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can anyone help me out with the history of Beaconsfield hall in new ferry please, its the building that is now "andys aqautics"

i believe it was used temperance billiard hall

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it used to be the dole office before it was andys aqautics

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thx sue but im trying to go back beyond that lol


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sorry jabber, i only go as far as the dole office lol

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i've read somewere that it was the first picture house in new ferry,
i remember it being the dole office too.

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I live on Beaconsfield Rd. Sounds interesting.

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Don't think it was ever a picture house don't remember it being a dole office either must have been before my time

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in the 1970s it was a dole office, i remember signing on there,untill they opened another one were the bed centre is now[next to the post office new chester rd] then they closed that and it went to bromborough.
and i'm sure it was a picture house first, sure i read it somewere?

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I am certain that the building was purpose-built as a Labour Exchange. I worked there as a Civil Servant for the Dept.of Employment. I also worked in the offices
at Bridge St, Birkenhead and Wilkinson St. Elles.Port . If you know those 2 bldgs
you will realise they were built to a similar design.
Some confusion may have arisen cos on old O.S. Maps the buiding later
called Hesketh Hall was noted as Education Institute.This actual wording on the
Map was placed on the site of the later Labour Exchange .I have copy of O.S.map
of 1909 or 1912 showing this. The building Hesketh Hall therefore started off
for recreational and educational use PROR TO Ist World War and PRIOR To the
formation of Royal British Legion in 1920,s. Maps can be confusing sometimes !

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Originally Posted by littlestan
I am certain that the building was purpose-built as a Labour Exchange. I worked there as a Civil Servant for the Dept.of Employment. I also worked in the offices
at Bridge St, Birkenhead and Wilkinson St. Elles.Port . If you know those 2 bldgs
you will realise they were built to a similar design.
Some confusion may have arisen cos on old O.S. Maps the buiding later
called Hesketh Hall was noted as Education Institute.This actual wording on the
Map was placed on the site of the later Labour Exchange .I have copy of O.S.map
of 1909 or 1912 showing this. The building Hesketh Hall therefore started off
for recreational and educational use PROR TO Ist World War and PRIOR To the
formation of Royal British Legion in 1920,s. Maps can be confusing sometimes !

Hesketh Hall is opposite Andys Aquatics, it's the building that Andys Aquatics is in now that was the dole office many years ago.

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I remember the dole office being were the bed shop is i also remember the post office being the bus depo.

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I used to work in bridge street dole office as a cleaner smile

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Just asked my mum about this, she's New Ferry born and bred.

It was a Methodist Church before the dole took it over.

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Originally Posted by Rhoobarb
Just asked my mum about this, she's New Ferry born and bred.

It was a Methodist Church before the dole took it over.



where abouts was she born/bred

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My mum also said that she doesn't remember it being a temperance billiard hall.

Though St Mark's church hall in Grove Street became one she thinks.

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