Wirral History & Heritage Fair

Presented by Wirral History & Heritage Association

Saturday 5th March 2011 10am-4pm
At Birkenhead Town Hall
Hamilton Square CH41 5BR

This is a marvellous opportunity to view exhibits displayed by many special interest groups and societies within this magnificent and historical building.

There will be representative from most of Wirral’s Local History and Family History Societies, Research and Friends Groups, Archaeology Groups, plus Conservation, Preservation and Civic Societies.

Books and postcards will be one sale

Angus Tilston MBE will be providing a free local history film show in the Conference Room where light refreshment can be obtained for a modest price.

There will also be activities for children.

We also hope to have the Wirral Transport Museum Green Goddess fire engine and historical buses for visitors outside the Town Hall on the day.

Entrance to the fair is free.

The building is situated near to Hamilton Square Station.

Has been recommend as a meeting time and place.
Hoe to see you there

Hope you can make this years t.c

booking the day off on monday

what is the local archaeology group?

I will be going if I remember
Anyone else - possibly arrange a time and meet up
1 derekdwc

I was pencilled in for a Haggis shoot that weekend,(plenty of them on the moors this season) but I've cancelled it and will be at the Town Hall do instead. Chriskay is going too. In a recent PM, Mark said he may go. No doubt he will confirm that.

Always too much to see/do when I come down. Not enough time !!!

1 derekdwc
2 Pinzgauer
3 Chriskay
4 Mark?

Can I come too? Went with Mr. last year,wasn't his thing!
Also arrived a bit late and missed alot.

no need to ask just come

Wirral History & Heritage Fair

Presented by Wirral History & Heritage Association

Saturday 5th March 2011 10am-4pm
At Birkenhead Town Hall
Hamilton Square CH41 5BR

1 derekdwc
2 Pinzgauer
3 Chriskay
4 Mark?
5 rudebox
6 plusone
7 bezzymate
8 Diggingdeeper
9
10
11
12
13

Wirral History & Heritage Fair

Presented by Wirral History & Heritage Association

Saturday 5th March 2011 10am-4pm
At Birkenhead Town Hall
Hamilton Square CH41 5BR

1 derekdwc
2 Pinzgauer
3 Chriskay
4 Mark
5 rudebox
6 plusone
7 bezzymate
8 Diggingdeeper
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10
11
12
13

I would like to make this would be good to catch up too.

Wirral History & Heritage Fair

Presented by Wirral History & Heritage Association

Saturday 5th March 2011 10am-4pm
At Birkenhead Town Hall
Hamilton Square CH41 5BR

1 derekdwc
2 Pinzgauer
3 Chriskay
4 Mark
5 rudebox
6 plusone
7 bezzymate
8 Diggingdeeper
9 T.C.
10
11
12
13

Wirral History & Heritage Fair

Presented by Wirral History & Heritage Association

Saturday 5th March 2011 10am-4pm
At Birkenhead Town Hall
Hamilton Square CH41 5BR

1 derekdwc
2 Pinzgauer
3 Chriskay
4 Mark
5 rudebox
6 plusone
7 bezzymate
8 Diggingdeeper
9 T.C.
10 Croc
11 Kermit
12
13


Looking forward to this!

I'm having trouble sending emails
Can someone email
Wirral History & Heritage Association and hopefully get a reply about what time this is on
Angus Tilston MBE will be providing a free local History film show in the Conference Room where light refreshment can be obtained for a modest price.

I've sent them an email Degs, I will let you know what they say as soon as they get back to me.

Last years wiki day out https://www.wikiwirral.co.uk/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/389231/2.html

Did anyone ever get the courtesy of a reply to the email(s) sent enquiring about Angus Tilston's film ?

I for one, am quite keen to see it/them.

The times of showing are .........................?

Try checking the other thread about the Wirral History & Heritage Association on the Wirral History site.

Last time I looked the WHHA hadn't responded to anyone ...but that's a whole other story mate.

Yes, I was trying not say anything TOO negative about WHHA, but ............................. !

Thanks.

Angus Tilston's film
Phoned him up and he will be showing films from about 10-30 through the day until 3ish.
some of his dvds (Pleasures Past) will be on sale at discount prices.
Have suggested he have a look at wikiwirral

Thanks Derek. Much appreciated !

Thanks from me also Derek. Glad somebody's in the know.

I'm sure the whole event will prove very popular and it's good that the WHHA are continuing to stage it. Like Pinzgauer, I'm not trying to knock the association and their efforts at promoting Wirral's heritage, but they do need to sort out their web-site and help keep people informed.

Just a heads-up; this is next Saturday.

Do we have a meeting place or just arrive as and when?

As far as I'm aware, no one has arranged any particular times for meeting up. Myself, ChrisKay and diggingdeeper are going in the morning. I think then a general mooch around the Wirral later ?

All very flexible at this stage I think. Suggestions welcome.

12 noon at the war memorial? Just a suggestion looking forward to this.
This 'worked well' last year.

good with me

Wirral History & Heritage Fair

Presented by Wirral History & Heritage Association

Saturday 5th March 2011 10am-4pm
At Birkenhead Town Hall
Hamilton Square CH41 5BR

1 derekdwc
2 Pinzgauer
3 Chriskay
4 Mark
5 rudebox
6 plusone
7 bezzymate
8 Diggingdeeper
9 T.C.
10 Croc
11 Kermit
12
13


Looking forward to this!

Great,will be there!

Wirral History & Heritage Fair

Presented by Wirral History & Heritage Association

Saturday 5th March 2011 10am-4pm
At Birkenhead Town Hall
Hamilton Square CH41 5BR

1 derekdwc
2 Pinzgauer
3 Chriskay
4 Mark
5 rudebox
6 plusone
7 bezzymate
8 Diggingdeeper
9 T.C.
10 Croc
11 Kermit
12 Shadow Omega
13


Looking forward to this! meet up 12 noon at the war memorial?

May as well add me to the list... dunno about Mel yet though. Shall speak to her

Wirral History & Heritage Fair

Presented by Wirral History & Heritage Association

Saturday 5th March 2011 10am-4pm
At Birkenhead Town Hall
Hamilton Square CH41 5BR

1 derekdwc
2 Pinzgauer
3 Chriskay
4 Mark
5 rudebox
6 plusone
7 bezzymate
8 Diggingdeeper
9 T.C.
10 Croc
11 Kermit
12 Shadow Omega
13 mattlfc
14 mel

Looking forward to this! meet up 12 noon at the war memorial?

Could this be a record of the largest Wiki get together?

yerr well could be queen

mels confirmed

yerr well could be queen
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Shall I bring sticky labels with our names on for ID or is that silly?

good idea queen

Thanks TC.It's just that I am terrible at remembering names!

Lol! No its not silly!,! I'll wear my i.d too.
I'll recognise you again b.m xx

Also we know each other by the names that we use on here and then are introduced by our real names.Double cofussion!!!!

Stick with
Usernames! Still laugh at the memory of kimpri in McDonalds- shouting 'rude...Rude....Rudebox, d'ya wanna brew?' haha

lol queen

Seems a good idea to me. I usually remember names - after the 9th time of asking !!!!!!

The non bio, hahahaha

Ive been reminded lol and i will be there with stickers and a smile

So looking forward to meeting everyone! XXX

I hope the Town Hall staff are prepared for this onslaught !!!

Do you think they may need extra security!

I reckon they will Bezzy - and some ! Just wait until the whisper goes around inside " Oh no, the wiki gang are here"
People diving out of every back window and door, screeching of tyres. Within 30 seconds we've got the place to ourselves.
No worries !

dont forget them bud

Wirral History & Heritage Fair

Presented by Wirral History & Heritage Association

Saturday 5th March 2011 10am-4pm
At Birkenhead Town Hall
Hamilton Square CH41 5BR

1 derekdwc
2 Pinzgauer
3 Chriskay
4 Mark
5 rudebox
6 plusone
7 bezzymate
8 Diggingdeeper
9 T.C.
10 Croc
11 Kermit
12 Shadow Omega
13 mattlfc
14 mel
15. Bonzo
16. Shum shum

Looking forward to
this! meet up 12 noon at the war memorial?

Don't forget we will be hunting down the elusive Wirral History & Heritage Association for further Q&A

get your questions ready

Bezzymate don't forget to ask me for directories dvd

can you do me one bud?

Thankyou Derek

What Staff?!!

...with all the council cutbacks, you'll be luck if there's so much as a couple of boyscouts on the door!

Try not to scare 'em too much, eh?!! Dib, dib...

Wirral History & Heritage Fair

Presented by Wirral History & Heritage Association

Saturday 5th March 2011 10am-4pm
At Birkenhead Town Hall
Hamilton Square CH41 5BR

1 derekdwc
2 Pinzgauer
3 Chriskay
4 Mark
5 rudebox
6 plusone
7 bezzymate
8 Diggingdeeper
9 T.C.
10 Croc
11 Kermit
12 Shadow Omega
13 mattlfc
14 mel
15. Bonzo
16. Shum shum

Anymore?

Who wants a name badge?????

I wonder if there would be anyone there at the town hall who could give us a tour of the cellars which rudebox nearly organised last year.

yes please
Hmmmm yerr

Wirral History & Heritage Fair

Presented by Wirral History & Heritage Association

Saturday 5th March 2011 10am-4pm
At Birkenhead Town Hall
Hamilton Square CH41 5BR

1 derekdwc
2 Pinzgauer
3 Chriskay
4 Mark
5 rudebox
6 plusone
7 bezzymate
8 Diggingdeeper
9 T.C.
10 Croc
11 Kermit
12 Shadow Omega
13 mattlfc
14 mel
15. Bonzo
16. Shum shum
17. Don_Quixote

Anymore?

Who wants a name badge?????

Wirral History & Heritage Fair

Presented by Wirral History & Heritage Association

Saturday 5th March 2011 10am-4pm
At Birkenhead Town Hall
Hamilton Square CH41 5BR

1 derekdwc
2 Pinzgauer
3 Chriskay
4 Mark
5 rudebox
6 plusone
7 bezzymate
8 Diggingdeeper
9 T.C.
10 Croc
11 Kermit
12 Shadow Omega
13 mattlfc
14 mel
15. Bonzo
16. Shum shum
17. Don_Quixote
18. Igsy


Anymore?

Who wants a name badge?????

I will be with you guys for about an hour from 1pm..:)

Wirral History & Heritage Fair

Presented by Wirral History & Heritage Association

Saturday 5th March 2011 10am-4pm
At Birkenhead Town Hall
Hamilton Square CH41 5BR

1. derekdwc
2. Pinzgauer
3. Chriskay
4. Mark
5. rudebox
6. plusone
7. bezzymate
8. Diggingdeeper
9. T.C.
10.Croc
11.Kermit
12.Shadow Omega
13.mattlfc
14.GrandMasterFlash
15.Bonzo
16.Shum shum
17.Don_Quixote
18.Igsy
19.Manxcat


Anymore?

Who wants a name badge?????

Badges all done,with spares if anyone else turns up!

I may be early so will see you in there.

can Bluebell have one

Will see you there

i will have stickers with me too.

first post updated.

Of course she can.They are only sticky labels,hope there wont be any dissapointment!

Tatey I will put a label on you when I see you.Hope to be there early too!

Looks like a day out for Care in the Community!!!

See you guys there c.12.30pm

Sorry Bezzy, I've made name badges too for everyone on the list! No reason why we can't wear 2 is there? Rude will have 3!
See you all tomorrow.

Oh how mean,it was my idea!

You are right, it was your idea! With you not saying anything about it again I thought it wasn't happening so I thought i'd make some. I am sorry!

hope you going to introduce yourself and not laugh at us 'badge wearers', from afar!

So you should be too.It was my game.

Oh! Playing games now are we? I'll see you about that tomorrow!!!

Looking forward to tomorrow and wearing my badges. Someone mention about stickers, do we get Wikiwirral stickers..:)

cost £1 each bud!

Nice one, I'll bring some cash

I haven't done you a badge mate, sorry Sir!

yerr joe see you down there bud

Tomorrow is going to be a lotta wikki members there

really sorry i could not stop and chat to you all but i had to be somewhere at 1 oclock.even though it was so quick,it was nice to meet some of you.was not even planning to go to the fair but happened to be driving past at 11 and saw the buses so went for a quick mooch.was trying to spot wiki looking people whilst there before you had any name badges on.so to pinz and chris that is why i was looking at you in the model room of woodside,trying to figure out if you were a wikier or not lol.

All aboard the Wiki bus

Fab!!!
How did you do that??

Very clever and quick too!

nice one mate love it nice to meet up with everyone today

I had good time. It was great to see the usual crew and meet some others. I love the Wikibus photos .

Heres the best of mine from the day.

what was the model of please

i missed it today so thanks for sharing the pics

last 5

The model is of Woodside about 100 years ago

woodside

i missed the u.e.
kev fantastic pics

Thanks,wow woodsides changed a bit

Fab pic, kev
You and crew had left t.c

Nice to have met some of you insane peeps....

Yes, i enjoyed meeting new people, too.

i am really miffed that i could not hang round a bit longer

I had a great time. It was good to meet some fellow Wiki's.

These two outside were on a ciggy break

Great to catch up and also the new faces.
Not sure how i got lost from the bunch but it was a good day, i couldnt stay too long as i had an appointment at 2pm.

But great to catch up.
The wiki bus lol

Had a good day as usual out with the Wikki crew. Looking forward to tomorrow.Great pics aww you missed the underground TC

it was great to meet new poeple

Now, we've just just got to convince them to come on Walks, P.I s' etc! Lol.

and u.e.s

These are the WikiWirral-ers who turned up to the best of my recollection!

Feel free to add your or anyone elses name if you know they were there!

I had a great day and an impromptu visit to the transport museum on the way home rounded the day off to a tee!

Wirral History & Heritage Fair

Presented by Wirral History & Heritage Association

Saturday 5th March 2011 10am-4pm
At Birkenhead Town Hall
Hamilton Square CH41 5BR

1. derekdwc
2. Pinzgauer
3. Chriskay
4. Mark
5. rudebox
6. plusone
7. bezzymate
8. Diggingdeeper
9. T.C.
10.Croc
11.Kermit
12.Shadow Omega
13.mattlfc
14.GrandMasterFlash
15.Bonzo
16.Shum shum
17.Don_Quixote
18.Igsy
19.Manxcat
20.joe
21.PaulWirral
22.Uptoncx

I suspect that the woman on the 'Fort Perch Rock' table was a Wiki
I approached, she clocked my badge, then says (pointing to leaflets), '' we have a ghost talk on, you know''.
Hmmmm

These are the WikiWirral-ers who turned up to the best of my recollection!

Feel free to add your or anyone elses name if you know they were there!

I had a great day and an impromptu visit to the transport museum on the way home rounded the day off to a tee!

Wirral History & Heritage Fair

Presented by Wirral History & Heritage Association

Saturday 5th March 2011 10am-4pm
At Birkenhead Town Hall
Hamilton Square CH41 5BR

1. derekdwc
2. Pinzgauer
3. Chriskay
4. Mark
5. rudebox
6. plusone
7. bezzymate
8. Diggingdeeper
9. T.C.
10.Croc
11.Kermit
12.Shadow Omega
13.mattlfc
14.GrandMasterFlash
15.Bonzo
16.Shum shum
17.Don_Quixote
18.Igsy
19.Manxcat
20.joe
21.PaulWirral
22.Uptoncx
23.Kevinfinity

Is this the biggest Wiki get together yet???

missed that table

Having 'done' Perch Rock I just skirted that table because I didn't want the poor woman telling me things I already knew or giving me incorrect information. (I know, I'm getting above myself)

Hey croc, by my estimation there were also an additional Eight! Wow, 30 odd of us!
I reckon that qualifies us for our own table, next year.
I also think that there will be new members, to welcome, over the next few days, as a result of the badges.

These are the WikiWirral-ers who turned up to the best of my recollection!

Feel free to add your or anyone elses name if you know they were there!

I had a great day and an impromptu visit to the transport museum on the way home rounded the day off to a tee!

Wirral History & Heritage Fair

Presented by Wirral History & Heritage Association

Saturday 5th March 2011 10am-4pm
At Birkenhead Town Hall
Hamilton Square CH41 5BR

1. derekdwc
2. Pinzgauer
3. Chriskay
4. Mark
5. rudebox
6. plusone
7. bezzymate
8. Diggingdeeper
9. T.C.
10.Croc
11.Kermit
12.Shadow Omega
13.mattlfc
14.GrandMasterFlash
15.Bonzo
16.Shum shum
17.Don_Quixote
18.Igsy
19.Manxcat
20.joe
21.PaulWirral
22.Uptoncx
23.Kevinfinity
24.bluebell
25.Jadee

Is this the biggest Wiki get together yet???

great day
some pics

haha! I got loads of info, of upcoming events/ walks, from various stalls. (Including fort p.)
Thought it best to 'filter' them in 'Up and Coming', date according coz otherwise, they will get 'lost/ forgotten'.

Great stuff Degs.

Great pics, derek!

nice pics derek mate yerrr the wiki bus

These are the WikiWirral-ers who turned up to the best of my recollection!

Feel free to add your or anyone elses name if you know they were there!

I had a great day and an impromptu visit to the transport museum on the way home rounded the day off to a tee!

Wirral History & Heritage Fair

Presented by Wirral History & Heritage Association

Saturday 5th March 2011 10am-4pm
At Birkenhead Town Hall
Hamilton Square CH41 5BR

1. derekdwc
2. Pinzgauer
3. Chriskay
4. Mark
5. rudebox
6. plusone
7. bezzymate
8. Diggingdeeper
9. T.C.
10.Croc
11.Kermit
12.Shadow Omega
13.mattlfc
14.GrandMasterFlash
15.Bonzo
16.Shum shum
17.Don_Quixote
18.Igsy
19.Manxcat
20.joe
21.PaulWirral
22.Uptoncx
23.Kevinfinity
24.bluebell
25.Jadee
26.Bandicoot




Is this the biggest Wiki get together yet???

a couple more

We were there too !

Great pics Derek.
Proof that you and Plus# found the bar!

These are the WikiWirral-ers who turned up to the best of my recollection!

Feel free to add your or anyone elses name if you know they were there!

I had a great day and an impromptu visit to the transport museum on the way home rounded the day off to a tee!

Wirral History & Heritage Fair

Presented by Wirral History & Heritage Association

Saturday 5th March 2011 10am-4pm
At Birkenhead Town Hall
Hamilton Square CH41 5BR

1. derekdwc
2. Pinzgauer
3. Chriskay
4. Mark
5. rudebox
6. plusone
7. bezzymate
8. Diggingdeeper
9. T.C.
10.Croc
11.Kermit
12.Shadow Omega
13.mattlfc
14.GrandMasterFlash
15.Bonzo
16.Shum shum
17.Don_Quixote
18.Igsy
19.Manxcat
20.joe
21.PaulWirral
22.Uptoncx
23.Kevinfinity
24.bluebell
25.Jadee
26.Bandicoot
27. Nienna




Is this the biggest Wiki get together yet???

Who's we?

With us all walking round with our wiki badges on the forum has been well advertised. I had a few people noticing my wiki badge, bar the one or two who thought I was staff.

Today was my first outing and I am proud to part of a great community forum.

Check Facebook matey!

Nienna and family.

It was an interesting day.. we didnt see any one with Wiki badges though.
We have a wiki sticker in our car window.. would be great to meet some other members.

we were all standing next to you in a big crowd when you walked up to mark for you stickers, if that was you

Come tomorrow guys!

https://www.wikiwirral.co.uk/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/481014/Re_wirral_railways.html#Post481014

It's a great day out and some exercise!

We were given the car sticker a while back from a member on here who bought a DVD from us.I cant remember his name..but he seemed to do a lot on the forum and gave us the sticker!

We didnt seem to recognise any one from pics that we have seen on here.

Nienna, maybe join us on walks? Family and child friendly.

oh so it was nt you

we all stock out like sore thumbs lol

We would love to do a walk sometime.. tomorrow is out though as we have a few things on including a wiki member coming to pick up something.... but one of the other walks would be great and I will keep checking.

There is one on the 27 march to port sunlight

The port sunlight one looks good!

How long is the walk and where does the route go etc.

I suppose there is also an obligatory 'watering hole' stop too sometime lol!

Its normally just a couple of hours, not normally an alcoholic beverage in the local only on the pub meets to discuss the next ghost hunts they are fun

2 hours max queen

Meet at the Bidge Inn, wander about for 2 hours or so, there is no regimented route. The watering hole stop is none obligatory but often recomended.

The pub meets are where we stock up on beverages!

Thanks for the info...where about do you all meet?

Just to go off topic.. not sure where to put this .. but after the hertage fair we went to the Williamson art gallery and although the majority of it is closed at the momentt due to roof repairs.. they do have a very good exhibition of local scenes by a local artist called Alan Mackay.
Sadly he died in 2008 but his works are outstanding and he was so talented, he also had to deal with having autism... so he was indeed a remarkable man.

As I am newish not sure where to put this info on here so any mods please move it if needed... but if you love the old scenes of Birkenhead and Liverpool and appreciate a brilliant artistic talent then do go along and see the exhibtion!

2 hours max. Don't think we've ever visited a Pub?
Oh yes-just the once after last years Haymarket walk, for one.
Generally, we wander, as opposed to a Miliatary Hike!
Its relaxing, a 'switch off' and everybody is welcome!

it was me but i had to run off quickly,shook a couple of hands and then went

Ahhh so it was you, its nice to put faces to names

I took my Mum around there yesterday. Didn't see anyone with a Wiki badge on. But then it was quite busy. Where do you get the Wiki car stickers from?

TC had some this week. Check out this thread and drop TC a line and I'm sure he'll sort you out when he gets any more


https://www.wikiwirral.co.uk/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/414097/3.html

Thanks

Felt more like the Great Escape!

These are the WikiWirral-ers who turned up to the best of my recollection!

Feel free to add your or anyone elses name if you know they were there!

I had a great day and an impromptu visit to the transport museum on the way home rounded the day off to a tee!

Wirral History & Heritage Fair

Presented by Wirral History & Heritage Association

Saturday 5th March 2011 10am-4pm
At Birkenhead Town Hall
Hamilton Square CH41 5BR

1. derekdwc
2. Pinzgauer
3. Chriskay
4. Mark
5. rudebox
6. plusone
7. bezzymate
8. Diggingdeeper
9. T.C.
10.Croc
11.Kermit
12.Shadow Omega
13.mattlfc
14.GrandMasterFlash
15.Bonzo
16.Shum shum
17.Don_Quixote
18.Igsy
19.Manxcat
20.joe
21.PaulWirral
22.Uptoncx
23.Kevinfinity
24.bluebell
25.Jadee
26.Bandicoot
27.Tatey
28.phalinmegob
29.Paranoid Balloon
30.Nienna
31.
32.



Is this the biggest Wiki get together yet???

Did anyone take a pic of the inflatable dinghy, underwater camera, and the elderly bearded chap outside.
Got talking to him and found he was an Archaeologist or did diving for them all over the world.
His group are hoping to find a roman port on Wirral maybe round the Meols area.
What had me thinking was when he told me about king William using over 200 ships anchored off Hoylake to take his army across to Ireland.
He told he had swum underground from top of Beaufort Road( where the Birkett ends up) to the docks
He was 75 and still did the odd Archaeology dives.

Am only sorry the show was packing up and didn't have more time to chat with him.
Anyone know who he was?

You missed me out for the Saturday one,I met Pinzgauer & Chriskay just as we were leaving.

I wasn't at the event, so didn't meet the archaeologist guy you talk about, but it sounds like he might be part of the McDonalds Marine/Wirral Archaeology group. They have a web-site if you're interested in checking.

I can say for certain that they're the people looking for the Roman Fort.

Good stuff that mate a i got a pic

Well Done TC.

I looked at the rib but thought it was RNLI so I just moved on, I was at the archaeology group table, having a look at some shell shrapnel, didn't get chance to talk as they were busy with showing some lady the finds they had on show, I heard certain professors name mentioned over some lead, so I thought not today and wondered off to see the guy at the merchant navy radio operators stand, who I am doing something for, I hadn't realised I'd joined Cameron's big society.

Was good to meet so many of you on Saturday. Thanks for the lift, DD.

You're more than welcome, its great to see you and Pinz when you're around.

confirmed they were McDonalds Marine/Wirral Archaeology group by TCs' pic with yellow jacket in dinghy.
Fairly sure he said port and not fort they were looking for

You're right derek. Amongst other things, the group are attempting to survey the original port and village of Meols.

That said, I thought Peter France mentioned in one his newspaper articles that a Roman 'fort' may have also existed near Meols. Maybe I just dreamt that bit...

Met these guys, nice chaps. They think (as far as I am aware) that Portus Setantiorum - a lost port described on Ptolomy's map of Britain may be situated at Meols - hence their search in that area.

Obviously without this connection, Meols has been an important site from at least the Iron Age, so here's hoping they pick something up. There's obviously a settlement off the coast, but I don't know enough about marine archaeology to say how they're planning to map it.

Couldn't resist a dit or two on the morse key and looks like I'm getting roped in for Perch Rock "Thetis" exhibit and the radio room. Ah well, it'll give me something to do.

.-. .-.

They had a laptop showing a cracking picture of the Peninsula and it showed that the river Mersey came out at West Kirby with a lot of land on the seaward side joined up to Lancashire, as I said I had to give up because they were busy.

--.- .-. ..-
.- .-.

...oh, no!! As if we don't have enough problems understanding peoples text speech on wiki, now we've got morse code! lol!!

Anyone tell me when the Thetis exhibition is on at Perch Rock, or has it already started?

(Interesting comment about the River Mersey, davew3. Thanks for that. Just sorry I missed it all.)

Nice pic of my boat, specially with the people in the background.
I'm looking for the port first and hoping to find a fort somewhere close by, it's turning out to be a huge project.
For those who asked it's Bernie McDonald who was with the boat, he keeps trying to claim he's retired
The project is through McDonalds Marine, and yes I know I have a very similar boat to the RNLI.

How did you find us Ruth?

Welcome Ruth...

Thanks for confirming the fort thing. I was starting to think I'd imagined it!

Hope you're going to be filming all this for the Discovery Channel?!!

Welcome to wikiwirral.
I enjoyed talking briefly to Bernie McDonald at the show.
Besides meeting other wiki members I thought it one of my highlights of my day.
Where did you dig up the guards of your boat - the Cheshire Redcoats?
Being cheeky here could you post a pic here for us of the laptop pic and keep us informed some time of your progress at Meols.

Welcome Ruth, if your boat had had a big sign saying "we are using this boat to look for a fort off Meols coast" then I think your boat and the gentleman who was looking after it would have had lots more attention from the Wiki gang and the people who went to the town hall,even though the RLNI is a good and a real charity to support, I think with charites advertising on tv and getting in your way at the supermarkets and on the High st is starting to numb people including me.
I'am more interested in the fort and ask could you start a topic on the history forum for us about it.

Ruth, I think you've been googling your own name again to find this website!

Dean

btw....I emailed you the TW geophys....did you get it?

Bernie MacDonald. Taught me to SCUBA dive at BSAC Guinea Gap baths before I went commercial. He used to have a dive shop in Prescott Road Liverpool. The lady (Sue) at the desk inside is (I think) his daughter. He invited me to come out & play sometime!

I reckon it is a permanent exhibit anyway. Been asked to get involved up there so going to give it a go once the bloke gets in touch with me. That's what I get for going to the Wirral History day.

Ongoing from that day and the little sit on the bus, found my bus conductor badge but can't find my driver badge. I'll have to keep looking.

That's me just back home for the first time since the History Fair. Went from Birkenhead to Chateau ChrisKay's for a pleasant break - Thanks Chris !

It was great to meet up with some of the crowd on Saturday and put some faces to names. I for one enjoyed the Fair. Plenty to see and more than enough info to (try and) absorb ! Got dozens of leaflets to read sometime.

There really are times when I wished I lived a bit nearer "home" !!
For those who haven't yet been, Gallagher's Pub (Chester St.?) is highly recommended. A good pint, great pub, friendly folk. I didn't indulge in a short back and sides whilst there. Too bloody cold outside!

Thanks to all for making it a great day.

So Stan waylaid you as well

Ah nice to meet you too.

Gallaghers is a nice small pub, very friendly, some of us brave one's went there a few weeks back

has anyone here investigated mill street barracks.