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Heres the new building, which was built less than a year ago.

WOW i didn't even know lol

Nice one

the first pic is actually how it looked when i was living down there, have never seen it lookin all modern like it does now

Yeah it hasnt been gone long, less than a year...it was getting a bit of an eyesaw, but just wish I got a picture of it before it went

To be fair Joe,
it looked like the B/W picture the last time a seen it.

Only the cars were clamped lol

I used to love the Y.M.C.A went rollerskating there many times and gymnastics!!.
Happy Days.

god yer i remember goin roller skatin there too wooow...

isnt that place full of bagheads and homeless people?

so do i remeber that place i know its sad to admit this but i had one of my birthday parties there the roller skatin was interestin i must say it ended up in tears lol i broke my ankle then spent the rest of my birthday in Arrowe Park A&E

i, shamefully admit, went roller skating there once when i was about 8 or 9 lol... oh dear

anyone ever goto roller world up by birkenhead park? lol

awww thats not shamefull ... now if ud av fallen ova that would have been shameful haha !!!! ... or you just not telling us that part and y is the YMCA in birkenhead look dead pretty an the one over in new brighton/ liscard what ever its classed as is awful !

I can one-up going to Roller World, I used to work there lol, there was still loads of fittings there from when it was a cinema and the basement was one of the creepiest things I've ever seen or been in.

Yes, that was the Gaumont cinema.

wasnt the gaumont cinema on king street in wallasey? Later known as the unit four then the unit six and finally the apollo

lol roller skating was so easy, just look daft doin it...