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My turn for another guess (and I really do mean guess!!)...

...how about the recreation ground between Breck Road & Station Rd?? Not too far from St.Hilary's, but St.Lukes would be a lot nearer.

The Mill Lane Water Tower looks quite near, although distances can of course be deceptive. Also, just realised that the parade is only made up of Sea Cadets, so I guess that also helps date the photo (the scouts having barely begun).

Is it's feasible that this parade could have marched from Liscard Road down Mill Lane towards Station Rd, and then gone on to the church?

I agree with the view being from Claremount Road towards Liscard. The backs of the newbuild houses being Radley, Uppingham or Sedbergh Road; which have single-storey lean-to outriggers that fit the picture.

If this is Claremount ... The houses in what is now Winchester Drive were already built by 1910 and would be right across the foreground of the picture.

I suppose we should also consider that it is not Edward VII coronation in 1901. The film seems quite fast though as the exposure time appears quite small, there is only slight blurring of people that are moving.

A lot of enigmas!

The photo can also be dated by the fact Wallasey has a Mayor, first Mayor of Wallasey was 1910, Also note the headwear of the Policemen, Pill box hats, (dress uniform maybe) some forces were allowed to wear these hats during the day, when did that stop?

COUD THEY BE ON BELVIDER ROAD WITH THE HOUSES BEING EITHER IN TANCRED ROAD OR THERE ABOUT.

The houses in Winchester Drive where built in 1928 according to my deeds, the houses in Newlands Drive where already built in 1910, maybe it's them your'e thinking of.

Dave

Looking at the 1910 map I think you're spot on Capt. It looks like they are at the junction of Rullerton and Marlowe roads. The houses top left are, I think on the right hand side of Wallasey Road looking towards Liscard, between Colville and Torrington. The road middle top behind the spectators is Rullerton, and the procession is on Marlowe. That would make the houses under construction Torrington Road. If we're right, I wonder what the route of the procession was.

I very much liked the idea of it being Marlowe Road when Capt_America said it. But......

I can't tie up the houses on the right of the picture, it looks like whatever road the houses are on joins with the road the parade is on, the junction not being far away.

@Bert - good spot on the Mayor date

how about this then,claremount road by st hilarys church with the houses being built in sedberg/uppingham road,as previously said the mayor won't be walking far so by the church would make sense...with belvider field behind...

One point of note, those houses being built. The bits at the back are probably sheds and outside toilets which most people in the modern age removed. Very few houses had inside toilets in those days. They do look like extensions or outriggers but think they are just out buildings?

I think Wally1 and others are right in saying that the photo was taken on Claremount Road on the way up to St Hilary's; I think the photographer was somewhere close to the top of Church Hill.

The houses under construction at right are Nos.3-13 Harrow Road, which were built around 1910-11. If you look at Harrow Road on Google Maps you can see that that the first three pairs of properties on the north side are not quite in alignment with the rest, and the rooflines match the ones visible in the postcard; the first and third pairs have a hipped roof, whilst the middle pair have simple vertical gables.

The buildings visible at left, below the Water Tower and St Albans, were two small farms called Lindens and Newlands - both still exist off Wallasey Road, but are now hidden behind more modern housing. The land belonging to Newlands later became Thorndale Motors and then the Bronze Social Club. I have a clearer pic of these buildings somewhere, which also shows the matching alignment of the Water Tower and church spire; I'll post it as soon as I can find it.

...all sounds good to me.

Well done that man, and thanks for the info on Lindens & Newlands. I did wonder about those buildings.

...better late then never in adding to the topic..the Mayor in the picture is Dr. John Oldershaw C.B.E (1911/12 and Wallasey's 2nd Mayor)

Who gave his name to Oldershaw School(s).