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when we lived there i seem to remember, the post office was on the corner of grove street and new chester road,the kwiki was on the other corner, and the bus station was on new chester road

Buckleys dairy was on the opposite side---i remember it----on the other corner of Brownlow Rd was a cafe---don't know what it is now, but i remember the cafe, mum would take us in there on the way home from school to buy ice lollies in the summer!
Buckleys also had a shop in Bebington Rd years ago, and they had lovely ice scream, i have never tasted anything like it since! i think they made their own?

is an omnibus a like a tram but on normal wheels that have to be steered but gets power from overhead?

The word bus was originally an abreviation of the word omnibus but has now entered the dictionary as a word in its own right, so all buses are actually omnibuses.

An electric bus which collected its power from overhead wires was called a trolleybus.

Omnibus: from the Latin omnis, meaning all, with the dative ending, 'ibus' meaning to or for, so "for all". i.e. a public vehicle, not private.