Wirral pubs to take part in world’s biggest toast for Cask Ale week

Apr 8 2009 by Michael Byrne, Birkenhead News

RAISE a glass this Saturday to a national treasure and help an attempt to break a world record.

Wirral pubs are taking part in the World’s Largest Toast, an event to set up as part of National Cask Ale Week to celebrate ale as Britain’s national drink.

The record currently stands at 485,000 people, and drinkers in about 6,000 pubs across the country will be asked to come together at 7pm to share their pint.

Wirral pubs taking part are: Black Horse Hotel, School Hill; Dee View Inn, Dee View Road, Heswall; Plasterers Arms, Back Sea View; Travellers Rest, Mount Road, Higher Bebington; Royal Hotel, Woodchurch Road, Birkenhead; Hilbre, Banks Road, West Kirby; Boathouse, The Parade, Parkgate; Telegraph Inn, Mount Pleasant Road, Wallasey; Black Horse, Wallasey Village; Lake Wirral, Lake Place, Hoylake; Ship Inn, Market Street, Hoylake; Ravenscroft, The Mount, Heswall; Chronicle, Church Road, Bebington; Little Brighton Hotel, Rowson Street, Wallasey; Cherry Orchard, Arrowe Park Road; Wirral; Irby Club, Thingwall Road, Irby.

Organisers are also looking for witnesses to help validate the numbers of drinkers for world record purposes.

Witnesses need to be over 18 years old and able to be at one of the pubs involved at 7pm this Saturday, April 11.

For more information visit www.caskaleweek.com.