The White Star at 2-4 Rainford Gardens is situated in an area of narrow streets between the shopping and commercial districts of Lord Street and Whitechapel, close to Mathew Street, the location of the famous Cavern Club. It was named after the famous White Star Line shipping company, which is remembered by a picture of the Titanic on the pub's sign.The history of the White Star has been traced back as far as the 1880s. A programme from the Empire Theatre dated 1887 features an advertisement for the White Star Carvery and Bar. The pub was almost the same as it is now, apart from; where the telephone is now there was once a dumb waiter; where the gents is now was the back yard; where the fruit machine now stands used to be the Gents toilets and upstairs, where the Ladies toilets now are, used to be the living accommodation. The pub’s history mirrors the shifts in society and culture over the years and a notable change happened in 1987 when they added Ladies toilets, which was a big deal for public places back then. There were a few pubs in city that did not allow ladies in on their own due to the amount of prostitutes that worked in the city from the end of the Second World War until the early 90s. Just after the war a chap called Mr Quinn bought about 5 pubs in the city, he never changed the names, but on all the front windows he had etched 'Quinns', since then all the real ale drinkers in Liverpool, and even the good beer guide, have called it the White Star (Quinns 2).
It is only a small pub with a front seating area facing the bar and a larger rear room. Beyond its red tiled frontage in Rainford Gardens is a feast of red leather, fancy tiling, elaborate wood carving and even some sturdy, majestic gold nymph-adorned radiators. A copper topped curved wooden bar, fashioned from high quality carved dark woods, stands on the original thick terracotta tiled floor. –The back room was used by Bob Wooler and Alan Williams to pay all of their groups including The Beatles. The Beatles wall in the back room shows where they were paid and there are also a number of brass plaques on the front wall, one to The Beatles, one twinned with the White Star Cz, and two twinned with pubs in Norway - one with the Mets Sports Bar in Skien, and the other with the Fat Lady in Grimstead. It was historically a Bass tied house, and still has that classic beer alongside others such as Deuchars IPA and guest beers from Bowland.
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