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Posted By: derekdwc New Ferry picture query - 13th Aug 2009 3:41pm
Can anyone date this picture and tell me the name of the pub on the corner (not the bank that is now Shillings)

possibles

Letters Inn to New Chester Rd to New Ferry
Toll Bar, Wirral New Chester Road, Wirral, Merseyside
Wynstay New Chester Road New Ferry Toll Bar
Travellers Rest New Ferry Road
New Ferry Hotel 195 New Ferry Road

Attached picture New Ferry resized.jpg
Posted By: scoops Re: New Ferry picture query - 13th Aug 2009 4:34pm
It's not the Toll Bar or the Travellers rest.
The Toll bar is now Alice's Place over the road from the Farmers Arms (which I believe was the original site for the actual toll bar) and the Travellers Rest was about 100 yards down New Ferry Road from the junction.
Posted By: Anonymous Re: New Ferry picture query - 13th Aug 2009 5:06pm
The clue in in the sign post that is pointing to New Ferry Pier. As the area is quite built up the only road then is to the right could only be "Tollbar Corner" leading to "New Ferry Road" and to the left of the sign post is "Bebington Road".

As for the date - the electric tram puts the date after Nov 1900 (when it was introduced on to the New Ferry route) but there is a horse drawn tram as well. This puts the date before Jan 1901 (when the last horse drawn tram was withdrawn). I don't think I could narrow that date even more!
Posted By: scoops Re: New Ferry picture query - 13th Aug 2009 5:41pm
A quick check and I can add it's definitely not the New Ferry Hotel. That would be at the other end of the road.
The building in question used to be an office of Roberts Moore Nicholas Jones solicitors and a quick check shows that their New Ferry address was Wynnstay House 51 New Chester Road.
So that's my guess as to the name laugh
Posted By: phalinmegob Re: New Ferry picture query - 13th Aug 2009 5:47pm
the electric trams were very frequent in that picture
Posted By: scoops Re: New Ferry picture query - 13th Aug 2009 5:49pm
Well they would be. The depot was just round the corner wink
Posted By: Anonymous Re: New Ferry picture query - 13th Aug 2009 5:58pm
Here is a map of the area that I think the pic is taken from:-
I circled the crossroads..

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Posted By: scoops Re: New Ferry picture query - 13th Aug 2009 6:01pm
Yep that's spot on Paul. Exactly the right place laugh
Posted By: yoller Re: New Ferry picture query - 14th Aug 2009 4:25pm
I'm certain the pub is the Wynnstay Arms, which closed in the early 1970s. The building later became a solicitors' office, I think.
Posted By: madhat Re: New Ferry picture query - 14th Aug 2009 6:41pm
wynnstay arms i know this because my mates mum and dad run it the houghtons
Posted By: chris7777 Re: New Ferry picture query - 14th Aug 2009 10:15pm
It's the Wynnstay!
Posted By: Trearan Re: New Ferry picture query - 1st Nov 2009 3:39am
Just go to www.newferryonline.org.uk and look in the Memories & Photos section. You will see loads of photos of the same view through the last 110 years.
Posted By: kaycee Re: New Ferry picture query - 27th Jan 2010 10:46am
I agree it is the Wynstay much altered when i drank ther in the 50s.Sing-songs on Sat.nights with blind Tom on the accordian
Posted By: Rhoobarb Re: New Ferry picture query - 25th Oct 2011 5:17pm
The Letters, or the Bents as it was known as was on the left a little further down the road.
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