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Just asked my mum about this, she's New Ferry born and bred.
It was a Methodist Church before the dole took it over. the methodist church was next to it, were the flats are now.
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The 1936 OS map shows it as being a "Billiards Hall" - seek it out on http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html where you can see different maps from different times through the 19th and 20th centuries. Just type your postcode into the search engine and look at and click on the maps to the right. Use the "enhanced view" to see real details close up. I too, had read that it was allegedly built as a picture house (I think in one of the books by the late Dave Mitchell) but I have been unable to find the quote.
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According to my gran it was used as a communal kitchen type place during the war
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just spoke to her, she said it was a dole office before the war time communal kitchen. also got some history about the garage the other end of Beaconsfield. Before my grandad owned it (Fleet Motors / later his son Len / Fleet Autos) it was a company that sandblasted leather, and before that a brick works.
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Just asked my mum about this, she's New Ferry born and bred.
It was a Methodist Church before the dole took it over. the methodist church was next to it, were the flats are now. By coincidence as well as the Methodist Chapel on the corner of Beaconsfield Road and Mayfields North, New Ferry. There was also a Methodist Chapel on a different Beaconsfield Road and Peel Street, Rock Ferry, both those roads have now gone.
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Slight correction, the junction of Beaconsfield Road and Peel Street is in Lower Tranmere not Rock Ferry. Rock Ferry starts at the other end of Peel Street where it runs into St Pauls Road. Born and bred in Peel Street Lower Tranmere in the 1940s
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Slight correction, the junction of Beaconsfield Road and Peel Street is in Lower Tranmere not Rock Ferry. Rock Ferry starts at the other end of Peel Street where it runs into St Pauls Road. Born and bred in Peel Street Lower Tranmere in the 1940s I should have realised that it isn't normally classed as Rock Ferry, I virtually lived down by Union Street for a year. Thanks for keeping me on my toes 
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