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I remember Millies Cafe, ohhh the toast get it to takeaway and the butter used to soak through the bag.

Just read this topic, great info an pics thanks.

Great pics and lots of great info but does anyone know what date the New Market Hall was opened?

I remember that bus stop too.My friends and I would get off at that stop and buy shoes on a stall close by for £2.
I remember buying platform shoes that had a cork sole.
That summer I went to Canada to visit relatives and they had never seen such shoes!!!!

thats probably the same stall I bought a pair of platform boots.wish Id kept them as they came back in fashion.

Birkenhead Market on fire. Birkenhead hasn't been the same since this happened

It was the heart of the town.

Thanks for posting Pablo - spent many an hour in there

Used to love going to the old market,was in Birkenhead yesterday first time in a long time,what a miserable chewing gum dump the town centre is now,I think the destruction by the Wirral council of Birkenhead is nearly complete,they in their wisdom have screwed up most ways into Birkenhead with traffic lights and bad road markings,so leaving the place in an unswept tip is a great help to get people shopping out of town and no Christmas lights as well in the town centre oh dear!.

About 1974. There used to be a nightclub underneath, the Hamilton. Used to be quite posh and had some good acts on

I remember The Hamilton.You could have a meal while watching the caberet.

Lovely pic pablo, used to love that market. Used to have all different types of stall not like it is now with mostly clothing. One butcher left in the butcher aisle, sacrilige. I still go down every week for bits and bobs but its not the same. If you want anything a bit out of the ordinary now you have to hunt around like a bloodhound.

The market in Leeds, which I think is the oldest in the country,is like a walk through your past. It is so like old Birkenhead market.

Bezzymate, you'right about Kirkgate Market in Leeds. As soon as I set foot in there, it stirred up fuzzy memories of old Birkenhead market. I was 3 when it burnt down but I have memories of walking up steps to get into the place and the high roof, the noise and I remember once walking down Market Street holding hands with my Mum and Dad on the way to the place and my Dad disappearing into a cake shop and coming out with a doughnut for me. I remember how busy Market Street was as well.

The building on the extreme right looks like what was to become the Midland/HSBC bank on Hamilton st
Anyone know what is the tall building just to the left of it?