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Birkenhead Market. #1057509 4th Aug 2018 6:54pm 4th Aug 2018 6:54pm
Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 3,616 Wirral V venice OP Forum Guardian
venice OP Forum Guardian V Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 3,616 Wirral	Would love to be able to zoom back for a day to see the old market in all its glory. I remember it on this site, but not of course as far back when horses appeared to draw the stalls into place. I still cant manage converting into a pic sorry - if someone fancies doing it please . https://i.pinimg.com/originals/bd/66/e6/bd66e68bb48a9765c97fbdd5ed085b96.jpg

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Re: Birkenhead Market. [Re: venice] #1057552 5th Aug 2018 7:41pm 5th Aug 2018 7:41pm
Joined: Jun 2011 Posts: 350 Wallasey H Habdab Old Hand
Habdab Old Hand H Joined: Jun 2011 Posts: 350 Wallasey	I remember the night it went up in flames, I was working in Bowater's in Ellesmere Port and you could see the flames from the roof of the Mill. I drove past it in the morning, What a sad sight. Fetere sum, ego sum Ergo

Re: Birkenhead Market. [Re: venice] #1057571 6th Aug 2018 6:40am 6th Aug 2018 6:40am
Joined: Apr 2012 Posts: 166 france J joney Enthusiast
joney Enthusiast J Joined: Apr 2012 Posts: 166 france	I was taken there by my mother when I was very young sometime in the 30s at xmas. I remember rows of birds hanging up and outside stalls with hissing carbide lamps ,it was also the place where we went down the side to be issued with our gas masks in 39.

Re: Birkenhead Market. [Re: venice] #1057573 6th Aug 2018 7:52am 6th Aug 2018 7:52am
Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 851 Wirral Nigel Wise One
Nigel Wise One Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 851 Wirral	Originally Posted by venice Would love to be able to zoom back for a day to see the old market in all its glory. I remember it on this site, but not of course as far back when horses appeared to draw the stalls into place. I still cant manage converting into a pic sorry - if someone fancies doing it please . https://i.pinimg.com/originals/bd/66/e6/bd66e68bb48a9765c97fbdd5ed085b96.jpg Just for you Venice, the picture posted. Attached Files MARKET.JPG (34 downloads) O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever ...

Re: Birkenhead Market. [Re: venice] #1057580 6th Aug 2018 2:39pm 6th Aug 2018 2:39pm
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venice OP Forum Guardian V Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 3,616 Wirral	Many thanks Nigel!

Re: Birkenhead Market. [Re: venice] #1057601 7th Aug 2018 3:30pm 7th Aug 2018 3:30pm
Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 208 Birkenhead P peodude Addict
peodude Addict P Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 208 Birkenhead	I didn't realise that the frontage on the current market was a copy of the old market.

Re: Birkenhead Market. [Re: peodude] #1057604 7th Aug 2018 5:11pm 7th Aug 2018 5:11pm
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diggingdeeper Wiki Master Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 12,665 Birkenhead	Originally Posted by peodude I didn't realise that the frontage on the current market was a copy of the old market. Neither did I but as its half the height its nowhere near as impressive. In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell We should judge our economy by the absence of poverty, not the number of billionaires - Jeremy Corbyn