Half Year Stats

Half the year gone already, so let's look at the score so far:

Merseyside pubs in the database: 1,849  Of which 560 are believed to be closed.

All time pubs visited: 1,250

Pubs visited this year:  168
This is already the highest annual figure since 2004 and we're only half way through the year.
(For context, the best year so far is 1999, with 345 pubs ticked.)

While we're talking about counts, I was annoyed to notice the other day that the never visited Mason's Arms in Billinge is in the Good Beer Guide.  Why had I missed it from my GBG list?  Because they've wrongly put it in Greater Manchester.  I think it has limited opening hours, I seem to recall walking there and finding it shut many years ago.