While some pubs get a name for being 'tough', one now lost city pub gained a reputation as perhaps the most notorious drinking hole in recent history.
Back in 2008, former Liverpool ECHO columnist Paddy Shennan looked back at some of the roughest and toughest pubs from Liverpool's past. One pub, the Eagle and Child, in Huyton was a name that always seemed to come up when the subject was mentioned.
Situated on Liverpool Road, the "monster-sized" pub had an equally intimidating reputation that went before it. Readers who had contacted the ECHO nominating the pub were said, in the majority of cases, to have asked to have their names withheld.
