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Unilever Research
Excoriator
8th Feb 2025 5:45pm
What's happening to it? I drove past today and all the windows had been removed. Is it going to be demolished?
Have Unilever moved the work elsewhere or is it going to be rebuilt?
Or have they run out of things to research about soap?
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Re: Seafield House, Tranmere
Shadowfax
7th Feb 2025 11:06am
A bit late I know to enter the discussion but I can perhaps add a bit . My maternal Great Grandfather James William Warren lived at Seafield House in 1921 . He and his sons had a firewood business . The source of the timber were old barges on the Mersey that they broke up . They had a sizeable market garden business on the fields behind the house , the produce from which they sold on their stall on Birkenhead market. I don’t know if he owned Seafield House or rented it . My grandmother told me the house was bombed during the war at the same time as Rose Cottages . She lived at No.4 Rose Cottages. My Great Grandfather relocated to a bungalow in Kinmel Bay where he had a poultry business. Interestingly as he got older and could no longer look after himself , he moved back to live in Cobden Street in the early 60s where he died in August 1968 aged 88.
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Re: Seafield House, Tranmere
Shadowfax
7th Feb 2025 10:34am
A bit late I know to enter the discussion but I can perhaps add a bit . My maternal Great Grandfather James William Warren lived at Seafield House from around 1923. He and his sons had a firewood business . The source of the timber were old barges on the Mersey that they broke up . They had a sizeable market garden business on the fields behind the house , the produce from which they sold on their stall on Birkenhead market. I don’t know if he owned Seafield House or rented it . My grandmother told me the house was bombed during the war at the same time as Rose Cottages . She lived at No.4 Rose Cottages. My Great Grandfather relocated to a bungalow in Kinmel Bay where he had a poultry business. Interestingly as he got older and could no longer look after himself , he moved back to live in Cobden Street in the early 60s where he died in August 1968 aged 88.
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Re: Storeton Radar Station WW2 era
AR_One
6th Feb 2025 3:19pm
Brilliant pics - remember sneaking into there as a teen in the 80s and it was full of all sorts of cr@p including a dead cat in a carrier bag. Amazing the one with the houses on Stanley avenue in the backgroud
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Re: The most interesting building in New Ferry
diggingdeeper
4th Feb 2025 3:08pm
1938/39, 80 New Chester Rd was Westminster Bank and 2 Bedford Road was occupied by Henry Lightfoot and family, Branch Bank Manager. Interesting, like a Vicarage except for a bank not a church. I'll be keeping my eye out for other bank buildings like this. Presumably the bank manager was also issued with a gun? (I think Dad's Army made reference to this?).
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Re: Lucy Letby
diggingdeeper
4th Feb 2025 2:54pm
Common sense is starting to prevail https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...lucy-letby-conviction-expert-panel-findsThat statement also concurs with what I hypothesised previously about a a failing department looking for a scape goat. This could be a travesty for Letby, the justice system and the families of the babies involved in this case. Not only would the families find out their babies weren't murdered but also they may have died through medical negligence. the Countess of Chester’s neonatal unit was overworked, understaffed, had plumbing issues and was staffed by “inadequate numbers of appropriately trained” clinicians. It said there were “numerous problems” in the care of the 17 babies, including a failure to properly carry out “basic medical procedures, delays in their treatment and the misdiagnosis of diseases" “so many problems with the medical care” of the babies and nothing to support the claim they were attacked Furthermore, if the prosecutors misrepresented evidence in court, is that not perjury? I also raise questions as to why the identity of some of the witnesses in court were kept secret, there is absolutely no reason in a case like this for that to occur. Perhaps without that anonymity their damning statements may not have been the same?
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Re: The most interesting building in New Ferry
Excoriator
3rd Feb 2025 6:56pm
I don't recall seeing lights on at night there which is a good indication of occupancy. Although I notice the building as I drive past I don't actively look for lights but I think I would notice them.
I'd always assumed that 2 Bebington road was part of tenh Bank. It was obviously built at the same time and in the same style.
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Re: Heathrow's third Runway
Jeremy
3rd Feb 2025 12:26pm
We should be removing business tax relief for international travel, most business passenger travel is totally unnecessary these days. Spot the guy who doesn't do big business internationally. Can you explain why it is "necessary" rather than "expected"? Loads of people like to keep the "jollies" system going. As soon as we could we introduced videoconferencing but it was a number of years before that would work internationally. Relationships aren't built and maintained through a computer screen, especially when it comes to multi-million £/$ deals and the need for close collaboration. It is absolutely necessary in a lot of instances. Yearly conferences and the industry coming together is totally necessary for example. Granted, not all travel is necessary and brief catch ups can be done remotely, some air travel is unnecessary but you will never get to a point where it all can, nor should it. How sad a world we'd live in if we never left our houses and explored the world.
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The most interesting building in New Ferry
Excoriator
3rd Feb 2025 2:42am
To my mind it is the old Bank Building at the Toll Bar - was it Martins?
It is now occupied by Becky's Unique Sewing Boutique at least on the ground floor.
Anyone know what teh upper floors are used for? Flats? Offices|?
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Re: Heathrow's third Runway
Excoriator
2nd Feb 2025 11:39am
The thread is not about Heathrow versus regional airports but rather how to make it less damaging to the environment wherever its built.
Reserving it for use only by zero carbon aircraft would encourage the development of such aircraft of the synthesis of 'green' fuel and meet the objections of environmentalists/
There is no reason to restrict flying if they don't damage the environment. There is no shortage of energy. and you would find a number of regional airports that take passengers to Heathrow for international flights would switch to battery or hydrogen craft to get a landing and take off slot at Heathrow.
Airbus has an active program of development of zero emission aircraft and has dedicated an A380 for use in this. It contains sufficient space in teh fuselage for fuel tanks and has an engine Nacelle mounted on teh fuselage where engines can be experimented with. I believe they are partnered with Rolls Royce in this.
It seems to me that the government should be supporting this and dedicating a runway at Heathrow to it woud be a very good way of doing this.
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Re: Heathrow's third Runway
diggingdeeper
1st Feb 2025 11:55am
Why at Heathrow? We have just seen at Washington DC what happens with congested airspace and the airspace around Heathrow is congested enough. Apparently it's congested because to many planes are in a holding pattern, it wouldn't be congested if they could get them on the ground quicker, hence the need for more runways. Its the sheer quantity of aircraft flying in and out of one area that is the hazard, currently around half a million a year, even more protected airspace and holding stacks will have to be created to allow for another runway and no more flight paths will be created. This in turn creates less flexibility for avoidance. Concentrating air traffic is never a good idea, creating a runway somewhere else would be much safer. In recent years we have sold off many of our military air fields, we had loads of them including in the south west. Increasing capacity will have a knock affect to other infrastructure, especially the car park also known as the M25. What happened to decentralisation? I see Reeves' 1940 statement has been clarified to restrict it to the southwest, elsewhere runways have been created since then such as Manchester, Liverpool etc.
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Re: Heathrow's third Runway
bert1
1st Feb 2025 7:56am
Why at Heathrow? We have just seen at Washington DC what happens with congested airspace and the airspace around Heathrow is congested enough. Apparently it's congested because to many planes are in a holding pattern, it wouldn't be congested if they could get them on the ground quicker, hence the need for more runways.
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Re: Heathrow's third Runway
diggingdeeper
1st Feb 2025 1:43am
We should be removing business tax relief for international travel, most business passenger travel is totally unnecessary these days. Spot the guy who doesn't do big business internationally. Can you explain why it is "necessary" rather than "expected"? Loads of people like to keep the "jollies" system going. As soon as we could we introduced videoconferencing but it was a number of years before that would work internationally.
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Re: Heathrow's third Runway
Jeremy
31st Jan 2025 4:56pm
We should be removing business tax relief for international travel, most business passenger travel is totally unnecessary these days. Spot the guy who doesn't do big business internationally.
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Re: Heathrow's third Runway
diggingdeeper
31st Jan 2025 9:42am
Why at Heathrow? We have just seen at Washington DC what happens with congested airspace and the airspace around Heathrow is congested enough.
We should be removing business tax relief for international travel, most business passenger travel is totally unnecessary these days. The relief is effectively subsidising pollution creation.
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Heathrow's third Runway
Excoriator
30th Jan 2025 12:13pm
Not exactly Wirral, but environmental matters affect us here in Wirral too.
Why doesn't Rachel reeves announce that the third runway will be reserved for the sole use of zero-carbon aircraft. This would more than meet environmental objections as it would encourage the development of hydrogen or synthetic green fuelled aircraft or even battery ones.
These are quite likely to be in service by 2035, the date when the proposed Runway will be built.
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Lucy Letby
by diggingdeeper - 16th Dec 2024 6:16pm
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