what shops do you remember that have now closed down?

any areas

Birkenhead
Toy & Hobby (where was this?)
Worrals the stationers
Stolen from ivor
Asda

Bromborough Croft retail park
Childrens World

Liscard
Marks and Spencers
John Menzies
Netto
I am correct in thinking there was a sainsburys?

Birkenhead
Toy & Hobby (where was this?)
Worrals the stationers
Stolen from ivor
Asda
Row of shops on Conway Street (now demolished)
C&A

stolen from ivor was that the one that sold all the eclipse stuff?

C&A ofcourse!
Living (TX MAX, JD, JJB, Nu Look)
Au Naturalle (where HMV is now)
MVC (Poundworld)
index (Home bargain)
Littlewoods (wh smiths)

eclipse? was that spliffy?

what was whsmiths in Birkenhead is now the main post office (which used to be on oxton road - now closed down)

damn rite big smileys an all that those were the days!!!

Birkenhead

Toy & Hobby (where was this?) - B&M know occupys it.. B&M used to be What everone wants?
Worrals the stationers - is know Game
Stolen from ivor - is the Dr Herbal Medicines near argos(its closed down know though)
Asda is where Wilkinsons is right know...
WhSmiths is in the old Littlewoods building but its been converted into other shops..
Radio Rentals (if anybody remember this) Gamestation know occupys it..
The building used for Christmas grotto most years intown used to be the Old Mark One clothes shop
Tandy is know a Charity Shop
Contraband (which was the basement shop near Bon Marche) is know the mens section of Shoemarket..

yeah contraband. I used to love it in there lol

Tandy, that place was the dogs

new ferry market
fred's
frogetts (now bargain booze in new ferry)
kwik save - forgot wot is replacing that in new ferry

kwik save bromborough which is somerfield now ( i can't spell for s*** )

Netto Liscard - Weatherspoons.

Thats they only one i know!

I remember toy and hobby, pestered my parents everytime in town to go there, as a kid it seemed huge, rubber green flooring and shelfs stacked high with toys.
Also a bit of a way from town but the old sweet shop in Bidston avenue called vernons i think,sold all sweets under the sun plus had the seventies cardboard advertisements for marlboro and the likes, the shop was set out similar to arkwrights shop in open all hours, the same bloke worked there when my dad went there as a youngin and he is 63,

I'd like someone to check for me, please, whether Bernards the tool shop is still in Oxton Rd. It was a couple of years ago. About 100 yards up from Charing Cross, on the right. If it is, it must be one of the few shops remaining from my childhood. I remember my Dad sending me there for screws, etc. Just opposite Bernards was a good bookshop called Mortons. A bit further up Oxton Rd. on the corner of Windsor St. on the opposite corner to the Windsor Castle pub was a butchers called Hoyle's. He must have been Catholic, because I remember seeing nuns going in & he would put meat in their bag. No money changed hands.

I'm saying nothing..

apart from that don't really remember that area well, more Bidston and claughton area myself.

Chris, is Bernards the one on the corner opposite the old post office (now moved to Grange Road)? If so it's still there.

I have these pictures of Oxton Road, but I have no idea which pub you mean.

Hope these help bring back memories

That bookshop has been there since I was a kid

That picture with collenade is where i first started working.

It was called Century insurance then 8 years ago, then Arnott Century, then became budget insurance and now owned by swintons who are just down the road so the rebranded them Collenade

Marks and Spencer ..Liscard ,is now Primark.John Menzies is now W.H.Smith and i cant ever remember a Sainsburys in Liscard

I am sure there was never a Saisbury in Liscard. There used to be Netto where Weatherspoons is now, and there was another supermarket there before Netto - but I cannot remember the name

Snod

Safeways

That is it!

Gateway in Moreton, which then became Kwik Save and now Somerfield.

Solo which was owned by Somerfield was also in Moreton, but it was something else before it was Solo. It then became Somerfield, and when Somerfield and Kwik Save merged (until the shitty Labour government decided the likes of Tesco and Asda shouldnt have so much competition) it was eventually bought by Cool Trader and that stands there to this day.

Ill think of other shops soon!

Macdonalds in Liscard used to be the CO-OP and the Shoe market used to be Lennons supermarket ,who in the dark days of Tranmere Rovers tried to purchase the land which is now a carpark(waste land in them days) to help the club out but they were refused planning permission and the idea and Lennons fizzled out.

I remember that bookshop, Joe. From memory, it's on the corner of Barton St. Windsor St. is the next one uphill; it's all car park now. I'm pretty sure Bernards was on the block downhill from there, nearer Charing Cross. It was at least a double fronted shop. Not opposite the old Post Office, which I remember well, (just up from Charing Cross, on the left). In the picture with the colonnaded building (looking down hill), on the right there's a blue metal fence; that's where Birkenhead Brewery was. Thanks for the pics, Joe. It's so different now, there's no good memories.

Cheers, Chris.

I'll give you another shop, not one that's gone; it's still there. Pykes the jewellers, in Grange Rd. (corner of Vincent St.)? I was at school with the son. Funnily enough, they've got a branch in Shrewsbury now. Just down from there was W.H.Smith, the first place I worked when I left school in 1952. Opposite there was Robbs, a posh department store. They had lifts & a restaurant called the Oak Room.

Sainsburys, Safeway pretty similar names. please forgive me considering Im not from that area and am going on stories and things that the wifes Nan has told me.

Shoe Market used to be a supermarket? it was also a picture house called "The Liscard Palace".

anyone remember the Gateway in Eastham by South Wirral High school/ Eastham sec.

so was Robbs department store in a similar place to where the pyramids are now?

and this is going really local now, the sweet shop on plymyard fields in Eastham that turned into a pet shop.

Here's a map showing the shops I mentioned. Charing Cross is just off the map to the left.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=53.389394,-3.028852&spn=0.001481,0.002886&t=h&z=18&msid=102226494235577172925.000449904a70041088fc2

Cheers, Chris.

Concerning the Oxton Rd. picture of the building with the ornate frontage, I've got a feeling this was probably the offices of the Birkenhead Brewery, which was opposite.

Cheers, Chris.

Here's another long gone shop. This was the main shop of the Birkenhead Co-operative Society in Grange Rd. It was called Tudor House. The newer looking part on the right is where TKmaxx is now, corner of St.John St.

TK Max/JD sports/JJB sports was Co-op LIVING Department Store, it was huge.

I remember "Shoppers World"

An Index type place in Moreton

Who remembers Tandy which then became Radio Shack, I know there was one in Liscard where Carphone Warehouse is now.

Carphone Warehouse purchased most of the Tandy store's when Radio Shack ditched the brand in 2000.

Joe; my apologies. Bernards is opposite where the Post Office used to be. Trouble is, when I remember it, that was Morton's bookshop & the Post Office was further down, nearly at Charing Cross. The street with Bernard's on the corner is Barton St., now turned into a car park with Windsor St. which is the next one uphill, with the pub on the corner.

Has anyone got any pics of birkenhead before the Pryamids where there?

I remember a lareg gravel car park, but not what was before that....

click me

try this stu

That link not working, Jonno.

fixed

I have photos of when they were just built, not yet opened, but none of the area before it was built im afraid.

Here's a few.

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There amazing them pics chris wow.

fantastic pics if you dont mind me asking were you find them all

them pics are fab!

i remember a shop called granfare (SP) roud about were iceland is now...or am i dreaming ?

does ring a bell hun

Sorry, I can't reveal the source, because of copyright issues. What I will say is that they're from a fairly recent book which has some good pics, but to my certain knowledge contains at least 12 errors of location, which I brought to the attention of the publishers.

I remember the "new" precinct being built and the old shops between the Co-op and Beatties being demolished.

It started in the early to mid 70s and Christ, it took *ages* to build. As I remember it, the builders went on strike for about 3 years or something and the shoppers were always being diverted through muddy puddles or over planks of wood.

Pykes is still there on the corner. Bernards is still there, but is now renamed, but is still a tool and hardware shop!!

Does anyone remember Lennons on Village Road in Bebington, which is now occupied by Somerfield? I came across an old carrier bag with it's logo on the front in my folk's loft!
There is also Pinks on the same road, which is STILL THERE!!! It's older than me!
There was a shop called Computer Adventure World which is opposite McDonalds in Birkenhead. They had the banner up in Central Station in Liverpool for years after it closed (around 1994). It smelt of wood all the time, I can still recall the smell, along with Toy & Hobby, which had the rubbery smell from the floor.

Another shop I remember is Lion Computers on Borough Road (down the road from Tranmere Rover's ground). It stank of smoke, and had loads of cheap second hand games in there for 99p!

Not many independent shops open now I'm afraid.

I was going to post a thread for this? It used to be a load of old houses or warehouses I think. Then it was knocked down, and it stood as gravel and rubble for years, alongside the multistory car park which was the same. I can remember vividly walking through the building site coming home from school in September 1987 (when I started secondary school) when they were building it.

anyone remember peter toners in seaview road liscard it used to sell models and bikes its now a tattoo place

I remember the banner, isn't it still up??

i know the book chris, interesting houses inside lairds where the con hall now stands dont you think?

I remember TJ Hughe's on the same side as pykes with the big grating you walked over to get to the stairs ..

Another one was "Robbs" just across the way a grand old building I remember they used to do a lot of musical instruments

Also my first shopping experience was a cool clothes shop called "stolen from Ivor" on the same side as pykes further down.

anyone remember them?

Your right on every count there mate,the original Stolen from Ivor was just about where the Abbey bank is now,the row of shops looked like little houses,they moved down next to where Argos is now,when it became the new precinct.I've got vague recollections of Grange road running right down from Charing Cross through to where Beatties is.None of it was pedestrianised and there were cars,buses and trucks going about their business.

Oxton Rd was always busy then,Bernards as has been mentioned and a pet shop where the chinese resteraunt is now.

The main post office was on Argyle st(Not sure if it is still in use)There was also a pub there(now Sophies)that we all new as"The Old Postie"

Staying on Argyle st was the ABC pictures now the snooker hall.
Then there was the Classsic pictures on Conway st which is now Slices the club.
There was a building opposite that called the Ritz,I remember it being the Bingo hall.Conway St used to be full of large 3 storey buildings many of them shops and is where Peter Johnson of Park Hampers started his little empire,above his Dads butchers shop.

Chris;)

My mate used to own Sophies when it was called Promises! It was an old Post Office.

Does anyone remember Breaks/Suzy Q's in New Ferry which is now covered by Aldi?

I used to love Stolen from Ivor. I remember Promises and Suzi Q's, also remember when it changed over to Breaks. Useless piece of information, but the wood that made up the bar in Breaks is now in my Mum's downstairs toilet and dining room!

I feel so old now

Also had a flashback of going to The 'Amo (Hamilton Club, before it was The Pleasuredrome)on a Wednesday night for the Mod nights. Only went initially as my mate was seeing a lad who was in The Vickers, I fancied his mate but he never knew lol. The joys of being the fat mate that kept dibs and looked after the handbags

Well, lots to comment on here. I'll try to do it all in one post.
@ Station; Bernard's re-named? to what? it was still Bernard's when I was last up about a month ago.

Here's an extract from a 1911 map of the Grange Rd. area. I've left it as a link so you can scale it up to be able to see the fine detail. A few points of interest:
Corner of Catherine St., where Woolworth's is now, a chapel & next to that the Y.M.C.A. which is where the Boy Scout movement was started. A bit further down, the Hippodrome, which I think was a music hall, (although Hippodrome in Greek means horse race track); there's something you never wanted to know.
Further down on the opposite side is Huskisson St., surrounding St. John's Church. Easily located now because St. John's St. opposite is still there. On the corner of Huskisson St., Charing Cross side, was a garden shop; Forizo. They still exist, with a place in Holborn Square. Next to that was an ice cream shop; Fabbri's.
As you can see on the map, it was all residential then down to St.Werburgh's church. Notice too on the map, the tram lines are shown.

@Rentaclown100; If you mean the picture on page 43, they were the offices & drawing offices & plan rooms. My dad used to have to go there to get plans, which he then marked out on the steel plates of the ships with a chalk line. His trade was a liner-off & he had to serve a 5 year apprenticeship.

@Oxtonmac; Yes, I remember Robb's well. They had a restaurant called the Oak Room. You went up in a lift, with an attendant with white gloves.

@Oggie (welcome) yes, I remember when Grange Road was crowded with traffic. I don't remember the pet shop in Oxton Rd., but maybe you remember Morton's bookshop, opposite Bernard's. I understand it was later a Post Office. Riley's/ABC on Argyle St. was the Savoy cinema before the ABC. The Ritz, which you remember as a bingo hall was a cinema. I was a projectionist there in 1955. The manager was Bill Boht; some relation to Jean Boht (Nellie Boswell in "Bread").

Cheers, Chris.

Oh, it's not been renamed, I assumed it had. Well, it's still a hardware store then.

Anyone remember MacCombs pet shop in Birkenhead? I bought many a rodent from there. I remember buying really dodgy stuff from Stolen From Ivor (down the road from MacCombs), I didn't ever notice it had closed down tbh.

I'd love to see some old photographs of Birkenhead how it was 10 - 30 years ago. My brother used to take loads of photos of the Wirral around 1986 - 1992, I'll have to get them and scan them in.

Welcome Oggie.



The Main Post Office - I think it's closed now

The Old Post Office Hotel (Now Sophies)



Argyle Street, 1961

Argyle Street, 1962

Hey Chris, how long did you work at WH Smith, my brother Tony Miller(deceased now)used to work there.

Dave Miller

Hi, Dave, I didn't work there very long; probably less than a year, 1952/53. After that I became a cinema projectionist, first at the Plaza, then at the Ritz. Went into the Air Force in June 1956 & never went back to Birkenhead. I visit it quite a lot now though.

Hey chris just wondering if you knew a Den Platt who worked there ??

No, sorry. I wasn't there long & can't remember any names; it is 56 years ago

Ahh okie doke no problemo hehe!

It used to be Lennons in the 80s I remember

The Beefeater in Moreton in the bighouse.

Toymaster toy shop in Moreton

The Village Trader in Moreton (where Kwik Save is now)

There used to be a clothes shop in Chadwick Street that used to sell school uniforms and things it was quite old fashioned from what I remember.

The co-op Supermarket in Moreton

Remember that shop in chadwick street.
Moreton mart
The market in moreton
John menzies or wh smith in moreton
Was it tesco's where iceland is now?

Iceland used to be opposite the church on that road leading up to a.p.h. upton road?

Yep Upton Road. Where Iceland is now used to be Tescos and then it was a Victor Value or something like that.

do you remember shoppers world opposite were iceland is now it was like an early argos....and the toy shop on the corner of roslyn drive i think it was called keighleys or sumin like that..i used to look in the side window on my way home from school ...oh those were the days

omg! I do yeah-vaguely. What year was this?
I got caught robbing from that toy shop and being took home by the police :$

Timpsons-somewhere by the samaritons charity shop. Back in the day when 'measuring size of feet' was standard.

the year must have been about 1976

thought so! As i said, only a vague memory so knew i must have been young-i was 4!

wot schools did you go to then...?

Sandbrook for a year or so and then eastway.

I remember Shoppers World I remember my parents getting me a couple of train sets from there for christmas for me. As for the toy shop yeah I remember that.

I have just thought of more shops

Teds Bakery
Fennys

They where next door to each other on Barnston Lane

Moreton Mart

Fennys? Rings a bell?
Just remembered -bottom of 'cadburys hill'- wasnt there a cake shop? Opposite the pub-but also opposite the chippy on 'pasture road' ìs it?

Fenny's adjacent to lennons?
Thats where i bort my 'insette rock hard hairspray', ann french cleansing milk 'for spotty skin' and later 'super wet look gel'. Happy days!

Noras sweet shop at the bottom of borrowdale rd and rumbelows next to boots

http://www.bernards.co.uk/

Did W Bernard, who where in Argyle St and were bombed (see pic) have any thing to do with the present day R Bernard, Oxton Rd. I remember a Bernards being below the old market and i think they were W Bernards and probably moved there after they were bombed, also i seem to remember after the market burnt down they acquired premises on the priory industrial estate. I think they have now also shut down.

Thanks, DD/Bert. I've always assumed that both Bernards were the same family, maybe father & son. I've seen that pic. of the bomb damage before; think it's in one of my Boumphrey books. I went into R.Bernards when I was up a few months ago, just for old times' sake.

My mum used to send mere there for trash bags when I was a kid.

The newsagents/sweetshop next to the legion was always known as Bakewells when I was a kid.

Moreton Market does anyone remember the fire there? I was in school at Lingham Lower School that day and from the upstairs you could see the flames.

In the building that was the bingo club (former moreton picture house) there was 2 shops on the left and right I always remember a cafe on the one on the right hand side it used to have a really old fashioned Pepsi sign on the wall.

'bakewells' the name of that shop has been bugging me for years!! Thanks
Also remember that cafe. Nan used to take us there btween bingo sessions!
In ones tweenie years i used to do madonna 'dress you up' on the bingo stairs! If u saw the video you'll know wot i mean. Lol

There was a newsagents almost next to the bingo too, i think it was called Saunders. Used to buy my comics there on saturday morning. The chippy next to the library aswell. Soeys chippy (god knows how it was spelt. Didn't the Moreton Mart move into the shop next door to the chippy.

The sweet shop on other side of bingo-used to get me looseys from there on the way to skool!

You probably know my sisters then, caught them more than once smoking looseys in Saunders, always stopped thier pocket money for a week when i did ha ha

I used to hear storys about that Chippy involving dogs when I was little. I remember that newagents too on the other side of Pasure Road.

I remember Golden Sunrise Chippy on corner of Barnston Lane.

Yer moreton mart next to the chippy. I remember it boarded its windows up when there was something going on on the ford/nocky? It was around the time of the toxteth riots and i was petrified, thinking the riots were coming to moreton.
Also, remember the rumour that sueys were selling 'dog' and me mum boycotted them and we went the one opposite morton arms instead.

ok I remember a row of shops that got pulled down on the same street as Moreton Market was (Oakenholt Road) I had to look it up. I remember a barbers being there. On the corner there was like 2 small shops where Barbers is now and the Key Cutting place was I remember one of them being a tiny sweet shop and think the other one sold wool I think.

Your right!! Wool+ sweets omg forgot about them.
Vaguley remember shops opp market-one was defo a cobblers. Mum used to send me to pick up her re-heeled shoes.

Rox records! A little offy! On the 'bend' opposite the big house

And.,also in oakenholt rd on the corner a fruit+ veg shop

I used to buy my chips there on my way home from boys brigade, cant remember what night it was on. I wasn't actually in the B,B,. My mates and i all decided to join, it was a bus ride to Moreton from Leasowe, but when we got to Moreton we decided to hang around the shops (all closed as it was evening) instead of going to B,B. This went on for weeks n weeks, subs and return bus fare always spent on sweets and then chips and a can of Tizer from the Golden Sunrise to walk back home with. It always seemed such a long way on short legs. My mother would ask week after week "When are you going to get your uniform?" I remember my excuses being so unbelievable that they must have sounded true ha ha
Shhhhhh, she's still none the wiser!

Rox Records was tiny. That moved to where Dewhursts was on Upton Road.

Just found this pic and they guy says this also used to be Les Turners Cake Shop

http://www.mikekemble.com/mside/moreton/mton7.jpg

I was in the Moreton Market today

That row of shops opposite the market, one was a liitle record shop, my older sister would make me go and buy 45's for her there. Cant remember ewhat it was called

Do you remember The Village Trader

Yeah, like a little village of shops all under the one roof. All gradually closed down til there was only the sweet shop left right by the door. That stayed for a few years even after kwiksave took the building.

Yeah it was like a posh version of the indoor Birkenhead Market

Was a bit crappy though, and at the time a little out of the main shopping area of Moreton (not far i know) but things where more centralized down on the cross back then

Now the toy shop opposite, that was another matter. Mortimers, then it changed to Keighleys. It was a young boys heaven upstairs in there. Models of anything you could think of!

V. Trader rings a bell? Wot was in it?
Moreton market- cant believe how small it is when you think it was units?
Can remember buggy/pram place, shoes, knickers+nighties-me mum used to get me nans thermals-and thats it! Oh and the baked spud man

Can't remember a damn thing that was in the Village Trader except the sweetshop at the front entrance. God knows how i've still got all my own teeth, all my posts seem to involve sweetshops ha ha

I remember the place giving out Green Sheild Stamps.

I remember also Joans Deli (it used to be on Chadwick St but moved to the cross) There used to be a butchers there.

Radio Rentals (they had a small vhs video rental libary)
Redifusion (another tv rental shop)
The video rental shop on Pasure Road

Cellar 5 on Pasture Road

Newsagents on the bottom of Upton Road don't remember the name but it used to sell singles for 99p

Hairdressers on the corner of Roslyn Drive thats now and Indian Restaurant.

There used to be anotehr cake shop upon Hoylake Road not Malcolms but it was further up.

That hairdressers is where my fave toy shop was in the 70s and early 80s

Re. The beefeater- i was sooo jealous of the kids that got to eat in them toadstool things! But..what i cant remember what the big house looked like before them 'olde worlde' shops.
I left moreton in 1989-well, me mum did i had no choice!
Everythink seems small. Getting off the bus+ walking down orchard road home (i lived on the 'new estate')- road seemed really really long-its not!

Hey Rudebox, i lived on the new estate, moved there when they were first built

What about Rock Ferry in the 60's. Shallcross's Bike & Toy shop,the cafe next to the station bridge in Bedford Road which sold delicious ice cream, The Chinese Laundry , Exchange & Mart the antique shop whose owner was fortunate to acquire a genuine Rubens painting for a song & sell it for a large amount of cash. He always wore a sheepskin coat & looked like a spiv. He drove round in a large American 'Rambler' car. There was the coffee bar on the corner of Bedford & New Chester Roads.Bob Simister's motor bike showroom.
The shops used to extend almost to St. Pauls Rd. & to Grove Road.

Bob.

I think the toy shop become a Toy Master shop. The chain is still going.

funny you should say that coz we rarely ventured past where iceland is now. That is prob why i remembered the 'argos' type shop -out me comfort zone. Lol

I remember there being a couple of housefires on the New Estate. The houses got boarded up and you could see the burn marks on the brick work. I remember walking past them on my way too Eastway Nursey.

same here! Witley ave
Me brains ticking now...

One in lyons close and another witley ave-a nurse and 2 kids-ex hubby put sumfink lit thru the letterbox.

Im not para
Im not para
Im not para
Im not para

Lol. Off topic. Soz

you sure?

Haha. Nooo, am ok. These house fires-same ones i remember?

Yeah I think they are the same house fires. It would of been the early 80s.

Yes same time frame!
Imagine if it turns out we all know each other? Freaky!

there was a pet shop by were max speilman was on the cross and it had a very friendly miner bird......not sure if it was called stroads

Get ya brain tickin harder, i was i Witley Close

that should say "in witley close"

Anyone from Wallasey will always remember the small Kiosk at the bottom of Church Street and Liscard Road. Disappeared in the early 90s. Crackin' little place too...

o...k...witley close and u got sisters ? Gna think bout this one! Lol

yer...remember that kiosk...diddy little space. Always a 'port of call' after knackering the kids out

o...k...witley close and u got sisters ? Gna think bout this one! Lol
[/quote] giz a clue! How old are you?

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You most probably knew my two younger sisters Julie & Joanne, they seemed to know everyone on the estate.

Hmm. Dousent ring a bell. Have to think on this one.

I remember the Parrot in Richies Pet shop (The Pet Centre when it was on the same block as Max Spielmans. It was called Lucky and used to say Hello and Goodbye.

Bob Simister's - got my first Lambretta scooter there in 1955. Licence No.FCM55 - cool or what!
Wonder if it's still around?!

got my ciggs there,10,number 10 and 5 parkdrive for me mam please.

Flippin' No 10 - used to burn your nose lighting them if you weren't quick!

Do you remember Gearbox? On Charing Cross, used to sell all the latest clothes. Inn Things in Grange Road also sold the latest fashions, got my first pair of Loons there and my Budgie jacket.

Rox Records, there were two in Birkenhead, one on Borough Road where GBTours is now and one on the corner of Argyle Street and Market Street.

remember when rox records used to be called "sounds nice" we used to go in there on saturday afternoons and the lady working in there used to put the chart 45's on for us to listen to. Dilys in Grange Road used to be a trendy boutique. Remember going to Robbs record department and asking them to put records on while you went in a booth to listen to it. Happy Days!!!

Any of you Moretonites remember the nightclub (name unknown) right up near the beach, towards the end of Pasture Rd. Had a sitting area and bar at the front with fruit machines(one armed bandits) then a dance area at the rear. This would have been about 1966/67.

are you talking about the Apollo
Used to go there regularly late 60s and 70s
Ithink it's now used for giving dancing lessons
Previously in earlier times it was a skating rink

another club in Moreton used to be the Haig club in Haig Avenue
also Moreton Football Club was ok for a night out

I reckon the oldest still going shops in Moreton are Post Office Chadwick Street Launderette top of Francis Avenue
the newsagents beginning of Chapelhill and the chippie by the library

Omg! All these Moreton memories! Shoppers World was the catalogue style shop opposite Iceland. The sign had a purple background and yellow lettering. I also go in the old market and think how did so many stalls and a cafe fit in here. Village trader....Billy Butler opened it. I thought the place was really posh lol. I was in Village Trader when Hillsborugh happened. That`s how I heard over their radio/speaker. But so many memories of all shops mentioned.

hi over the road from tk max was a row of shops one being bentleys the jewellers / pawn brokers.also bensons beds, in 63/64.i think.

what was the big newsagents called next to Barclays Bank?

Is Fosters the green grocers still going?

The clock repair shops has been there for years.

There was a fish mongers near Shoppers World I don't remember the name?

Malcolmbs cake shop I never liked there cakes.

Unfortunately, Fosters fruit and veg shop has closed down. It was there until very recently. The shop is empty, still has the old Fosters Sign writing on it though.
Time Spot the watch and clock repairers is still there and still trading.
The newsagents next to Barclays had various names including Ricafeg, Collins (I think) and McColls as far as i can remember. Its a supersaver discount store now.
Can't help with the name of the Fishmongers, remember it though, fish used to gross me out so I stayed well clear of it.
As for Malcombs, I'm with you there. Sayers was my port of call.

Informed by my sister that the newsagents next to Barclays was called Martins at one stage too. She should know, she worked there.

the fishmongers ....i think thats were the time hair salon formaly ian hendry was

Just remebered name of newsagents. Lavells. Sold books and stationary stuff aswell as your news papers.

Lavells yer that rings a bell deffo

yeah, it was lavells for years then went to Martins.

I remember the holes in the wall where the potatoes where in Fosters.

I remember an old farm building/house on Digg Lane where the new row of shops are where Blockbuster is and the Estate Agents.

I remember Jones Chapman and Harland used to be on the block of shops where the Pet Shop is now and there was another Estate Agents there.

The surgery thats in Chadwick Street used to be in one of those houses converted to offices on Hoylake Road. I remember a old sign on the building which said something like ARROWEBROOK (ARR) It was painted on a glass box on the building.

There was a solicitors office next to or near the florist and they used to be an agent for National and Provincial building socitey (I can't remember the name)

And Don Walkers insurance was on Hoylake Road and is now a Auto Parts shop. The Pet shop used to be next door to Don Walkers.

the shops are still there as you said.

Rham records,fads,microbyte,player,thriftys all were in liscard.

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zodiac toys. was were thortons is,in birkenhead i think.tk max was the co op before living.bhs was were new look is,and on church rd tranmere was ronnie parishs the shop between the co op and the chemist. which became a video shop.

BHS was where Primark is now.

Does anyone remember the dolls hospital? I can remember going there when my sisters doll needed to have treatment back in about 1965

Blimy I remeber Peter Toners, I am sure he used to sell fireworks there at that bike shop? I am sure I bought my anual firework supply there years ago.

Hi Joe, The banner at central station at the top of the wirral line escalors only came down about 8 months ago - I remember that shop well.

I remember Gearbox, I bought my boyfriend, now Husband a couple of gifts from there. They had some swanky clothes in that shop.
I remember Dad taking Mum to the Haig club in Moreton.
The Apollo in Moreton teaches the jive at present.

Does anyone remember Chelsea Girl in the Grange Precinct, it was just a bit further up from Mothercare?
I worked there for a few years and what fun we had . We listened to music all day,(not now though I couldn't stand the noise lol).We got discount off all the latest fashions. We also had great uniforms and they were free.
It was hard work though but working with nice friends made it all the better.

I can remember getting my subbuteo teams from there after Kenny Campbells Sports which was by the fire station closed down.

And what about Longworths in Rowson Street New Brighton they had a model railway in the window and you put a Penny in the slot on the winow sill and it went round happy days.

were did all the shoe shops go? like....Freeman,Hardy & Willis...Timpsons on New Chester Rd New Ferry, Berksons in Bebington Rd, and clothes shop Tickles also on New Chester Rd,i remember getting a suit from there when i was 16...well not an actual suit it was a skirt [mini]& waistcoat,i was in my first job and wanted it for the christmas party.

i remember Chelsea Girl...can't remember exactley were it was! wasn't there one in Liverpool? think i went in that one? what about C&A...i was always going in there!!

the dolls hospital i think was in market street birkenhead

chelsea girl was around where the 3 mobile shop and clarks shoe shop is now

does anyone remmber treasure island in liscard...was where the carpet shop is, next to witherspoons

Was that the toy shop?

Hi chris7777
We did have a shop in Liverpool.
I used to go to C&A I loved it in there. I bought a couple of 2 piece suits; very classy they were too. I bought one for a friends Wedding and the other for work.
I remember the shoe shops also and Tickles; oh happy days lol.

it was they toy shop! The power of google lol

yeah it was a cool toyshop, but not as cool as peter toners, that was an alladins cave, used to love going in there, bought my first proper bike from there. And a "Stevensons Rocket" steam train kit, mums still got it ontop of her wardrobe

What was your 1st proper bike?

a raleigh racer 10 gears
was blue but soon i decided to paint it silver with silver hammerite bad move

Longworths was the best bike shop.

the top one looks like it

but i turned my handlebars upside down

Raleigh arena!

toy and hobby used to be at the top end opposite pykes the jewellers if i remember rightly

The co-op department store in Liscard where McDonalds is now.
We used to go up and down in the lift until the security guard told us off!
Above it was a large room that was used for parties and a club called Woodland Folk (I think0.I remember doing country dancing and singing folk songs. Happy Days!

I well remember the Co-op and the lift! Also the top floor (with the window that ran floor to ceiling); that was where Santa's grotto was for at least a couple of years.

Woodland Folk - wasn't in it myself but had a few friends who were (early 70s). Funny, was only thinking about that the other day!

Taken from my Shopping in Wallasey series - Liscard Road.

Just thought - it was Woodcraft Folk not Woodland Folk!

Does anyone have any photo's of the shops in Grange Mount, Birkenhead? There were two newsagents, a restaurant and a motorbike shop amongst others there in the late 70's early eighties.

Great pic but I think that is the co-op on the corner of Liscard/Poulton Rd, now the Great Float.
The co-op in Liscard I think was a new build.

That is actually the co-op in Liscard. The tram line that you see opposite runs along Liscard Road with no turning whereby if it was was Poulton Road it would then run down into Wheatland Lane from Liscard Road or turn from Poulton Road.

You are right Paul, you know your stuff!
What makes me think it was a new build?
Was it just a facade,I seem to remember it being green or blue!

Does anyone remember 'Absolems' opposite the train station in West Kirby. My sister June Millington and her husband once owned it.

I note after nearly 60 years of buisness the Coffee Roast Bistro on Seaview Road Wallasey has closed.

noticed that the other day shame as it was a great place to sit and have a private cuppa, i loved the little bays u sat in , and the service was good

I loved the smell as you went past - remember it as a child, 40 years ago.

Does anyone remember the Orchard Barbecue? Wasn't that close by? Remember chickens on a spit!

I noticed it had closed the other day,didn't see anything in the local news!

Me too! - one of the nicest smells in the world, fresh roasting coffee beans wafting through the air! Didn't they used to have the coffee roaster in the window, or am I thinking of somewhere else?

Used to have a coffee roaster (rotating drum dooferiser thingy) in the window of Coopers in Church St. L'pool. Maybe that's what you are thinking of ? That smell. Mmmmmmmmmmm. That's a while back mindyou.

I don't think I'm thinking of Liverpool as I don't know that one. I could have sworn I remember seeing the roaster (drum thingy) in their window in Liscard though... But I can't quite remember if maybe it was just a non-working one, there just 'for show' and not actually used? Heck, it was a long time ago now...! Nice memories though. So sad what befell Liscard and what it has become nowadays...

Did they have one in the Kardomah in Church Street?

I remember that place from when I was a kid. I went in with my mum and nan almost 50 years ago, I thought it was magical.

I remember one in Church St. I thought it was Kardomah, but Pinzgauer has got me wondering whether it was Coopers, although the name doesn't ring a bell.

More likely to be Coopers as they were grocers, whereas Kardomah was an up-market tea and coffee restaurant.

I see 'Showman' has gone too - they were a boys/menswear shop just a couple of doors down from Coffee Roast Bistro and had been there since the late 70s/early 80s. Next months update on my site is the shops on Seaview Road and I am having to keep changing it due to the shops closing. 'House' furnishing is up for sale on the corner of Grasmere Drive.

Also, not a shop I know, but I see the old bus stop has gone that was outside Wilkinsons on Wallasey Road! It was generally used as a shelter when waiting for a black cab. It was a nuisance when it was there when trying to get pass people with prams or shopping.

peter toners, seaview road, wallasey.
Used to get all my scalextrix cars from there when i was a nipper, lol.

Dodgy bmx bikes in toners. The iron horse bmx lol.

Does anyone remember the Kopper Kettle, a cafe on Seaview Road near the bus depot in the early 80s? My grandad ran it for a couple of years.

It was situated at 106 Seaview Road and by the early 1990s it became 'The Oven Door' Cafe. Today its 'The Singing Waitress" Cafe.

Does anyone remember the Melody Milk Bar? Later the Dynasty chinese (known as the Die Nasty} and later and extension to Bookland. My sister used to take me there. I remember signs saying 'business lunch three course 5/- (25P).

It was next to the Wellington in Liscard.

What date?

Was George White's Milk Bar in the late 1940s/1950s.

Pic of the Milk in 1937 (taken from my site on the History of Shopping : Wallasey Road)

Quite definitely the Coffee Roast used to have the drum roasting machine visible in the window

Snod

Melody must have closed mid sixties. The Dynasty opened about then. I remember the coffe roasting drum in the window of the Coffee Roast but I don't think it was working then, just for display. The Coffee Roast was only one shop then not two.

Wasn't there a Timothy Whites in Grange Road?

yes it used to be somwhere by the halifax i think. the halifax used to be a supermarket in the early 60's.

Thanks! So I do have at least one brain cell still functioning then - I was pretty sure but I'm glad someone else remembers it too!!
Perry

Yes, roughly where the X is on the map. In the pic., it's between Benefit & Myers.

I remember timothy whites being where waterstones is

I think you're correct oscarpops.

When I knew it,in the early 50's, Timothy White's was almost opposite its major competitor, Boots, which was on the corner of Vincent St. It must have moved later. I'm not sure where Waterstones is; is it further down Grange Rd., near the Pyramids?

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I checked out the link on Timothy Whites bert1,but I think the shop existed after 1968 as I became friendly with the manageress whilst I was working at Leighton Court in 1981.If I'm proved wrong blame it on old age,decrepitude and red wine.

I remember Timothy Whites - it was where waterstones is now I think or top shop. I remember there being a Burtons and a Fosters in that row too.
I also remember Cavendish furniture shop on other side where superdrug is now.
I vaguely remember Robbs further up.
Remember BHS before that got primarked.
Toy and Hobby was near the top on right.
I remember when there was M&S then Littlewoods then TJs.
I remember the flyover and waiting for the 37 on Conway Street.
I remember the Top Rank bingo club.
I vaguely remember the Grand Hotel up by Charing Cross - waited for a bus near there too.

Laird Street
I remember Shallcross Bikes - they took up a few shops.
I remember the chandlers that sold paraffin for the paraffin heater we had in the kitchen.
I remember Ellis's the chemists.
I remember Prices greengrocers (mum always said they were a rip off but shopped there anyway).
Gortons butchers, Tom somebody butchers, the bakers with the creepy little model man in the window with the eyebrows falling off lol
The Golden Sunrise (alsation pies)
Mrs Spriggs(ings?) the wool shop.

Cor that cleared a few cobwebs out the brain.

I also remember in Claughton village:
Bedfords newsagents
Halifax
Card shop before Halifax took over (Curries?)
Miss Waring further up for knickers, school socks, wool etc.
Pilkingtons chemist - think its still written on the roof tiles (or is it Rowlands?)

Anyone remember Bartons shop in Union Street lower tranmere,right under the railway bridge?

Pilkington's chemist was owned by Roy Pilkington, who was Mayor of Birkenhead (can't remember when), he also had shops in Upton Village and at Upton Station. His son, Brian, owned Bedfords for a period.

Bedfords had an "automatic newsboy" outside, this was a coin operated machine which sold copies of the Echo. The shop on the corner of Alderley Avenue (now a private house) had a coin operated milk machine outside, which sold cartons of milk and orange.

The small building on the corner of Shrewsbury Road was a Police Station, with public toilets behind.

Thanks for the info

I seem to remember a toy shop opposite to where Littlewoods used to be, in the mid 80's?

liscard??

Zodiac?

i remember bartons it was on the corner of peel st,on the other corner was a barbers shop known as bill the barbers.parkinsons the dairy was also in union st.

Theres F.A in Brighton Street/ King St, Egremont. Can anyone remember there when it apparantly thrived?

It was quite lively in early to mid 80s there was a good clothes shop that did cheap tracksuits lol.

there was a shop around the corner, oppisite littlewoods called ZODIAC. i think its now gregs. it used to sell all kinds of toys and gadgets. i.e. bouncy balls, etc.

yeh i remember it. think it was called ZODIAC.

The one that use to be at the Old Haymarket Area

My days as a young lad in Birkenhead, Birkenhead and the docklands along with the parks where my playground, I remember Mr Ashworths sweet shop on Conway Street just before Conway place, I remember the Crown pub My first pint at the age of thirteen, Mrs Lords Dairy where we got our milk cheese etc, Mr Mitchells surgery one of our local doctors, then there was Mr Hunts sweet shop who had a Myna bird that shouted at you when you went in this was on the corner of York Street, my doctor was Mr Lipsedge who had his surgery above what is now Sherlocks, and Mr Davies sweet shop on the Corner of back Camden Street.

sounds like you lived near me,i lived on marion street next to camden street,where did you live.

9 Conway Place opposite the old stables my name is Michael Haydn

capernicus,ive left you a private message [pm]ok.

Okay Thank You.

WOW all these memories. I remember Rumbleows?? Like Currys. We had 3 shoe shops. I hated going in Clarks and Lotus {Cash Converters and Hot lips} with my dad in case anyone saw me!!! Shoe Express and Shoe Zone came later. The Gas show rooms where Lloyds {TSB} is. The book shop on Wallasey Road {R news} that expanded into another shop then shrunk back into one then seemed to go bust. Robert Y Knagg and son now another pawn broker. The CO OP where Mc Donalds is. Thanks.

Smiths fruit shop ( Parkfield ave Conway street )
Discount Foods (next to smiths fruit shop)
Thompsons newsagents ( next to Discount Foods)
Electrical shop ( sold everything Capacitors to light bulbs)
Sayers ( day old cake shop)
tearls ( carpets Furniture)
Butchers shop
Chinese Chippy
Bentlys Pawn Shop
Davies Cake SHOP ( ON CORNER BY TRAFFIC LIGHTS)
Traces electrical( OPP DISCOUNT FOODS)

Charlie Chippy (market street Leta street)
Dennises CORNER SHOP (Market Street Rowlnd Street)
RAES Corner Shop (Market street Camden Street)
joneses (Corner Shop ( Camden Street Price Street)
Wool SHOP (Camden Street just by the ENTRY DENNISES MUM)
Bridge and Pickles Chippy ( Market Street Leta street only sold English Meals ) later bought by Charlie ( chinese)
Happy Days

I must be getting old, I can remember when there was a Forces club on the site of of Primarks where troops could relax and have a cup of tea and a sarnie or write a letter home.

we had 2 shops on marion street plus a chippy,a dairy behind us on dacre street.also shops on camden street and conway place and most little streets in the surrounding area.better than the supermarkets and all the obesity in children they have caused.proper food,no additives,shrinking bacon,full of water etc.also good service,no underpaid part timers like all supermarkets.

I wonder how different Birkenhead looks now to 2013. A lot of shops are now empty, but going back for the first time the other day, it was really busy for some reason.
There’s a lot of independently owned shops, but mostly charity ones.

It was Bookland that was on Wallasey Road, I think. My Granddad used to take me to the playground up the little road that was behind the Manweb showroom, where the Cherry Tree precinct is now. In the Bata shoe shop - on Liscard road I think? - there was an x-ray machine; you could look at the bones in your feet through an eyepiece. Those were the days, eh?!* I think that shop also had those whizzy pots on wires that your money was put in, then the change was whizzed back to the counter. I had my first Saturday job in Liscard Co-op, 1968-ish, back of the ground floor, in pharmacy and cosmetics. I had a love/hate relationship with the Bronnley lemon soaps - they used to make me sneeze. On my breaks I discovered the sheer delight of warm eccles cakes from the canteen/cafe - mmm! Not so mmm were the shocks I used to get off the metal lockers when removing my nylon overall. Ouch. I also remember buying school dress fabric from Kay Macs, diagonally opposite to where HSBC is now, at 2/11 a yard. Gad, I feel old now...!

Also your namesake Greenwoods soon to be a shop of the past . My favourite shop years ago was Ken Hopkins Tackle Shop which was originally opposite Christchurch in Moreton before it moved. On the subject of highstreet shops. How many closed and boarded up ones would go towards the target of 2 million social homes needed..they would be in the right place .

Yes, quite a few shoe shops had them and they were radioactive fluoroscopes, the radioactive dosage was above what is allowed today, especially for kids. Fortunately feet are quite resistant to radioactive cancerous effects but the heavy shielding in the box was often missing or altered especially on the lower powered British ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fitting_fluoroscope

Yep, remember them in Clarkes shoe shops. Do you glow in the dark Greenwood ?
It seemed that shoes always cost £29.11d for leather shoes.The prices never changed for years.

£29.11d. .. just under £1.50 in todays money

Typo
29/11 or 29s-11d

Here's a few from back in the day
Peter Toner
Longworths cycles
Co op Liscard
Halfords Liscard and player sports next door.
the old market that was in Liscard now a cafe and mobile accessory shop
and I remember there used to be 3 computer shops in the 80's,
2 on Seaview road and one on Liscard road facing the ambulance station.