Heswall, Merseyside

Dee View Inn

At the age of just under 18 I used to enjoy a drink with friends in the bar of the 'Dee View'. My father also enjoyed a drink in the snug; whenever he came in, through the side door, I would be warned "Your dad has arrived!" and would make a quick exit via the front door. One night my father... [more]

Dee View

The Dee View Hotel was one of our haunting grouds in our courting days

The fragrance lingers on

One of the shops to the near right of the photo was Riley's fruit and veg. at Christmas time there would be lots of cut pines outside of the shop for sale, the strong smell of the pine lingers in my memory. Such a pity that so called progress destroys so many of the good things.
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Margaret Bevan Home Heswall

Sometime during the 1950s, as a child, I spent six weeks at the Margaret Bevan Home. It was located nr. the coast. It was a large detached house with a conservatory with wicker furniture. Other girls and myself were often taken on walks on the pebbly beach by one of our carers whom I adored. She was tall and... [more]

shrimp boats

I remember when a very young kid, walking down Banks road with my mother to the slipway and buying fresh shrimps from the Evans boys.
The shrimps were caught in the Dee and cooked on board the boats on the way back to the slip. The fishing was a thriving industry in those days.

Long Term Hospital Stay

I seem to recall a long term stay at this hospital (approx 11 months) in 1976-77. I suffered from asthma but I am not sure why I had to stay for that period of time.

I was also on the Florence Gibson Ward and remember a boat and a steam roller in bright colours (I think).

I always had... [more]

Tesco

During my last two years at school money was raised at Christmas time and Christmas presents were bought for the children who had to stay in hospital over the Christmas period. One little chap I remember was Tony. He was in hopital for a few years and he would now be about 32 years old.

Happy Days in Heswall (RLCH)

I guess I was on the same bus as Gina and her life long friends who I also remember. The Liverpool girls would meet up on a Sunday night to catch the ferry to Birkenhead and the bus to Heswall. If the girls from the Isle of Man and Ireland had been home for a weekend we met them too. Once... [more]

Merseyside Living Memories

The view of the Welsh coastline across the Dee Estuary is almost an obligatory picture for any photographer working in West Wirral. In the intervening years there has been some housing infill, but essentially the area between church and shoreline is much as it was in 1955.

Merseyside Living Memories

St Peter's is a building of some antiquity, and this view of the rear of the parish church does not do justice to its clarity of line or the aesthetic appeal of its architecture. In common with most of ecclesiastical sites on the Wirral Peninsula, St Peter's can trace its origins to the original Viking settlers who established a base in West Lancashire... [more]

The Wirral Photographic Memories

This view was taken from the top of School Hill, looking across the Dee Estuary towards the Clwydian Hills. Trees now obstruct the view of Heswall parish church, whose tower we can clearly see here. St Peter's School stands at the top of School Hill. During May 1941, Heswall was bombed, the school lost three classrooms and the headmaster's daughter and... [more]