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I still remember Grant's (chandlers), Roberts' Butchers (although it was Tom Roberts in my day) and Irwin's Grocers from my childhood (born '52)

The Cheshire Cheese in wallasey Village

Painting, surely? Looks too old to be a colour photograph, am I correct?

Many postcards were 'colourised' by simply painting in the negative.

Looks like it's been colour splashed....look at where the building joins the pavement, half the photo is still back & white.

That's brilliant! Looks like an early colour photograph! Great photo btw pablo.

Interesting that the "traffic island" is still there today...! (not that they exactly had much traffic, back then...?!

Wallasey Village 1902. Cheshire Chees still looks the same

Bet it doesn't on the inside - have you seen it lately? Hmmmmmm...!!

It had a 'sensible' re-furbishment inside about 18 months ago and now has even more old photographs of the pub and old Wallasey on the walls inside, including some framed original invoices from a centuary ago.

It still sells real ale - no nitro-keg or lager when this picture was taken - and is known locally for its mini beer festivals.

Any idea what the building is on the left?

Could that be the sweetshop / tobacconist / paper shop (not sure which!) at the top of School Lane?

Correct. Demolished around 1930-31 so even I do not remember it. There are lots of photos & paintings of the half-timbered place, and that next door

S.

The black and white timbered building to the left was situated at No. 1 Wallasey Village, the cottage was once the 'Ring O Bells' and then turned into a house and a shop run by Jack Jones. The cottage was demolished by 1921 when the road was widened.

my great grandparents lived in no3 'Ring o Bells' cottages.My granma was 3 years old in 1901 census.Her parents were John and Sophia Nelson. She was one of 13 children. From there they moved to a house on Breck Road.