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
- Pensby, Merseyside
- Lower Bebington, Merseyside
- Saughall Massie, Merseyside
- Rock Ferry, Merseyside
Photos
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Maps
278 maps found.
Books
2 books found. Showing results 25 to 2.
Memories
42 memories found. Showing results 11 to 20.
Waterloo Chapel Bath Street Liverpool
Hi I was born in Westkirby the Wirral but have been living in Denmark since Iwas 18. The other day I came across an old box at a car boot sale in Denmark with the letters Waterloo Chapel Liverpool ...Read more
A memory of Waterloo
Looking For My Great Grandmother
I doubt very much if I will get a reply or if anyone can help. I am researching my family tree, I am looking to what happened to my great grand mother Alice Waring (nee Reed). Alice married Walter ...Read more
A memory of Southwood in 1880 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
Thornton Heath Mid 60s 1972
My family lived in Osborne Road so my brothers and I went to Beulah Infant and Junior Schools. I think Mrs Colby was head of Infznts and Mrs Grumberg head of Juniors. Mrs Bird was my favourite teacher. I loved having ...Read more
A memory of Thornton Heath by
Paradise
1969 wasn't my first visit to Blackwaterfoot, that was two years earlier, but it was probably the year I fell in love with the place. We stayed at The Rock Hotel, and I was 12 at the time. It was a small establishment, probably ...Read more
A memory of Blackwaterfoot in 1969 by
Dacre Hill
All the days playing footie on the halfie at the bottom of Richardson Road. Spending endless summer evenings on the grass at fairs, cameras with my mates Gary M, Degsy, Paul Foster, Bogga etc. I recently bought a book called ...Read more
A memory of Birkenhead
Irby Hall Farm
Irby Manor is a very old building listed in the Hundred of Wirral and was once surrounded on three sides by a moat. There are stories of an underground tunnel leading to Thurstaston so as the early occupants could escape via the River ...Read more
A memory of Irby in 1964
Wartime And Later
My mum and I were evacuated to Ingleton during WWII from Wallasey in the Wirral, after we had been bombed out. We lived at 129 New Village and when we went back to Wallasey after the end of the war, my Grandparents, Mr and Mrs ...Read more
A memory of Ingleton by
Growing Up In World War Ii
I was born to Jewish parents whom had a ladies clothes shop in Kensington Gardens (The Lanes) my Father died in 1941, My Mother now a very young widow decided she wanted us all to live above the shop because of bombs ...Read more
A memory of Brighton in 1930 by
Fond Memories Of New Malden
My parents were also married here in 1939. I was the their only child. I loved the 'village' as we called it. It was great cycling down the High Street on the very wide pavements and everyone acknowledging you with a ...Read more
A memory of New Malden in 1930 by
Captions
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With the building of the railway in 1866, prosperous businessmen from Birkenhead and Liverpool moved to this part of the north Wirral coast.
Though they are now one, as Wirral, there was for 75 years a very healthy rivalry between the two.
It must have been a welcome hostelry for many a weary traveller crossing the Wirral over the centuries, and it still provides a warm and friendly welcome to visitors today.
The corporation thought that this area was so important that they paid towards the cost of the Storeton stone from the Wirral for this French Renaissance-style building.
In contrast with the western side of the Wirral Peninsula, the towns and villages of the east have become one continuous conurbation because of their proximity to the River Mersey and Liverpool.
This is Wirral's tallest mill at 80 feet; it is constructed from materials salvaged from mills that had previously stood on the site.
The Mersey ferries are world-famous, even without a boost from pop music, and no printed coverage of the city would be complete unless homage was paid to these links with the Wirral Peninsula.
There were eight piers and ferry points on the Wirral side of the river at the time of our photograph, including the one at Egremont.
The name is a corruption of 'Wirral Hill', a deer-park established by the Abbots.
Today the park is better known for its involvement with the NHS on the Wirral.
Today the park is better known for its involvement with the NHS on the Wirral.
When this much-needed new Post Office was built, to make it look more impressive it was faced with stone from Storeton Quarry in the Wirral.
Birkenhead, the largest town on the Wirral, was the dream of one man, John Laird.
It also accesses the equally important Central Station junction (right), where the Wirral and Northern local rail lines interconnect.
James Atherton, who bought the 170 acres of land on this north-east corner of Wirral, had to modify his original grand plans.
When this much-needed new Post Office was built, to make it look more impressive it was faced with stone from Storeton Quarry in the Wirral.
In fact, the town is one of the few in West Wirral where national brand names have made significant inroads.
A ship carrying cotton bales was shipwrecked off Wirral, and the bales washed ashore. Wood and parts of the ship soon sank into the sand, but the bales of cotton did not.
In fact, the town is one of the few in West Wirral where national brand names have made significant inroads.
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.
New Brighton is situated on the extreme tip of the Wirral Peninsula, and is separated from the busy city and port of Liverpool by the River Mersey.
The Co-op still had scattered shops along the street, alongside Lillian Worrall (dresses for smart ladies) and H Winstone (tobaccos) with their elaborate Abdullah sign for Turkish cigarettes.
The Co-op still had scattered shops along the street, alongside Lillian Worrall (dresses for smart ladies) and H Winstone (tobaccos) with their elaborate Abdullah sign for Turkish cigarettes.
