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What a brilliant thread!!

Well done people!

as far as I can recollect the nanny goat mountains are at the back of Mercer road at the end near tollemache road
On the top of them there used to be a hospital [fever hospital orfor sexual diseases - I mean people suffering from them not the diseases themselves]
There's a new housing estate there now

correct the nanny goat stands on lower flaybrick road which runs from mercer road up to the rear gates of flaybrick .when the fever hospital was there during the outbreak of typhoid that struck the wirral the dead where taken up this road to the hloding rooms in the cemetery close to where the catholic chapel used to be

thanks very interesting

anymore info on typhoid outbreak
Date
number of deaths
w2hat area was covered

As you travel along hoylake road from St James church and pass the last of the houses on the left hand side. that stretch of land up to the light at th corner of bidston road was the site of very large field guns { and i mean big guns} during the last war. they where trained out to sea so as to protect the entrance to the river mersey. any opening dug into the rocky hill side behind was for the storage of ammo and shelters for the gun crews. there must be other members who remember them as well as me.

very intresting mate!

My father has told me many a story about the gun sites the one you refer to above was known as Big Bertha and they used to store the ammo for it in a cut out on Bidston village road .There where also gun sites behind Bidston hall with the ammo being stored in a purpose built trench on the track at the side of the hall that runs up to the hill you can still see the remains of this trench and some of the gun sites to this day

found it mate jonno40 will have to meet up kid!!

be happy too

when your only round the corner from me

Sorry mate but i only touched on the subject a little whilst researching flaybrick .

just heard that the police are down the tunnels today, apparently there opening them back up looking for a man called Finley, he was the one who murded another man in clauton the other week and they have found his car near the tunnels

Have you been down a tunnel yourself for the past few weeks?

Pictures can be found in he local news topic:

https://www.wikiwirral.co.uk/forums...rime_cops_search_Bidston.html#Post289453

There is no activity at the tunnels today as Robbo and I have been round there.No one has been near them.Not long been back from there.