Other Gateacre village landmarks - unconnected with the Walkers - include the mid-nineteenth century Fleetwood's brewery (later a felt factory) at the bottom of the Brow, and the Bear and Staff pub (originally the 'Bear and Ragged Staff', displaying the emblem of the Earl of Warwick). Between the two is an unusual black-and-white former bank building (once also housing a telephone exchange) on the corner of Sandfield Road: an early work of Walter Aubrey Thomas who went on to design the Royal Liver Building on Liverpool's waterfront.