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• Peter Kavanagh’s is a renowned pub located at 2-6 Egerton Street, in Liverpool’s Georgian Quarter, and is considered one of the city’s oldest and most characterful pubs

• The pub was originally constructed in 1844 (with some sources citing 1854), and underwent reconstruction in 1854 and again around 1877

• It was first known as The Grapes before being renamed after its most famous landlord, Peter Kavanagh, who ran it from 1897 to 1950

• Peter Kavanagh’s is a hub for real ale enthusiasts, the city’s bohemian crowd, and local Toxtethians

• The pub was named Liverpool CAMRA Pub of the Year in 2019 and is recognized by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) as having a nationally important historic interior

• Two snugs adorned with large murals by Scottish artist Eric Robinson, depicting scenes from Charles Dickens’ "The Pickwick Papers" and works by Hogarth

• Stained glass windows created by artist William English, with seafaring and miscellaneous themes

• Quirky woodwork and furniture, such as tables with built-in water bowls for extinguishing cigarettes, shelves, electric bell pushes, and pipe holders—all designed by Kavanagh himself356.

• The walls and ceilings are festooned with bric-a-brac, including a crocodile (or alligator) skin, old radios, a bicycle, and a statue of a waiter

• The pub’s exterior features a cream and burgundy tiled façade added in the 1920s, and the inn sign is a portrait of Peter Kavanagh