Ye Cracke
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Ye Cracke is a pub in Rice Street off Hope Street
, Liverpool
, England
. The 'Y' is a Thorn (Þ), thus the name is pronounced 'The Crack'. Despite the faux Old English
name, Ye Cracke is in fact a 19th-century public house. The War Room is a small room in the pub, which is the oldest part of the pub.
A collection of about 20 drawings of local buildings are displayed on the wall, and these all date from the late 1960s. It has historical connections with The Beatles
(because it was frequented by John Lennon
and his girlfriend Cynthia
when they were at art school) and The Dissenters (to whom a plaque hangs in the bar).
Doctors Thomas Cecil Gray
and John Halton conceived the techniques described in their 1946 book A Milestone in Anaesthesia while in the pub.
Hope Street, Liverpool
Hope Street, Liverpool, England stretches from Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral past Liverpool Cathedral to Upper Parliament Street. It contains several restaurants, hotels and bars. The road runs parallel to Rodney Street...
, Liverpool
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. The 'Y' is a Thorn (Þ), thus the name is pronounced 'The Crack'. Despite the faux Old English
Old English language
Old English or Anglo-Saxon is an early form of the English language that was spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons and their descendants in parts of what are now England and southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century...
name, Ye Cracke is in fact a 19th-century public house. The War Room is a small room in the pub, which is the oldest part of the pub.
A collection of about 20 drawings of local buildings are displayed on the wall, and these all date from the late 1960s. It has historical connections with The Beatles
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
(because it was frequented by John Lennon
John Lennon
John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
and his girlfriend Cynthia
Cynthia Lennon
Cynthia Lillian Lennon is the former wife of musician John Lennon, and mother of Julian Lennon. She grew up in the middle-class section of Hoylake, on the Wirral Peninsula in North West England. At the age of twelve, she was accepted into the Junior Art School, and was later enrolled in the...
when they were at art school) and The Dissenters (to whom a plaque hangs in the bar).
Doctors Thomas Cecil Gray
Thomas Cecil Gray
Thomas Cecil Gray CBE, KCSG , was a pioneering British anaesthetist.-Early life:Gray was born in Liverpool in 1913. The only son of Thomas and Ethel Gray of Thornton, he was educated at Ampleforth College in Yorkshire...
and John Halton conceived the techniques described in their 1946 book A Milestone in Anaesthesia while in the pub.
External links
- http://www.beatlesource.com/savage/1950s/58.10.xx%20ye%20cracke/58.10.xxcracke.html
- http://www.liverpool.com/listings/ye-cracke.html