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nice pics billy jase is right the above pic is fantastic thumbsup


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Yep, it's my fave too - thanks a lot for the comments. I'll have to tell my mate that his pics are appreciated.

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thanks mate for sharing them mate!


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Really good pics - thanks guys

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Very memory provoking pics, thanks. It used to be a town and a half then. Woodside very busy, docks busy, lairage going full blast, everybody grafting and earning their crust. Happy days.


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Aye, you're right. AND a proper bus service. AND proper money (pounds, shillings and pence). AND Bents bitter..... AND ...er.mm...forget the last bit !

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Whey hey Pinz. You've got that amnesia thing as well, nobody said it was catching. I worked on the Birkenhead buses in the late 60's early 70's, can't believe the way it is now.


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Aw, Woodside Hotel in background frown

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No, Snooze, those are the buildings on Bridge St. The shadow on the loco is of the Rose Brae bridge, the bridge you can see at the end of the platforms is the Church St. bridge. You can see the Hamilton Square station hydraulic tower in the pic. which is at the other end of Bridge St. The Woodside Hotel is roughly behind the tender of the loco. Attached is a map from 1909 & an aerial pic. from the 1947 Outline Plan book. Funnily enough, the loco. in the pic. below is at almost the exact point as the one in the other pic., but on a different track.

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I think the white chimney that is shown immediately in front of the hydraulic tower (over the coals on the tender) belongs to the pub behind the Woodside Hotel.

It's marked "PH" with a bench mark. An imaginary line drawn from just under the Rose Brae Bridge (where loco is blowing off steam in photo) to the hydraulic tower (corner of Ham.Sq.Sta.) passes through that pub.

I think, as you say Chris, the white block of buildings (over loco boiler) are the buildings facing Bridge St.

Great station and loco photos ! THAT'S how locos were towards the end of steam - mostly filthy and neglected !

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left side of the buildings are
89 Worsley Arms cum Queens Arms cum (Cuckoo) cum Riverview 16 Chester Street 16 1 Bridge Street
90 Kossuth Hotel 18 Chester Street 18
91 Dispensary cum Hamlet 20 Chester Street 20

and the pub alongside the Woodside Hotel wasWoodside vaults cum Rinty Monaghans Irish Bar

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My mum remembers being sent to Southampton from this station as a lil girl, i'll have to show her these pix!!

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I suddenly realised I had a picture taken in almost exactly the same place as one of the set I uploaded last week, and thought it might be of interest to show a 'then and then' comparison, comparing 1967 and 1986.

Also, there is another picture from 1967, which I didn't include the first time around, as it was a bit 'atmospheric', but it might be of interest anyway. Apologies for the quality, but my mate tells me he was using a camera which was possibly the model before the 'box brownie' became available...

I have some more photos, but not of Woodside - most are from the sheds at Mollington Street, the docks, and few of Rock Ferry Station. If they are of any interest, perhaps someone can tell me if there are any topics on Wiki that would be a good place to put them?

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