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Have a look here
https://www.wikiwirral.co.uk/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/353753/1.html

Yep, some great pictures in that thread. I remember a lot of those places. We left the Wirral in the early 90s, such a shame so much has changed.

Thanks, Bert. What year is that directory? I've just remembered another shop on that block between Charing Cross & Vincent St. Hubbard & Martins, bread & cake shop. Not in that directory, so must be earlier than 1940

Is Stubbs the Bakers still in Grange Road West? At the top of Cole Street? I remember they used to decorate a huge Easter Egg every year and donate it to the Children's Hospital.

Chris, 1962, one of Dereks posts.

I think i can remember those eggs, don't think their there now.

Some Robb's adverts, from 'Yesterday's Wirral' books.

There's me thinking Mission Statements were quite modern and Robbs were doing them in 1919!

Ah, thanks, Bert. So Hubbard & Martins had gone by then.

Note the feeding prices! Equivalent to about 13p,18p and 25p!

Yea, and Robbs wasn't cheap either.

In 2008, £0 2s 6d from 1953 is worth

£2.61 using the retail price index.
£7.53 using average earnings.

I had a Saturday job in Woolies and had my lunch in the canteen there. If I recall correctly it was something ridiculously cheap like 2d for two courses. This was at the start of the 70s when decimalisation was coming in. The food was excellent!

I did my two weeks 'work experience' at woolies in birkenhead, during the 5th year at school, in 1988. The dinners were marvellousy cheap and very nice. I had an 'issue' with The Boss and took my revenge by smacking/ punching a hole, thus breaking the new range of Easter Eggs. Haha. I blame 'The Reynould Sisters' being played on a loop! Im better now at Conflict Resolution. The Easter Eggs are safe!

As an afterthought..,would blatent destruction of Easter Eggs or other merchandise constitute Criminal Damage?? Oh gawd. Must be! Somehow a sharp rap wiv a knuckle, to 'break' an Egg didnt seem bad? Was tho, wasnt it? *blush*