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    I live a 2 minute walk from the world famous Caradoc pub in Liverpool most seaman aboard this site will remember the pub especially if they where in any of the Empress boats or Cunard's that tied up in the Gladstone dock. Well the boozer is empty of seaman but still very much in business. Yesterday i walked into the manager who now runs it i told her about the site and every time i bring the Caradoc up it brings back many memories for a lot of the lads. She told me an amazing story apparently a couple walked into the pub one afternoon not that long ago they lived in Canada but where ex pats and scousers, Sheila the girl who holds the licence for the pub asked them where they where from, The guy ex seaman told Sheila many years ago i was born in this pub WHAT she said he explained his Mother was pregnant with him and was a barmaid there at the time, Nature took its course and she ran for the sink behind the bar to get him breathing and wash him down before attending hospital.
    Another tale she told me was a friend of hers was on a cruise ship she wasn't sure where in the world it was, She gets a phone call from her friend hi she said i thought you where cruising on holiday I am but i have a chap in his 80s here can you speak to him he cant believe the Caradoc was still standing as he remembered it from his days at sea. If walls could speak it could tell some tales regarding that boozer alright Regards Lads Terry.
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    Hi Terry. I was a frequent visitor to the Caradoc working on the Empress boats especially while on the shore gang working the welt. I recall another pub close b
    y, The Winifreds, although, like all flesh, i'm probably wrong about the geography.
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    We never seemed to get past Mabels

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    #3 Mabel's what?

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    That's for me to know and you to wonder, Ivan

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    #4. Just Mabel’s Ivan if you ain’t been to Mabel’s you ain’t lived. Could be classed as a real dive. JS

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    And Mabel could Drink you under the Table ! LOL
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    If remember right was on the Dock road under the overhead railway. If I ever got past, used to finish up in the American Bar on Lime Street. JS

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    YOUR correct John, The Winifred was and still is straight across the road from the Caradoc, I will take some pictures if i can dig my old digital cam out and post them, My grandfather used to sit under the bridge as you descended down the wooden steps from the overhead at the Gladstone dock he would sell the Liverpool Echo local newspaper the on Merseyside from a handcart. All the bars mentioned Mable's /The American Bar ETC.. All the buildings still there but a bit different since you last drank in them and of course all renamed now, I wonder how many remember the to very famous ones The Dominion, and of course The Norseman, All those luverly lady's of the night would be found there both gone now Happy days Lads Terry.
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    I am waiting for Graham Payne's post your signed photograph still hangs over the bar mate, You did keep the place going in funds there all very grateful for your contribution. Terry
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