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#710305 17th Jul 2012 8:23pm
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Hoylake Road, going through Bidston Village 1925.

This was before the Ford Estate and the M53

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Wow I can picture this, be good to get a google earth view of how it is now for comparison!

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That's a brilliant photo - crime what has happenned to Bidston Village especially!

Even station road isnt there and my old house on Statham road is just the bottom of someone's garden.

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If you look into the very far distance (top right), is that the Hillbark when it used to be located on the mops? Wow, I could look at that photo all day. I live on the Ford estate, looking at that is astonishing, brilliant photo pablo, thanks

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Originally Posted by johnsonjl
If you look into the very far distance (top right), is that the Hillbark when it used to be located on the mops? Wow, I could look at that photo all day. I live on the Ford estate, looking at that is astonishing, brilliant photo pablo, thanks


Better eyes than me - but yes you can just see the end of Eleanor Road and the 'v' formed by Vyner road and Ford Hill.
It was called Bidston Court then, of course - only receiving the name Hillbark when it moved replacing an older Hillbark on the site.


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