{"id":637436,"date":"2025-12-17T05:06:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T05:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/637436\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T05:06:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T05:06:22","slug":"one-of-merseysides-oldest-pubs-is-set-to-expand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/637436\/","title":{"rendered":"One of Merseyside\u2019s oldest pubs is set to expand"},"content":{"rendered":"

The venue will open a new sports bar next year<\/p>\n

17:11, 16 Dec 2025Updated 17:45, 16 Dec 2025<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Jawbone Tavern in Bootle(Image: Bond Media Agency)<\/p>\n

One of Merseyside’s oldest pub has announced it will open a new sports bar in January. The Jawbone Tavern reopened back in September 2024, after being taken over by new owners who updated the popular local, whilst preserving its history.<\/p>\n

Located on Litherland<\/a> Road, the pub originally opened in 1802 and was named after the whaling fleets based at the Bootle<\/a> Docks. Once owned by a Liverpool FC title winner, The Jawbone Tavern has survived two world wars and served thousands of people in Bootle Village for over 200 years.<\/p>\n

During Germany\u2019s invasion of Poland in 1939, the pub was run by Jock McNab – a Red midfielder who helped bring home the title in 1922 and 1923.<\/p>\n

After his success on the pitch, Jock hung up his boots and worked in the pub for over two decades.<\/p>\n

The pub, which is also reportedly haunted, was a popular venue with premier league<\/a> players who would come in to see Jock – including legendary Everton forward Dixie Dean.<\/p>\n

Now, the pub is set to open a new sports bar at the start of the new year.<\/p>\n

The bar will include three electronic dart board lanes, a pool table and seven big screens so customers will be able to watch “all the big sporting action”.<\/p>\n

\"ArtistArtist Paul Curtis with his work at Bootle’s Jawbone Tavern(Image: Paul Curtis)<\/p>\n

This expansion will create an additional eight jobs at the venue.<\/p>\n

Since taking over the pub, the new owners have also built an extensive beer garden with local artist Paul Curtis creating a huge whaling image for the exterior as a nod to the pub\u2019s past.<\/p>\n

Dave Mcnally, General Manager of the Jawbone Tavern, said: “When the new owners took over the Jawbone Tavern they had plans to create a new outdoor space and that was completed earlier in the year.<\/p>\n

\"DaveDave McNally, manager of The Jawbone Tavern(Image: The Jawbone Tavern)<\/p>\n

“This was a big hit with our locals across the summer months and now we have expanded upstairs and are in the process of creating a 80 customer capacity sports bar.<\/p>\n

“The sports bar will be an extension of what we currently offer and we look forward to welcoming customers both new and old from January onwards.”<\/p>\n

The Jawbone Tavern also helped spread some Christmas cheer this festive season after paying for the Bootle community Christmas tree.<\/p>\n

For more information head to The Jawbone Tavern’s Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The venue will open a new sports bar next year 17:11, 16 Dec 2025Updated 17:45, 16 Dec 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[2648,748,393,786,4884,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-637436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-bootle","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-food-and-drink","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-liverpool","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115733173882627004","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}