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The Wirral Photographic Memories
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Wartime in Eastham
I was growing up in Eastham during the 1930s, attending the village school when war was declared. We had occasional day visits by the Lufwaffe and a couple of bombs were dropped. Then, after Dunkirk, the Merseyside blitz started with a vengeance, we in Eastham took some hard hits, Masons farm, opposite the Stanley Arms, took a direct hit and lost all its cattle when the shippons collapsed, also the park had some unexploded bombs which had to be defused by the army. In 1942 Carlett Hall was requisitioned as a transit camp for the US Army, there were thousands of G.Is there in tents and huts waiting to be sent to different parts of Britain. Eastham was full of foreign ...read more here
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Escavating Eastham Dock
Lived in Eastham in late 40s and early 50s at Carlett Park (in the old army camp) during the digging of the dock and went to the village school. Had a lot of fun riding on the machinery when they were doing it. That was before they made a park down by the old ferry, while playing in Eastham wood was the norm. Used to go swimming in the canal and over the banks into the mud in the Mersey and collect baskets of blackberry's along the walkway beside the canal in the old Hooton aerodrome. Lots of good memories.
thanx
Contributed by William McCully
Merseyside memories
Wartime in Eastham
I was growing up in Eastham during the 1930s, attending the village school when war was declared. We had occasional day visits by the Lufwaffe and a couple of bombs were dropped. Then, after Dunkirk, the Merseyside blitz started with a vengeance, we in Eastham took some hard hits, Masons farm, opposite the Stanley Arms, took a direct hit and lost all its cattle when the shippons collapsed, also the park had some unexploded bombs which had to be defused by the army. In 1942 Carlett Hall was requisitioned as a transit camp for the US Army, there were thousands of G.Is there in tents and huts waiting to be sent to different parts of Britain. Eastham was full of foreign ...read more here
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Escavating Eastham Dock
Lived in Eastham in late 40s and early 50s at Carlett Park (in the old army camp) during the digging of the dock and went to the village school. Had a lot of fun riding on the machinery when they were doing it. That was before they made a park down by the old ferry, while playing in Eastham wood was the norm. Used to go swimming in the canal and over the banks into the mud in the Mersey and collect baskets of blackberry's along the walkway beside the canal in the old Hooton aerodrome. Lots of good memories.
thanx
A memory of Eastham contributed by William McCully
Extracts From Eastham & Merseyside books
This view northwards along the Mersey shoreline towards Eastham Pier shows one of the Mersey ferries alongside. The iron pier was built in 1874 by the lessees of the Eastham Ferry Hotel, obviously with an eye to improving their own trade as well as that of the village.
An extract from from"The Wirral Photographic Memories".
A ship is sailing along the Manchester Ship Canal towards the old docks in Eastham in the same year that the canal was opened. Work began on the canal in 1887, and at its peak 97 steam excavators, 174 locomotives, 6,300 trucks, 194 cranes, 212 steam pumps, 59 pile engines, 196 horses and 16,000 navvies were involved. However, only 15,870 of the navvies were able to clock off at the end of their final shift; 130 lost their lives, and countless others lost fingers, hands, toes, feet and whole limbs in the harsh and dangerous conditions that prevailed.
An extract from from"The Wirral Photographic Memories".
The photographer was standing outside St Mary’s parish church and looking towards The Hooton Arms, the white-painted building at the end of the road (right). The inn was built in 1852, originally as the schoolmaster’s house adjoining the new village school, but by 1860 it had become a public house.
An extract from from"The Wirral Photographic Memories".
The tanker Languedoc is tied up at Eastham’s Queen Elizabeth Docks. The docks were constructed in the 1950s next to the entrance of the Manchester Ship Canal, replacing a series of old docks and wharfs. Many of the ships that dock here are oil tankers for the adjacent oil refinery.
An extract from from"The Wirral Photographic Memories".
To the left, and above the bow of the tanker Dauphine, we can see the huge lock gates that give access to the Manchester Ship Canal. The canal was opened on 1 January 1894. It became known as ‘The Big Ditch’ during its construction, but when completed it allowed ocean-going vessels to sail the 35 miles to Salford Docks, close to the heart of Manchester.
An extract from from"The Wirral Photographic Memories".