The Richmond, formally listed as The Richmond Hotel, but it’s just 'Richmond Pub' on the signage. Narrow on the inside, overlapping the street on the outside, the Richmond feels like it occupies more space than it physically owns. Clutching leech-like to the corner of a building, the interior is little more than a corridor dominated by the slick, brass-tapped bar. This small, single-roomed pub is at the ground floor level of a family-run city centre hotel at 32 Williamson Street but there are several pavement tables that increase the space available for customers. It is a tiny gem that has friendly staff and customers and serves an excellent pint of real ale. The rather good decor includes a couple of fine chandeliers and some stylish curtains and the only thing wrong with this great pub is that it is quite small inside and therefore almost always crowded. It has been a lively family-run pub in a pedestrianised shopping area for a long time now, offering up to three guest ales from local and regional breweries. More than 50 malt whiskys are usually available, sports fixtures are shown and there are occasional beer festivals and 'meet the brewer' events.
Formally a Bass house, the original Bass mirror remains and the pub sign, simply saying 'Richmond Pub', depicts World War ll veteran Paddy Golden, a much missed regular and one of the first to land on the Normandy beaches. The Richmond was a happy home from home for this popular man about town whose photograph has adorned the pub since it was refurbished in April 2012: the late, much-missed regular Paddy Golden. Pub manager Gavin Heard, whose wife Carla is the licensee, explains: "Paddy used to say 'Man and boy I’ve drunk here'. He died before we got the chance to put his photograph up, but he knew it was going to happen."
see also:- http://www.thefootballvoice.com/2026/01/liverpool-pub-crawl-white-star.html
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