The Southport Tavern

08/10/2026

THIS SATURDAY we have the fabulous Quandary - Band !! 🤩🤩

From 8.45 PM 🍻🎵🎶



Southport Live Music

05/10/2026

KARAOKE NIGHT IS BACK 🎤✨
With our fabulous new host Jon Taylor ❤️

Starting 7.30pm THIS FRIDAY ⭐️

He will be joining us EVERY FRIDAY from November 13th 🍻⭐️


Southport Live Music

05/10/2026

Rainy Mondays ☔️ call for FREE POOL 🍻🎱

FREE POOL 🎱

Every Monday and Tuesday ALL DAY 🎱🍻

04/10/2026

Who wants this £260.00 Cash JACKPOT??

Bingo 5pm!!. Don't be late!!!

30/09/2026

A bit of History! Thanks Merseybiz.net

The Southport Pub That Began Life Without Alcohol In 1867 💚🩵🖤🤍

Original Research And Writing © MerseyBiz 2026

The building now known as the Southport Tavern on London Street has been part of the town’s hospitality story for almost 160 years.
For most of that time, people knew it as the Albert Hotel.
Its beginnings, however, were very different from the licensed premises standing there today.
On 9 June 1867, the Albert Hotel opened in London Street as a temperance hotel, operated by a limited liability company.
Temperance was a major movement in Victorian Britain. Its supporters promoted abstinence from alcohol and encouraged the creation of hotels, halls and meeting places where people could eat, stay and socialise without drink being part of the experience.
Southport already had an established connection with the movement. A Temperance Hall had opened in London Street in 1857, ten years before the Albert welcomed its first guests.
The Albert’s own temperance chapter would prove relatively short.
In September 1874, just over seven years after opening, the hotel was granted a licence.
The historical record specifically noted that the Albert had originally been built as a temperance hotel.
It is one of the most striking parts of the building’s history. A hotel established on temperance principles had entered the licensed trade within little more than seven years.
The Albert name then became a familiar part of London Street for generations.
More than a century later, the premises were still officially recorded as the Albert Hotel at 63 London Street.
The building continued to change with the town around it.
In 2004, permission was granted to convert the first and second floors into 14 self contained flats, while the public house remained below. Council records show that work had begun by May 2005.
The Albert name nevertheless survived into the twenty first century.
As late as March 2018, official records were still referring to the premises as the Albert Hotel.
Then, in April 2018, another chapter began when the former Albert became the Southport Tavern.
From a Victorian temperance hotel in 1867, through more than a century as the Albert, major changes to the building and finally the Southport Tavern name, 63 London Street has had a remarkably long life in the town.
Perhaps the most memorable part is still the beginning.
The Southport pub standing there today can trace its history back to a hotel that originally opened on temperance principles, without alcohol at the heart of its hospitality.

29/09/2026

FREE POOL CONTINUES ALL DAY TODAY 🎱

FREE POOL 🎱

Every Monday and Tuesday ALL DAY 🎱🍻

28/09/2026

FREE POOL 🎱

Every Monday and Tuesday ALL DAY 🎱🍻

27/09/2026

TODAY IS THE DAY 🤞🏻🍀

Get your dabbers out- ITS MEGA BINGO TIME! ⭐️

⭐️Books on sale from 4.30 and eyes down at 5PM!!!

⭐️Amazing cash prizes to be won- WE’LL SEE YOU THERE

26/09/2026

TOMORROW is our next MEGA BINGO session at The Southport Tavern ⭐️🤞🏻

⭐️ Starting at 5PM- but be there early to claim your seats and your bingo flyers!

⭐️ £16 for ALL books, flyers and bonus games

⭐️ Jackpot still to be won !!! 🤑💰 and other amazing cash prizes

⭐️ Tables still available- call us on 01704 808056 or pop in to see us 🍻

This isn’t one to be missed!!

26/09/2026

Tonight's LIVE Music event the Hoolygans.
Local band.

See you later!!.