Sitting on the dock of the bay is The Pumphouse Inn on
Liverpool’s Historic Albert Docks. From a distance, its shape resembles an old
church; but this nineteenth-century building was actually the first steam
hydraulic system that served the dockyard. Today it’s a placed pub owned by Greene
King for the tourist trade; serving pub food rather than a selection of drinks.
It offers views of the dockyard in its historic setting. And it plainly works
as a man came in to complain about the outside table service; evidently he doesn’t
use pubs often. But novel for Greene King was Marmalade on Toast golden bitter
with a twist of orange. The bar staff seemed very rushed to serve us on a
normal Friday afternoon; and didn’t seem prepared at all for the extra visitors
due into the city that weekend. Once the harassed bar staff had finally found
our Cask Marque certificate; we managed to find a corner table upstairs to plan
our next stop.
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