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Posted By: bert1 1961 photo - 7th Jul 2011 10:34am
What was the name of the (marked) flats?
Anyone who's not familiar, they where across the road from Lairds, where the petrol station and car sales are.now. The pic must have been taken from around the Mersey Park area.

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Posted By: derekdwc Re: 1961 photo - 7th Jul 2011 10:36am
Always knew them as Green Lane flats - ther's some pics somewhere on wikiwirral.
Quite a few British Leather employees lived in them
Posted By: bert1 Re: 1961 photo - 7th Jul 2011 10:38am
I always thought they had a name, like something buildings, that sort of thing.
Posted By: derekdwc Re: 1961 photo - 7th Jul 2011 10:51am
There were 3 brothers Derek, Lennie and Alan Taylor who lived there who worked at the Tannery.
I think Kimprii knows one who he could ask
Posted By: yoller Re: 1961 photo - 7th Jul 2011 8:55pm
Derekdwc is right. Although they may well have had a formal name, I think they were always known as Green Lane Flats.
Posted By: Spellbinder Re: 1961 photo - 8th Jul 2011 5:45am
I can't remember what we called them but a mate of mine - John Pritchard - used to live there. That would be mid/late '50s.

Posted By: bert1 Re: 1961 photo - 8th Jul 2011 5:54am
The postal address for them would have been New Chester rd i would imagine, i have heard the name of them, just forgotten what it was, it was easy to call them Green Lane flats, thats understandable, while we are in the area, Green Lane station is not in Green Lane, That bit of road is Old Chester Rd.
Posted By: marty99fred Re: 1961 photo - 8th Jul 2011 10:58am
Can't find any evidence on OS maps of them having a name - they're just marked as 14-96 New Chester Road.
Posted By: bert1 Re: 1961 photo - 9th Jul 2011 10:46am
Thanks Marty, i can only think perhaps it was a nickname given by the local natives though i thought i had seen the name mentioned on here in the past.
Posted By: Erainn Re: 1961 photo - 10th Jul 2011 8:29am
Green Lane, indeed, with a heavy brush of irony.

My parents lived in them.
Posted By: jenscho Re: 1961 photo - 15th Jul 2011 9:05pm
My dad said they didn't have a formal name, just green lane flats. He lived in number 123!
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