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“The Vines was built in the last year of the [19th] century and every majestic detail is kept up as good as new… Tall and luminous, brown and gold giant pilasters combining elegance with immense force, and huge Victorian paintings between. Sitting in it, you feel ten feet tall, for it is the kind of grandeur that raises you up rather than crushes you. Drinking beer which is both better and cheaper than the metropolitan brew — any kind of Liverpool bitter is a good drop — you realize that London has nothing like this.”Ian Nairn (http://boakandbailey.com/tag/ian-nairn/) in the essay*‘Liverpool’*first published in*The Listener in 1964 and collected in Britain’s Changing*Towns in*1967, reissued and updated in 2013 (http://www.nottinghilleditions.com/books/nairn-s-towns/206).*There’s more information about The Vines on the CAMRA pubs heritage website (http://www.heritagepubs.org.uk/pubs/historic-pub-interior-entry.asp?pubid=112).
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