It’s barely 4pm on a Monday and Brownlows Inn on Mount Pleasant is already packed.
The first tinny strains of Dean Martin’s ‘Everybody Loves somebody’ are blaring out of the pub’s speakers as the people from inside spill out onto the street in the August sunshine. Propping up the bar is ‘Geordie Peter’- who considers himself an “adopted scouser” after living in the city for 11 years.
Tapping their feet along to the singer on karaoke is married couple Duncan and Joyce, who’ve spent years coming here on their twice-weekly jaunts from Southport. Nursing his pint of Guinness in the corner is 80-year-old Les Little - or ‘Little Les the boxer’ as he was better known during his time as a trader in St John’s Market - who tells the ECHO the pub is a “way of life” for many of the regulars who frequent it.
