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Re: Silver bars diggingdeeper 29th Nov 2024 9:42pm
Buy metal from bullion dealers not retail, you won't find proper bullion dealers in the Wirral, or better still buy commodities rather than actual metal. Look at the huge gap between buy and sell price (40%+), you have to make that gap up before you break even.

I've never come across anyone apart from dealers that make a significant profit out of silver. I've had some lucky finds with silver cutlery but overall it probably didn't pay for my time and fuel, something like £200 up over ten years, I'd have made much more with copper.

With actual items-in-my hand I've made most money out of US dollars and BNIB classic car parts. I have some car parts that I bought in an Amazon sale for £30 twelve years ago and they fetch around £200 now (£250 retail), when the retail stocks run out the price could go above £500 easily, I didn't buy them as an investment.
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Silver bars Peter0787 28th Nov 2024 8:56pm
Looking to buy some silver bars. Not looking for anything fancy just pure silver bars to hold for investment.

Where would you guys recommend to go and buy in the Wirral?

Thanks
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Re: The Zieglers in Oxton JemimaOxton 24th Nov 2024 7:34pm
Got it, thank you Bert.
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Re: The Zieglers in Oxton JemimaOxton 24th Nov 2024 7:32pm
Wonderful, thanks Bert!
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Re: The Zieglers in Oxton JemimaOxton 24th Nov 2024 5:05pm
Thank you, Derek - that's really interesting - I remember Atmosphere nightclub! I'll give them a ring and maybe head down there in the week. :-)
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Re: The Zieglers in Oxton JemimaOxton 24th Nov 2024 5:04pm
Thank you so much for sending this. :-)
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Re: Barnston Dale Excoriator 22nd Nov 2024 6:25pm
Brooks tend to flow along the lowest points in the landscape, so it makes sense to bury a sewer adjacent to it. It probably takes sewage from the houses both sides of the valley in the area.

Near Murrayfield Hospital one can see a concrete structure half hidden by the trees on google earth which may be a treatment works or a pumping station It looks more like a pumping station or maybe a cistern to regulate the flow during peak rain. Presumably the sewer follows the brook and goes into the Great Sewer in Birkenhead along the docks to the Shore road station.
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Re: Barnston Dale diggingdeeper 21st Nov 2024 9:04pm
There is (or was) a small treatment works beside Murrayfield hospital.
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Re: The Zieglers in Oxton derekdwc 21st Nov 2024 3:14pm
The Shaftesbury Boys Club when it was the juniors entrance in Jackson st and the seniors entrance in Thomas st.
It is now split up, one part being the House of Pain and another part used to be the Atmosphere club.Building is still standing

new club built
Shaftesbury Youth Club
60 Mendip Road, Birkenhead
Possibly they may have pics of past presidents.
I do know they have a brass plaque with the names of past presidents
on it 0151 608 7165?
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Re: The Zieglers in Oxton bert1 21st Nov 2024 11:36am
Here is a short tree,

John Ziegler married Jane Smollet, 1795
William henry Ziegler their son married Mary Hastings, 1846
All their children are above, post, 1085484
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Re: The Zieglers in Oxton bert1 21st Nov 2024 11:26am
Originally Posted by JemimaOxton
That's brilliant, thank you! So Jane and William had William Junior and John Hastings in 1856 and 1851.

No, William Henry, 1856 and John Hastings, 1851, had these parents,

Marriage,
ZIEGLER William H, HASTINGS Mary 1846 Liverpool, Register Office or Registrar Attended Liverpool
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Re: The Zieglers in Oxton JemimaOxton 21st Nov 2024 10:38am
That's brilliant, thank you! So Jane and William had William Junior and John Hastings in 1856 and 1851.
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Re: Eleanor Road Bidston (Bishops House) bert1 20th Nov 2024 6:32pm
Originally Posted by RobThomas
when you look at the old map of Eleanor Road they must have been huge houses and well to do people of the time.

Various census have, merchants, shipowners, etc. top earners.
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Re: Barnston Dale bert1 20th Nov 2024 6:28pm
To vent a drain waste or sewer. I wonder if something drained into the Brook?
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Re: Barnston Dale CupcakeKaren 20th Nov 2024 5:28pm
Thanks, it did sound hollow when I tapped it but obviously I couldn't get high enough to see if the top was open or had holes in it. What would it be a vent for in the middle of the woods by a brook?
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Re: Eleanor Road Bidston (Bishops House) RobThomas 20th Nov 2024 4:42pm
I know where you mean now opposite Bidston Court, when you look at the old map of Eleanor Road they must have been huge houses and well to do people of the time.
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Re: Eleanor Road Bidston (Bishops House) bert1 20th Nov 2024 3:33pm
The Priory was towards Vyner Rd,

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zo...3.07545&layers=168&b=1&o=100

The first census Weldon appears on is the 1901. I'm leaning towards the Bishops House Reverend John Carroll lived and died at was not Weldon. Still trying to find out when it became known as Bishops House.
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Re: Eleanor Road Bidston (Bishops House) RobThomas 20th Nov 2024 2:58pm
A Conveyance dated 25 March 1895 made between (1) Robert Charles De
Grey Vyner (Vendor) and (2) Thomas Nimmo Philip (Purchaser) contains
covenants details of which are set out in the schedule of restrictive
covenants hereto.

A Conveyance of the land in this title and other land dated 1 July 1897
made between (1) Robert Charles De Grey Vyner and (2) Thomas Dash
Philip contains contains covenants.

So looks like it was built after 1897 at least.
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Re: Eleanor Road Bidston (Bishops House) RobThomas 20th Nov 2024 2:47pm
Wow! £20,000

Tried to get on the British Newspapers online let me view 3 documents then no more.

Spoke to the Surveyor who has no photos but will try and get hold of developers daughter who lived in the house previously.

The was also a house called the priory in Bidston, once owned by Bibby's dont think its the same one though.
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Re: Barnston Dale bert1 20th Nov 2024 2:46pm
The pillar looks like a stench pipe (Vent)
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Re: Eleanor Road Bidston (Bishops House) bert1 20th Nov 2024 1:14pm
A house through time.

Liverpool Daily Post, November, 1971,

.. executive A FINE family house the wooded slopes Bidston Hill well suited to a city executive or professional man is on offer at £19750 through Ramos M c h and Company Heswall Weldon Eleanor Road Bidston sited in about one acre land is screened trees and ...
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