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Jets flying overhead
granny
27th Mar 2025 10:44am
Just witnessed a mass of jets flying overhead. Coming from the direction of the Irish Sea... maybe SHannon Airport where US use it for military purposes.
There were about 15-20 tracer trails overhead, and when I moved to the front of the house, there were at least another 10. All coming across from the same point and then fanning out towards Europe and Northern Europe.
Did anyone else witness this. About 30-45 minutes ago. So high up I couldn;t even hear them.
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Tam O'Shanter. 1841 census
granny
25th Mar 2025 5:16pm
According to Wirral.Gov.. Tam O'Shanter's
https://democracy.wirral.gov.uk/Data/Virtual%20Committee%20(Wirral%20Intranet%20Information%20Items)/20071101/Agenda/Tam%20O%27Shanter%20Farm%20Management%20Plan%2022%2011%2006_25471.pdf
In ‘Auld Lang Syne’, by Harry B Neilson, printed in 1935, mention is made that the date 1837 can be seen on a stone garden wall of the cottage. It is stated that Richard Lea cut the date on the wall and carved the Tam O’Shanter stone and also the weather vane with its animal heads, lion, dog etc. It is said he made them in his spare time to decorate his cottage. Part of the cottage, seen in the foreground of the photo below, is roofed with thick, stone flags, which in past times was a common method of covering buildings in Bidston, where stone was plentiful. The list of farms which were on the Bidston Hill heath land in the year 1840 includes the Tam O’Shanter farm, and tells us that the size of the farm was 6 acres.
So, out of interest I looked for Richard Lea on Family Search..
Looked for 1841 census.
Richard Lea,(aged 10yrs) Residence Old Chester Road, Event place Bidston , Cheshire.
Continuing down the list, there are 16 more names at Residence Old Chester Road, Event place Bidston.
Could I be right in thinking that they were all farm workers who came from the 'workhouse' ? BUT, I can't find him in the 1851 census.
I really don;t nw what I;m trying to say, but looks as if there is little proof that he actually lived there.
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Italian bedroom
cashandcarry
24th Mar 2025 7:53pm
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New Brighton Stock Car Racing 1971
KevinFinity
22nd Mar 2025 3:33pm
Images from my late uncle's slide collection. These colour photos are some of the best ive seen of the racing here and too good not to post up. Took in 1971 by my uncle from the stands.
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Wirral Festival of sport racing 1971
KevinFinity
22nd Mar 2025 3:27pm
I inherited some photos from my late uncle recently and will share some here. These were titled 'Wirral Festival of sport 1971' and show some motorcycle racing round the dips in New brighton. Scanned from slides.
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Are our local councillors all insane?
Excoriator
20th Mar 2025 9:32am
It seems that the 'regeneration' of New Ferry involves it's one asset as a local shopping centre - adequate free parking - being sacrificed for more housing.
The Woodhead street car park, which is well used, is to be surrounded with cramped houses leaving a patch of grass the size of a postage stamp in the centre. This is labelled 'Community Meadow' in the plans. Evidently there is a wit amongst them. There is no parking there whatsoever. Anyone wanting to visit any of the shops there will be forced to use the local streets, those near the centre seem to be primarily used by local garages as their private car park.
Far from regenerating New Ferry, it will spell its death knell - at least as a shopping centre.
Their one aim seems to be to increase the housing density of the eastern side of the peninsula to unbearable levels, rather than to upset the residents of the western side with any new housing where there is far more room for it.
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Old Littlewoods Building
Excoriator
11th Mar 2025 11:39am
The old Littlewoods building overlooking Wavertree park by Edge lane has recently had the clock tower demolished. Although it is a listed building, that doesn't stop it being one of the ugliest buildings in the city and I would be delighted if the whole place was razed to the ground, but it appears the clock tower will be rebuilt and the whole mausoleum will once again dominate the Park and the Botanic gardens it overlooks.
It seems the whole place will be turned into a massive Film Studio. To this I have no objection, but why does it have to be restored to its former ill-proportioned ugly form?
I suspect the only reason the place got listed was because of Littlewoods having been a major employer in Liverpool and the family remained powerful, but it has no merit as far as I can see. Moreover building a replica, which is what's planned, is hardly preservation. It is utterly pointless, and the city has been denied the possibility of a new building that fits the Landscape better doesn't look like a memorial building for a deposed and hated Dictator
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Heswall and "Yowlers"
neil1024
22nd Jan 2025 11:36am
It is now part of a very old dialect that my grandparents may have known, but Heswall residents were known as "Yowlers".
I had never heard the term in my lifetime (b. 1949) until I got to know one of the last full-time Hoylake fishermen in the 1970s and he always talked about "Yowler City" meaning Heswall. But I never heard that again until some recent searching.
As confirmed by Wirral historian and writer Greg Dawson, Neston people called those in Heswall "Yowlers" and they called Neston people "Yusers" as in the greeting "A'reet Yuse?" And two articles in Neston Past "Reminiscences of a Train Boy" describing the Hooton line journey to school at Calday Grange GS also said that Heswall was called "Yowler".
But no-one has so far explained why that epithet? My guess is like the Black Country people are called "Yam-Yams" and the Brummies "Yow-Yows" (both for "you are") maybe it was an old dialect for "you will".
Any ideas or recollections welcomed!
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