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The Copplehouse was situated on Copplehouse Lane. Later called The New Copplehouse, it was named after a former farm called Copple House. A roadside pub dating from the 1930s, it was demolished in 2013 and an Aldi superstore built on the site. In 1952, a footman, Harold Winstanley, at Knowsley Hall, a stately home four miles away, shot and killed two fellow servants with an MP 40 submachine gun. Leaving the scene of the crime, Winstanley made his way to the pub (recorded as The Coppull House in news reports at the time) and drank a pint, before leaving for Liverpool City Centre, where he was apprehended.

Source: Movement80

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