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luckycharm #637174 13th Dec 2011 10:19pm
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does anyone remember there was a kind of machine at raby mere, it was about the same size and shape as the old fag machines if i remember correctly, and there were 2 toy cars inside, i think the idea was that you put your penny in and if your car won you got it back again, but i could be wrong, this was in the '60's when i was about 8! i also remember loads of geese in one of the gardens near-by.

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I don't remember that one, but I remember the one where you put a penny in and held two knobs and when you turned one you got an increasingly powerful electric shock. Must have been powered by a 12 volt car battery. Several of you could join hands and you all got the shock, so good value.


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The only penny-in-the-slot machine I remember at Raby Mere was the electic shock machine. You gripped two brass knobs on the front. One fixed. You twisted the other one. The more you twisted it the more powerful the shocks you received!

The H & S dummies would have a blue fit at the thought of something like that now!

There were other machines there, but I used to home in on the "shocker".

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Grrrrrr. I type too slowly!!! You beat me to it Chris!

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remember the swinging boats by the slots and the tiny cafe by lake circa 1960s great days by the mere on the bikes with transistor radio for sunday top of the pops simple cheap happy days

goodoldphil #637221 14th Dec 2011 5:13am
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Originally Posted by goodoldphil
Mr Kynaston had the bike shop, he was a really nice guy - later lived in Bridle Road.


Bridle ROAD??? I go back to when it was the Bridle Path. Oh dear!!!!

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Originally Posted by Elizabeth
It seems there was a farm on Plymyard Ave which stood where the Argyl & Sutherland pub is now. It was called Slacks Farm, whether this was were the pig incident occurred it doesn't say. I expect there were a lot of rural farm buildings down that way though, years ago.


There was a farm on the Bridle path, round the corner from Manor Rd. almost opposite the rear driveway into the manor. There were some very old workers cottages on Manor Rd, set well back from the road on the right-hand side going away from the Bridle path.
I lived in Woodyear Rd. till 1959 (address was Bromborough and I never realised that it was the last road before it became Eastham).

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Mr K had a 1934 Austin 7 cabriolet he used to drive on Sundays when the shop was shut.I went in his shop one day to find him with the gearbox in bits on the workshop floor.It passed me on the Rake a couple of days later.Lovely car,wonderful man.
Not many like them today,mores the pity!

petethebike #637242 14th Dec 2011 8:36am
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I remember all of this!

The swing-boats at Raby Mere, the electric shock machine...
The only other penny-in-the-slot machine I remember there was a football game, one player each side (one in red kit, one in blue - 1930's style kit), each about the size of an action man figure and stood in front of a goal, all contained in a glass fronted case. Think you had to twiddle a brass lever to boot the ball.

The Bridle Path! I used to love walking to Eastham down it - as I remember rightly, it was a tunnel of hawthorn trees running from Kilburn Av between the Plymyard playing fields and stopped just before Elgar Av. After Heygarth Rd there was another short section of path before opening out again at Carlett Boulevard.

Then you'd get to Kynaston's. I used to love it for the Hornby Dublo model trains (still got my reciept for my 1st train set from there somewhere) and the stacks of Airfix kits behind the counter. Yes, nice man.

Woodley - the farm behind the Manor we always knew as Griffith's Farm, but those worker's cottages you mentioned - where they not on Kilburn Avenue? I remember playing in them as they were being demolished (1965-ish?) despite being told not to go near! I suppose they were our equivilent of a bomb site. If you look down Kilburn today, there's a couple of sixties houses slightly set back from all the others on the road - that's where they were.



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Hi Billy. Sadly I don't remember Kilburn Ave, but I'm fairly sure the cottages were on Manor Rd. We used to walk behind them and through Knockaloe to get home from Heygarth Rd. school when we went that way instead of through the fields when it was raining. I don't think I ever knew the name of the farm, but the old bloke chased us out of the bales of hay in the barn with a big stick more times than I care to remember. I believe the Bridle path started earlier than that, do you remember the old lodge which actually sat right on the edge of it on the right just before the allotments on the left. I'm sure that's where it started. I remember them taking all the kids out of school one day to show us the newly invented machine on the farm next to school - it was a combine harvester. Wow!!! I also remember there was a farm round the corner from the Royal Oak in Bromborough with rubble from demolished buildings next to it. Round the other corner from the hotel was the big old house where Dr. Garson had his surgery.
You should remember the risque pictures slot machine at Raby Mere too then and who can forget Fox's Hill in the snow?

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Going back to the farm on Plymyard,

Mum and Dad were among the first to move in to Argyle Ave. They had a photo of the kids playing in a neighbours back garden and behind that was the pig farm. The farm is where South Wirral High school (or Eastham Sec) is now.

My brother took all the family photos when mum and dad died and we have since falen out so I can't share it with you. Sorry.

I was in K cycles recently looking for a bike for my boy. I used to go to school with a girl(Late 70s) whos dad owned it. I asked if the family still owned the shop. Sadly they sold up a number of years ago.


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oh dear!!!! so do i,we must be a pair of dinosaurs lol

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yeah, I reckon I may have got the machine you mentioned and another someone else remembered and got the whole lot completely and illogically mixed up in me bonce! Also, big bruv reminded me that they weren't geese at all, but turkeys,-one attacked a mate of mine as he was playing the big man trying to frighten them, I was made up when he lost his bottle and had to retreat in fear! Happy days..

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Woodley - I think we may be both right regarding the start of the bridle path - if I read you right, you left the area in 1959, and that was the year I appeared on the planet. After speaking to my Mum, she said that the bridle path did indeed start at the lodge (and yes, I remember the lodge), but in my time, it definately started at Kilburn. So I think what happened was when Manor Road, Princes Av, and Kilburn Av were extended and built up to the bridle path (1960-61?), it was metalled and became an extension to Bridle Road proper. Which is what I remember. That road was then pushed through fully to Eastham in about 1968.
...I think! I'm trying to find maps to confirm.

'My' workman's cottages were deinately on Kilburn, so it looks like there was another set near Knockoloe?

Brocks - Do you remember before the Argyle Ave devlopment was built? I only ask as I used to play around there sometimes, and there were three distinct ponds or flooded pits - but all sort of interconnected, where we used to collect frogspawn, frogs and newts in glass jam jars. It would have been somewhere near to where the Argyle and Sutherland pub was eventually built.
One day, me and my mate found an amazing stone in the mud at the edge of one pond - stained all weird colours and obviously (I was well into dinosaurs,cavemen, etc, then) a stoneage hand tool. It was all knapped and shaped into a point and would have fitted neatly into an adult-sized hand. My mate wouldn't give it to me, and I don't know what happened to it (and never will, as he's now passed away).
Does anyone know if anything else ancient was found around there when that area was developed?
Just like to know really.

Wonder what other priceless artefacts have been lost to the country by little boys nicking them as prizes and not telling anyone?

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Alright Billy, I was born in '59 in Eastham too..so we probably knew each other,..yes, I remember those ponds, I got into loads of trouble because Stuart Hopwood made me take my sisters fishing rod to the place,as you say, just where the pub is now,-and he managed to lose the thing in one of the ponds! I was only about 8 so he must have been 10 or so, I didn't half cop it from my sis though! Wonder what became of Stuart?, I think he had a sister called Penny and they lived at 75, Eastham Rake...anyone?!

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