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Hi and welcome Chris_M that was a cool story behind the name, i could picture the little donkey with his hat on

monkey steps

Great pics Derek



There is a topic on the monkey steps in Tranmere, but I don't think we found out why they are called that.

I've heard of this before where about is it?

Takes me back to my childhood.

Here's an earlier thread about the Monkey Steps.
https://www.wikiwirral.co.uk/forums.../steps/Search/true/Steps.html#Post242296

In reply to both the monkey steps and donkey town which is on a seperate thread.
The pub at the bottom of the monkey steps is the Old House at Home and it is still open. During the late 1940s and early 1950s and most likley long before then. The men selling bundles of sticks for the fire kept the donkeys that pulled the carts in a yard in Stewart Place {which was always known as donkey town. I was born in Lower Tranmere as where both my parent. The earlier generation where in Tranmere in the 1870s

I only know these steps as the donkey steps, that's why the steps are long, easy for a donkey to use to take loads up top.