all i can tell you that before it was a chemist it was a taxi rank and a cafe and before that it was a seaside souvenier place for a while but as far as i can remember it has always been used for some sort of retail.victoria road its self bears no resemblence to what it looked like as child.i remember just down waterloo road from you was a hotel which has now been replaced with houses.my parent were brought up in the newbrighton area so i will glean some info from them in the week and maybe some photos and get back to you
It all makes perfect sense expressed in dollars and cents ,pound shillings and pence
where bargin booze is now,from there down to the front used to be shops or arcades ,cafes,but most of them where boarded up when i was a kid .the pub used to be known as the neptune in them days
It all makes perfect sense expressed in dollars and cents ,pound shillings and pence
railway,neptune/peggys,ship,mother redcaps are the original ones along with the empress ball room which used to be above a n arcade on the opposite side from ,infact it was nxt door to the ship
It all makes perfect sense expressed in dollars and cents ,pound shillings and pence
yeah they are all at the top mother redcaps and the ship are close to the bottom of the road past the new houses.the one at barclays is a new addition with in the last couple of years.before it was a bar it was a pottery sudio an b4 that a hair dresses/beauty palour
It all makes perfect sense expressed in dollars and cents ,pound shillings and pence
reaction records was amazing.we knew a guy who worked there and we used to get all the used advertising posters off him.it used to be where the post office
It all makes perfect sense expressed in dollars and cents ,pound shillings and pence
Well i live aboth the cemist (spelling) and i know its a very old house that we live in so some pics or info on how it use to be would be nice
Bit late I know but thought I would have a go. You have me going now. I have a feeling that the Chemists was originally the post office before it moved to the opposite corner? At the side in Waterloo road there is a cellar place which was Harry Martin's paper store. By papers I mean newspapers and my brother used to deliver papers from there and he supplied the Echo man who sat outside the Railway shouting Last City Echo whatever that meant? His name was Eddie. Think he lost a leg in one of the wars, probably the first one judging by his age.
Shops in Viccy road if memory serves. Banks on three corners of Rowson street. Chesters electrical, Proper tobacconists with barbers shop in the back, Launderette where St Johns hospice charity shop is now, Couple of sweets/stationers shops, Cosmo cafe which was a milk bar, Guests butchers. Tickles Newsagents. Co-Op, Above Co-Op was two floors of restaurants/function rooms. This later became the "disco" night club, sneak in the back job A jewellers with a big clock outside whose name escapes me, Rialto chippy, A ladies fashion shop and a mens fashion shop further down both owned by husband and wife, at least three greengrocers including Gribbins, Skillicorn but can't remember the other one. Maypole and Costigans. Sayers where my auntie worked. Manweb substation which later became the American bingo. Paddy had a place there as well where he prepared his seafood. The back entry stunk on hot summer days with all the old shells in sacks stacked at the back. Wilberforce the chemist. Clarkes chippy. Bohms the pork butcher. Pat's cobblers, Woolworths. Duffy's seafood restaurant. Buttercream shop with the strange machine in the window. Stonalls fish shop. Empress arcade and club upstairs, More chippies, Various other tobacconists/newsagents including Joe Newton's (war hero) Organs stores. Paddy's snack bar and he moved across the road at one stage. Rock shops. Pubs included Railway, Neptune (my watering hole but the tap at the back). The York. The Ship, Criterion and Ferry Hotel (later Chelsea). Public toilets with Victorian signs (Gentlemen please adjust your dress etc) Tourist office plus shelter in the same place. Various smaller cafes like Brice's and the Sheffield that I can remember. Two cinemas of course, Court and Troc.
Probably forgotten some important one's but when you look at that road now, it is hard to imagine just how much was packed into it in the fifties. Happy days!
Oh yes, had a snogging session in the doorway of your house once.
From tea shops, souvenir shops and arcades to urban housing:
This is the bottom end of Victoria Road - taken about 1979. In the top pic you can see the "Golden Goose" arcade in the distance which use to lead on to the Pier. The Pier itself was demolished in 1979.
Taken in the Summer 2008. Not quite in the same spot because of the houses / gardens behind me and the winding road.
The golden Goose was brilliant, used to go every Sunday after going for a drive with the folks, the Atari racing game just to the right of the entrance and the legendary 2 pence machines
I spent my youth in new brighton, always at the fair, i got a job in lawtons cafe, where this old dear taught me to make the best ever mince and onion pie, (which i still do today), there was a chippy on the corner, and a cafe next door, just a bit further up was paddy's cafe, had many a steak and kidney pie and gravy in there, it was always full, bit further up from paddy's was what i called the posh gift shop, things were a bit dear, but good stuff and did no harm to look. a bingo hall opened too, the old dears loved that, i did too, had a thing for the bingo caller, the picture house was on the other side of the road, when that closed it became the first supermarket cheap too. I had the top floor flat in a block which was on the corner where somerfields is now, and from my window watched the tower burn to the ground, it was a sad night. i worked in a club called the pink elephant too, that was fun, maybe someone will remember it.
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I am attempting to complete my family tree and have just returned from Omeath in Ireland where I met some very nice and helpful people, one in particular is attempting to write a history of Omeath through its people. My Grandfather, Michael Traynor (Paddy) had cafes in Victoria Street, Cockle stalls, pig farms on the dock Road and I've been told a Chinese restaurant in Birkenhead in the 50,s, 60's and very early 70's. He lived in Brougham Road, Wallasey, with his wife Bridget Traynor nee Fearon, her sister Annie (Sissy) and their 9 children. Sadly only one of those remain, Vinny and he is extremely unwell. I am after any information you may have regarding my family, particularly my grandfather, we do know he was a widower when he married my grandmother and that his first wife, who was my nan's friend, passed in childbirth, but we know very little else. I am also looking for any photos of his cafes, stalls and businesses,I was told that a photo of 'Paddy's Cafe' on Victoria Street was on this site a few years ago. There was also a photo doing the rounds of my Grandfather in his white coat, selling Cockles at Aintree racecourse. Any information or photos you have, however insignificant, would be gratefully received by myself and the people of Omeath.