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Does anyone remember the archway to Holborn Square on the Queen Street and Old Chester Road Junction in Tranmere? It used to lead through into some old cottages that nestled in the shadow of the sandstone walls of the quarry. What a dreary dingy, dark, dismal place that was.
They knocked the lot down and for a while it became Charlie Lane's scrap yard.


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I don't remember Charlie Lane but I remember his son. I think he went Bebo High. Hime and his mates used to come around Temple Rd and causing trouble. Then later I went to a dance at a hall on Woodchurch Rd with Charles (as we called him). We thought there was going to be a fight so we reached down for the chair legs but they were all screwed to the floor. Those where the days early 60's wasn't just about the Beatles, it was about growing up and finding your way.

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I remember the father Charlie Lane, had a few engines off him over the years, I also remember the Dances in the Scout Hut off Home Farm Rd on the Woodchurch,in the late 50s early 60s, better hadn't say too much about them, it wasn't really dancing it was more like a free for all, Oh Happy Days.

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before tescos was the steel mill before that was the fibre glass factory

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My dad worked in fibre glass. By the boating lake I think??

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Anyone enjoy the open log/coal fires on a cold day at Bidston or Upton Stations..

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Originally Posted by fish5133
Anyone enjoy the open log/coal fires on a cold day at Bidston or Upton Stations..


I remember it at Bidston and also occasionally at Tranmere Rovers.


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Yes Bidston,I use to change train there for Deeside to go ice skating.

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Originally Posted by lollipop
Yes Bidston,I use to change train there for Deeside to go ice skating.


Did you ever go to Silver Blades in Kensington, Liverpool? Incredibly it was safer there than Deeside.


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Originally Posted by lollipop
Yes Bidston,I use to change train there for Deeside to go ice skating.


Yep and on the way back you could dry out your wet pants and knickers !! Preferably still wearing them. Steaming away.

Tranmere Rovers DD ?

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Originally Posted by fish5133
Tranmere Rovers DD ?


Used to live close by, they used to have the metal bin fires there on cold days, similar to the ones the roadworks people used to have outside their metal huts.


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Mentioning the council workmen's huts, these disappeared and were replaced with plastic tents.


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Fish!!! Yes I still had them intact thankyou!!! I would have only been about 12/13.

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