Can someone please share/suggest land-use map of Argyle Street, 1950/60s? Looking to reconstruct where various shops/services where. Any help advice gratefully received. Thanks Erainn

Hope this help, 50s

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Bert, thank you for so kindly taking the time to share those wonderful maps

Bert, do you have any recall of a tobacconists in Argyle Street that sold an exotic range of tobaccos, cigarettes and pipes?

Yes Erainn,

Just a few doors up from the George and Dragon pub on the corner of Grange Rd I think it was.

ahhhhhh :)not Marion Street? oh and how about the 'Dolls Hospital'? ring any bells?

There may well have been a tobacconist by Marion St, a road the size of Argyle St would have had a few I would think,
the Dolls Hospital, was mentioned in a thread on here recently, sorry can't find it, I'm sure someone will.

Thanks Bert, yes you are right, someone recently told me about another specialist tobacconists that was down Market Street..

I remember the Tobacconist in Market Street very well, bought many items from there over the years, just a few doors down from Haylocks shoe shop on the corner of Hamilton St. In between was a little DIY shop.

This may be of interest, Erainn,members memories.

https://www.wikiwirral.co.uk/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/294390/Skid_Row_Market_St_B_head.html

Cheers Bert, great link

I remember the dolls hospital. Mum used to get the "Glass Eyes" for my cuddly toys from there, when the wire snapped. We used to get them from the Dolls Hospital In Borough Road Seacombe most of the time.

there was a very old dolls hospital in the hay market maybe next door to marriots they used to sell kitchen pots and pans and crockery on the pavement outside

Hiya Do you recall where it was located? Thanks, Erainn

I think the Dolls Hospital was one of these shops. At a guess I would say it was next to the pub.

ahhhh thanks for that I'm seeing Skeleton Records being at that spot, what do you think?

Second shop from the corner, that being 106.

Excellent spot Bert Thanks for identifying it

The doll's hospital was on the corner of Grange Road and the Haymarket. If you look at bottom of Bert's first map, it was No 44 Grange Road. I think it also sold newspapers, books and magazines. Marriott's was next door.

There was indeed a tobacconist in Argyle Street next to the George and Dragon. There was also an even bigger one on the corner of Grange Road, directly across from the George and Dragon. Both were still in business in the early 1970s.

They used to sell such exotic smokes as Sobranie Black Russian cigarettes (mentioned in one of the James Bond books) and Passing Clouds cigarettes, which were oval in profile. This was exciting stuff when most of us could only afford No 6 tipped!

Indeed there was - certainly still there until recently at no. 72A Argyle Street - the wedge-shaped buildling with the railway cutting to its left as you look from Argyle Street

Yoller, many thanks for that info & confirm..:) 'Number 6' could of been worse..Woodbines for example

I remember that one; also Passing Clouds (WD & HO Wills) and Sobranie, who also made Imperial Russian, which had a cardboard holder attached as long as the actual cigarette.

Smoking one of those, with a lager and lime in the other hand..pure class 1970s style

Don't think Sobranie make them any more, but I see Black Russian are over £10 for 20.
Really glad I gave up smoking five years ago.

Chris, definitely a good move, shuddering to think of the clouds of toxins consumed way back when..