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Hind Street development Excoriator Yesterday at 03:20 PM Looks like another brilliant council initiative to redevelop this town. 1,500 homes, offices and a NUMBER of new hotels will be built. I assume these are for the numerous businessmen that will want to see the new regenerated Birkenhead rather than punishment blocks for hapless immigrants looking for a better life.

At least we'll see the end of the disfiguring flyovers though, if it all goes to plan so it's not all bad.

The Wirral Globe seems enthusiastic but whether that is a good sign or the kiss of death remains to be seen.

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Sarah Isabel Nicholson LiamFoley 7th Nov 2025 12:29pm I am doing some research on a Sarah Isabel Nicholson (1870-!948) of Sutton Hall, Little Sutton, father John Nicholson, mother Sarah Nicholson, they both appear to have died within a short time of each other 1882/83. The purpose of the research is to include Isabel Nicholson in an article for a local history journal on women in the local area from approx. 1900 to 1940 whose lives ran against the flow of those times. Ms. Nicholson is listed in the Irish Census of 1901 & 1911 as residing at Ballyellis Lodge in County Cork. Ireland. Her occupation is listed as "income from shares and dividends" and she is unmarried. She appears to have lived there from 1900 into the late 1930s or early 40s. She died in 1948 in Hawarden which I understand is not too far from her ancestral home of Sutton Hall. There appears to be a second Nicholson family in residence at Sutton Hall coming up to the WW1 period, Mr & Mrs H Nicholson whose son Hugh H Nicholson, 2nd Ltnt. Cheshire Regmt. was killed in action in 1915.Was there a family connection here?
Basically what I'm looking for is any background information on the family, especially Sarah Isabel, why she would have settled in Ireland and what her income could have derived from, so she could have lived so independently. Any family photographs or photographs of Sutton Hall from that period would be most welcome.

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Coffee Nescafe Alta Rica 190g BultacoAstro 27th Oct 2025 2:31pm Pink Floyd Have A Cigar.
This is for the Coffee drinker's the CO OP is selling Alta Rica 190g for £6.50 each. Amazon is selling at same price thoe you have delivery cost's with them. With instant you can store them as they reckon coffee price's are going to keep rising next year.

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Richmond Hotel Research Wildhorses 2nd Oct 2025 1:37pm Hi, I'm new to the site, so bear with me if I'm getting anything wrong.

I'm researching some distant relatives called Dowdeswell. An Edward Arkell Dowdeswell ran the Richmond Hotel at 52 Oxton Road in the 1880s. His first wife, Catherine, died in 1870 at the age of 30. I think he then remarried Elizabeth (Nee Harrison, previously married / widowed and then named Tarrant). Edward died in 1881 at the age of 38 at the Richmond Hotel. Then Elizabeth died in 1886 at the age of 46. They all seem to have died quite young. Not sure how they died.
Does anyone have any more information about the Richmond Hotel or the Dowdeswells in Birkenhead?
Thanks

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DIGITAL I D GaryFromWirral 30th Sep 2025 11:59am

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Information on Wallasey Central Conservative Club sugaray 20th Sep 2025 9:07pm I run a new website for the Wallasey Central Conservative Club. I have obtained through a committee member, a piece from the Wallasey News from 1924! I am hoping there is a lot more information out there and would be grateful for anything of interest about the Club.

www.wallaseyconsclub.com

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Looking for lost streets CloverBee 12th Sep 2025 1:20pm I've been researching my great great grandmother, Annie Hill (nee Harrison), who lived in various streets that just don't seem to exist anymore, I've never been to Birkenhead, and don't have a feel for the town, or what parts of it have radically altered since the censuses and 1939 register were done

She lived in Payson Street and Flamank Street, which I have found on an old map - can't tell you how ridiculously excited I got about that!!

But then there are others I haven't been able to find... Taylors Buildings in 1901, which I think was in Argyle Ward, 6 Chapel Place in 1911, and 50 Beaufort Square in 1939.

I'd be really grateful if anyone has any information.

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what was this building in Claughton Road derekdwc 1st Sep 2025 11:10am Not sure this has been asked before. Possibly a church?

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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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