The Turks Head, St Helens - pub details
Address: 49-51 Morley St, St Helens, Merseyside, WA10 2DQ [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 24118) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
St Helens Central (0.7 miles), Thatto Heath (1.8 miles), Lea Green (2.6 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Real ale
Pub suggested by brenda arrowsmith on 4 Jun 2005
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> Current user rating: 7.6/10 (rated by 20 users)
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user reviews of the Turks Head, St Helens
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| Am an occasional visitor to the Turks and always find the staff friendly and the beer nice, with a good range of real ales. It is a pub with a lot of regulars, quite a few of them I now know to speak to. Stunt - 28 Sep 2011 18:03 |
| In relation to previous comments, I would also say that this is a better pub that the Ship at Rainhill. This place is a much more old-fashioned and down-to-earth establishment with a bar and a lounge. The lounge is slightly higher than the bar. A pool table connects the two at the higher level. During our week night visit, only 6 real ales were on - JW Lees Chocholic, Black Sheep Best Bitter, Everards Original, Marstons Christmas Pudding Spiced Ale, Mayflower Tower Hill and Thwaites Lancaster Bomber. After much pulling through of the cider, Westons Bounds Scrumpy & 1st Quality were revealed. This was a friendly locals pub with a reasonable selection of ales. I agree that the area looked a little questionable though. blue_scrumpy - 7 Jan 2011 22:11 |
| Excellent pub. Fantastic range of beers, particularly at the weekend. Pleasing decor and a nice section outside too. There is also a pool table and dart board, but these are well out of the way of the bar in a separate section. My only slight gripe upon visiting was the slight frostiness of the barmaid. Still, she wasn't downright rude, and seemed to cheer up as tiem went on. In response to the previous post about Pub of the Year, some branches are so small that the Chair of the branch simply decides which pub wins. I believe this is the case in St. Helens. Obviously if it was a straight contest between the Ship at Rainhill and this place, only a moron would choose the Ship. However, it may be a case of the Chair trying to give other pubs in St. Helens some encouragement by recognising them. Not an approach I agree with personally, but at least understandable. Northern_Ale_Monkey - 22 Jul 2010 13:34 |
| Since finding beer in the evening it has given me head up on pubs I didnt know about this being a second, Reason I didnt know about it as beer and Cheer stated is outside the town centre..I drove and found it on a housing estate back end of town. I was told it didnt win the carma st helens pub of the year this year The beers are changed when the barrel is empty and not continued from the same pump so if you where having a good pint you may well go up to find that one gone and another one being offered from the same pump. I would prefer continuation of at least some beer something they should do when they have I think it was 12 hand pumps on which leads me to wonder why with such a good choice they didnt win st helens camra pub of the year I believe its to do with beer scoring from camra members who judge the beer and the ship at rainhill won the award I only had chance to try two halves as I was driving and unfortunately when I left the pub I found my drivers side window had been smashed. there where some youths hanging around the housing estate and I did feel uneasy. If this pub was in a different location with its own car park I would visit again but due to my experience of the area I would not go again realalelover2 - 23 Jun 2010 21:45 |
| WEll from reading the previous reviews, I expected something a bit special and I certainly found it ! The excellent range of beers and their condition I had been anticipating, but the large collection of miniatures and the stained glass windows came as a surprise. They claimed to be having a beer festival when I visited, but there didn't seem to be anything different from normal. The beer I had was WMD (Weapon of Mash Destruction) from Allgates. A strong dark mild, I really enjoyed it. But I enjoyed the pump clip (Blair + Saddam = Nuclear Explosion) even more ! Extremely highly recommended Martinsh - 26 Apr 2010 23:28 |
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