In its heyday, the Bramley Moore pub opposite the dock that shares its name used to be swamped by dozens of thirsty workers. If Everton’s dream of a £350million new stadium at the same site is realised, those boom times could return.
Decades of decline have hit the area and those halcyon days are a distant memory, with the famously long bar cut in half to allow space for a kitchen.
‘We might have to bring the long bar back,’ the landlady’s daughter says as she serves the one fluorescent-jacketed lunchtime punter in the place.
‘It’s all anyone is talking about and it would be good for business!