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"Hoylake Baths"
I recall happy memories of the Bathing Pool. It had two fountains spurting over fake rocks. We used to climb on these to cool off. In those days the Summers seemed to go on forever. The baths used to attract large attendances in those ...Read more
A memory of Hoylake in 1957 by
Snapshots
As a very little boy we moved from Birkenhead in the North West, Merseyside to Luton. It was the 1950s and my Dad had a job in Vauxhall's. His brother Tom was already a General Foreman there and his younger brother John (that's what we all called ...Read more
A memory of Luton by
Queen's Road L6
This was my grandparents home for many years and I visited it many times with my dad. My recollections of it were firstly, the size of the house! In it's heyday, it was considered posh and my grandparents employed a maid. The ...Read more
A memory of Everton by
Hamilton Secondary & Cole Street Infant School
It used to be in a nunnery in Birkenhead just off manor hill nr entrance to the park ..it was called Nazareth house ? I went to Hamilton middle school in the juniors ? I was 8/9 at the time ?? A few kids I ...Read more
A memory of Birkenhead by
Family Memories.
I was amazed and delighted to see a photograph of my mother and grandmother. Nearest the camera is my grandmother, Mrs Archie Turner (1892-1974) who lived in Whitford Road, Birkenhead. Next to her is her eldest daughter, my mother, ...Read more
A memory of Parkgate by
Charles Hunt . Birkenhead Area Ww1
HI i am trying to find any picture of Charles Hunt, his brothers were George and David, sister Ada and Maude, i have a photograph of my grandfather C George Hunt in his WW1 uniform, a paper clipping of David Hunt, WW1 ...Read more
A memory of Birkenhead by
Halfway House ...
After two ''BIG C'' scares and an operation I finally managed to get back to the HALFWAY HOUSE (Sept 09)....seemed just like yesterday Steve and Kim were so friendly...How the area had changed oxton school had gone also Birkenhead ...Read more
A memory of Birkenhead in 2009 by
Carrog Memory, As A Ww2 Evacuee.
I first visited Carrog in 1939 as an evacuee, at the start of World War 2. I was accompanied by my two sisters, having travelled by train from Birkenhead on the Wirral. All the evacuees were escorted to the Church Hall ...Read more
A memory of Carrog in 1940 by
School Place Birkenhead
Does anyone remember School Place, Birkenhead? It was in Watson Street. Also does anyone remember the prefabs at the top of Garnet Street opposite Oak and Eldon Gardens?
A memory of Oxton
Innocent Happiness
I was born just after the Second World War and like many people came from a fairly poor working class background. I was, however, blessed in many areas of my life and one of them was having an aunt who lived at 8 Hamilon ...Read more
A memory of New Brighton by
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Birkenhead Docks were started on 23 October 1844 when the foundation stone was laid.
Grange Road was one of the main shopping streets in Birkenhead, and was very popular.
Birkenhead, the largest town on the Wirral, was the dream of one man, John Laird.
This photograph was taken on the outskirts of Birkenhead in Prenton.
Both Birkenhead and Wallasey Corporations operated their own tramway systems.
At one time there were ferries to New Brighton, Egremont, Seacombe, Birkenhead, Rock Ferry and Eastham, and before the Mersey Tunnel opened, vehicle ferries also ran to Seacombe and Birkenhead.
At one time there were, ferries to New Brighton, Egremont, Seacombe, Birkenhead, Rock Ferry and Eastham, and before the tunnel opened, vehicle ferries also ran to Seacombe and Birkenhead.
The large building across the square is Birkenhead Town Hall.
This view of Birkenhead Road was taken very early in the wartime decade - the parked vehicles lack the white painted edges to the front and rear wings, and none of the windows in the houses
Arrowe Park is quite a few miles from the centre of Birkenhead.
Birkenhead is a surprisingly large and sprawling town, and has taken in its outlying villages to become suburbs.
The ship pictured here is one of their successors, built by the famous Lairds Shipyard in Birkenhead in the 1890s.
The park is a pleasant interlude between Birkenhead Road and Meols Parade on the seafront.
The original 'ferry across the Mersey' was operated by monks from Birkenhead Priory, a little way to the south of the present terminus.
Though the Morpeth and Egerton Docks were completed in the 1840s, work on the Great Float was not started until Birkenhead and Liverpool Docks were merged under the Mersey Docks & Harbour Board.
Birkenhead has spread out and almost overtaken the village today, but at the time of our photograph it still retained some of its independence.
The ornate building with the crowning clock tower is Birkenhead Town Hall, designed by C O Ellison & Son of Liverpool.
As she was being returned to Birkenhead towed by two tugs, she ran aground near Menai Bridge on 14 April 1955.
With the building of the railway in 1866, prosperous businessmen from Birkenhead and Liverpool moved to this part of the north Wirral coast.
The signpost pictured here reminds us that Little Sutton straddles the main road linking Chester with Birkenhead.
Some 200,000 people gathered to watch the event - and 80,000 of those celebrated with a 'tunnel walk' through from Liverpool to Birkenhead.
Another was Birkenhead Farm, where James Baines, woollen draper and benefactor to education in the Fylde, was born.
From 1945, the number of people employed by the shipbuilding yards in Wallasey and Birkenhead declined and a number of associated industries closed.
The 'new' Railway Inn opened along Birkenhead Road on 1 December 1938, allowing the old inn to be pulled down and the site turned into a car park.
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