The Free Library Public House

There used to a pub in Birkenhead called The Free Library - where it used to stand is now part of The Wirral Globe newspaper building. The vogue in the 1980s - particularly in Whitbread pubs - was to put up bookshelves and load them with fodder bought by the yard. Now, with funding cuts, it looks like more pubs really could become local libraries!
Morning Advertiser, 13th June 2011

"I'll have a Stephen Fry, a Kipling and a pint, please!"