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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Lancashire => Topic started by: Rubyroo on Monday 16 February 09 23:57 GMT (UK)
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Does anyone have an old photographs of the Hanover Hotel anything up to the 1970s would be of interest. Would love to have some for our family records.
Many thanks
Sam
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I tried a search for old post cards Hanover hotel but nothing found. You could contact the city library they should have some
Celia
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Hi, some pictures of Hanover Street on www.20thcenturyimages.co.uk, Johnnie
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The Hanover Hotel is still a very popular local `haunt` here in Liverpool...why not ring them and ask them if they have any old photos....if they have and you need someone to photograph them,let me know...I`ll go and have a pint there and use my mobile phone to photograph them and then forward them to you...just google Hanover Hotel Liverpool....good luck...allan ;)
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Many thanks for you help peeps.
Garstonite are you hoping that I say I need something photographing so you can have that pint lol.
Lost count of how many pints I had there - was brought up behind the bar! Not sure the current owners have any, I know that we have given them some old memorablia though that they were going to put in a display case but still kept a few things for myself, we also gave them a run down on some of the history from when our family had it.
I just asked if anyone had any photos on here on the off chance.
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Not a good photograph but perhaps will suffice until someone finds one better.
http://www.hanover-hotel.co.uk/
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Rubyroo...were you there when Paul Weller walked in with an acoustic guitar and asked if he could play a few songs for free...and the manager said OK...but didn`t know who Paul Weller was...he played for 2 hrs and the place was heaving...about 6 years ago...it turned out Weller was doing the Pop Prom on the dock and used it as a practice session ... ;).allan ;)
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Just a bit of trivia ... but in 1825 ... at 62 Hanover Street a man named Robert Williamson lived there and I believe he was the Swedish Consul !! ::)
I love this site !!!!!!!!!
http://liverpool-1825.tripod.com/
Annie :)
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good morning Annie...ur up early...yes its a great site....annie do you use www.yoliverpool.co.uk ??
I would have thought someone on this site may have some photos for Rubyroo....by the way...7 year old grandson who is staying at nanny and grandads got me up at 5am...little ***...lol...allan :D
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Hi Allan - long time no see ! :)
Just remember you'll be able to send the little *** home soon ;D ;D ;D
Yes to Yoliverpool ! I love Ged Fagan !!
Maybe we could try his site ... or even Dave Wood !!
Annie :)
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Morning Everyone
I really do appreciate all your help, what I am wanting to do is put together a history of the Hanover (also Blaklers) and this is just the start of my research!
Allan - send your grandson up here and I will send my Labrador down to you .... very fair swap lol
I have been on Yoliverpool but not asked about photos but will - never thought about it. It was only when I came across this website that I thought it would be nice to get some old picture of the Hanover and find a little more out about the history of the place.
For those that are interested here is where my family fitted in to the history of the Hanover....happy reading!
62 Hanover Street was the town house or a Mr Earle, a prosperous Liverpool merchant and ship owner. It is one of possibly only two remaining houses in the city built at an angle to the street so that the merchants who resided there could see what ships were arriving at the port without the inconvenience of leaving their houses.
We do not know when the house was converted into a hotel, but in about 1923 Mrs Margaret Blackler, the wife of Richard Blackler the founder of Blacklers store in Elliot Street, purchased the hotel as a going concern for Mrs Child’s Husband James who was a Liverpool dentist. Apparently he was a bit of a philanderer and was ejected from the family house and lived in Room 17 at the hotel instead. He tried to run the hotel from there but without a great deal of success. On Mr Child’s death Mrs Child approached her daughter, May McMillan to see whether her husband would agree to take over the management of the hotel. At the time John McMillan was the Traffic Manager for P & O Shipping in Liverpool and he did manage to get the Hotel running efficiently but was hampered by Mrs Child continually breathing down his neck. He was not allowed to spend money on refurbishment until 1951 for the Festival of Britain when the Festival Cocktail bar and the Lounge Bar were created.
Mrs Child died in 1962 leaving the hotel to her daughter May McMillan. John McMillan died in 1966 leaving his widow to struggle on with running the hotel with the help of accountants. After a year Ian McMillan took over the management of the hotel and switched the emphasis from the accommodation and food sales to bar sales. He created four new bars, the Cavalry Bar in the cellar, the Shire Bar on the right as you entered the hotel, and the Tartan Bar on the left where the reception area and stairs now are and finally the Portcullis Bar. Geoffrey Stringer was the designer and panelling taken from Oxford colleges was used for the woodwork. During the 60’s and 70’s they were without doubt the most popular watering hotels in Liverpool. Ian McMillan says that Friday and Saturday nights where memorable occasions.
In 1970 Mrs May McMillan died and Ian & Maureen McMillan and their family (daughters Samantha (thats me!) and Fiona) went to live in Painswick in Gloucestershire. Soon after Ian McMillan decided to put the hotel up for sale and move his family to the Channel Islands. Mrs Egan the manageress ran the hotel for three years until it was sold to Ernie Williams the owner of the Lord Nelson Hotel.
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Rubyroo...were you there when Paul Weller walked in with an acoustic guitar and asked if he could play a few songs for free...and the manager said OK...but didn`t know who Paul Weller was...he played for 2 hrs and the place was heaving...about 6 years ago...it turned out Weller was doing the Pop Prom on the dock and used it as a practice session ... .allan
No Allan I wasn't - my father sold the hotel in the early 1970s, would have been fabulous to see though.
The Spinners often used to come and have a few drinks in the hotel when I was there though. I kept in touch with Cliff Hall for many years but he sadly passed away a few years ago.
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fell out of the Tartan bar many a time from the age of FIFTEEN...LOL...great boozer....used to drink draught bass there and opposite in the "old post office...allan... ;D
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Sounds like you started drinking in the Tartan bar just before I was born lol.
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It would have been very difficult to see any ships arriving from Hanover Street, its a heck of a walk to the River in any direction.
The Customs House would have been an obstruction as would all the warehouses and ships chandlers that were down there as well.
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I agree it would have been difficult to see the river as there's a bit of an incline and then of course there's a small matter of a Castle !!!
I also fell out of the Hanover, my first time under the influence aged 15 also !! Johnnie (first pay day)......