It certainly looks like the Woodside Hotel in the background but looks too close to the ferry and what would the castlelike turrets on left be where the station should be? Maybe pic taken even earlier 1920s or earlier? Can't make out if buses or trams on the right At one time the river shore was a lot nearer to the pub but that was in the 1800s
In all the pics I've seen of "early" Woodside, I've never seen that archway with clock or the turrets before.
From the alignment and the handrails (lower RH side), it looks as if it could be landward end of the floating roadway. Looks like the lower part of an arc lamp bracket on the pole on right.
My guess is late 1890's/early 1900's
I'm sure Bandy will be wallowing in nostalgia at the "proper" buses in the colour pic !!
On the Emapping Victorian Cheshire site, the c.1875 map is prior to Woodside Station being built, and there is something called a 'Letter bar' where the picture is taken of. What's a Letter Bar?
Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.
The photo is probably one of the oldest surviving ones of Woodside Ferry, showing the old arch and pay gates at the top of the original ferry slip. They went out of use when the first floating landing stage and 'new' terminal building (ie the one shown on the 1875 OS map) were built between 1862-4, but remained alongside the new building for some years afterwards. The site of the paygates and the castellated buildings that contained the Ferry Offices would have disappeared during the building of Woodside Station.
I presume "Letter bar" is the name of a ale-house of some sort. "The Letters" was later in Argyle Street (and there is still one in Tatenhall).
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