside the wind is howling through the trees and the rain battering the windowpanes. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2007/10/27/the-lake-west-kirby-64375-20016335/ Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2007/10/27/the-lake-west-kirby-64375-20016335/ TO QUOTE an old pop star pervert: Hallo, hallo it’s good to be back, it’s good to be back. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2007/09/29/the-white-horse-acrefield-road-woolton-64375-19865939/ Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2007/09/29/the-white-horse-acrefield-road-woolton-64375-19865939/ WHAT is it about the Childwall Fiveways roundabout that sends Yours Truly into a cold sweat? http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2007/09/01/friday-s-bar-at-the-adelphi-liverpool-64375-19718615/ Fri, 31 Aug 2007 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2007/09/01/friday-s-bar-at-the-adelphi-liverpool-64375-19718615/ THINGS don’t always go according to plan in the Pub Column. Yours Truly had arranged to meet Grantie of the Echo and his girlfriend Tugboat Cath at this week’s initial choice which, for the sake of all concerned, shall remain unnamed. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2007/08/25/the-baltic-fleet-wapping-liverpool-64375-19685277/ Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2007/08/25/the-baltic-fleet-wapping-liverpool-64375-19685277/ The Baltic Fleet alehouse opposite the waterfront is one of Liverpool’s greatest. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2007/08/18/old-post-office-pub-school-lane-liverpool-64375-19654479/ Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2007/08/18/old-post-office-pub-school-lane-liverpool-64375-19654479/ ‘WE APOLOGISE for any inconvenience caused.” This catch-all catchphrase on the Big Dig, sorry, on Lord Street, always brings a sardonic smile to the face. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2007/08/11/the-saddle-dale-street-liverpool-64375-19609472/ Fri, 10 Aug 2007 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/mike-chapple/2007/08/11/the-saddle-dale-street-liverpool-64375-19609472/ "BEEN there, done that one” could be the catchprase for this Pub Column on its three years-plus sojourn around our finest alehouses.