Ye Cracke on Rice Street is a 19th-century pub, where John Lennon used to go when he was in art school nearby, even taking Cynthia, his first wife, there on their first date. Filled with Beatles memorabilia, it’s a pilgrimage for fans of the Fab Four as well as a watering hole popular with locals. The pub started life as the Ruthin Castle in 1852 in a cottage on Rice Street, and at the time consisted of just the one room. On the electoral roll of 1861 the building is owned by Edward Jones, but it was a private house not a pub. Ye Cracke came to be in 1862, when the then landlord of the Ruthin Castle extended the premises by buying the cottage next door. This is now the historic front bar with its copper topped counter and space for only 10 people. Its small size led to the pub being dubbed 'Ye Cracke' and by 1892 this had become its official name. A few years after opening, the pub was extended at the back to create an additional two rooms. One was the main bar with a separate bar counter and fittings from the 1960s or 70s. The other is the 'War Office', a tiny snug created by glazed wooden screens with fixed seating and space for only one table. The name dates from the Boer War in the 1890s when the room was used to post news and host discussions about the conflict.
John Lennon and early Beatles bass player Stuart Sutcliffe were students at the nearby art college and often went to Ye Cracke after (or instead of) lectures. It was here in the late 1950s, John and Stuart Sutcliffe, alongside artist Rod Murray and writer Bill Harry formed the 'The Dissenters' - a group of art students who vowed to put Liverpool 'on the map' in their own way. Sometimes the War Office was used for tutorials with John and Stuart by enlightened arts teacher Arthur Ballard. As the etched windows on the doorway shows, the pub was once supplied by local brewer Houldings and owner John Houlding was central to another Merseyside legend. Everton FC fell out with Houlding over the rent he was charging for their football ground, and when they left he founded Liverpool FC.
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