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Purple Aki found dead Softy_Southerner 27th Aug 2025 9:21pm "AN infamous bodybuilder dubbed "muscle squeezer" has died at the age of 64.

Akinwale Arobieke was found dead at his flat on Devonshire Road in Toxteth.

Officers discovered his body at around 8.30pm on Tuesday, August 26, after reports of an unresponsive man.

Merseyside Police confirmed his death is not thought to be suspicious."

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Power steering line repair or fabrication phillhere 18th Aug 2025 11:25am Hi. Car developed power steering leak from rusted hard line (metal pipe about 6-8 inches long with fittings either end. The part is no longer available. Any ideas on places that repair or would be able to make or supply a replacement ? Thanks in advance.

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A quiet drink. Excoriator 16th Aug 2025 10:21am To the Eastham Ferry hotel for a quiet drink in the gathering dusk last night. It was warm enough to sit outdoors and it was possible that the we might even hear an owl hoot in the woods as the moon rose.

Fat chance!

Furiously over revved motorbikes from next door made conversation difficult, and in the gaps in this activity, the loudspeakers relaying mindless pop music everywhere, inside and outside, thoughtfully placed to make any antisocial activities such as enjoying a quiet evening impossible.

A pity, as the location is good, the hotel has been extensively and well redecorated and the staff appear friendly and helpful.

We were interested to observe a group of bikers who had evidently left their pub, on their machines, but paused outside the Eastham Hotel for a chat, all with engines running and very audible thanks to the use of silences chosen for their ineffectiveness. Occasionally one or other of them would ree their engines into a deafening scream for no apparent reason.

Eventually they left, to be replaced by another group, and so did we.

I followed the advice of the notices one sees everywhere along roads to 'Think Bike!' but will not relate what these thoughts were.

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Pay and Display ... Or Not. diggingdeeper 17th Jul 2025 11:53pm Be aware that some Council parking (eg at some Country Parks) issue you a "ticket" even when payment hasn't gone through. The "ticket" states that its invalid but if you don't check your ticket its easy to display it and assume everything is normal even though it is invalid.

Not me btw.

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Mobile Welder Wanted Grosvenor 17th Jul 2025 5:46pm Hi. Could a yone recommend a local mobile welder? Or even a garage based welder?

Thanks in advance

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Cammell Laird Film - Old Ships & Hardships David_Roberts 16th Jul 2025 4:02pm I have recently uploaded my film CAMMELL LAIRD - OLD SHIPS & HARDSHIPS - The Story of A Shipyard to be viewed on YouTube.

Made a year after it's ultimate demise in 1993 and approx 50 minutes long, it contains some wonderful previously unseen footage of the Birkenhead Shipyard as well as the voices of some of those who gave most of their working lives to Lairds, talking about life at Lairds, its legacy and its future.

I believe it does what it says on the tin.

If you like it, give it a thumbs up and pass it on to anyone that you consider may be interested.

Here's the link:-

https://youtube.com/@davidroberts11492

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Eastham Ferry...Ferry setting off point Wirral and Liverpool Sid nickaxe 2nd Jul 2025 1:31pm Hi all wonder if anybody can solve a puzzle.....over on the Liverpool side of the river is an area named Grassendale.....next to Garston Docks.

At the river end of North road in the very smart Grassendale area is what to me was a slip way.....very old....and well built.....sandstone

blocks.....has a road attached to it now not passible but still there leading back toward the main road in Garston....visible on Google Earth

I am wondering if the slipway or what ever it was was the dropping off point on the Liverpool side of the River for the ferry that crossed the river.

I seem to think it was Monks who ran the ferry.....so where on the Wirral side would it set off....Eastham??? maybe Jobs ferry.

And could this spot in Liverpool indeed be the ferry's destination.

Nick.

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Removed Mother from Grave bert1 29th Jun 2025 5:44am https://www.wikiwirral.co.uk/forums...her-back-to-life-in-the-1960s#Post301518

I came across this old thread and thought I'd look into it more. I've withheld the surnames for the protection of any living relatives. After reading 30+ newspaper reports these are the facts.

Mrs Emily ??? died on the 18th October 1960 of a stroke in hospital, she was 69 years old and a widow. She lived in Durley Dr, Prenton.
She was buried on the 22nd October in Bebington Cemetery.

Her son Raymond James ???, 33 of Cole St, went into Well Lane Police Station to seek permission to try and bring his mother back to life using electronics.
He was told he could not play about with bodies and would get in serious trouble should he do so.

After the funeral he went to Bebington Cemetery in a hired car and removed his mother from the grave, he replaced the coffin in the grave and made it look as if it had never been disturbed so it wouldn't be noticed.

He took his mother to an empty house in Claughton Rd and tried to revive her by feeding her sugar, lime juice and milk On October 29th he connected an Electrical Flex from a socket to his mothers foot in an attempt to bring her back to life. The body was found on December 17th 1960 in the empty house.

At the trial Mr Justice McNair said Raymond James ??? should not be tried as a criminal but as a mentally ill person.
Dr Benadict Finkleman report stated Raymond James was suffering from Paranoid Schizophrenia.

Raymond James ??? was committed to Deva Hospital, Chester.

I checked the burial records for Emily and she was buried Oct 22 1960, there's an added note stating, body unlawfully removed by son.
Emily was cremated at Landican Cemetery, 24th December, 1960.

A person of the same age and name Raymond James ??? died in a Liverpool Nursing Home in 2011.

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Birkenhead Scandal, 1916. bert1 14th Jun 2025 7:17am The Birkenhead local authorities had to make arrangements after yielding to strong public opinion and pressure to end the scandal of deceased British soldiers and servicemen being interred in paupers graves.
The Town Clerk and Cemetery committee considered the matter and instructed the cemeteries to provide free spaces in the 3 divisions of the cemeteries.

The Town Clerk reported the burials of a private nature were never charged for the grave but relatives were charged 30s for the excavation and filling in of the graves. Permission had to be granted from the Home Secretary to exhume those buried in paupers graves and this was a lengthy process.
It was also reported Liverpool authorities had never charged a penny.

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Temporary Hospitals (WW1) bert1 6th Jun 2025 4:42am I came across 3 poor quality photographs with the title,

"Wounded Belgian and British soldiers being nursed back to health at Shrewsbury Rd and Devonshire Place"

Shrewsbury Rd was a convalescent home (number not yet known)

25 Devonshire Place was an annexe of the Borough Hospital

It appears the driving force behind this hospital was Roy Laird and supported by many generous local people who bought beds at £6 each and bedside lockers and tables at 38s each.
Miss Alice Laird donated £21 towards the setting up of the operating theatre.

63 Hamilton Square was offered by the Laird family to be used for whatever was thought fit towards the war effort.

Other hospitals' including Auxiliary. (not complete yet)

RAMC, Palm Grove
Manor Hill
Bidston Ave
Mersey Park
Hemingford St
Temple Rd

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