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Thank you Mr Deeper (?) - I have emailed the club to see if a link to Johnny Campbell’s family still exists. I’ll let you know how I get on. Thanks again. Sully.

I was stuck in the traffic jam for one and a half hours. The road was closed at the two-hundred-yard marker before junction three (Arrowe Park Turnoff) in both directions from about 10 10 PM on Friday evening. I was about 6 cars back from the Emergency services vehicle that was displaying the 'DO NOT PASS' sign. While I was there, one ambulance and one fire engine came up the hard shoulder from Wallasey towards Junction three. Some passengers from a car far behind me, decided walking would be quicker and trudged up the hard shoulder dragging suit-cases behind them. The Emergency services turned them back and wouldn't let them pass. Everyone was well behaved until three cars decided they were far more privileged than everyone else and drove up the hard shoulder. They were stopped and made to wait. Shortly afterwards the traffic was allowed to move and the privileged car drivers were still waiting on the hard shoulder as I drove past.
Still no idea why we were stopped, as there’s no news about it anywhere, I’ve heard various rumours, from a loose dog, to a possible jumper, to a crash.

You might get in touch with Venture Boxing Club, Johnny Campbell who died 30 years ago was Ollie's uncle and somebody at Venture will know Campbell's family.

https://www.ventureboxing.co.uk/

Hi - does anyone recall an amateur boxer called Ollie Locke from the Birkenhead area? I’d say he was active around 1965-ish. He was a civvy assistant at our scout group when I was a kid and I’ve often wondered what happened to him. He was a good man and a great role-model to us kids. He’s probably in his 80’s now if he still survives and if he doesn’t, I’d appreciate knowing his FRP so I could pay my respects. Thanks.

The money grabbers will be pleased.

Cost me my first ever speeding ticket, far too many changes of speed at random locations. I saw the camera but thought I was in a 30MPH area, not in Wirral.

Just the other day reading pollution has gone up in London despite the expansion of ULEZ, reason, vehicles are on the road longer because having to do 20mph.

Previously,
https://www.wikiwirral.co.uk/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/1084692/re-restore-the-30#Post1084692

.... and do cyclists need to curtail their speed too ? Racing along the roads on a Sunday morning, will be something of a past life.

It should also be compulsory for cyclists to have insurance and number plates.

Although I can see the reasoning, particularly in shopping and school areas, the congestion is going to be paramount. It seems madness.
As we know , many travel and work in Liverpool, and I can't imagine what the hold up at the tunnels will be in a morning.

Buses will have to have their timetables changed, mums and dads travelling by bus will have to leave earlier in a morning, thus impacting on their children being dropped off earlier at school. Meeting the children after school time, will mean have to leave work that bit earlier, which will impact on hours of work and pay for those who need it more than most, and companies that rely on working hourse being fulfilled.
Trucks will be rolling backwards near enough when on inclines, more petrol will be used by sitting in queues and more pollution emitted from standing vehicles.
Why oh why meddle, when things work well ? It didn't work in Wales, did it ?

Rockvilla is up for auction with Sutton Kersh, guide price is a very reasonable £265,000

The ground floor (pub) is let out on a five year lease ending 2027 providing £18k per annum.

The Lighthouse pub in Wallasey Village has just re-opened after refurbishment.

Well the new building I like best (or dislike least) is the black matchbox on the river side of the Strand near Water Street. Its is well proportioned and unfussy, unlike the triangular abortion next to it.

It may look better than it is because the other side of the dock road from Water street to the Baltic fleet is a monument to bad taste. I particularly dislike the acres of aluminium window frames. They are well suited to bus stations but little else in my opinion.

Eastham Ferry Hotel about to re-open as a gastropub after two year closure.

Search Sexy Girls in your town for night

Agreed, for large buildings steel frames and glass panels are the cheapest form of occupied construction, for warehouses its steel frames and panelling, for smaller buildings its regular brick.

However when you see what architects do when given more money it just gets wild - "lets see what ridiculous design I can come up with". Its a battle between a great architectural achievement and a great visual achievement.

Looking across at Liverpool these days, the Sandcastle building which at one time was considered abhorrent by many is lost against the other visual crimes.

To be fair, there are some reasonable attempts by some companies to do better but the bad examples stand out more. Simple things like brick colour and good brickwork can make a big difference, the low cost housing on Beaufort Road are not at all bad for budget housing despite being relatively plain https://maps.app.goo.gl/crtGzUuBp5kjjamC7

Does it take years of training for architects to lean how to combine ugliness, poor proportion, cheapness with boring?

All the new buildings on Merseyside seem to have these qualities in excess in some cases.

I feel ashamed that this is what our era will leave to coming generations. Hopefully they will demolish them and build something better.