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"Andrew Gibson House, overlooking the Mersey at Wallasey, stands empty and forlorn, and under threat of demolition. A large and substantial building of red brick and stone, it was opened in 1906 as a sanctuary for the widows of old sailors and of men lost at sea. This charitable institution was paid for by the son of Andrew Gibson, a wealthy Liverpool cotton merchant, and it stands in Mariners’ Park in Egremont, first opened in 1882. This was a garden village, a sort of Port Sunlight, intended as a home for friendless, aged and incapacitated mariners… [But] this legacy has been ill-treated by the heirs to this charitable trust. Many of the cottages and other buildings in Mariners’ Park have gone and the owners of Andrew Gibson House, the merchant navy union Nautilus (formerly NUMAST), now want to demolish it…”

Funny where memories take us Casper. All the stuff catalogued in our brains.
A great aunt of mine ended up there. I visited her when expecting my first child and I don't think she was very happy. I can't remember much about the inside of the building but she didn't stay there for very long and moved on, to be nearer some other relatives.
Always a sad thought when someone goes into a home, they know it's God's little waiting room but no one ever mentions it. All arranged behind closed doors and the disposal of the living follows.
There should be plenty of ghosts in there.

Happy times indeed, Casper. We also seemed to play out all summer, but not in the vicinity you talk about. Freedom ! Thinking back and comparing to today, they were special times which cost nothing and now, in most cases, never to be repeated.