took a few picks at birkenhead dont think there bad for a phone camera

few more

more

more

cool, thought it was closed tho?.

no mate went there today mate

Brilliant pics mate, well done

thanx mate

yeh, quality mate..

Some great shots there mate, how come you went, a day out, or just out of curiosity??

Or was ye scouting the area for a possible ghost hunt?

Cool pictures. See the muesum part thats the place which is active.. If you stand with your back to the Staircase leading up to the room above the muesum believe you me thats the last time you will stand there.... The picture of the Chapel is also good as well the third row of seats on the left are above a trap door which is covered up this lead to the Crypt beneath the chapel also access for the monks tunnels (this is a ? as i aint sure it is but when you a kid and lift carpets up etc you know what im saying) but anyway i'll leave it there good pictures

Quality, ive never been, and wouldn't mind taking a peak myself

thanx for ya comments lads never been there before just thought id have a wonder round see what its like the museum is a bit spooky especially when ya see the manicans of the munks in a dark corner of the museum

You didn't take any pics from the top of the tower? To me, the most moving thing is the 99 plaques on the staircase in memory of those who died in the Thetis.

Never heard about that? What is it? Or what was it?

I seem to recall it was a submarine disaster, everyone on board died of poisoning or summit? I assume it was built at Cammel Lairds, hence there being a memorial at the priory?

I knew I ad seen summit on TV about it - http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/northwest/series7/thetis.shtml

Really Interesting read that.
And the replies too.

Good find, if i ever get into the priory i will look at them
knowing the storey behind them.

class to see a plaque dedicated to the Thetis.....i've never actually been myself......if ya don't know about the Thetis, check it out....it makes really interesting reading

Yes, 1939. My dad who, was a liner-off at Lairds, worked on it. Every man who died in it has his own plaque on the staircase of the tower. The top of the tower is one of the best viewpoints in Birkenhead.

i took this while i was there if you go to perch rock in the museum they have alot of info on this alot of pictures uniforms and bits from the sub

View from the top looking down

great shots mate.

Looking to the town hall

outside

looking up the tower inside

wast from lairds

Nice pics mate.

Thanks dava got more to put up mate!

Well get them up then kid.Let`s see them bud.

INSIDE A SLAB

MONKS

will put more up soon! do like the monks one is cool!

Whos up for a look around next week sunday?

Here is someting diff

Thats cool that kid!

Went to the Priory as my Daughter was doing a project for school. Went to the top of the Church, bit of effort for someone as unfit as me, but well worth the effort if you ever go.
Some pictures

Missed one

Good pictures Beaty (even that annoying second one!)

hope u dont mind me adding a couple of shots....took these a week or 2 ago when we had the heavy sea mist in

oops sorry will make them smaller next time

Anyone have a map showing Vyse Street marked on it?
I don't know if it is an old or modern street.
on
http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-389301-remains-of-birkenhead-priory-

Formerly known as: Old Priory Ruins ST MARY'S GATE.
Priory ruins
Location: Vyse Street, Birkenhead, Wirral CH41 5HU

Possibly the one I've marked on google map and on the street in the photo

I've never seen a Vyse Street on any map of that area. The roadway you show in the picture is the entrance to St Mary's Church and the Priory and I don't think it ever led anywhere else. However, it may well have been called Vyse Street.

The area south of this roadway (approximately where you've made the red marking) used to be the quite extensive church graveyard. This was cleared to make way for Cammell Laird's new dry dock, which opened in April 1962.

There used to be a Mersey Street just near here, running down to the riverfront by the old Birkenhead ferry.

Maybe you have seen this site previously, it doeas have a fair amount of history relating. Look down the right hand side for various pages of information about the Priory.(not necessarily in order) This page tells about the graves. Can't see a mention of Vyse Street on any of the pages.

As 5,500 bodies were removed, one wonders where they all ended up (not all intered at Landican, I shouldn't have thought!)

http://stmarysbirkenhead.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Clearing%20the%20old%20graveyard

http://stmarysbirkenhead.blogspot.co.uk/p/site-of-priory-church.html

http://stmarysbirkenhead.blogspot.co.uk/p/history-of-priory-and-st-marys-church.html

I just did a Google search for Vyse Street and this came up...

http://www.finderpostcode.co.uk/vyse-st-ch41-5jh-birkenhead-merseyside/

... The location of the street isn't precise, but maybe it's a new street on the industrial estates near the priory.

It's not on 1876 Town Map which does show the largish graveyard

There are some more pics from when we did a wikiwirral walk and a small explore Jackson street


click here

Could it be a mistake for IVY STREET? 'Streetmap' has Vyse Street in a slightly different spot to 'Google map'. It is shown a bit closer to Ivy Street on 'Streetmap'

Came across on old print of the Priory when I was in York and couldn't resist buying it. It was called Birkhedde then. The outside was already in a state of decay. The print is from 1787. The place is fully identifiable from the print, that ruined part on the first photo, with the benches in it.
"Priory at Birkhedde Cheshire" is annotation on it.

I don't know where some of this rubbish comes from. I've checked all of the maps going back to 1835 and all the early directories and found no trace of a Vyse Street ever existing in Birkenhead. Nor is it a modern name as no Vyse Street appears in the Council's current Land and Property Gazetteer. Yoller's postcode CH41 5JH covers nine properties in Priory Street, including the Priory itself. There is, however, a Vyse Street in Birmingham; perhaps the Vyse Street entry was written by the same dyslexic who recorded Chapel Lane Cemetery as being in Birkenhead instead of Burtonwood?

I know Vyse Street in Birmingham quite well. It's the main street in the Jewellery Quarter. Along the same lines, some on-line maps have re-named Horatio Street, off Grange Rd. as Abratio Street.

Marty99fred has hit the nail on the head. It sounds like someone uploading data has got Birkenhead and Birmingham confused. The trouble is, once these errors get on to the interweb, they tend to be self-replicating. Good job we're here to keep an eye on them.

Is this the one Bandy? Also a pic of 'Birkinhead Park' on the link, which someone may be interested in. Can't make out which way it's looking. Is it towards the Priory?
There is also a nice one of New Brighton and a lovely one of Hoyle-Lake.

http://www.antique-prints-maps.com/acatalog/Cheshire_antique_prints.html

I'd say that the park view is from inside the park looking towards Conway Street.
I think the railings in the picture have nowadays just been painted or replaced with replicas

A nice find by Granny, and in keeping with the alternative spellings as noted earlier in this post.

On the link that Derek gave to the listed buildings site, did anybody check out the 'OS Maps' tab? Heritage OS Map
If so, then the location that shows is the same as the area that Derek had circled in red, i.e., the pathway towards the Church.

Also, remember that map makers and publishers often introduce deliberate errors into their work, so that thay can demonstrate their copyright should they take illegal copying cases to court.

I agree about the view, Derek. Surely the tall tower to the right of the Grand Entrance is the Hamilton Square station hydraulic tower, but on the site selling the print it says "circa 1860" , but the hydraulic tower wasn't built until the 1880's.
The railings would have been taken during the war, but they were all replaced with the original patterns during the restoration a few years ago.

Could the tall tower be Holy Trinity Church in Price Street? The direction seems about right. (The picture is from the WikiWirral thread on Holy Trinity).

I think you're right, yoller. My mistake.

That's the Holy Trinity I remember.

And Granny, that's the print I've got, I didn't have enough shekels to get the New Brighton one at the time. Cheers for that.

Any guesses to what the domed building to the left of the entrance was?
A windmill?

On the Birkenhead Park print you can see the Park Entrance so the view is more towards Vittoria Dock area than Priory I think. Agree with the Holy Trinity evaluation.