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Sun Street
My grandmother lived in 24 sun street Elizabeth Amos her father was called Alfred John but that was in 1911 we could be related. Hope you had a good birthday back here in Birkenhead x
A memory of Birkenhead by
Looking For Family And Friends From 'old' Birkenhead
Hi, I have just found this great site - thank you! I am trying to write some family history, especially about our life in Birkenhead, for my two daughters - who have grown up in Scotland - where ...Read more
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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 ...Read more
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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
Birkenhead
Who remembers Hursts Bakery on the corner of Parkfield Avenue and Claughton Road? It was still there when we went back around 2006. And the Sayers cake shops, the curry and chips that every chippie sold and all the good old English ...Read more
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Land Resettlement
My parents moved to Pottonin 1937 on the Land Resettlement Scheme from Sunderland. As I was only 18 months old at the time and we were not there long, my memories consist of photographs only and these are of members of my family ...Read more
A memory of Potton in 1930 by
My Local
The pub had only recently been rebuilt, the original haveing been flattened by an aerial mine in 1941, which also damaged St Saviour's, parts of which were still awiting repair. Until the rebuild it was an bomb site and used to play there. ...Read more
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My Time In Liverpool
My memory of Liverpool was living in number 12 Kensington Rd near the corner of Hall Lane where the post office was. My parents' landlady was Mrs Elizabeth Smith, I think she was Tommy Smith's mother? I remember my father ...Read more
A memory of Liverpool in 1957 by
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 ...Read more
A memory of Eastham in 1940 by
Poulton Road
I remember my happy days in Wallasey, being born in 1942 in Neston as Wallasey was struggling with bombing, then moving to Clifford Road, and having great times with friends. Stuart Youds, Brian Avery, Alexander Park and Keith ...Read more
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It stands on the junction of Forest Road and Birkenhead Road, and is most imposing, thanks to its turrets and ornate brick and tile work.
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.
The most famous stagecoach was L'Hirondelle, which covered the 122 miles from Birkenhead Ferry to Tewkesbury in 9 hours.
The buildings stand beneath the Birkenhead Road where it spans the railway line near Meols Station.
This is a view from Bidston Hill, which was declared a place to be kept free of development when Birkenhead and the surrounding towns and villages began to grow.
Wallasey was very proud of its Corporation Transport Department, and would do anything to match or better Birkenhead's efforts.
This is the Birkenhead entrance to the Queensway Tunnel. This was the first road tunnel under the River Mersey, and was opened by King George V and Queen Mary in July 1934.
This lovely thatched, half-timbered inn has stood on this site, alongside the connecting road from Birkenhead to Neston, since 1611.
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.
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.
By 1965 the docks at Birkenhead were in severe decline, as we can see from the sparse shipping in these views.
By 1965 the docks at Birkenhead were in severe decline, as we can see from the sparse shipping in these views.
It was destroyed by fire in 1857: by the time someone had raced to Birkenhead to alert the fire brigade, and they had harnessed the horses to the fire tenders and galloped back to Wallasey, little remained
Laid up at Birkenhead in 1890, she was taken to Preston for breaking up in 1899.
When naming ships, Birkenhead Corporation stuck to local names from the Wirral: 'Thurstaston', 'Hinterton', 'Claughton', and 'Bidston' were all names in the fleet at the time.
The well-laid-out Hamilton Square in the centre of Birkenhead is named after the town's founder, John Laird, in honour of his Scottish mother.
In 1889 the Great Western Railway took over the Weymouth & Channel Islands Steam Packet Co, immediately ordering three new ships, 'Lynx', 'Antelope' and 'Gazelle', from Laird Bros, Birkenhead.
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