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Sorry I thought you were talking about the picture of
278 Combermere 126 Oliver Street
I lived not far from the flats and in the 60s the nearest pubs to there were
Combermere
Brown Jug
135 Crown Hotel 128 Conway Street 84 Camden Street
116 Manchester Arms 53 Claughton Road

The Little Brown jug waa Yates house and served an exelent pint of Yates Best Mild, it stuck to the glass all the way down the same as a pint of guness but the best mild was not as heavy as guness {happy times} before all this crap that is served in so called pubs these days.

interesting never heard anythink about it.

Hi All.
I remember most of these places quite well.
I went to St John's C of E Primary School until I was 11 years old.
And a number of kids at the school lived in St Andrews Square
and I remember their names too. My family lived in Cyprus Street which now divides the car parks at the back Grange Road.
I remember St John's Church which was where the school had us do the Harvest Festival thing. Another thing I recall was a pub that was tucked into the side of the Co-op department store, 'The Garrick Snug'....still there maybe?
Thompson's Mission I remember perfectly as I come from a big family
and our mum sent us there around Christmas for a Christmas parcel.
I also went to Hamilton Secondary (Mod) school and the building is still there but not a school nowadays.

Arthur

I also went to St Johns school , Tombo mission and Hamilton Secondary
Was the vicar of the St Johns church Mr Howarth and the headmaster of the school Mr Davis
At Hamilton Secondary I was in the same class as Les McAteer
Ilived in Oliver Place where the swings were just of Grange Road

Snug still there pic in pubs topic

What years you talking about
St Johns school 1956 last year for me

Hi.
I attended St Johns from 1860 - 66. Mr Davies was still headmaster. The teachers I remember are Miss Clephon, Tetlo and the name Holroyd rings a bell. Do you remember the big coal fire to warm the class room?

Arthur

You must have been well before my time 1860 - 1866

Just joking
I remember the fire also in the last year a teacher showing us how to hold a cricket bat and altho I do everything lefthanded
except holding a bat or golf club I still blame that teacher

Also remember the nitty nurse in the junior school

When I was a bit older used to play table tennis and 5 a side
football for the church

The only organised sport within the school that remember was rounders or lobbing bean bags up in the air in the gym. And for football they loaded us on a bus and took us to somewhere in tranmere or higher tranmere.
And we had square dancing...perhaps this 'Holroyd' played the piano.
And kids think todays life is too stressful!!

Arthur

now you mention it I remember the dancing in the hall
The girls enjoyed that more than the boys
Football I remember we had a couple of games against other schools
When it was wet the casey was like trying to kick a brick
and the boots had a hard toecap and studs had nails in them to knock into the sole of the boot

I think most of the kids used to play football in their school shoes because their families couldn't afford boots. Those kifs that had boots were the more modern type (xmas prezzies). But 1 or 2 kids had the old boots with hard toe caps. And when the teacher told 2 kids to pick the sides the kids with hob nail boots would get picked first because they would be able to kick the wet casey more than 20 yards...even if they were crap at football they would get picked first.

Arthur

I remember when i was at school and was on the rugby team, my nan got me a real pair of rugby boots (not footy boots like the rest of lads used!!) which had ankle supports and hard toecaps!! The best was Aluminium screw in studs, lethal in the scrum!!!

I have been trying to find out about a Birkenhead Cemetery which was opened in 1900 in Chapel Lane.
http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/chs/birkenhead.html
This sounds like it might be Birkenhead Cemetery. I have a map from 1909 wwhich shows something that might be rows of graves. The cemetery couldnt have been open for long though. Where did the records go?

Just spoken to my elderly uncle. He lived in St Andrews square as a boy. He said there was a graveyard attached to a St Andrews church. He remembers watching them remove the graves. St Andrews was a Presbyterian church on Conway st built in 1840.

Is this a St John's school reunion topic,yes I went to the same school then Hemy,remember Davis the headmaster and the rev Haworth,when every other school had a day off we would get half a day as we would spend the morning with major threats to our bodies if we didn't turn up for church services,remember Les McAteer and the Scottish dancing in the hall,I hated it,the first few months at Hemy we used to go back to St John's as we were part of a group that got confirmed at St Mary's by the bishop of Chester.

a few pics St Johns school /St Johns church /St Andrews square