I bought one of these a few years ago. It's always on the kitchen worktop by the phone. Handy for making quick notes. Saves on paper too! Attach the slate pencil to the board with a piece of string. It saves the pencil going walkabout.
Oh, come on, "bought one": it was surely the one you used at school wasn't it? You're right about the pencil attachment though.
The stone wall on the left surrounds the builders’ merchant’s yard of W. B. Howarth who occupied the premises for many years. An ancient cottage called ‘Clairville’ is said to have stood previously on the site, which was successively occupied by, among others, Safeway’s supermarket, Netto and J. D. Wetherspoon’s. On the right, the ‘Yates’ public house is the Castle Hotel. This road is now part of the one-way system around Liscard.
This 1960 photo shows an almost identical view to the Hopps painting of Wallasey Road. Liscard Central Market at left occupied 44-50 Wallasey Road and was indeed later demolished to make way for Safeway, then Netto and finally Wetherspoons. There was an old cottage on part of the site prior to the market being built, but that was not Clairville Cottage. Clairville was slightly further along the road towards Moseley Avenue, and became 52 Wallasey Road (later divided into two shops, 52 and 52a), roughly where the Soft Rock Cafe is now (or was the last time I was in Liscard).
