Communities across Liverpool have seen pubs in their area quietly run out of business and become supermarkets pretty often over the years.
Take Fazakerley for example, where Aldi and Lidl moved into the former Copplehouse and Grey Chaser sites respectively.
It had been expected that when the doors closed for the final time at the Bridge Inn on Childwall Valley Road, Belle Vale, in 2015, it would follow suit and become the new home of a Home Bargains store as the budget chain opened a swathe of sites across the city.
