Some of the most popular pubs in Liverpool have been around for more 200 years - with no signs of closing any time soon - and many still showcase original features from roaring fireplaces to stained glass windows.
Here we explore these unique and historic watering holes and delve into how they got their names, the famous people who have visited them and why they have continued to thrive when so many others have closed.
From Ye Hole in Ye Wall to the Roscoe Head, here are 17 of Liverpool’s oldest pubs which you should definitely visit if you love a proper local.
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17. Pogue Mahone, Seel Street
The town house building was constructed before 1805 and converted into a pub later in the 19th century. The birth place of W.H.Duncan, who became the first Medical Officer of Health in the country in 1848, it was once called Doctor Duncan’s. Now a traditional Irish pub with a wooden and bare-brick interior offering sourdough pizza, live entertainment and sports viewing. | Mlatham55, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons