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Yeah Tesco was like, erm, fields with Ponds...

Its hard to imagine how much things change, a couple of years ago there where really tight and twist lanes between my house and west kirby - theres now a better road there and its hard to remember what it was like before that and its been less than 2 years

I remember the Asda the lifts in there where terryfying cause someone used to Break the light so it was dark LOL.. I remember the Car Park on the front of the car park by the Asda used to be the Bus Shelters. Where the Argos is used to be a Higgsons Pub (cant remember the name) but it stunk.. Anyone remember how sayers used to look in birkenhead black Ceiling (urghhh) Along the shops on Conway Street used to be an Electrical shop called Magnet the guy who owned the shop fixed loads of old dated electronic equipment... Anyone remember next to the meadows pub the Pine Factory across the road from those shops.. Damn theres loads i remember but id need whole day to list LOL.

I remember all the flyovers and stuff Also when the market was rebuilt it was temporarily relocated into the then closed Asda. Also remember the cinema, Europa and Conwy Park being built.

And i'm only 21, so not THAT old, lol

anyone remember the ritzy? good riddance... lol

Yer hit man and her visted that.. Poor Macala with all those animals LOL

OK, here's Grandad to try & answer some of the questions.

The cinema near Argos was the Ritz; I know because I was a projectionist there for about a year. The manager's name was Bill Boht. Since tis is an unusual name, I think he was related to Jean Boht (Bread), maybe her father.

One of the things that was where the Pyramids is was St.John's Church. It was just on the Borough Rd. side of Grange Rd., almost opposite where TKMaxx is now. That used to be a big CO-OP department store; furniture & the like. Years before, before my time, it was a music hall called Ohmy's Circus. Grange Rd. had a slight bend to the right here (coming down from Charing Cross). There were short streets of housing between Grange Rd. & Borough Rd. Grange Rd. was the major shopping St. of the town.

Yes, I remember the CO-OP on Woodchurch. I don't think it was a shop, just a huge warehouse, or maybe a factory. There used to be the CO-OP dairy half way up Swan Hill too.

Tesco Bidston? think that's where Bidston steel works was.

Anyone know the Mount Estate? I remember when that was allotments during the war; used to play in the old chicken sheds there after they were abandoned after the war; started some good fires there too.

I've been up for a little visit today; I'm planning a small project which may be ready by tomorrow: watch this space.

Cheers, Chris.

Tesco Bidston? think that's where Bidston steel works was.

Dam Obvious now you said it lol

Long Green Sheds if "I" Remember

The Co-op in Woodchurch Rd (between the railway bridge and Arrowe Park was the Co-op laundry. Massive place with tall chimney.

Had a large neon sign on the main block with U.C.L.A. on it. As kids, it was always short for Uncle Charlie's Loonatic Asylum !!

Quite spoiled things for us when we were told it really stood for "United Cooperative Laundries Association" !! Poo !

an the lanes were like a long windin road an not very wide

orbro cashand carry where b&q bidston is now, it subsided and basically fell apart as it was built on marsh land....

asda where wilkinsons is in birkenhead... it used to have a car park on the roof..

'the grand' nightclub in new brighton like an Rj's for teenies... or 'the Chelsea Reach' too was turned into posh apartments a few yrs ago...

Oh, thanks; of course it was, I remember now.

Wasn't the COOP at Woodchurch called Leo's for a while?

- I vaugely remember Arrowe Park hospital opening
- New Brighton open air baths - flipping freezing but packed with people in the summer
- Kwik Save in Prenton burning down and lots of the stock being given away for free when it was refurbed!
- Lairds still building ships - had a school trip to see HMS Cambelltown being launced, then going bust, starting again, going bust etc
- Mersey Ferries being blue

You've really got me started no!

the quasar in birkenhead (i could be wrong but was it not next to the coliseum or it was the coliseum) - where the icebar was then built? gettin mixed up now i think lol - id have to go down there and have a look to get it right

"the quasar in birkenhead"

I think it was part of the old cinema on Conway St