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Heswall, The Slipway c.1955
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A mixture of near-derelict and beached craft gives this working slipway an untidy appearance that will certainly have been at odds with the fact that the majority of the boats represented someone's livelihood. The growth in leisure sailing, the decline in fishing as an industry, and improved access have all contributed to radical physical changes on the present use of the slipway.

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Memories of Heswall, the Slipway c1955

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I always remember we used to walk to the village and stop and look at the horses als when we had are danc nights and the Dave Clarke five singing bits and pieces I made friends with a girl called pat who lived in Norris green would love to see a picture of the home .
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Added 17 January 2015

Shrimps
I remember my mother asking me to go Manner's Lane to the big house by the shore to buy a pint of shrimps - not many left by the time I got back! The smell of the mound of shrimp shells on the beach waiting for the tide to take them away.
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Shrimp Boats
I remember when a very young kid, walking down Banks Road with my mother to the slipway and buying fresh shrimps from the Evans boys. The shrimps were caught in the Dee and cooked on board the boats on the way back to the slip. The fishing was a thriving industry in those days.
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Memories Of Margaret Beavan Home
I was a poorly child and on two occasions spent time at the Margaret Beavan Home in Lower Heswall around 1956 and 1958. I remember the house being very large and grand, as it would would be to a small child of around six and eight, the uniforms and not wanting to give them my own clothes. I was taken to my dormitory, they were all called after flowers, Bluebell, Poppy, I think Buttercup and ...see more
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