This pub is a hidden little haven on Mulberry Street and Cambridge Street, much loved by the students and lecturers of the University of Liverpool where students and lecturers run shoulder to shoulder in this neutral territory on the Uni's precinct. Located in an area that is called 'The Knowledge Quarter', it has a nice interior with elevated seating at the back of the pub. With many interesting fixtures throughout it is a fundamentally honest, down-to-earth boozer where one can expect bar meals catering for the more affordable end of the market, and regular quizzes on a Wednesday and/or Sunday night. It is a long narrow pub, two roomed with great decor and furnishings including a cool looking solid wood serving bar that dominates the main room, great decor and furnishings, TV's to enjoy the sport, and plenty of seating options spread throughout the pub both inside and outside on their terrace. It is the more successful twin of the now deceased Oxford pub (whose husk can be found a stone’s throw away from the Yoko Ono Lennon Centre) and sits in the heart of campus, just off of Abercromby Square and toward the direction of Tudor Close.
Situated near the site of the former St. Mary's Cemetery (often called the pauper's cemetery), which opened in 1806 and closed in 1848, there is a plaque nearby, erected as part of the Liverpool Irish Famine Trail, which reads: "Near this place in 1847, some 2,600 destitute Irish Famine migrants were buried in an unmarked pauper grave. They had died in extreme poverty in the parish of Liverpool so ending their flight from the Great Hunger 1845-52." The pub was originally a Burtonwood Brewery Co. pub before the Burtonwood pub estate was sold to Marston's in 2005 and it is believed to be the home of two ghoulish spirits. According to Tom Slemen, one of the ghosts was particularly active in the 1970s and was believed to be the ghost of a man-hating woman who would scratch the cheek of men at the pub. In his book 'Haunted Liverpool Pubs', Tom said: "No one knows her identity but a medium claimed the sadistic spook is the ghost of a woman who was deserted by a lover at the pub many years ago in the 1930s. The other ghost is that of the so-called Subterranean Scotsman - a kilted ghost who is said to walk through a tunnel that comes near to the pub playing bagpipes; to hear him is a sign of approaching bad news."
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