The Raven

This Wetherspoon pub is named after a poem by the famous American author and poet Edgar Allen Poe.

James William Carling lies buried in a pauper's grave in Walton Park Cemetery. Born in the nearby Scotland Road district, in 1857, he became a pavement artist when he was just five years old. He later went to America, where he produced a series of illustrations for Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven. Unable to find a publisher, he returned to England where he died in Brownlow Hill Workhouse, aged 29. Today, his illustration's are on permanent exhibition in the Edgar Allen Poe Museum, in America.