Places
36 places found.
Those places high-lighted have photos. All locations may have maps, books and memories.
- Heswall, Merseyside
- Wallasey, Merseyside
- Birkenhead, Merseyside
- Bebington, Merseyside
- Hoylake, Merseyside
- Port Sunlight, Merseyside
- Meols, Merseyside
- New Brighton, Merseyside
- West Kirby, Merseyside
- Eastham, Merseyside
- Bromborough, Merseyside
- Upton, Merseyside
- Irby, Merseyside
- Egremont, Merseyside
- Thurstaston, Merseyside
- Moreton, Merseyside
- Barnston, Merseyside
- Leasowe, Merseyside
- Oxton, Merseyside
- Thornton Hough, Merseyside
- Bidston, Merseyside
- Caldy, Merseyside
- Raby, Merseyside
- Gayton, Merseyside
- Hilbre Island, Merseyside
- Greasby, Merseyside
- Grange, Merseyside
- Spital, Merseyside
- Woodhey, Merseyside
- Claughton, Merseyside
- Newton, Merseyside
- Woodchurch, Merseyside
- Lower Bebington, Merseyside
- Saughall Massie, Merseyside
- Rock Ferry, Merseyside
- Pensby, Merseyside
Photos
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Maps
278 maps found.
Books
2 books found. Showing results 1 to 2.
Memories
43 memories found. Showing results 1 to 10.
"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
1963...
Was the year my family moved from Acton to Earldom Road, Putney, where we lived at number 10 (cost £5500 in 1963!). I have so many memories that I really don't know where to begin! The rag and bone man and his ancient horse trundling up our ...Read more
A memory of Putney by
1970's, Huyton Village
I have very fond memories of Huyton - especially Huyton village, in the 1970's. We used to live in Ardennes Road and my beloved nana, Sally (Sarah) Ryan, lived just around the corner in Salerno Drive. Even though we never ...Read more
A memory of Knotty Ash by
60 Years On And I Still Love It!
My Auntie May Howard and her husband Frank, from St. Helens, had a wooden holiday bungalow she called Homestead in Dee Avenue Talacre - it was definitely 1961 onwards and possibly just before that and the community ...Read more
A memory of Talacre by
A New York Child Travels To Bebington
Imagine my surprise, when I Googled Bebington from my apartment in New York City and up came a photograph of a row of houses opposite The Wirral Grammar School on Heath Road in Bebington, and one of them was ...Read more
A memory of Bebington in 1965 by
A Happy, Friendly Place For A Boy To Grow Up ...
Born in Woking in 1945 I lived in New Haw from 1947 to 1964, firstly at Warren Road and then from 1949 in Braeside. I remember Mrs Crab at West Byfleet Primary who taught me to read; I remember Mr Bean ...Read more
A memory of New Haw in 1947 by
Borwick's Baking Powder Factory, Penge
My father used to work at this factory in Penge as a Chemist. We moved down to Selsdon when I was five (1950) and then we moved back up to the Wirral when I was 11. Does anyone remember exactly where the factory was and does anyone remember Selsdon in those days?
A memory of Penge in 1950 by
British Extracting Company
I worked at the B.E.C. in 1959 to 1965 and have been trying to find information about it online. I was back on the Wirral and saw the original building in 2004. Always remember the awful smells when we were on our ...Read more
A memory of Bromborough in 1964 by
Camp & Fish
What a wonderful place to camp and fish in the 1950's and 60's. Plenty of fish and sea birds and so very peaceful. In recent years the old railway track Hooton-West Kirby line, which ran alongside Thurstaston shore, has been ripped ...Read more
A memory of Thurstaston in 1958
Camp & Fish
Beach Path c1950 What a wonderful place to camp and fish in the 1950's and 60's. Plenty of fish and sea birds and so very peaceful. In recent years the old railway track Hooton-West Kirby line, which ran alongside Thurstaston ...Read more
A memory of Thurstaston in 1950
Captions
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Situated in Heath Road, Wirral Grammar School for Boys was officially opened on 26 September 1931, at the same time as an almost identical building, Wirral Grammar School for Girls, was opened round the
For all its evocative name, Higher Bebington Road is quite short in length; it services Bebington High Sports College, the Higher Bebington recreation ground and the local branch of Wirral
Wirral was colonised by the Norsemen long ago, and many names reflect those invaders who settled here.
The resorts of the Wirral are well known for their long association with small craft usage and sail training.
The view of the Welsh coastline across the Dee Estuary is almost an obligatory picture for any photographer working in West Wirral.
Raby Mere lies two miles east of the village of Raby, and has always been a popular Wirral destination, especially with Sunday School outings.
Thurstaston Common is one of the highest points on the Wirral Peninsula, and an ideal vantage point to view the hills of Snowdonia across Caldy golf course and the Dee Estuary.
Irby is one of the many Scandinavian names on Wirral, and means 'place of the Irishmen', referring to Vikings who had previously lived in Ireland.
19th-century telegraph station that stood on top of the Beacons, to the west of the road; but if that was the case, it was not part of the telegraph system used for shipping, as most such stations on the Wirral
Linking Lower and Higher Bebington, Heath Road also forms one boundary of the Wirral Grammar Schools site.
The building now houses the Wirral Museum.
Wirral fishermen are loading mussels into jute sacks ready for transportation to the restaurants of Cheshire and Liverpool.
In common with so many towns on The Wirral, West Kirby is not enslaved to the usual High Street brand names and retains a remarkable measure of independence.
Up until the end of the Second World War, Upton was a stand-alone village, but with urban expansion on the Wirral, it has coalesced with Woodchurch, Greasby and Moreton, so that now it is not a separate
In 1830 a retired builder from Everton, James Atherton, bought 170 acres of sandhills on the northern tip of the Wirral, with the aim of creating a new seaside resort to rival Brighton.
Egremont was planned by developer John Askew, a former slave-trader who made his money on land deals involving Liverpool Corporation's unwanted properties in the Wirral.
In 1984 the present licensee made significant changes internally, but managed to do so without destroying any of the character of what he describes as 'a vintage thirties Wirral pub'.
The parish church of St Nicholas, like many of Wirral's fine buildings, is constructed from local red sandstone.
Burton is considered by many to be one of the most picturesque villages in the Wirral, and it is enhanced by the wonderful panorama over the Dee Estuary to the hills of Wales.
For most people, the village of Heswall is centred on this road, the A540, linking Chester with all the towns along the western side of the Wirral.
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 and North Cheshire after
Situated on the junction of Telegraph Road, Brimstage Road, Barnston Road and Chester Road, one of the busiest in West Wirral, this atmospheric pub has changed little in appearance since
He was one of a number of wealthy Manchester merchants who settled in the Wirral.
Though they are now one, as Wirral, there was for 75 years a very healthy rivalry between the two.
