Ye Cracke
Ye Cracke is a pub in Rice Street off Hope Street in Liverpool, England. The name is in Old English: the "Y" is a thorn and the "e" on the end of "Cracke" is silent, thus the name is pronounced "The Crack". Despite the name, Ye Cracke is in fact a 19th-century pub. The "War Office" is a small room in the pub, which is the oldest part of the pub and was once used to discuss parts of the Boer War.
A collection of about 20 drawings of local buildings are displayed on the wall, all dating from the late 1960s. It has historical connections with the Beatles because it was frequented by John Lennon and his girlfriend Cynthia when they were at art school, as well as the Dissenters, to whom a plaque hangs in the bar. Doctors Thomas Cecil Gray and John Halton conceived the techniques described in their 1946 book A Milestone in Anaesthesia while in the pub.
