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I remember the British Steel buildings, used to play footy when in junior school down valley road before tescos was built. There used to be a park with climbing frames e.t.c near British Steel behind the avenues. I also heard there was a social club situated in that area somewhere behind the avenues and the British Steel building probably for residents of the avenues and/or workers of Britsh Steel...any more info would be interesting.

British Steel buildings - Bidston Steel Mill?

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Aye that's the British Steel building I remember. Seemed like really big building to me as a kid.

i was very young visiting family but yes i vaugly remember them it was just over the tracks i would have been about 6 i think, and merseyrail trains were still british rail blue lol, as for the mill tho i just remember big buildings, no details as such, mind u when i was in that area last there was new tescos and park hampers, my family tell me there is all sports stuff and more factories there now. oh there was a dump and incinerato, is that still there???

i remember there was an overhead road from down town, i think it went to the tunnel, similar to the one by central station or has that gone too??, the bus stops where next to this dwn ramp thing but its all a fairly new bus station now, and on about buses they were green and cream and near the front the symbol was a square with a circle in the middle and tracks spiraling out from the circle, please can someone varify this or I am locking myself away in a room far far away!!

the point on st james roundabout made me loo it up on good old google earth, what went wrong there, i see less powersliding potential indeed, no impressed and has the dock next to the penny bridge een filled in or is it my eyes

placidmaster. Don't lock yourself away mate! You are quite right. The buses then were bile green and vomit cream. The symbol (Merseytravel ?) you described was spot on.

The same symbol was used on the Merseyrail trains, stations etc. when the trains were all BR blue. I think it was dropped when they went blue/grey.

Things went downhill fast after they stopped painting the "Corpy" buses blue. They had one of the best maintained fleets in the UK - unlike the smoking mobile heaps of pop-rivets and formica that pollute the roads now!

Mike; stop showing your age, you old curmudgeon

yeah, its been filled in now.

As for st james roundabout, its a bit better to navigate around it now

You can still see those old logo's (the circle with the four points) on various vents in the brick work at certain stations....usless fact I know..

That logo was Crosville wasnt it

nice one folks and biddy dock filled in, bloody hell, st james looks a travesty of justice now and them crossville buses were red with i think small yellow lettering and (age showing) did the '39' to west kirby and turned off from down town around the laird street area heading up and over ford hill, my memory is a little crapper now, you would not think that in later life i lived on hoylake road for a year and went to park high. when i left the trains had not been modded (the front ends) but were yellow and merseytravel was just getting rid of the old leyland atlantean buses with the notch back, and on the way to school these would be overtaken by snails out for a slow wander. conway park (or whatever its called) station was not built either or was just being started and that europa pool was a new thing i think. i used to bunk school on them scavaways for a pound and go all over, and hide in maccy dees at charing cross.happy days lol

actually here is a giggle, taking you back lol

are happy als still going

Happy Als are still going.

Any one remember having to change trains at Rock Ferry when the electic finished there and having to get on a noisy crappy Diesel thing to Hooton, before changing again to get to Chester!

I'd forgotten about crosville....They did our school buses...