I used to work in the kitchens there in the 80s but didn’t know about the cellars. That land has terrible drainage (well Meols in general does) so I’ll bet there’s water in the cellars. The sea used to flood the roads in Meols (and parts of Moreton) before the sea wall was built. One theory I read about the buried boat on the Liverpool Museum website was of the boat being thrown inland during a storm. As it was left to rot there suggests it may have already been an abandoned wreck and nature had simply moved it further inland. Being Clinker construction makes it Viking in design, but not necessarily built during Viking occupation. The style of build was used during the post-Viking medieval period, according to the Liverpool museum website. The sample taken from the recent investigation may unfortunately be too contaminated to give a definitive date on the boat’s vintage. We’d all love it to be dated to a Viking period but without definitive dating, Liverpool museum’s medieval estimate is the most likely theory.
I’m not convinced the photograph of the foundations is of the original Railway Inn. Going by the shape of the floorplan it looks like the current building.
@@colinjones2505 Wirral Archaeology used an auger in 2023 and sent samples for dating 🤔 Results awaited? The story goes that when the new Railway Inn was being built in the 1930s, a clinker built vessel was in the clay but was left as found. A puzzle still.
Wasn't, ir isn't their some sort of 'dig' going on there? Can't remeber what it was exactly now, but something to do with the remains of an old boat is ringing a bell to me, or am i just going senile? (rhetorical question Andy....don't mention THE PASSWORD!!🤣)
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Great update as always very big part of our history this one.
I used to work in the kitchens there in the 80s but didn’t know about the cellars. That land has terrible drainage (well Meols in general does) so I’ll bet there’s water in the cellars.
The sea used to flood the roads in Meols (and parts of Moreton) before the sea wall was built. One theory I read about the buried boat on the Liverpool Museum website was of the boat being thrown inland during a storm. As it was left to rot there suggests it may have already been an abandoned wreck and nature had simply moved it further inland.
Being Clinker construction makes it Viking in design, but not necessarily built during Viking occupation. The style of build was used during the post-Viking medieval period, according to the Liverpool museum website.
The sample taken from the recent investigation may unfortunately be too contaminated to give a definitive date on the boat’s vintage. We’d all love it to be dated to a Viking period but without definitive dating, Liverpool museum’s medieval estimate is the most likely theory.
Hi. Thanks for the message. There is a possibility we may cover viking boat some time with one of the archeologists.
Wasn’t there a club to the right hand side (in the 80s) called the destination 8?
I’m not convinced the photograph of the foundations is of the original Railway Inn. Going by the shape of the floorplan it looks like the current building.
Hi. On second look you maybe right.
Morris Minor on left? Boat/Canoe underneath?
I am right then? Did they find it?
@@colinjones2505 Wirral Archaeology used an auger in 2023 and sent samples for dating 🤔 Results awaited? The story goes that when the new Railway Inn was being built in the 1930s, a clinker built vessel was in the clay but was left as found. A puzzle still.
Wasn't, ir isn't their some sort of 'dig' going on there? Can't remeber what it was exactly now, but something to do with the remains of an old boat is ringing a bell to me, or am i just going senile? (rhetorical question Andy....don't mention THE PASSWORD!!🤣)
There is a rumour that King Canute’s throne is under there
Vauxhall Viva HA, so probably 1962 onwards