I propose a meet next Sunday, 27 Jan. The idea is that we should all meet at Mc.Donald's, Rock Park, at 10am. & visit (not necessarily in this order), Wirral Museum, Transport Museum, Tram Ride, the Priory, Pacific Rd. to get real close-up to the Woodside ventilation shaft.

Who's up for this? Mark's in.

Cheers, Chris.

Final plan:
Meet at Macca's, Rock Park, 10am.
Drive to Wirral Museum. (pay for parking)
Drive to Tram Museum (should be able to park free).
Tram ride to Woodside.
Walk to Pacific Rd. (weather dependent) then back to Woodside
Tram back to museum.
Drive to Priory (free parking).
Hope that suits everyone.

Cheers, Chris

Im up for it hehe.

I'm up for it, but I dont have a car still

Ill begin a name list for those who can make it:

- Chriskay
- Mark
- MattLFC
- BMW Joe

If you need a lift Joe, im offering hehe.

Only problem is, I'll have to drag the missus around lol

Haha you make it sound a chore

Who knows; she may enjoy it.

Noooo! im working. i hate my job i miss everything.

Might be able to give you a lift mo Joe.

I may as well drag mine around too
Shes good at remembering stuff so she has her uses lol

I'm in, not sure about my missus just yet.

Sounds like a good day / fun day to have.
And to meet faces too.

Cant you get a day off Wheels? Gutted matey!

Only thing to watch for is the god dam weather lol

Aye good point. Keep an eye on it towards the end of the week, make a final decision on Friday maybe?

- Chriskay
- Mark
- MattLFC
- BMW Joe
- Pomp

Yes, OK, final decision on Friday, but at least most of the plan is indoors.

Cheers, Chris.

gutted, Im working overtime saturday and sunday,

I don't post much on here but i read daily. I'm actualy home next weekend for a race in Leeds and not traveling back down to London until Sunday evening so i'm intrested in going. Problem is i usualy do a long run Sunday morning from 9-11 around Arrowe, Roydon, Caldy Hill, Wekka beach to Heswall, Irby and back. I could always run earlier. Maybe you could post on here what time you estimate to be at each location and i can meet you guys there?

myself and the wife would be up for it ,but unfortunatly we dont drive either if it involves driving to the locations

Hi Jordan; I plan to go to the Wirral Museum first. (Hamilton Square). I reckon we'll be there at 10-30. After that, it becomes a bit uncertain. Hope you can join us.

Cheers, Chris.

Hi, Jonno (& Mrs. Jonno); If you're prepared to PM me your address, I'll gladly pick you up, since I'm driving from Shrewsbury anyway.

Cheers, Chris.

I think the museum needs to know that the kettle best be working lol

Sounds like a good crowd up for this

- Chriskay
- Mark
- MattLFC
- BMW Joe
- Pomp
- SoundLad

P.S. is it deffo going to be 27th January cause if i change my work days as i work sunday nights and nothin happens i'll be dissapointed cause i'll have to give notice in tonight..

weather permitting it will be mate

Groovy i know the priory inside an out

If you need a lift lemme know fella.

okierly doke cheers mate

I'm as certain as I can be that this will happen. The only outdoor bit I wanted to include was a trip to the Woodside ventilation shaft, for anyone who hasn't seen it up close, because it's a really beautiful piece of Art Deco & all the decoration is done using just the one brick.
Lee; I wouldn't have thought this would clash with you working Sunday night. I reckon we'll be finished before 4pm.

Cheers, Chris.

okierly doke Another thing we should do one day is do the Queens Way tunnel tour Although a few peeps on here have already been

Going from the following time's:

- Tramway & Transport Museum: Sat & Sun 13:00 - 17:00
- Wirral Museum: Tue - Sun 10:00 - 17:00
- Birkenhead Priory: Sat & Sun 10:00 - 16:00

I propose the following itinerary:

1. Visit the Priory
2. Visit the Museum
3. Visit the Tramway
4. Visit the Transport Museum (interlinked with the Tramway anyway).

Im thinking, the priory is a good start to ensure we get there with good time, then we can spend a few hours if needs be in the museum, then we will be out by about 3ish to go to the Tramway and Transport Museum?

Not strict timing or anything, but it just ensures we get plenty of time in the two museum's and we manage to visit all the locations. We could always swap the museum visit over with the tramway visit if that sounds better to peeps but as the museum is open earlier then the Tramway, I thought that would be most appropriate.

Do we have to look Japaneses ?
I bet we all have a camera and a mack lol

Even if the weather is crap, should still be fun.

Yes, we all have to be constantly taking pictures of one another & I'll have a large coloured umbrella that you all have to follow.

Matt; I'd rather we went to the Wirral Museum first, since in a previous post I've told Jordan we'll be there about 10-30. I reckon an hour in there will be enough for a first visit. The archives won't be open, of course. We'll have plenty of time for the rest. I only intended this to be a taster visit, since everyone may have different ideas of where they want to spend more time & can re-visit later.

Lee; yes, the Queensway tour is well worth doing.
Phone 0151 236 8602 ext.206 for details.

Cheers, Chris.

That's fair enough Chris

i'm thinking of taking my dad on friday to the museum. so i might tag onto this aswell.

I'm following Chris and his Technicolor umbrella lol



My self i will be hiding under this MI5 Umbrella
A secret button in the handle will render the plastic solid.
So you can not see my face (I know you want one)



So we would meet at the rock and then drive around to
Hamilton Square.

I think its Free Parking on a Sunday "Don't Quote" Me.

Im guessing it would be easier to park at the rock tbh and walk down? Only a 5 minutes walk?

Im not sure on the free parking, but I know everywhere around there has the meters installed nowadays cos I used to park around that area when going to Baghdad I mean Birkenhead, although up by the Inland Revenue, there is limited free parking (15 mins I think) which may be unlimited on a Sunday?

Due to a member of staff going on holiday on Saturday ive got to work 7 - 4pm on the sunday as its my stupid contract so guys i want to apologise.. Have a good day guys.. *gutted* that i have to f00kin work...

gutted matey

oh well though, ye will be able to go again im sure!

Yer when you get the priory see if the tower is open and get a few photos

Shall do! We will all have cams so im sure we get a couple of decent photo's between us lol!

Groovy when you guys go to the priory in the museum part theres a Metal gate and a spiral staircase get a few photos of that as that stair case is 100% haunted.. Do a little test if your brave enough stand with your back to the stairs

I will

Then i will once matty's been sucked into oblivion or push lol.

lmao

Ill see if Ste (Totopop) wants to come along to this, he will be well interested in it thats for sure!

Sorry you can't make it, Lee; another time.
I've checked & the parking meters do operate on Sundays. I don't particularly want to walk from Rock Park, so I'll be driving to Hamilton Square & paying. If anyone has a chance to find out what coins the meter takes, that would be useful. From memory, we should be able to park free at the tram museum. I know parking at the Priory is free.

Cheers, Chris.

Normal silver no copper is the norm for the meters

However,
opposite the courts if you have one of those Dial Parking things
you can park up to 2hrs, but again that may be free on a Sunday.

There is a couple of one ways as back streets
Or parking over by the priory is surely free?

O well we can finalise at the Rock

dont think anywhere is free on a sunday anymore.... even traffic jobsworths(sorry... wardens) are now out on sundays !

Good point there
We will suss it on the day.

Birkenhead Priory is free parking

Due to my migraine today, I was unable to phone Totopop... will do tomorrow however.

Will let you all know in due course.

Final plans now on first post of this thread.
Sorry about your migraine, Matt.

Cheers, Chris.

Thanks for updating the first post Chris, can't wait for this now! Going to be a great day, ive wanted to go on the trams again since I went on them when I was a kid, which must be more then 10 years ago.

Good Stuff Chris

Totopop has his kid's on Sunday, so he is not 100% sure if he will be going. However, he deffo wants to go, and is wondering if it would be okay to bring the kids along if he can arrange it with the missus, they are 4,6 and 9, and im pretty sure it will be educational and entertaining for them.

He just wants to see if that's okay, and then he will see if he can arrange summit with the missus.

I would have thought it might be a bit much for the 4 year old (& maybe the 6 year old). I'm sure the 9 year old would enjoy it. I'll have to leave it to his judgement; he will know his kids better than anyone.

Cheers, Chris.

There is a fair bit to get around and who know's where we will end up, im inclined to agree with Chris's advice about the little ones.

I think Mr Totopop of the wirral would understand

Just my thoughts

It looks like Sunday will be as good a day as today weather wise, albeit the air temperature a little bit warmer!

Sorry to ask but can someone get a few Photos of inside the Priory chapel please :)sorry for askin..

will do, if were allowed of course.

The Art of Distraction

Just to say, it looks like, with any luck, there shouldn't be rain on Sunday & temps. about 8-9 deg.
I'll try to be in Macca's by 10 & I'll be wearing a khaki baseball cap (the unfashionable way: peak forwards).

Cheers, Chris.

And i was thinking of looking for something in tweed ?

(Sherlock) lol

Sorry, haven't got a deerstalker or an Inverness cape.

lol

Batteries on Charge for my camera
Matty catch yu on msn later for picking up arrangements

Should be a great day out

As Chris has said the First post has the details
times and places

You guys have a great day...

Just a Suggestion you'll all have to do it again sometime then i will tag along..

.

But maybe not too often with me; it's quite a trip. I think people could organise trips to places they know well & spread the knowledge.

Cheers, Chris.

Tomorow then yeah?!

So, see you all tomorrow.

Cheers, Chris.

Yep got my lift sorted with matty so there is 2 of us that will be there

Looking forward to it, should be a good laugh as always.

Wheels,
once ive had the guided tour from the master aka chris,
will take you around one day too

See yu over at Maccies about 10am then

I will be leaving at 10 to 9 to go to Mark's so I suppose I should go and sort me hair just had me brekky lol!

Joe text Mark if ye are going, and we can pick ye n ya missus up fella!

See you all there chaps!

Yeh Joe the Biscit has text me and asked for a lift

Hey that was a good day out

Huge Thanks to Chris for coming all the way up from Shrewsbury
and taking us around Birkenhead's finest

By that i mean, the priory and the museums that are right on
our door steps and to be honest, if it had not been for chris
i dont think i would have visited, so yes it was worth the effort.

I'm just sorting out my pictures.
Matty has more than all of us put together lol
(Matty chuck your pictures in this thread, and we can use them for other topics )

Hopefully i will have mine uploaded in a couple of hours,
i know matty is fixing Rhy's pc so his pics may be later again.
Joe well he's probably sleeping as he's never laughed so much.
And our Mr Pomp, didn't have a camera.

Gutted i didnt see this topic before, I would have come if i had seen ti before today

Hope you all had a good day

A thanks to Chris for setting this up and a boot up the backside for turning up late but I enjoyed myself with the
priory where I thought i was hearing voices in my head from left to right but it was Matty and Joe messing about, Some interesting stories about some visitors running straight out
as soon as they pop in.

Went on the Trams which was great and had a good browse around the trams museum, and played on the gambling
game machines!!! they are amazing i want one. Matty won once an all it does is give you your pennie back and let you have a free go i think?.

About me not having a camera well i do but its a camera phone so wasn't any point looking an idiot with all your
fancy equipments about.

I'll put my pictures up soon

My Pictures from today.
Feel free to add them to any existing topics we have running.

Inside the Museum.
From the Tower at the Priory
At the Transport Museum,
And under the vent shaft.

Enjoy

Pictures from The Top of the Tower at the Priory.
101 steps to the top

I have a video of joe ringing the bell at the top lol

Our Tram Ride Adventure & And the site of the new submarine
which will come from wallasey.

Its going to be cut into 5 sections with perspex so people
can see through it. And currently there is no visitors center
at woodside

Pictures of the Woodside ventilation shaft.

What i didn't realise until Chris showed us
was the unique brick sizes

Now at the Transport Museum and i have to say if you didn't
know it was there you wouldn't even know it was there!

I have some video's but they will take a bit of time to sort out.

Hope you enjoyed the pictures as i enjoyed the day out.

As i mentioned above,
feel free to use any of the above pictures to include in
new or existing topics.

Thanks again chris, you made it a great day out

As already mentioned, thanks to Chris for showing us around these places and telling us your knowledge and memories.

Cheers to Matty for the lift and to Mark for cheering the missus up, oh and to pomp just for being there

Shame no-one else turned up though.

Anyway, here's some of my photos of the Wirral Museum:



Matty got robbed of 10p!!!












Scale model of Woodside:

Pictures from the Priory:

Pictures from the Transport Museum

And finally, some random pictures from when we were down Woodside:

Pomp looking cool as usual







Where Woodside Train Station once stood.

I hope you all enjoyed the trip as much as I did; we must do it again some time. Having said that, every time I come up, I leave feeling a bit sad; although I haven't lived there for 50 years, I still think of it as home. Sometimes I think I should move back, then I think "well, it's only 1 1/2 hours away & where I live there aren't as many scallies & I'd miss my friends here". Thanks for the pics. so far; looking forward to seeing the videos. Anyone who wants old maps should look at www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk
Mark; I think your road should be on the Bidston map.
Here's the only pic. I took & even that's a bit out of focus.

Cheers, Chris.

I WANT HIS BABYS!!!





some interesting pics there

wow..i never knew there was THAT much stuff on the wirral!

Lmao @ Wheels

Fantastic views from the top of the Tower as allways cheers guys i see you had a fantastic day damn i wish i was with yers.. Could of narrated the whole history to you's hehe How did you guys like the Priory museum get scared heh! Tell you something which has made me See RED is the vandalism to the res near woodside.. I cannot believe the vistors centre isnt at woodside anymore DANG!!. Love the pictures from the Transport musuem been there once but was always a regular at the Pacific road base before it got turned into the Arts centre fantastic acoustics inside there.. Damn i could go on all night.... The pictures of the vent shaft Still cant believe to this day its all built by brick hehe.. Anyway i'll shoosh

See the graves theres one there called Robinsons (dont think thats the right name) Vault thats the entrance to one of the deep vault the other one is inside the Chapter house..

Yeah, cheers Chris, really enjoyed the day out, made a rather nice change and found it all really interesting, of course you being 70 and being able to share masses of stories and histroy and having experienced many of the changes over the year's, remembering Birkenhead when it was still an "industrial" town, added to the whole experience immensely!

I think I will go visit some of the attractions again in the next year, want to go back to the priory etc...

A Little Video of ChrisKay and his Carbide lamp from our tour.

Thanks chris, Now we know it smells, and you can not buy it from the local shops, and it wont burn forever.

Thanks again. Sorry for sounding abrupt on the video i didn't mean too.

I made it old looking until the very end.


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