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Hi just found out there is another suitcase full of local pictures at my folks house, e.g festival of Britain party pictures at laird street, trams, all sorts of stuff plus my great great grandfather's transport business which was based in shrewsbury road (horse drawn) I have a scanner in ours but i reckon it will be a mammoth job scanning them all as I dont have proper broadband (using my mobile hooked up to my pc) dunno how i will put them up for everyone to see. I suppose I could put them onto a cd/dvd, I suppose these photos will be valuable to somebody creating a book on wirral history though not entirely clued up on how to get these photographs viewed by the masses as in people who are interested in wirral history, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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excellent find.I would love to have a look some time
It all makes perfect sense expressed in dollars and cents ,pound shillings and pence
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Hi just found out there is another suitcase full of local pictures at my folks house, e.g festival of Britain party pictures at laird street, trams, all sorts of stuff plus my great great grandfather's transport business which was based in shrewsbury road (horse drawn) I have a scanner in ours but i reckon it will be a mammoth job scanning them all as I dont have proper broadband (using my mobile hooked up to my pc) dunno how i will put them up for everyone to see. I suppose I could put them onto a cd/dvd, I suppose these photos will be valuable to somebody creating a book on wirral history though not entirely clued up on how to get these photographs viewed by the masses as in people who are interested in wirral history, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I reckon the person you want is Ian Boumphrey: www.yesterdayswirral.co.ukHe's always on the lookout for such stuff & would probably scan it all for you, for possible use in a book (don't know if he pays) but at least you'd then have it all on CD/DVD. Give him a ring. Cheers, Chris.
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Hi just found out there is another suitcase full of local pictures at my folks house, e.g festival of Britain party pictures at laird street, trams, all sorts of stuff plus my great great grandfather's transport business which was based in shrewsbury road (horse drawn) I have a scanner in ours but i reckon it will be a mammoth job scanning them all as I dont have proper broadband (using my mobile hooked up to my pc) dunno how i will put them up for everyone to see. I suppose I could put them onto a cd/dvd, I suppose these photos will be valuable to somebody creating a book on wirral history though not entirely clued up on how to get these photographs viewed by the masses as in people who are interested in wirral history, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I will drop you a pm. Dont want to go off topic 
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grandfather's transport business which was based in shrewsbury road (horse drawn)
Wow - Just sounds weired.
Any idea what year that may have been ?
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Cheers chris just e-mailed, so waiting on a reply now, would be good for people to view the photographs instead of just myself.
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Well that photograph was one of the collection of a huge amount, I don't know much more to be honest, though the road Oriel road was were I think it was originally based, from what my parents have told me the business was bought by the transport corporation which must have been when the Birkenhead transport corporation was creating there network. Unfortunately I only know snippets of information; if my grandparents were alive I could have gathered more information. If you have any more questions just fire away and I will try and answer.
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did you all know that birkenhead was the largest exporter of flour at one time???? i didnt, i always remember on the wallasey side near the mills there was an additives place but i used to call it the lollipop factory as it smells of them lol
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I rememeber the Flour Mills, well seening the signage
on the buildings but i think the flour had gone.
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are the mills still there tho??
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The Wallasey ones are being converted in to luxury apartments.
yuppy town lol
I'm sure we have pics around about.
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totally different, i must visit
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Old Gorsey Lane is where the building that smelt of lollipops was the Additive centre but even though the building is still there it now belongs too West Cheshire cleaning
It all makes perfect sense expressed in dollars and cents ,pound shillings and pence
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nice one jonno. take it you also wiffed that lovely aroma!!
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