A "haunted" pub stands alone at the edge of a field in central Liverpool.
There "were shops all the way up the hill to the very top" of Oxford Street, according to Barry, a 63-year-old former regular at The Oxford pub, now often found at The Cambridge a five-minute walk away. The chippy next door, and the laundrette, tobacconist and newsagents along the Victorian redbrick terrace, were demolished by Liverpool Council in the 1960s and 1970s.
Just one three-storey building and a cobbled street remain, standing out among the student accommodation, concert hall and University of Liverpool campus on the corner of Oxford Street and Grove Street. The surrounding patch of grass, rare in inner city Liverpool, is well-trodden by dog walkers, and circles of students sit on the grass as Paddington Village peers over the trees.
