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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Jess Molyneux

'Fine showpiece' pub in Liverpool that sold beef curry for £1.90

A lost pub that was once the "new centrepiece' inside a Liverpool train station sold beef curry for £1.90.

Many of us couldn't imagine our main city stations without chains of supermarkets, food outlets, coffee shops and pubs. But decades ago, many will remember sites being a lot more basic when we started our rail journeys.

Today, Liverpool Lime Street Station is home to the likes of Boots, WH Smith, Costa Coffee, Krispy Kreme and a JD Wetherspoons. But in the 1980s, a new catering complex saw the station get a big face-lift, with a fast food restaurant and pub opening its doors for passengers preparing to leave or just arriving in the city.

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