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Oakdale or Oldfield Road, Heswall? Clever was in Oakdale and this might be of interest. I haven't read it all .

http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1ndm1/HeswallMagazineApril/resources/24.htm

Could well be then, I suppose. The road at the side seems to be on an incline , therefore the entrance could have been up a level or two. I will have a gander tomorrow or Wednesday when I go that way. No doubt, that your pub and Zipper's pub are the same one in Lower Heswall. Maybe we can pick up something on google maps ?

I have managed to pick it up on google earth, putting St.Peter's Church Heswall in. Yes ,had a good scout around, and looks as if the entrance could have been there. It won't let me copy and paste.

Pictures of how Black Horse, Lower Heswall is now.

http://www.heswall.com/photo-gallery/

I'd suspect the picture is taken up the hill to the left hand side of the hotel, with the hand on the sign pointing back down the hill to the front entrance, round about where the lamppost is on this...

The round-topped sandstone wall at the top of the original picture seems to correspond well with the one here,

although the roadside wall is obviously different, and the gateway to the rear entrance is in the correct location, too.

Eta
Argghhh - images not working! Will try and sort it and repost

Trying again, looking up the hill...



Closer view

Hi all,

We have another photo of the military gentleman (Jimmy England from the USA) and he is at the front of the hotel/pub.

We will put it on as soon as we can and you can see the pub entrance is the same except for the outdoor (door) is now a window.

There are 3 posts at the front and in the old photo of the front the 3 posts are still there.

The green area that Bert1 is referring to is where we too think the photo was taken.

We also have another photo of the military gentleman in the church yard across the road.

We will also put that on as soon as possible too.

Thanks everyone.

Regards

Gary & Malc

Yes this is the Black Horse in Heswall, I remember the entrance being like that in the early 1970s when I was at primary school up the road. This entrance was on the main road side and the pavement was quite narrow. Behind the pub was a big house which got knocked down and the Hermitage flats built in it's place. God I feel old!!

Thank you to everyone that has commented and helped to find if the photo we showed was definitely the side entrance of the black horse in at Heswall.

We too think that what is shown on the photo is the side entrance as pointed out by many of you.

We have put the photo on our website along with another few photos of the front of the pub & in the church yard (at Heswall) with the same USA gentleman that was stationed at the USAAF Burtonwood airfield.

Here is the link with the other photos on it:

http://historicaviationmilitary.com/jimmy.html

Without all of your help we would not have been able to find out if this was the correct location.

Regards

Gary & Malc