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#293778 21st Feb 2009 7:59pm
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anyone know what that big building in the bachground is ? it looks like a theatre or something ??

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Isn't that The Grand or something?

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in the top picture could be the carpet/furniture warehouse I think may have been a masonic hall once
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That large impresive looking building was The Music Hall


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The building was the Claughton Music Hall, and it later became the Astor.

see here, here and here



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Wasn't the big building the old Astor picture house? The Music Hall pub was further up on the left, on the corner of Exmouth Street and Claughton Road, and wouldn't be visible in either picture.

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Sorry, my mistake, I didn't know the Astor had been called the Claughton Music Hall - is that where the pub got its name from?

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Yes that where the pub got its name from


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There are plans to demolish this fire station and build a new one at another location.

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Originally Posted by panther
There are plans to demolish this fire station and build a new one at another location.


good cause its an eyesore..


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good. it was poorly located and was pretty much far away from the most of Birkenhead/ Wallasey

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Ive worked in this dump for the past 14 years and a new station is being built on the exisiting site in about 2 years . I havent looked but i assume there are pictures on here of the previous main birkenhead fire station that was on the junction of borough road and whetstone lane where the netto carpark is now .

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