Could you look at Heswall in the 1970s please? I would guess it has changed dramatically with all the flats now being built (and the Council's complete lack of interest). Thanks!!
Cheers for looking at the ford. Omg broadheath avenue... I forgot. That wasn't even there that estate. I imagine it was built in the early 90s. Wonder what all that bare land was? Maybe horse storage? Your vids bring loads of thoughts and nostalgia. Any chance of looking at irby. I'm sure around heathbank and Glenwood would have been bare land. Thanks again for responding mate. 😀
i used to go fishing on what is now the beachwood . ( the ford ) lol. it was all fields to what was the seven stiles . each field had a stile to the next one . they started at the old povells farm in bidston village . old mister povell had hundreds of cattle there . the nocky was the same .
Is there any chance you could do a video just on the Noctorum and can you zoom any closer? I grew up there for the first six years of my life,I now live down south. My Mum passed away recently and while on the Wirral I went to the Noctorum to explore. But even though i left there 43 years ago i remember some things and they have no gone :( Lock Up Garages,Flats and there's even more properties visible on your aerial I just don't remember. I wish i could find pics of the Flats and Garages and learn more about the area. Little bits i have found out was until 1966 at least Noctorum Avenue just stopped a dead end just after Beryl Road where there was a garden nursery and apparently there was another called Noctorum Nursery before the estate existed. There is very little information out there on the Noctorum Estate from the late 60s Early 70s perhaps this would make a great video?
The Stadium adjacent to Rock Ferry Station was called Bedford Park Grounds. It is quite clear on the 1898 Rock Ferry & New Ferry map. By 1909, there is no trace of it on the Birkenhead & Tranmere Waterfront map. So you would have only been a kid, when it was removed.
Do you have anything about the query which was 200m deep higher Bebington, I hear stone from there used to build Hamilton Square and Liverpool building including empire estate in usa. There was a train ticket went from levers up passed wirral grammar over m53 area where is was
Wondering ... was hunting google for a 1970s map of Meols before Flowermead Close CH47/L47 was built. Came accross this channel. Was Flowermead Clise built on land which was part of FLOWERMEAD old house on Park Road I wonder..
Could you look at Upton where Sainsbury’s is now used to play in some military bunkers there as a youth in the 70s used to cross a field from the garage on arrowe park road
Wow, thank you mate. So it was true at one stage? I was wondering for years. Thank you once again. Put my mind at rest. I never seen that map before. When I attended the primary school I remember one lad who mentioned it. His dad told him the school was a war hospital but before that it was a stadium. Brilliant.
On an old map from 1889 it shows it as 'Bedford Park Athletic Grounds' I think Birkenhead FC played there but may be wrong. Most of the Tranmere players left and went to play for Birkenhead FC. It's a shame I can't post any links on here.
Love these vids, thanks mate! Would you have a look at the old Wirral Met College Withens Lane Art School in Liscard & have a look at Liscard Hall the old Georgian Manor in the middle of Central Park Liscard please? I studied at both of them & it is an absolute scandal that Wirral Council "got rid" of them, bizarrely both gone in "random fires"... hmmm, makes you wonder don't it! Liscard Hall was beautiful inside, even if I did spend most of my days in the basement darkrooms, had a ballroom up stairs... & seriously was haunted in the basement... I heard the story told of what happened in the darkroom when I was in spoons with a mate of mine & a friend of his was telling it. I listened patiently & then corrected him on a few details he'd missed... "how'd you know that?" he said... "easy mate, the bloke in the darkroom working away, who was locked down there (so no one could waltz in & 'ave off any of the printing equipment) was me, & I would never, ever frighten myself like that!". However, I did, finally, get to "leg it" upstairs, carefully unlocking & re-locking the basement door, & nervously waltz into the ballroom & join the rest of the lads at morning break... they did notice that I was white as a sheet & silent for once.
Apparently the stadium in Rock Ferry was called Bedford Park Athletic Grounds. Its shown on the OS map from 1892-1914
Great video, thanks. I’d like to see the woodchurch estate. I grew up in the last house at the bottom of Houghton road.
The Upton end or up near the Arrowe Park Hotel?
The stadium in the video is of tranmere rovers football ground that used to have a greyhound track around it
Tranmere have had 3 grounds. All where on borough road
Could you look at Heswall in the 1970s please? I would guess it has changed dramatically with all the flats now being built (and the Council's complete lack of interest). Thanks!!
Yes will look round there next time
I remember standing on tops Westbourne Road watching the flats be demolished when explosives
As a very young lad I remember never being able to cross 4 bridges without being stopped bridge up etc, and traines on roads going over bridges
Birkenhead Docks are a part of the Port of Liverpool.
Cheers for looking at the ford. Omg broadheath avenue... I forgot. That wasn't even there that estate. I imagine it was built in the early 90s. Wonder what all that bare land was? Maybe horse storage? Your vids bring loads of thoughts and nostalgia. Any chance of looking at irby. I'm sure around heathbank and Glenwood would have been bare land. Thanks again for responding mate. 😀
i used to go fishing on what is now the beachwood . ( the ford ) lol. it was all fields to what was the seven stiles . each field had a stile to the next one . they started at the old povells farm in bidston village . old mister povell had hundreds of cattle there . the nocky was the same .
Is there any chance you could do a video just on the Noctorum and can you zoom any closer?
I grew up there for the first six years of my life,I now live down south. My Mum passed away recently and while on the Wirral I went to the Noctorum to explore. But even though i left there 43 years ago i remember some things and they have no gone :(
Lock Up Garages,Flats and there's even more properties visible on your aerial I just don't remember.
I wish i could find pics of the Flats and Garages and learn more about the area.
Little bits i have found out was until 1966 at least Noctorum Avenue just stopped a dead end just after Beryl Road where there was a garden nursery and apparently there was another called Noctorum Nursery before the estate existed.
There is very little information out there on the Noctorum Estate from the late 60s Early 70s perhaps this would make a great video?
The Stadium adjacent to Rock Ferry Station was called Bedford Park Grounds. It is quite clear on the 1898 Rock Ferry & New Ferry map. By 1909, there is no trace of it on the Birkenhead & Tranmere Waterfront map. So you would have only been a kid, when it was removed.
Do you have anything about the query which was 200m deep higher Bebington, I hear stone from there used to build Hamilton Square and Liverpool building including empire estate in usa. There was a train ticket went from levers up passed wirral grammar over m53 area where is was
Closest video we have is about the Storeton light railway
Wondering ... was hunting google for a 1970s map of Meols before Flowermead Close CH47/L47 was built. Came accross this channel. Was Flowermead Clise built on land which was part of FLOWERMEAD old house on Park Road I wonder..
Could you look at Upton where Sainsbury’s is now used to play in some military bunkers there as a youth in the 70s used to cross a field from the garage on arrowe park road
I used to go up to the military camp too. They used to store motorbikes there.
15:30 a church. Wow
Wow, thank you mate. So it was true at one stage? I was wondering for years. Thank you once again. Put my mind at rest. I never seen that map before.
When I attended the primary school I remember one lad who mentioned it. His dad told him the school was a war hospital but before that it was a stadium.
Brilliant.
On an old map from 1889 it shows it as 'Bedford Park Athletic Grounds' I think Birkenhead FC played there but may be wrong. Most of the Tranmere players left and went to play for Birkenhead FC.
It's a shame I can't post any links on here.
Have you done 'Liscard' yet? vids are great btw ty
Love these vids, thanks mate! Would you have a look at the old Wirral Met College Withens Lane Art School in Liscard & have a look at Liscard Hall the old Georgian Manor in the middle of Central Park Liscard please? I studied at both of them & it is an absolute scandal that Wirral Council "got rid" of them, bizarrely both gone in "random fires"... hmmm, makes you wonder don't it!
Liscard Hall was beautiful inside, even if I did spend most of my days in the basement darkrooms, had a ballroom up stairs... & seriously was haunted in the basement... I heard the story told of what happened in the darkroom when I was in spoons with a mate of mine & a friend of his was telling it. I listened patiently & then corrected him on a few details he'd missed... "how'd you know that?" he said... "easy mate, the bloke in the darkroom working away, who was locked down there (so no one could waltz in & 'ave off any of the printing equipment) was me, & I would never, ever frighten myself like that!". However, I did, finally, get to "leg it" upstairs, carefully unlocking & re-locking the basement door, & nervously waltz into the ballroom & join the rest of the lads at morning break... they did notice that I was white as a sheet & silent for once.
Look into it Next time
I never understood that.