41-43 Price Street
Birkenhead
Merseyside
CH41 6JN
0151 647 7506
Traditional Town Pub, 3* Heritage Pub
The Stork in Birkenhead is one of Merseyside’s fine collection of Grade II listed Edwardian pubs (photo 1). The surrounding terraces have gone so its elegant tiled exterior now seems rather out of place.
Enter the pub and you’ll find the curved lobby bar with blue and yellow tiles, with etched and stained glass screens above (photo 2). Three separate rooms still remain off the lobby bar: the public bar, the bar parlour and the news room. The news room has art nouveau etched glass in the door sign (photo 4) and in the Stork Hotel windows (photo 3). The inn sign shows a stork on its nest and the pub name probably has something to do with the legend of a stork bringing babies.
It’s a friendly community pub with karaoke and live music, and football on TV. I spent an enjoyable Saturday afternoon here about three years ago drinking beer from the local Peerless Brewery. Since then cask beer availability has been on and off, and mostly off.
