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#425219 14th Aug 2010 10:27pm
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has any one got any photies of mersey mount flats on old chester road and the high rises behind them cheers

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What cheers behind them?


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Or do you mean whats behind those cheers?!


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yeah behind the flats were more flats- cheers big ears

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i lived in both Mersey mount and the flats 'behind' them not actually behind but to the right looking from the Spar, 4 high rises where Hadlow, Sidney, Meliden & Norbury, can anyone remember the silver jubilee in Sidney Road?

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silver jubilee, go back further. I can remember sidney road long before the 4 blocks of high rise flats where built.


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Sideney Road during the construction of the high rise blocks.

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hi, anyone got any pics of the houses in sidney road in late 60s and early 70s?

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Any of Old Chester Road or Green Lane?

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cant see any images but I am logged in

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cant see any images but I am logged in


To see pictures, you have to have a User Plus subscription.
Go to "My Stuff" then down the list on the left to "Subscriptions"


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I'm not sure if anyone remembers but there was a fire at the flats, April 1990 (I think) in which my (estranged) father died and the postman tried to save him. Frank Conlan was his name.

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