Where on the Wirral am i?

I have just under 120 pictures of the wirral in days gone by,
and i wanted to share them with you. There all at least 50+ years
and in Black and white.
So i thought that if anyone has a modern picture of the same place to get some comparisons up, of how its changed.

Or 50 years in is it just the same ?

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1 - 1930s Rodney Street, Birkenhead
2 - 1940s Central Hotel, Birkenhead, with George V Clock
3 - Looks like New Brighton Baths in back ground
4 - New Brighton Tower Building after Tower was demolished.
5 - Grange Road West the corner building on the Left is Bargain Booze
6 - Kings Land and Old Chester Road Bebington
7 - The Halfway House in Prenton
8 - 1950 Allansons, Grange Road, Birkenhead. Beatties took over the building in 1960
9 - Tunnel Entrance in birkenhead 1950 in the background you can see the Old Birkenhead Market
10 - The Park Hotel in grange road know dickie lewis. Think its changing names again dunno?
11 - Dock road in Birkenhead 1963 with Stone Maganeses and the Flour mills.
12 - Argyle Street 1961 looking towards Hamilton Square and the ABC Cinema now Rileys Snooker Hall
13 - Argyle Street 1950s looking towards Woodside
14 - Argyle Street Theatre 1900's
15 - Duke Street Bridge notice the Steam driven Lorrie ? 1920s
16 - 1948 Corporation Road in Birkenhead Looking towards Penny Bridge and the J Rank mill.
17. Dock road in birkenhead 1960 showing Stone Maganese Marine
18 - 1900's Oxtone Village
19 - 1961 Shore Road Pumping Station and showing the Old Steam Chimney looking up towards Hamilton Square
20 - 1965 Home Farm Road in Wood Church showing the Church in the Distance
21 - Lees Tapastry Works showing the Dock cottages.. The Tapastry work site is know Kwik Save (Somerfields) also in the Picture birkenhead north railway Station 1948
22 - 1960 Charing Cross Birkenhead the pole used to be greased in the middle as Revlers every New Year climbed it there where also toilets on the Roundabout and the Grange pub is now Mcdonalds
23 - 1954 WoodSide Ferry Terminal the huge ship is the Reina Del Pacifico
24 - 1910 New Chest Road in Rock Ferry
25 - The dock cottages which is Know Illchester Sqaure in the North End the big huge field by St James Church. 1900s. My grandad was born here
26 - 1940s Old Chester Road Bebington
27 - Bidston Hill showing Observatory 1940's
28 - Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight also showing the Fountain infront of the Building. 1930's
29 - 1963 Maternity Hospital in Grange Mount it was demolished in 2002
30 - 1930s Woodchurch Road In Birkenhead see the halfway house in the distance
31 - Bidston Church on the way to the Ford Estate 1940s
32 - Seacombe Ferry
33 - Wallasey Village i think ?
35 - Brombourgh Brown Cow i believe
34 - Bebinton Rd : You can see Bebington Railway Bridge.
36 - Seacombe Ferry
37 - Liscard the picture is takin outside the Wellington on the corner of Seaview Road
39 - Moreton Cross
40 - Tower inn in liscard there should be huge block flats there lol
41 - Grange Road in West Kirby, looking towards the train station.
42 - Birkenhead North train Station
43 - Heswall
44 - Lever Brothers in Port Sunlight.
45 - Seacombe Ferry Terminal
46 - Storeton quarry
47 - mariners home on egremont prom
48 - Frankby Rd in Greasby. Looking on to Greasby Rd.
49 - Lady Lever Art Gallery
50 - Storeton quarry
51 - Hoylake Beach - Meols
52 - New Brighton baths i believe
53 - CO-OP in Liscard i believe its where Wilkinsons is not possitvely sure but its in Liscard
54 - By the looks of that its near the end of Kings Parade in Hoylake
55 - Castle Buildings, Telegraph Road, Heswall
56 - Bromborough Cross
57 - This is Pensby Road, in Pensby.
58 - Looks like eastham Village
59 - Parkgate
60 - Moreton Cross.
61 - Thorton Hough.
62 - Eastham Village : St Johns Rd.
63 - This is Little Neston.
64 - Rake Lane, Liscard
65 - Neston Cottage Hospital
66 - From Seabank road looking at Manor road.
67 - "The Boat House", bingo Parkgate.
68 - Hoylake Road looking towards Moreton Cross
69 - Central Park Wallasey and thats the Lake.
70 - Bidston Hill Windmill
71 - Bidston Hill Windmill
72 - Bidston Wind Mill.
73 - Raby Mere
74 - Raby Mere
75 - Williston Windmill
76 - is looking down Red Hill Road on Storeton hill
77 - Hilsbre Island
78 - Raby Mere
79 - Looks like Eastham Ferry
80 - Where am I?
81 - Fox and hound in the Barnston Dip
82 - Raby Mere
83 - Raby Mere in the 1930's.
84 - Wheatsheaf in Ness.
85 - This is Laird Street looking down from St James Church
86 - ABC Cinema in Argyle Street this is know Rileys Snooker Club
87 - This is Devonshire Road 1900's in birkenhead.
88 - 1900's Conway Street birkenhead on the Right you can see Shi*locks on the left you can see what is know the ABC Chemist in the distance you can see Ritzy Theatre (old mecca bingo hall)
89 - Alexandra Garage in Conway Street Birkenhead i believe this is where Europa boulveard is where the Road towards Conway Park Station (not 100% sure)
90 - 1962 Grange Road, Coburg Street birkenhead This is not here anymore and the Pyramids shopping centre is situated here.
91 - <Duplicate>
92 - 1940s Old Chester Road Bebington on the Junction of Tower Lane
93 - Shore Road Pumping Station
94 - <Duplicate>
96 - 1940s Slatley Road Police Station
97 - Grange Road West looking up towards Grange Mount
98 - Birkenhead Central Libarary on Borough Road
99 - Bebington Rd, New Ferry.
100 - Bouncing Bicycles - New Brighton Tower Grounds
101 - 1958 Oak and Eldon Gardens in birkenhead the site know occpys the Job Centre Plus and hordan house on Price Street.
102 - Birkenhead Park you can see the Boathouse in the Back Ground.
103 - Hamilton Square in birkenhead. Picture probaly taken from Town Hall.
104 - Hamilton Square again. Picture taken probaly from one of the Buildings near Hamilton street going down towards HSBC Bank.
105 - Birkenhead Park the bridge you see is know back as a Replica so you can Cross the Swiss Bridge.
106 - Picture from the Swiss bridge which is know reopen again.
107 - 1948 Old Bidston Road Our Ladys school know occupys this Site.
108 - Cammel Lairds, Birkehead 1961 liverpool water front can be seen in the distance..
109 - This is Rock Lane West in Rock Ferry You can see the Railway bridge and on the Corner is Wirral Tool Hire (the gate on the left)
110 - Slatey Road in Birkenhead this is Looking Towards the Walker Art Gallery...
111 - This is the Penny Bridge in birkenhead this Bridge no Longer charges a Penny but it got its name after the Owners put the Price from ha'penny to a penny.
112 - This is Duke Street bridge looking towards Birkenhead Park early 1920s
113 - Duke Street birkenhead 1948
114 - 1900's Village road in Oxton
115 - Woodside Ferry Terminal 1950
116 - Old Chester Road in Birkenhead 1959


Start you off with some easy ones

Picture 1.


Picture 2.


Picture 3.


With a bit of luck and your help i can find out where they all are,
and if any one is keen enough to show a modern day picture of the same place

Don't worry any of your 2007 pictures will look funny in 50 years too lol..

Argyle street?
Hamilton square?
New Brighton?

1. Argyle street? I only took a picture of this the other day aswell in exactly the same place, and if it is, I'll post it.

2. Roundabout by Central Station.

3. New Brighton? Is that taken when the Promenade Rally Stage was on? lol

I also have quite a few old'un pics myself, i'll have to dig them out and post them too

1. Argyle street?

But is it as i first though that too,
The Picture "Argyle Street" doesnt have the side road
from green lane?

Unless its behind the one i'm thinking of?


2. Central Station Roundabout
3. New Brighton (The Grass Flats)

So 2 are correct for sure, so here are 2 more.

Picture 4.


Picture 5.


Picture 4, where and if you know what's happening ?

Thats what I thought, should have Hinderton Road coming off it unless its one of the other roads parrallel with Argyle Street South? They all look the same lol

4. New Brighton when it used to have the tower?

Ive seen numebr 5 before...Grange Road West. The shop on the left hand side on the corner is now a bargain booze. The building in the far distance in the middle is still there, tis the pub/club opposite maccies in town.

Wonder if motor world used to be there on the right too? lol

1. Still not sure ?
4. Isn't that The Victoria Hotel at New Brighton.

2. Central Station Roundabout
3. New Brighton (The Grass Flats)
5. Grange road west



Picture 6


Picture 7

6) woodchurch road by the swan pub ?
7) halfway house pub at top of woodchurch road

the white building in picture 3 is the open air swimmin baths in new brighton....

6) looks like what Steve said, but I'm not certain. I think it's in Bebington by the Kings Pub looking up towards Old Chester Road
7) Halfway House



ahh yeah, I've heard so many family stories about them baths when they were kids lol

When did they disappear?

yeh lookin at no6 again think ur right, buildin at the top of hill over junction is firs cameras now...

pic 6 is defo the kings love all the old pics

Trying to pin the Locations Down

======= More Info Needed ===============
1. Still not sure ?
4. Isn't that The Victoria Hotel at New Brighton.

======= Correct ===============
2. Central Station Roundabout
3. Open air swimming baths in new Brighton
5. Grange road west
6) Woodchurch road by the swan pub ?
7) halfway house pub at top of Woodchurch road

Picture 8


Picture 9


Picture 10


Well Done Peeps, if you have any upto date pictures
of the same places that would be great

me nan says that pic 4 is deffo the tower grounds in new brighton. an is pic 10 were dickie louise's is now i b/head?

I thouight it was Dickie Lewis'? not Louise? lol

Not sure where 8 is, but at a wild guess, where beaties is today?

9 is the queensway tunnel entrance

10 is as kris said, Dickie Lewis' - accross the road from maccies in town


I'll have to go down to these places and try and get pics from the same angle.

Will be interesting to see how many things have changed and how many things haven't!

======= More Info Needed ===============
1. Still not sure ?
8. Not Sure

======= Correct ===============
2. Central Station Roundabout
3. Open air swimming baths in new Brighton.
4. the tower grounds in new Brighton
5. Grange road west
6) Woodchurch road by the swan pub ?
7) halfway house pub at top of Woodchurch road
9 Queensway tunnel entrance (Wirral Side)
10 Dickie Lewis' - accross the road from maccies in town

Picture 1


Picture 8


8. Beaties in Birkenhead?? Guessing

yep pic 8 is beaties

======= More Info Needed ===============
1. Still not sure ?




======= Correct ===============
2. Central Station Roundabout
3. Open air swimming baths in new Brighton.
4. the tower grounds in new Brighton
5. Grange road west
6) Woodchurch road by the swan pub ?
7) halfway house pub at top of Woodchurch road
8) Beaties - Birkenhead
9 Queensway tunnel entrance (Wirral Side)
10 Dickie Lewis' - across the road from maccies in town

Picture 11


Picture 12


Picture 13

13 feever in birkenhead??
14 deffo argle st

11 - No idea - I'm guess the docks or somewhere like that

12 - Argyle Street - Now Rileys

13 - Argyle Street South....

Now


Then

The old pic looks so much better, no cars, snow.. now, cars, rubish and global warming lol

======= More Info Needed ===============
1. Still not sure ???
11 - Beaufort Road / Birkenhead North ????

======= Correct ===============
2. Central Station Roundabout
3. Open air swimming baths in new Brighton.
4. the tower grounds in new Brighton
5. Grange road west
6) Woodchurch road by the swan pub ?
7) halfway house pub at top of Woodchurch road
8) Beaties - Birkenhead
9 Queensway tunnel entrance (Wirral Side)
10 Dickie Lewis' - across the road from maccies in town
12 - Argyle Street - Now Rileys
13 - Argyle Street South....

Picture 14


Picture 15


Picture 16

Our Marks childhood pics!!

14 - Argyle Street (again)

15 - One of the 4 bridges (duke street?)

16 - Wallasey Somewhere? By where tate and lyle is now??

I've been told that in picture 4 of New Brighton by the tower, to the right of it there is a guy on a stall who guessed your weight for a couple of pence.
Aparantly, he was useless lol

pmsl hahahha, these pictures are amazin.

======= More Info / Confirmation Needed ==========
1. Argyle street?
15 - One of the 4 bridges (duke street?)

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Picture 17


Picture 18


Picture 19



Picture 11 Beaufort Road (Double Rail Tracks)
Picture 16 is a picture from the bottom of Beaufort Road Its taken from where the Police Custody suit is now.
Picture 17 is an overhead of Picture 11 Beaufort Road.

15 - One of the 4 bridges (duke street)
19 - woodside bus depo
an me nan thinks pic 18 could be grange road

we love your nan

So 15 is Duke Street Then?

number 1 is rodney street next to argle street ;D

I think 15 is Tower Road, not Duke street - by the Ireland Ferry Terminal.

11, 16 and 17, Beaufort Road as you say Mark - the tracks are still there too.

18 - Possibly Grange Road West?

19 - Woodside bus depot

pic 15 is the duke street 1 by the door stoor coz that little building is a cafe now a think

Yeah, pic 15, it's Tower Road not Duke Street thats where the café is now.

======= More Info Needed ===============
18 - ?

======= Correct ===============
1 - Rodney street next to Argyle street South.
2 - Central Station Roundabout. (Birkenhead)
3 - Open air swimming baths in new Brighton.
4 - The tower grounds in new Brighton.
5 - Grange road west
6 - Woodchurch road by the swan pub.
7 - Halfway house pub at top of Woodchurch road
8 - Beaties - Birkenhead
9 - Queensway tunnel entrance (Wirral Side)
10 - Dickie Lewis' - across the road from maccies in town(Charing Cross)
16 - Beaufort Road - (North End)
12 - Argyle Street - Now Rileys
13 - Argyle Street South....
14 - Argyle Street
15 - Duke Street that's where the café is now. (not Tower Road)
16 - Corporation Road - Looking up Beaufort Road - (North End)
17 - Beaufort Road - (North End)
18 - ?
19 - Woodside bus depo

Picture 20


Picture 21


Picture 22

pic 20 is on the woody by asda .dono the name of the road
pic 21 is by saint james rounderbout
pic 22 by grange rd west?

Is your nan still awake ?

22. You looked at the sign post ! (Its Charing Cross, when it used to have a round about)

na shes in bed lol an yeh a did look at the sign post

20 - WoodChurch Road - The woody by asda
21 - Stanley Rd - by St James Church / Roundabout
22 - Charing Cross, when it used to have a round about. (Birkenhead)

Picture 23



Picture 24



Picture 25

I agree with 20, 21 and 22

23 - Woodside Bus Depot/Ferry Terminal

24 - Old Chester Road

25 - I hath no idea!

Picture 25 is somwhere around the Woodside ferry terminal and Hamilton Square area.

24. i dont think i would have got that one, where about on old chester road is it?

Sorry, I meant New Chester Road. Church is on your left as you head towards bromborough way.

Just before New Ferry it is.

I only know that cas I've seen the picture before and it had the filename of where it is lol

pic 24 is suposidly new chester road...!

whe wifes grandad was sayin the church is were the doctors is now (riverside) the drs still have the steaple in the garden of the drs...

opposite were scoobys garage was

Picture 26


Picture 27


Picture 28


Picture 29


See the First post for the complete list.

Picture 18. ->> Any Idea's ? (Grange Road)
Picture 25. ->> Any Idea's ?

27 is bidston hill lol

26 eastham ferry ??
27)bidston hill by observatory
28)lady lever art gallery
29)grange mount maternity hospital

18)claughton village (or is it oxton, always get the 2 mixed up)

On the top of Bidston Hill its kind of overgrown nowadays:

26 looks like bhead park to me by the main entrance

27 Bidston Hill observatory

28 Lady Lever Art Gallery

29 Grange mount maternity hospital - Its been knocked down now

I remember about 10 years ago when it was derelict going inside it and smashing things up (as you do when you're a kid lol)

Just Grouping the Misfits ?

26 . I think looks like Noctorum, or the Ford, the long bottom road. But i can see houses to the right in the distance
so i guess it not then

Picture 26.


Picture 18 ?


Picture 25 ?




18 - Possibly Grange Road West?

Picture 25
is somwhere around the Woodside ferry terminal and Hamilton Square area.

18)claughton village (or is it oxton, always get the 2 mixed up)

Next Bunch of 3

Picture 30.


Picture 31.


Picture 32


Picture 18 ??
Picture 25 ??
Picture 26 ??

Picture 30 is possibly Hoylake?? There isnt much to go to be honest.
Picture 31 is the church in Bidston Village.
Picture 32 is Seacombe Ferry terminal.

I agree with Matty.

No idea of 18, 25 and 26

Picture 33


Picture 34


Picture35


Picture 18 ??
Picture 25 ??
Picture 26 ??
Picture 30 ??

Picture 34 is deffo the road leading down towards bebington train station taken from up nearer the butchers.

26 is the road leading down towards the oval.

The Brown Cow is on Bromborough Road. It might just be called the Cow now.

33 looks like wallasey village, the lighthouse pub is just past the church.

18 is oxton

Picture 18.

Where about? i cant picture it?

Hang on i can now.. Isn't the Shrewsbury Arms around the
corner keeping to the left pavement in the picture?

So that Picture is looking up Rose Mount Rd.
And the Road to the Right is Village Rd.
That's what Auto Route tells me?

34 = Bebinton Rd : You can see Bebington Railway Bridge.
26 = Old Chester Road : Is the Road Leading to the Oval
18 = Oxton Village : Rose Mount Road.

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Place and Location ?

25 ??
30 ??
33 ??

Picture 36.


Picture 37.


Picture 38.


Places and Locations More Info please ?

25 ??
30 ??
33 ??

wow those pictures are great. I dont know any sorry.

37 = Liscard, Burtons is now Lyodds TSB.
36 maybee seacombe ferry??? anyone?

I would have had 37 as Morton Cross, but i think your right.

38. is either somewhere in Pensby or Greasby Rd in Greasby. Looking on to Frankby Rd.

I'm getting the road names from Auto Route, i'm not that good

36- seacombe ferrie
37- liscard
38-looking on 2 frankby road an there is a car sales place there now

25 ??
30 ??
33 ??

First post updated thanks everyone, great work,
and there are more.

Picture 39.


Picture 40.


Picture 41.

39-moreton cross

You picking the easy ones again lol.

Lol I have no idea with these ones

i was thinking that.

it was the only 1 a could gess an me nan was out lol

me nan was out, you crack me up.

Picture 42.


Picture 43


Picture 44


25 ??
30 ??
33 ??
40 ??
41 ??

nope, i dont recognise any of them??

Kris, get your nan on the case!

29 = Grange Mount Maternity Hospital Grange Mount (Off Grange Road west)

43 Brombrough Village

MAAAAAAAAAAARK

need more pics the oldies are naggin for more rofl

Picture 45


Picture 46


Picture 47


25 ??
30 ??
33 ??
40 ??
41 ??
42 ??
43 Bromborough Village
44 ??

45 is the bus depot in seacome, 46 is the entrance being built to the mersey tunnel, 47 is a couple of old todgers after a gang bang

Since nobody else has got it, ill give the game away, 44 is Lever Brothers in Port Sunlight.

47 has the word "Hume" in the brick work
i cant work out the rest.

42 looks West Kirby ish??

Your right Mark, 42 looks like West Kirby station, but I am wondering where the old joint line is, as it should be visable, but isnt???

I agree with Andy about 45 and 46.

47 is a bit of a mystery, it looks like it could be an ex-military or police mans club or similar. It could just be aco-incindence that thos gentlement are seated outside that building though. Im pretty sure it says Home not Hume on the building. The building to the right also looks very modern, so I would assume the photo is within the last 40 or so years.

wonder if its hume hall in port sunlight

I will re do the list as soon as i get time,
Or if someone wants to do the latest list and missing pics?
but just to keep you on your toes 5 more.


Picture 48


Picture 49


Picture 50


Picture 51


Picture 52

52 west kirby front near mariner. (cafe)

50 looks like the begining of the birkenhead tunnel.

Missing Descriptions

Picture 25 ??
Picture 33 ??
Picture 40 ??
Picture 41 ??
Picture 42 ??
Picture 49 ??
Picture 51 ??



First Post updated

51- hoylake beach
an had me nan look over these again an she says that
25 could b Hamilton square
42 could b the train station in west kirby
49 could b the old art center in central park

42 does look like West Kirby train station
45 and 46, what Andy said.
48 looks like greasby road is it? Think thats what its called anyway.
49 is the lady lever art gallery
51 looks like park gate with the buildings
I agree with Tubbs on 50 and 52

51 is hoylake. the little white building othe left is the toilets

Id say:

48 - Frankby Road, looking towards Greasby.

49 - Lady Leverhulme Art Gallery, in Port Sunlight Village.

50 - Where the Kingsway tunnel is now. But when that photo was taken it was the Seacombe branch of the Wirral Railway. If memory serves me correctly, on the approce road to the tunnel, it used to be a train station called "Liscard & Poulton" and was in a cutting, the same cutting which is used for the Kingsway Tunnel approach road.

51 - West Kirby, where Morrisons and the Marine Lake is now, they would have been just down the road from that shot. If you go along the prom now, you will notice what I mean, also the prom comes to an abrupt end where that building is located on the very left of the photograph.

52 - Between Meols and Hoylake, along the prom, where the tennis courts are now.

Any Idea's ??

Picture 25 ??


Picture 33 ??


Picture 40 ??


Picture 41 ??


Picture 47 ??

i dont know

wish i could go back in time with my 200sx!! just look at those roads! empty (well the odd horse )

Dont forget to look at the missing pics above.

Picture 53


Picture 54


Picture 55

54 parkgate?

53 - Somewhere on the Wirral
55 - Heswall maybe??

53 - could that be liscard? You know the one way where the cherry tree shopping place is ?

Check this out...

Pic 1: Hamilton Square Train Station - 19th August 1956
Pic 2: Hamilton Square Train Station - 14th May 2007

Almost 51 years later....

Anyone care to make an animated GIF morphing the two? I'd do it, but I dont have Flash or anything installed atm

lol best i could do with no experience on this program

...and the guy in front of the station is still waiting for the bus

picture 56


picture 57


picture 58



Dont forget the missing images listed above

Is 58 the Ring O Bells in Wekka?

Or is it eastham village?

I sort of cheated an found a website which sells the images lol

Pic 5 was taken in the 1930s
Pic 16 was taken in 1948
Pic 19 was taken in 1961 as the Pumphouse chimney was being demolished
Pic 21 was taken in 1948 of Lees Tapestry Works
Pic 22 was taken in 1960
Pic 24 was taken in 1910s
Pic 25 is the Dock cottages, and I think I'm right in saying that picture 21 shows them on the right hand side

Pic 26 was taken in the 1940s

Amazing stuff!

good catch joe

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Picture 61


Picture 62

59 - Parkgate
60 - Moreton Cross
61 - Avnt got a clue
62 - Is that in Pensby??

We think it is the Tower pub in liscard on the corner of the now pedestrian only area opposite what is now the HSBC.

Behind it where the houses are shown is now a tower block of flats and the carpark for the cherry tree centre

I'm more shocked its waddi replying lol
than the answer

I think you may be right there waddi fella

We agree, the white van on the right is coming out of sandy lane, the building opposite it looks like the farmers arms.

Just took this, sorry its not the exact angle but I took it on my phone out of my windscreen whilst stopped at the lights



in reference to: Picture 40

quality

Its a match all right

cheers waddi

IS this


here


The white building on the left in the top pic is the farmers arms pub, and did have an apex roof until the extension was built onto the rear giving it a small apex hidden by the lamp post in this pic and then a flat roof on the extension.

what does everyone think?

It looks extremely similar, but the chruch spire looks slightly different??

IS this


here


The white building on the left in the top pic is the farmers arms pub, and did have an apex roof until the extension was built onto the rear giving it a small apex hidden by the lamp post in this pic and then a flat roof on the extension.

what does everyone think?

sorry, repost, my browser wouldnt reload

There is a new building built infront of it (victoria wine or threshers), bigger trees, and the church inself has had a lot of extension work. my photo doesnt do it justice, the steeple doesnt seem to have glass windows in it but it does. its what I get for taking a a photo out of the windscreen of a moving car on a phone.

I know that buildings on the left hand side of wallasey village road were knocked down to enable the road to be widened, and there know stands modern(ish) houses.

Great pics Waddi, well done.

I'm not too convinced with the seconds pic though, as Matty said, the spire looks slightly different.

pic 47 is the building after the bridge inn pub i fink?????

keep goin left an ure at portsunlight stn???

pic 41 is that nere the custody suite down 1 of the roads b4 birkenhead park?

pic 41 is that nere the custody suite down 1 of the roads b4 birkenhead park?

hummm

pic 47 is the building after the bridge inn pub i fink?????

keep goin left an ure at portsunlight stn???


hummmmmmmm

Next batch

Picture 63

Picture 64

Picture 65

Picture 66


I will sort all these soon

Picture 66




what do you think?

pic 63 : by pollards or the nags head???

waddi

Yeh that's a match, now ive seen the more modern picture
it look like the church in wallasey just before
where the cinema used to be.

I dont know the road.

Well done good catch,
Do you have the colour verision ?

here you go matey

The church is on the corner of Seabank road and Manor road. Picture is taken looking down Seabank road

I dont think thats worked, having trouble uploading it to imageshack and fotopic also

dah dah

Quality Mate your getting good at this

not to bad for a beginner to this forum malarky am I...

spot on

struggled to tell the difference then I spotted the bus

We think this is here:



If you look closely at the stonework its exact, window style etc. above the door in the 1st pic it says "HOME ACSO MARINERS" and the second is a picture of mariners home on egremont prom.

It is still there minus the steeple/tower but is all boarded up with metal railings restricting access, thus along with this and the overgrown foilage I couldnt get a photo.

It is where the mariners that came back from sea retired too, its replacement is now next door in the form of "mariners Village"

egremont prom.
Where is that ?

You may be right mr sluth ?

mr sluth?

Egremont prom is the part of the prom between seacombe and new brighton.

Where the church I took the photo off in the previous posts on seabank road, just before the old cinema (APOLLO) thats egremont, and the roads to left lead down to the prom.

we noticed this building just after taking the pic of the church, and went for a nosey.

Okay sherlock

Shame i cant offer a prize, well done

I'm sure your right.

Maybe Matty with his super duper camera may be able to get a modern pic.

we can try once it stops pissing down lol

in september..

Iz surprised ye aint sent me out to get in the rain lol. Ahhh such consideration for my wellbeing I thank ya sir lmao

Wow, hard to imagine that this is how Birkenhead priory used to look

cruisewirral in the early years



as you can see, the boot lid mounted spare wheel was the must have mod back then..

The 4th car on the closest row is before his time with a 2tone colour scheme going..

which one was yours then Mark?

need an upadate Marcus...

what ones are still needed?

Oi Mines the bus ok lol

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picture 78


picture 79

pretty sure this is moreton, hoylake road looking uptowards moreton cross roundabout, motorworld is now on the right opposite the church



pretty sure this is central park in liscard

Raby mere

67 - Frankby
68 - Moreton Cross
69 - Birkenhead Park
70 - Bidston Hill
71 - Bidston Hill
77 - Hilbre Island
78 - Raby Mere
79 - Eastham Maybe

The rest I dunno lol!

Matty,

you say 67 is frankby, is this the place that sometimes has a ducklings and rabbits for sale sign on the wall, just before larton livery.

and I'm pretty sure 69 is central park in liscard not birkenhead park

72, a guess at spital damm
73 and 74 are also raby mere

Right im kinda gutted atm, cos I seem to have "lost" over 600 photos including most of the ones I took this year haha so I aint got many to compare with atm.

Ill have to delve deeper into me hard drives and find them.

Anyways, heres a half decent compare of bidston windmill:

Im not sure if 72 is Spital Dam, but I dont know of any others locally. Me and Mark went there to take some photos for comparison, and the dam we found looked nothing like it lol (plus nowadays its a waste treatment facility, and was full of pooo lol, right up Marks street hehe).

Quality Pics Matty

Picture 72

Matty remember we looked at all angles at this one,
and we couldnt get a match i dont think its spital dam.

git you edited your post above
as you say lol

I think I know 7:

33
61
62
64
65
68
69

I'll try and get some pics, then reveal all.. ha ha ha

Lol i didnt edit it, ye must just not have noticed it

Wah matty did u take a photo and blacked it out so it looks like its old?

No I went back in time and my camera went with me lol. It used to be black and white in the olden days haha!

Only jokin, yeah i did fella

Here they are side by side (sorry I couldnt get the proportions right). Im sure if and when I find my other photos I will have one at a better angle.

Black & White


Colour

If this is Hilbre island then ye suda posted it earlier Mark lol wud of taken a photo while i was ther wont be walkin ther for quite a while. Legs wer killin from the 1 hour walk ther n back

61 - Thorton Hough

62 - St Johns Rd, Eastham Vilage

64 - Rake Lane, Liscard

65 - neston cottage hospital



unfortunatly, this was knocked down in 1964 and replaced with this:



discracefull isnt it. definately a match, I went to the royal oak pub, who sign is pictured on the left, stopped some local old dears and they told me the full story, and confirmed the location after I showed them the pic

68 - hoylake road, moreton, looking toward the cross

Amazing Waddi
There better than what i could do, at the weekend i will
rehost them in there own topics mate.

Amizing

And there all spot on no disputing them

64 - Rake Lane, Liscard

Noooooo way i would never have know there was previously
a tram line down that road

Well done mate.

Your hired

Well I had 2 hours to myself today whilst the missus and the babies went visiting friends, so I thought I would be productive and they where the results.

You must have had some printed out you have the angles
spot on, its like you have been standing there for always lol

Great work fella

all them in 2 hours!! well done!

Its mad the way the originals have no cars or just 1 in, and the new ones have loads in

that reminds me, I must book the delorean into the garage the flux capacitor has gone on it.

I was thinking that aswel Markus Maximus

BRILLIANT

I was very tempted to park my car somewhere in every pic, like a wheres wally.

do you realise how many of the older pics have been taken from the middle of the road to get their angles. I diced with death a few times today.

thanks everyone for your kind words

All I can say is "PSP's make great portable image viewers" then a bit of cropping in photoshop and voila.

hahaha thats amazin, another great idea from you with the wheres wally thing.

Do you work, or just drive round the Wirral taking random pictures

well worked out on all them mate nice work

Stuy dude, long time no speak...

I work a 42 hour week on a rolling shift pattern that goes:
2 12hr days 7am - 7pm,
2 12hr nights 7pm - 7am,
then 4days off

Some good photos there fella, well done

Picture 80


Picture 81


Picture 82


Picture 83


Picture 84


Picture 85


Picture 86


Picture 87


Picture 88


Picture 89


Picture 90



Should keep waddi on the streets lol

86 - old ABC Cinema, now rileys down birkenhead

88 - Conway Street by sherlocks e.t.c

89 - somewhere along...that road lol....parallel to corporation road

sorry mark, no time for me, back in work for 4 days now doing 12hr shifts.

Its a well known fact that Mark actually took all these pictures in his younger years

82 - raby mere

No 81 - what is now the Fox and hound in the Barnston Dip?

i ment 82

Thats what you said, thats what you said

oops, my head just ain t what it used to be

why of all the cheek lol

Go on, say it "Treat your elders with respect"

...only kidding Mark

I shall get my cane and slap you around the head young man

Years of experience lol

82 and 82 are Raby Mere

apparantly you wont find picture 90 as the pyramids shopping centre now stands in its place..

ahh yeah, I've read that somewhere too!

Someone get a pic of the pyramids lol

here you go...



sorry...lame

pyramids centre lol

Can you help fill the gaps?
First post has the same list

======= Pictures ===============
1 - Rodney street next to Argyle street South.
2 - Central Station Roundabout. (Birkenhead)
3 - Open air swimming baths in new Brighton.
4 - The tower grounds in new Brighton.
5 - Grange road west - 1930
6 - Kings Lane - Bebington.
7 - Halfway house pub at top of Woodchurch road
8 - Beaties - Birkenhead
9 - Queensway tunnel entrance (Wirral Side)
10 - Dickie Lewis' - across the road from maccies in town(Charing Cross)

11 - Beaufort Road - (North End)
12 - Argyle Street - Now Rileys
13 - Argyle Street South....
14 - Argyle Street
15 - Duke Street that's where the café is now. (not Tower Road)
16 - Corporation Road - Looking up Beaufort Road - (North End) 1948
17 - Beaufort Road - (North End)
18 - Oxton Village : Rose Mount Road.
19 - Woodside bus depo - 1961 as the Pumphouse chimney was being demolished
20 - WoodChurch Road - The woody by asda

21 - Stanley Rd - 1948 of Lees Tapestry Works (Bidston)
22 - Charing Cross, when it used to have a round about. (Birkenhead 1960)
23 - Woodside Bus Depot/Ferry Terminal
24 - New Chester Road - (Riverside Doctors 1910s)
25 - Dock cottages - Stanley Rd Bidston.
26 - Old Chester Road : Is the Road Leading to the Oval (1940s)
27 - Bidston Hill observatory
28 - Lady Lever Art Gallery
29 - Grange mount maternity hospital - Its been knocked down now.
30 - ? Hoylake.

31 - The church in Bidston Village.
32 - Seacombe Ferry terminal.
33 - ?
34 - Bebinton Rd : You can see Bebington Railway Bridge.
35 - The Brown Cow is on Bromborough Road.
36 - ?Seacombe ferry
37 - Liscard - Burtons is now Lyodds TSB
38 - Greasby Rd in Greasby. Looking on to Frankby Rd. There is a car sales place there now
39 - Moreton Cross
40 - Tower pub in liscard

41 - ?
42 - West Kirby - Train Station
43 -Bromborough Village
44 - Lever Brothers in Port Sunlight
45 - Bus depot in seacome
46 - Entrance being built to the mersey tunnel
47 - mariners home on egremont prom
48 - Frankby Rd in Greasby. Looking on to Greasby Rd
49 - lady lever art gallery - Port Sunlight
50 - Begining of the birkenhead tunnel.

51 - Hoylake Beach - Meols
52 - West Kirby front near mariner. (cafe)
53 - Between Meols and Hoylake, along the prom, where the tennis courts are now?
54 - parkgate
55 -
56 -
57 -
58 -
59 - Parkgate
60 - Moreton Cross

61 - Thorton Hough
62 - Eastham Village : St Johns Rd
63 -
64 -
65 -
66 - Seabank road and Manor road
67 -
68 - moreton, hoylake road looking uptowards moreton cross roundabout
69 - central park in liscard
70 -

71 -
72 -
73 - raby mere
74 - raby mere
75 -
76 -
77 -
78 -
79 -
80 -

81 - Fox and hound in the Barnston Dip
82 - Raby Mere
83 -
84 -
85 -
86 - old ABC Cinema, now rileys down birkenhead
87 -
88 - Conway Street by sherlocks e.t.c
89 -
90 -

84 - Wheatsheaf in Ness
THEN

NOW

81 - Fox and Hounds in Barnston
THEN


NOW

55 - Castle Buildings, Telegraph Road, Heswall
THEN


NOW



bloody trees where in the way to get a complete looking pic

poo. i was there today buying house lights from the place on the corner

and you didnt take the oppurtunity to add to the archive of picture wirral, shame on you

Amazing waddi

Your the match man, well done there and shame on whelan lol

Will make new topics at the weekend

originally thought this was frankby road, where they usually have rabbits and ducklings for sale. went there today, dont think it is there actually.

SO we studied the pic once again, enlarged and enhanced it and noticed that the building in the back ground had a sign on it saying "The Boat House", bingo Parkgate.

So we went there, pretty sure it is one in the same, the old brick building on the right of the pic is no longer there, its a car showroom and carpark now, but because of trees I couldnt get a good pic, then it started lashing down so I wasnt hanging around anymore because I had the babies with me.

Didnt I already say that

but you didnt go and get a comparison picture stuy boy

I dont get time

I work 12 hour shifts and have two babies to look after, you think I have time, I make time.

Each to there own, i for one appreciate the pics waddi
you've matched up plenty of them.

Keep it up,
I have more to share

Picture 91
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Picture 92


Picture 93


Picture 94
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Picture 95
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Picture 96


Picture 97


Picture 98


Picture 99


Picture 100


Picture 101


Picture 102


Picture 103


Picture 104


Picture 105


Picture 106


Picture 107


Picture 108


Picture 109


Picture 110


Picture 111


Picture 112


Picture 113


Picture 114


Picture 115


Picture 116


That's about it for my collection.
Lets see how many we can match if not all 116
See the first post for the complete list.

98 birkenhead libary

91 is now the fever or what ever its called now.

106 think its the old bridge in birkenhead park

105 arrowepark

104 hamilton square

and 103

102 birkenhead park

101 is that (carnt remamber that name) might be elgin gardens or somthing gardens anyways)

94 think its oxton


92 maybe bebington

I'll try and get somepics

91 - isnt fever its rileys snooker hall,
93 - Pump house in woodside
100 - Bouncing Bicycles - New Brighton Tower
101 - Oak/Eldon Gardens (nearly there Tupac, what do we call you now)
111- Penny Bridge
112 - Duke Street Bridge

96 looks like a police station.
92 - I agree with tupac, bebington, tranmere bound, just past the oval leasure centre

Tony's fine

or spinking as i do that best

you have duplicated some Mark:

91 = 86
94 = 87
95 = 88

Removed them thanks
I new i was getting close to the limit lol

I'll try and tie up some loose ends:


This isn't in Wallasey, its Bebington Road in New Ferry.


This isn't in Birkenhead, its Grange Road in West Kirby, looking towards the train station.


As I suggested a few pages back, but didnt know for sure to be honest, me mum has confirmed this is in Hoylake, it was actually Hoylake Baths! I didnt know they had any.


Me mum seemed to think this was in Birkenhead, the old Co-op obviously, I think she said it was towards where TK Maxx is now before all the grange shopping centre was built, I think the building iss still standing. Ill ask her again tomorrow.


This is Storeton Quarry. To be honest it is a bit deep to be the mersey tunnel embankment as we thought.


This is deffo the old Seacombe Ferry terminal before it was rebuilt.


This is apparently Spital Dam, although me mum said there is a dam out towards chester way that is similar to this from what she can remember.


Apparently this is a place called Almere Ferry towards Chester way from what I believe??


This is Raby Mere in the 1930's.


This is Bebington Mill in the 50's, not sure if its still there, possibly demolished?


This is a place called Magazine Shore with some two ship wrecks apparently. I think its towards Eastham way.


This isn't where we had agreed on, if you take a look at the photo merge its quite different. This is actually the Dock Cottages in Birkenhead Docks presumably.


This is Little Neston


This is Pensby Road, in Pensby surprisingly lol.


This is Bromborough Cross


This is deffo the Ring O Bells in West Kirby.


I think this is Town Lane in Bebington, where the road splits for a short while before it merges again.


This is Cammell Lairds in the background so judge from that.


This is the Penny Bridge tollgate in Birkenhead


This is indeed a police station, its apparently in Slatey Road in Birkenhead, up by the museum.


This is slatey road again, looking towards Balls Road I think.


This is by Duke Street in Birkenhead.


This is Village Road, in Oxton.


This is of course Woodside Ferry Terminal. The interesting thing is you can see woodside train station to the left behind it.


This is along Old Chester Road in Birkenhead.

Any more that we havent got yet??

the little neston one is near enough next to the Royal Oak pub, there is a roundabout where the bus is.

WOW Matty you have been busy lol...
Top work by your mum, and places ive never heard of and on the Wirral too?

Well done sherlock
I will add them to the list as soon as i get time

Yeah took about 2 hours to go through and find the ones that hadnt been found, its a mixture of sources, me mum started it off, then she gave me some books on old Wirral etc, and the internet, and ive found out most of the ones we hadnt agreed upon i think.

All together :- cheers me lado

good work mate

ok scared now, just seen line dancin bananas !!

The pictures posted are some of the pictures i did for my Slideshow on YouTube heres a Detailed List of what the pictures are i know people have already identified them but i'll give a detailed description to the photos.. So here goes...

1. 1930s Rodney Street, Birkenhead
2. 1940s Central Hotel, Birkenhead, with George V Clock
3. Looks like New Brighton Baths in back ground
4. New Brighton Tower Building after Tower was demolished.
5. Grange Road West the corner building on the Left is Bargain Booze
6. Kings Land and Old Chester Road Bebington
7. The Halfway House in Prenton
8. 1950 Allansons, Grange Road, Birkenhead. Beatties took over the building in 1960
9. Tunnel Entrance in birkenhead 1950 in the background you can see the Old Birkenhead

Market
10. The Park Hotel in grange road know dickie lewis. Think its changing names again dunno?
11. Dock road in Birkenhead 1963 with Stone Maganeses and the Flour mills.
12. Argyle Street 1961 looking towards Hamilton Square and the ABC Cinema now Rileys

Snooker Hall
13. Argyle Street 1950s looking towards Woodside
14. Argyle Street Theatre 1900's
15. Duke Street Bridge notice the Steam driven Lorrie ? 1920s
16. 1948 Corporation Road in Birkenhead Looking towards Penny Bridge and the J Rank mill.
17. Dock road in birkenhead 1960 showing Stone Maganese Marine
18. 1900's Oxtone Village
19. 1961 Shore Road Pumping Station and showing the Old Steam Chimney looking up towards

Hamilton Square
20. 1965 Home Farm Road in Wood Church showing the Church in the Distance
21. Lees Tapastry Works showing the Dock cottages.. The Tapastry work site is know Kwik

Save (Somerfields) also in the Picture birkenhead north railway Station 1948
22. 1960 Charing Cross Birkenhead the pole used to be greased in the middle as Revlers

every New Year climbed it there where also toilets on the Roundabout and the Grange pub is

know Mcdonalds
23. 1954 WoodSide Ferry Terminal the huge ship is the Reina Del Pacifico
24. 1910 New Chest Road in Rock Ferry
25. The dock cottages which is Know Illchester Sqaure in the North End the big huge field

by St James Church. 1900s. My grandad was born here
26. 1940s Old Chester Road Bebington
27. Bidston Hill showing Observatory 1940's
28. Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight also showing the Fountain infront of the

Building. 1930's
29. 1963 Maternity Hospital in Grange Mount it was demolished in 2002
30. 1930s Woodchurch Road In Birkenhead see the halfway house in the distance
31. Bidston Church on the way to the Ford Estate 1940s
32. Seacombe Ferry
33. Wallasey Village i think ?
35. Brombourgh Brown Cow i believe
36. Seacombe Ferry
37. Liscard the picture is takin outside the Wellington on the corner of Seaview Road
39. Moreton Cross
40. Tower inn in liscard there should be huge block flats there lol
42. Birkenhead North train Station
43. Heswall
45. Seacombe Ferry Terminal
49. Lady Lever Art Gallery
52. New Brighton baths i believe
53. CO-OP in Liscard i believe its where Wilkinsons is not possitvely sure but its in

Liscard
54. By the looks of that its near the end of Kings Parade in Hoylake
58. Looks like eastham Village
59. Parkgate
68. Hoylake Road looking towards Moreton Cross
69. Central Park Wallasey and thats the Lake.
70. Bidston Hill Windmill
71. Bidston Hill Windmill
75. Williston Windmill
77. Hilsbre Island
78. Raby Mere
79. Looks like Eastham Ferry
85. This is Laird Street looking down from St James Church
86. ABC Cinema in Argyle Street this is know Rileys Snooker Club
87. This is Devonshire Road 1900's in birkenhead.
88. 1900's Conway Street birkenhead on the Right you can see Shi*locks on the left you can see what is know the ABC Chemist in the distance you can see Ritzy Theatre (old mecca bingo hall)
89. Alexandra Garage in Conway Street Birkenhead i believe this is where Europa boulveard is where the Road towards Conway Park Station (not 100% sure)
90. 1962 Grange Road, Coburg Street birkenhead This is not here anymore and the Pyramids shopping centre is situated here.
92. 1940s Old Chester Road Bebington on the Junction of Tower Lane
93. Shore Road Pumping Station
96. 1940s Slatley Road Police Station
97. Grange Road West looking up towards Grange Mount
98. Birkenhead Central Libarary on Borough Road
101. 1958 Oak and Eldon Gardens in birkenhead the site know occpys the Job Centre Plus and hordan house on Price Street.
102. Birkenhead Park you can see the Boathouse in the Back Ground.
103. Hamilton Square in birkenhead. Picture probaly taken from Town Hall.
104. Hamilton Square again. Picture taken probaly from one of the Buildings near Hamilton street going down towards HSBC Bank.
105. Birkenhead Park the bridge you see is know back as a Replica so you can Cross the Swiss Bridge.
106. Picture from the Swiss bridge which is know reopen again.
107. 1948 Old Bidston Road Our Ladys school know occupys this Site.
108. Cammel Lairds, Birkehead 1961 liverpool water front can be seen in the distance..
109. This is Rock Lane West in Rock Ferry You can see the Railway bridge and on the Corner is Wirral Tool Hire (the gate on the left)
110. Slatey Road in Birkenhead this is Looking Towards the Walker Art Gallery...
111. This is the Penny Bridge in birkenhead this Bridge no Longer charges a Penny but it got its name after the Owners put the Price from ha'penny to a penny.
112. This is Duke Street bridge looking towards Birkenhead Park early 1920s
113. Duke Street birkenhead 1948
114. 1900's Village road in Oxton
115. Woodside Ferry Terminal 1950
116. Old Chester Road in Birkenhead 1959

Some excellent info there in addition to the locations Lee, the Penny bridge lol, I never knew that!

WOW lee that's an amazing up date of our list.
Thanks for that i know it must have taken a while.

I've updated Post one with your list.

Thank you so much its very much appreciated.

Sorry had to be done

lol

Any more Mark?

ooo yeh i loved lookin at these... id often sneak on in jonahs name to nose haha...Shhhhhhhh tho

lol

now with spring summer i wonder if there are any of these pictures we dont have "Now and Then" (History Forum)

Would be handy to start to sort the required pictures and
places and then if any one is out and about.

They can snap the "New" location of "old"

Just thinking ahead.

pic 39 is moreton cross,pick 40 is the pub on corner liscard,its still there dont know name

The First Post has now been Updated. With all the listing.
This is all we have left out of 116 pictures to identify.

Only 9 Pictures to find the locations?



41 - Where is this?


56 - Where am I?


57 - Where am I?


63 - Where am I?


76 - Where am I?



80 - Where am I?


83 - Where am I?


99 - Where am I?


100 - Where am I?

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So what your trying to say in your lazy way is

41 - Grange Road in West Kirby, looking towards the train station.
57 - This is Pensby Road, in Pensby.
63 - This is Little Neston.



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Only 6 Pictures to find the locations?



56 - Where am I?


76 - Where am I?


80 - Where am I?


83 - Where am I?


99 - Where am I?


100 - Where am I?

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Ill have a go at the remaining ones hehe:

56 - Bromborough Cross


76 - Don't have an igloo


80 - Somewhere on Wirral hehe


83 - Raby Mere


99 - Bebington Rd, New Ferry


100 - Ill say New Brighton

Picture 56



I think the church spire is in the distance and not part of
the building on the corner

Picture 56 is Bromborough cross, The building on the corner is still the bank, although midland have all changed to HSBC now. and the spire belongs to St Barnabas Church.

The radio shop is gone and now a barclays bank stands there.

100 is the bouncing bikes that were part of new brighton tower grounds.

ps. on pic 56 the wall that you can see on the right isnt there anymore, there is a road cut in behind the pavement with a row of shops now, Post office, Peters hi-fi come to mind.

56 - Bromborough Cross


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76 - Where am I?


80 - Where am I?


83 - Where am I?


99 - Where am I?


100 - Where am I?

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pic 100


Bouncing Bicycles - New Brighton Tower Grounds

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83 - This is Raby Mere in the 1930's.



1 Picture was missed.
With out any Ref Number, that's why i missed it

99 was also missed??

Picture 99



Matty feel free to actually post the findings,
i'm not chasing your lazy butt all night.

99 - Bebington Rd, New Ferry



Its not that difficult to posting the words.



99 - Bebington Rd, New Ferry.

Is it?

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76 - Where am I?


80 - Where am I?

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Got to say 76 looks like Storeton.
And i wonder if 80 is Arrow Brook?

Storeton and Arrowe Brook where both my first instinct.
There looks to be a big building in the distance on 76.
Also; Telegraph pole along the Arrowe Brook...i think not.

56 - Bromborough Cross

sorry about the size of the pic, my laptop has gone kaput with a broken DC jack, and the laptop that Im currently using has no image manipulation software.

nice one Waddi

Nice one waddi I will crop and match that later

ms paint lol

Been looking at picture 76 it looks like Breck Road in wallasey..

80 to me looks like where the cycle path from bromborough to port sunlight is... the part parrallel to spital damn area..lookin towards port sunlight...although, the chances of that path being there back that long ago i cant quite see it lol... just looks very similar

According to 20th Century Images posted by Jonno before, 76 is Storeton Woods and 80 is Greasby.

I remember 46 and 50 from childhood...
They are both images of the quarries at the end of Mill Road in Higher Bebington - I remember the mill being demolished - and that dinosaur footprints found in the rock beds there were to be found in mill Road School and in the porch of Christ Church, Higher Bebington

C

Hi, Alsbury; welcome. You're quite right about 46 & 50, they are both of Storeton quarry; the one to the East of Mount Rd. This one was filled with the spoil from the Wallasey tunnel. Matt has picked up one one of the pics, but not the other & on the first page they're still listed as the Mersey tunnel entrance. Perhaps you could correct that, Mark, as I don't have editing privileges for this forum.
Alsbury; yes, I remember the mill too. Storeton Woods used to be one of my main play areas in the 40's & 50's & I now belong to the Friends of Storeton Woods. I hope you find much to interest you on these pages & that you will be able to contribute.

Cheers, Chris.

Why is this prime building land, on Mount Rd. Higher Bebington, near Bracken Lane, still empty? Take a look at pic.50 on page 3. Mine is taken from just about the same spot. I guess no-one wanted to risk building on the spoil from the Kingsway tunnel.

old thread i know, but 53 is liscard but it is near iceland, boots etc looking towards seaveiw road. You can make out the buildings in the background one of them is a salon or something like that (not that i visit you understand) 108 is looking directly down sidney road in tranmere, on the right you can make out one of the 4 high rise smack addict accomodation flats under construction.

pic 102, any clue?

pic 103, duffy likes this place apparently

Five bars Seacombe bottom of Borough road?

Tiny photograph and I have tried to blow it up but just distorts. At a guess Rock Ferry looking at the ferry terminal and that pub whatever it is called?

does any1 have any pics of conway st flyover? I have scored the web and can't find any plzzzzz help.....

Not really OF the flyover, this is looking along the parapet of the flyover on 13 July 1969, the day before it opened to traffic.

wow mad, it didnt really last long before they removed it by the looks of it .

Yeah it went in the mid-90's didnt it?

That is the best photo I have seen so far of it!

Picture 76 is looking down Red Hill Road on Storeton hill - went there last night to check, wall on left of road and hedges both side and even telegraph poles are still there - along with the long S shape.

Here are two aerial picture of the tunnel approach system including the Conway St flyover. There is a PDF somewhere on wikiwirral of the scheme (which is where I got 1st picture).

If you can't find it then PM me - or someone PM me to tell me how to put a pdf up (I am not very forum savvy - sorry).

shame it had to come down give the place bit of character.

PDF Click Me Topic Birkenhead Flyover

Note you can uses the "Upload Manager"
Using the Full Reply to upload PDF Documents

has any1 got the video link it mentioned can imagine it would be very interesting..

It was still getting built on this video, try about 6:25

[youtube]xVYSS-HkBok[/youtube]

Brilliant video!!!!!

is a good video thanks for Sharing

i agree wid jase on this its a great video dude thanks for sharin

Look for (our) soundlad on youtube - he has put up loads of brilliant stuff - thanks Lee.

One of my favourites is "Birkenhead - The 1960's & 70's" which unusually wasn't soundlad - this has Grange Road, Oak & Eldon and even the Coop Dairy on Swan Hill.

Got to agree with dd, Lee(SoundLad) has done a brilliant job with those old videos.

Well done Lee.

heres a few of liscard

nice one Andy thanks for Sharing

Whos pathetic idea was it to make liscard a one way?

11.

Most of these have been knocked down now and more surrounding building are to be knocked down in february.
I will obtain the photographic evidence of this when it happens

17.



This one must of been taken from the flour mills?

the worst thing that ever happened, get's so congested!

Are there train tracks on pic 11? Was there a railway operating in this area?

Did it link up to the trainline that exists today?

Image number 80 - I've already got this as a photo labelled "Greasby 1930s Wood Lane" and the title seems correct.
The boy is standing at the parapet/handrail of a footbridge crossing Arrowe Brook.
On the 2009 view, the tarmac footpath is a little to the left of the original dirt track.
The path leads from Wood Lane Greasby to Girtrell Road Saughall Massie. Grid ref is SJ258882. The bridge is still a footbridge.
The aerial image shows an arrow for the direction of the photo and a circle where the boy is standing.

76 - maybe upton village looking towards greasby..

I think someone has already got this one but I have a shot of number 41 took from the same place a couple of weeks ago. West Kirby centre.





Unfortunately the road was busy and the bus was sat there in the middle of the shot going nowhere.

is picture 41 the tower pub in liscard wallasey,at the top of mill lane?looks very like it to me.but surrounding area ,i dont recognise, but i dont know how old the pub is,it,s where i met my hubby gary in 1977

41 exactly what it says on the tin " The Tower Pub " Liscard village, on the corner opposite where Mersey Music used to be (Pub's still there but buildings on the left are now car park and tower block.

67 = Boathouse pub Parkgate from the road that leads from the main road at Gayton big sandstone building has gone this is now the corner of a car sales area (used to be Hardings Autos)

68 = Heading down Hoylake rd in Moreton towards the cross (Sandbrook lane goes off to the left just before the church and Knutsford rd is on the right

69 = Central Park Liscard

79 = Raby Mere

37 Please note this is still a cloths shop (Burtons became Top Shop and I think it's still owned by whoever owns Burtons now) If you go in the shop you can still see the stairs on the right (but entrance is closed off now) this lead to the upper floor and fitting rooms.

Sorry No 67 is the Boat House in Parkgate taken from the Gayton Rd just b4 it does a sharp left onto the front.

Tracks in the foreground were MD&HB lines which encircled the west float and east float.

These particular lines ran to Duke St in the West and round to the 4 bridges - also similar lines around the East float, which turned left to go over the Poulton/Penny Bridge. They also made a connection to the lines next to Bidston Dock which made a freight only connection to the New Brighton line vary close to Bidston Station.

There were similar double MD&HB lines on the Birkenhead side - running down Beaufort Road/Corporation Road and meeting the national railway lines at Canning Street/Bridge Street

21 - Lees Tapastry Works showing the Dock cottages.. The Tapastry work site is know Kwik Save (Somerfields) also in the Picture birkenhead north railway Station 1948

Were'nt the Dock Cottages (visible in the bottom right of this photo) demolished in the 1930's ? Certain Ilchester Square tenements were built before 1948......

got this today anyone know where thay are of?(sorry crap pics)

looks like new b mate

yerr thought that mate!

The top one looks like New Brighton,the kids paddling pool,the next one looks like from the Tower Ballroom,the 3rd one ????

The third one i think I've seen before somewhere and i think it was Mersey park school.

thanks bud nice one any year?

could well be mate nice one!

No 6 Dacre Hill Rock Ferry

4: Rock Ferry looking in the direction of St Caths from Bedford Road
8: Grange Road Birkenhead
9: Bhead Dock Entrance Mersey tunnel
11: Dock Road Wallasey by Stone Manganese
12: ABC by Hamilton Square
13: Holt Hill Bhead
19: Woodside
20: Woodchurch
22: Charing Cross
31: St Oswalds Bidston
39: Moreton Cross approx 1959
44: Lever Bros office block
47: Mariners home, Seabank Road
50: Storeton Quarry (?)
52: Hoylake
60: Moreton Cross 1949
54: Parkgate (?)
56: has been the subject of debate elsewhere for many years now. Originally thought to be near Eastham on the A41, just past Carlett Park College, now not so sure because of the strange 'tower' .........
68: Hoylake road, Moreton Cross, Sacred Heart Church on right, built in late 50s
77: Hilbre
78: Raby Mere

56 is Brombrough village

All the answers are on page 1, except for #80 which has been answered a page or two back.

pic 25 looks like the dock cottsges on slatey rd just near to st james church

HI i think photo number 1 may be Holt Hill , Birkenhead.
8. is Beatties in Birkenhead.

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moreton cross

I think the third pic could be New Brighton Primary, Vaughn Road.

thanks mate!

Picture 25...This is a picture of what was known as the Dock Cottages (terrible places) built along the line of what is now Beaufort Road, they disappeared years ago and not a minute to soon.

pic21 is the old Tapestry works, the triangular builings behind is the infamous Ilchester Square

Picture 44 is the main entrance to Lever Bros soap works, Port Sunlight

picture 47 is the old Seamans Home in Wallasey just round the corner from the cinema in King street

Picture 50 is the quarry that faces out onto what is now Old Chester Road, Tranmere. there are some workshops in the dug out now

picture 25 is the dock cottages north end birkenhead

Those pics absolutely brilliant, remember some of the scenes but unfortunately they'd all been recognised long before I got to them. Modern pics don't seem to have the same character to them.

33 and 34 are the same road
one looking down to the station the other looking up to the shops

Rise and progress of Wallasey tc that book i was on about

Hello I think pic 99 is beckwith street birkenhead i used to go to that okells shop with my mum

It's Bebington Road the same as 34 but looking in the opposite direction.

picture 21 is the old Tapestry WORKS i WORKED THERE AND WAS IN stephen lee's AM/DRAM IT IS NOW netto and iceland 2011

26 is Old Chester Road

33 is Bebington Road in New Ferry

isn't pic25 the Dock Cottage's?

41 is easy lol

40 - Towers Liscard
47 - Mariners Home Egremont (?)

No.47 VCH?

25 - Agree with Chris, 'The Dock Cottages'.

Re:- the above (No.25)

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Hi Mark. I think no.35 "The Brown Cow" is in Bromborough Road. Lower Bebington.
N0.26 is Bebington Road, taken just after the T-Junction of "Town Lane". The "Oval" in the distance is on the right.
N0.31 "Bidston Village"
N0.25 The "Dock Cottages" was situated in the North end of Birkenhead.
N0.33 looks like "New Chester Road" (not certain for sure)
N0.30 has me puzzelled looks very upmarket, dont you think?
If I've got any wrong please feel free to correct me. Cheers Wizzo.

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Pic 8 - Beatties in Birkenhead at the bottom of Grange Road is correct, with St Weburgh's behind the wall on the left.

Is no 25 The Dock Cottages, North End, by St James church?

not hamilton square it is opposite central hotel and the central station on the other side close to pyramids now proceed past hotel past conway st junction past weatherspoons and you are in hamilton square appreciate why you would think it was

not hamilton square it is opposite central hotel and the central station on the other side close to pyramids now proceed past hotel past conway st junction past weatherspoons and you are in hamilton square appreciate why you would think it was

correct beatties

picture 25,dock cottages,it was bye st,james church early 1900s

Is picture 18 Oxton village? Rowlands the butchers the road up hill leading to the Queens pub.

1 Rodney steet

pic 33, Bebington rd, New Ferry.

Hello, picture 1 is looking down Rodney Street from the top of Whetstone Lane, you can't drive down from Whetstone Lane anymore, there are bollards at the top. When I was a kid we had terrific slides in the Winter. picture 6 is The Kings Hotel, Kings Lane, with Fairs cameras on the far side of Old Chester Road

picture 18 is Rose Mount, Oxton Village

picture 20 is looking down Home Farm Rd., Woodchurch Estate towards St Michael and all Angels Church, when they were building the church, we used to drive round the site at night in one of the dumper trucks, I was 12 at the time, no Health and Safety in those days

picture 25 are the Dock Cottages, they were replaced by Ilchester Square (by St James Church, North End)

picture 30 is Woodchurch Road, opposite Sainsburys and Quickfit

Love the photos so interesting, never tire of looking at them. Thanks for sharing them.

40 Towere Pub in Liscard before they built the Flats and the Cherry Tree Arcade

Picture 3 used to be called the coach park in the early 80's.There are pictures in the lifeboat station of the RNLI changing lifeboats over when it got flooded.If only Morrisons had visited the lifeboat station before they built on the pool site!

Picture 59 - It's Mostyn House school, The Parade, Parkgate. The house on the far right side was called Greenshutters. I used to live there! The dormer window sticking out of the roof - that was my bedroom. Lovely house and a happy time.

13 is the road going down to Central station (?Green lane?) I used to get the number 50 bus from Central Station which came up here - went left and then on to Rock Ferry High School stop

14 - Argyle Theatre was at the Bottom of Grange Road on the left as you came down

22 is Charing Cross - at top of Grange Road - we all used to go there to celebrate New Year!

18 is not Grange Road - I lived in Huskisson Street off Grange Road (1939 - 1960's) Maybe Grange Road West area as there are trees

The answers are on the first post of the thread

49 could be Williamson Art Gallery