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How long was that actually standern there for

Roughly 75 years.

Too long

Will someone hurry up and knock it down?

D'you reckon it would come down if I rammed it with me Micra?

This was built before Wimpy started making cardboard boxes, your micra would become a nano or a pico if you hit that building with it!

if you rammed it with your micra it wouldnt budge but it would make a mess of your car

Only if you use the Turbo Boost Button You could also just try reverse, you like bumping things whilst reversing

Haha like Picassos

get a sledge hammer and ill knock it down hehe

New Dock Hotel (Blood Tub)
Does anyone know if it ever served as a hotel
possibly only called a hotel to get past the serving on a Sunday laws that were about ages ago
Maybe the Ilchester square remains attached to it belonged to the pub
We know the 1st tier part above the pub was lived in by the manager recently

posted by Mark at start of topic


The Flats above were used for the Brewery and were rent free for ex-managers or Brewery Employee's
that were time served.
The First Floor out of the 3 would be for the current Manager
with an internal stair way to that level. (No longer Exists)

We were not sure when Ownership from "Birkenhead Brewery to Higgsons Brewery" happened.

Hello

Here are some pictures from today (3/6/09)and last week.

The front of the building is being demolished manually and some of the top floor at the front is down. More pics soon.

nice pics thanks

What is the small squarish building at the back of the flats
I never looked at it
It may be one of those electricty substations if so will that be demolished

That's a garage which had an 'up and over' door on it, and the pub toilets were either side of it. That part was built on after the demolition of the rest of Ilchester Square. I'm not sure what the back looked like originally, but I think it was just a wall and a back yard for the pub.

Just round the corner into Tyrer Street there were 3 shops. There was a Dairy type shop, a sweet shop and a chippy.

pics today