Birkenhead, Arrowe Park c.1960

Photo ref: B399020

Photo ref: B399020

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To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the founding of the Scout Movement, 56,000 scouts from around the world held their 3rd International Jamboree in Arrowe Park. A campsite of 450 acres was provided free of charge by the then Birkenhead Corporation. The site was a mile long by half a mile broad, and the scouts of all nationalities camped together. Today the park is better known for its involvement with the NHS on the Wirral. The purpose-built Arrowe Park Hospital today has some 920 beds; it offers A & E services to the whole of the Peninsula, and admits as many as 140 emergency patients on a busy day.

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A Selection of Memories from Birkenhead

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Birkenhead

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Oxton Memories

I lived in Oxton from the late 50s to the early 80s, and have many fond memories. Does any body remember Fred the barber in Rose Mount. He was quite a character, and nobody went there unless they wanted a short back and sides, followed with a sizeable dollop of Brylcreme……therefore I can only remember going there once! I seem to remember he charged a shilling. I also remember Fred the milkman who seemed to ...see more

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Added 13 July 2023

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 got to know we're Wade Taylor. mark white. Alan Wright. Karen ledgem. Kim Smith ....my names mark n for some reason was given the nickname faggsy 🫣...so these kids are now around 61/62yrs of age ... Does anyone remember any of these or the school

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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 (killed in action) and i would love to find a picture of Charles, I know they lived in Peel Street Birkenhead, later Ellesmere port? and i was told Charles Hunt was also in the Salvation ...see more