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Heres the new building, which was built less than a year ago.

WOW i didn't even know lol

Nice one

the first pic is actually how it looked when i was living down there, have never seen it lookin all modern like it does now

Yeah it hasnt been gone long, less than a year...it was getting a bit of an eyesaw, but just wish I got a picture of it before it went

To be fair Joe,
it looked like the B/W picture the last time a seen it.

Only the cars were clamped lol

I used to love the Y.M.C.A went rollerskating there many times and gymnastics!!.
Happy Days.

god yer i remember goin roller skatin there too wooow...

isnt that place full of bagheads and homeless people?

so do i remeber that place i know its sad to admit this but i had one of my birthday parties there the roller skatin was interestin i must say it ended up in tears lol i broke my ankle then spent the rest of my birthday in Arrowe Park A&E

i, shamefully admit, went roller skating there once when i was about 8 or 9 lol... oh dear

anyone ever goto roller world up by birkenhead park? lol

awww thats not shamefull ... now if ud av fallen ova that would have been shameful haha !!!! ... or you just not telling us that part and y is the YMCA in birkenhead look dead pretty an the one over in new brighton/ liscard what ever its classed as is awful !

I can one-up going to Roller World, I used to work there lol, there was still loads of fittings there from when it was a cinema and the basement was one of the creepiest things I've ever seen or been in.

Yes, that was the Gaumont cinema.

wasnt the gaumont cinema on king street in wallasey? Later known as the unit four then the unit six and finally the apollo

lol roller skating was so easy, just look daft doin it...

May have been a Gaumont there too, but definitely one on Park Rd. East.

ice skating is the killer, only done it once, pissed, lost count of the number of times i made a tit of myself! we also tried setting corsa dave up with some north end bird that made geoff atlas look feminine!

loving the badgers!

was not fun!luckily i can ice skate thanks to the practice i got down the Y.M.C.A!!!lol

i live 2mins walk away.

i like the old pic of this place, dont know why they knocked it down, surely cheaper to re-fit?

Just a bit of extra info ..

When they were knocking it down or preparing to, they found several shrunken heads in the loft voids. They belonged to the old caretaker who had travelled africa and took souvineers.
Weird !

wot a freak

interesting DoctorFrick

how many heads did he have?

No idea on the quantity, but i would presume not many

Why are developers obsessed with painting the outsides of building that horrible mustardy yellow? Its on the YMCA, and also St James Centre (pathetic excuse for a library - where are all the bleedin' books?), and of course the Learning Curve part of Birkenhead 6th Form College. Do you think there was a surplus of that colour someone had mixed at B&Q and decided they didn't like it, so the council bought it cheap?

They have to make out they spend on something, lol .

interesting

suppose they can say they are trying

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Bit of useless trivia regarding the YMCA. One of the only Beatles concerts was held their back in '60/61/62(not sure which) anyway it was something like 10 bob to get in; about 9 people turned up. Which is not surprising when you could go and Rory Storm and the Hurricanes for 2bob and they were a much better band. Now that is old.

Dave Miller

TBH, they have no idea. All the new buildings look totally different to each other. Every building down there is an eyesore. You'd think they'd get together and decide on one colour and one design. Liverpool it the same, you'd think what with all the building going on AT THE SAME TIME, they'd look at each other and maybe come up with similar designs. Horrible.