Nostalgic memories of Wallasey's local history
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For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs.
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I lived in Seacombe all my life, drank in five bars, Stanley Arms, Mona Castle, hung around with Jackie Beaty, Tommy Jones, Geoff Kilby, Bobby Benett, Johnny Rutter Sango, we had great times, went to the boys club. My friends were Tina Else Cathy Margie Graham we used to go the Joes club and the light house davey jones locker and the penny the good old days miss them so much .
I grew up in Seacombe in Wallasey, when your neighbours were like your family, you played out in the street till your legs fell off, top and whip, hoolahoop, kick the can, shammy knockanose, twist. We would save bonfire wood and hide it for Guy Fawkes Night. What memories, you got a swipe if you were naughty ha ha. We would go to the swings, or the local cinema, the Embassy in Borough Road, MARINA, ...see more
I too lived in Lycett Road - from 1943 to 1959, when I got married and left for New Zealand. Grower Jones was Bob Jones, who lived at either No.1 or No.3 Lycett. He had a couple of daughters, one, Jacqueline was about my age, the other one somewhat older. Billy Hannah didn't mention Hockings, the newsagent on the corner of Beechwood Road. Mr Hocking and his brother ran it, and I did a paper run for them for ...see more
I would come here on a Saturday morning for the matinee shows in the 1950s. I remember singing 'We are the Ovaltiners happy girls and boys'. Some time in the 1960s it became the ABC cinema and in the late 1960s it held dances every weekend. On a Friday it was heavy rock night and we would go and watch local bands such as Black Widow and Blister. I met my wife Susan here for the first time and we are ...see more
Does anyone remember the gun facilities which stood where the dips are today. I remember playing "catch a girl, kiss a girl" there in the summer of 1953. They seemed enormous, half below ground level and very smelly (the gun emplacements I mean!). They must have been removed in the '60's. Anyway the dips are now going to be filled in using dredgings from the Marine Lake and a Morrisons is to be built on them. Has anyone any more information?
Where St Marys is now used to be a narrow lane with sandstone cottages. I remember one day in the early '50s seeing them demolish these cottages. They wrapped a steel cable round the bases, attached it to a tracked bulldozer and pulled. The cottages simply folded in on themselves. I was quite sad.
The Royal order of Buffalos.....
Next door but one to the nurses home (as was), now a nursing home. I was born in Highfield hospital, Mill Lane, lived in Wallasey until I was 62 and now live in the north of Scotland.
When I was a child we would go to Central Park, opposite The Buffs, and when I had my first child I lived in a flat next door to The Buffs so I remember it well.
I lived along Poulton Road, and can ...see more
I remember Wallasey Village before the arrival of St Mary's College. Strong's Dairy, where my mother used to buy me a carton of fresh cream. Hoylands Butchers. Peggy Rogers and all her chickens. My grandads grocers shop - YORKS STORES. And all those glace cherries I used to eat. I remember Big Yard before it mysteriously dissapeared because of St Mary's College. Quayles Chemist and Hamiltons bakery - I went to ...see more
My Dad often talks about Creekside off the Dock Road in Seacome. His Grandmother, Sarah Eliza Jones, married to George Jones, lived in the large house there, and he says the basement would fill up with water. He would also go to the blazing stump the get beer! He would have been no older than 12. I have done a lot of family history into the Jones, Williams and Hazlehursts so these stories are fascinating to me. Would love a photo but cant seem to find one. Alison Appleton
Hello Billy
And Heggies, Boormans and Ellis's, Melia's, Grants the Chandlers, the Coop...(later across the road), Midland Bank, Linda Gail, The Dairy... The Parish Hall
Down Leasowe Road, Paulie's Field, Whites sweetshop, Cross Lane, The Market Gardens... Joynsons, Crosses, Jackson and Swift, The Websters, Malloys.
Yorks, The Phoenix, Irwins...the Bus Shelter, The Cop Shop on the side, Manleys the Chemist
Wow, memories eh??
Santos