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Thanks for the pics. The level section of the trackbed seems to have disappeared from the road. Pity the Scots pines have gone. There also used to be a few at the Marsh Lane end of the wood too; wonder if they're still there, they're one of my favourite trees.

There's still a few Scots Pines in the woods Chris though a lot of the silver birch have been lost to gales over the past few years. Growing on the spoil of the quarry a lot have very shallow root systems so I suppose the losses are inevitable.
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Does anyone have a theory as to what the '25' carved on the left hand gatepost signified ?
I think it unlikely that it's the house number as there would need to be another twelve houses on that side of Rest Hill !

I don't thik it is a 2, it is a different size to the 5 and not complete. Certainly a 5. Maybe some type of gate width notification, width looks about 5feet. Maybe somebody can photoshop it.

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I am looking for my great great great grandfather George Pearce who died in 1818 having lived, I understand, at "Woodside Cottage" at his death. His death is registered at Bebington. I had wondered whether Woodside Cottage was close to Birkenhead Woodside or whether there was a cottage called Woodside in the area where Rock Park was later built where George might have lived and commuted by ferry to work in Liverpool.

However, seeing this picture of what was evidently a cottage near Storeton make me wonder if in fact his was where he lived. Was this Woodside Cottage there in 1818? Who live in it? Would Storeton be considered part of Bebington? Any records of a George Pearce, timber merchant, in Wirral 1790 - 1818?

Yes, Storeton did come under Bebington.

While the tramway may have been present in 1818 (I'm not sure when it was built), this Woodside Cottage wasn't built until at least 1875.