WIKI WALK THERMOPYLAE PASS 25/7/10

NEXT WIKI WALK THERMOPYLAE PASS/ BIDSTON COURT
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1.T.C.
2.KAREN
3.BLUEBELL
4.HARVEY
5.GYPSY
6.RUDEBOX
7.PLUSONE
8.jabber
9. Derekdwc
10. Croc + 3
11. Don
12. Sue
13. DD (no gang this week, they're swanning it at a music festival)
14.
15.
ANYMORE COMING

WIKI CAMPERS MEETING UP AT THE FARM AT 2PM DISCUSS LIFTS/PLANS

GET YA PICS UP GANG

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What a great walk, saw a lot of stuff I usually just drive past wondering 'what's in there???????'
Thanks to DD and TC, uber guides as usual!!

nice pics mate jabber get em up bud!

was impressed by how well parts of it had been looked after

Description: where stables used to be

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Description: entrance from Vyner rd south?

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Description: looking down from where group pic taken - terracing

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Description: view from same place

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some more
got to chatting to dog own and he told me his ancestors used to own a lot of Oxton distantly related to the Earl of ?

Description: lawn

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Description: yellow brick path

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Description: yellow brick path meets red brick path

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Description: one of the biggest german shepherd dogs I've seen

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Really enjoyed getting out and meeting up again, nice to meet some new faces too. Ive tried not to repeat some of the pics already posted so heres some of mine.

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Description: gateway from stables

Description: sandstone cuttings

Description: grounds of the house

Description: love these little gateways

Description: shoud have put the macro lens on for this

Description: really do want to explore this properly without kids around to teach bad habits :)

Description: terraced gardens

Sorry i missed this walk, wanted to see and explore the lodge as well as it looks lovely as do the grounds. Hopefully do the walk again before the summer is over.

Nice pics peeps

Originally Posted by derekdwc

he told me his ancestors used to own a lot of Oxton distantly related to the Earl of ?

Earl of Shrewsbury probably. Whence "Shrewsbury Rd" & lots of other roads in Oxton named after family links. Did a post about it ages ago.

As a boy I had to deliver newspapers here in the late 1950s ....I can remember looking through tea-chests of books that had been left in the courtyard waiting to be thrown out ....hundreds of hardback books ...many over a hundred years old ....wish I had the foresight then to realize how valuable they probably were....the house was empty but in the gardens close to the empty ornamental pond they still had carcases of the sparrow-hawks set in the forks of the bushes surrounding the pond ....wonderful interior ...even as a boy I was impressed ....now I am so saddened to see that very few people care about the wonderful history that Birkenhead has to offer .

"Originally Posted By: derekdwche told me his ancestors used to own a lot of Oxton distantly related to the Earl of ?

Earl of Shrewsbury probably"

Almost certainly - the particular Earl's wife was called Eleanor giving the name to Eleanor road.