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Good find Waddi

Or these ones On Upton Road - Google Maps Click Me

(no i didn't go looking for the toilets, i happened to have
taken a picture on a long trek home)

Maybe we should start a new topic. "Long Forgotten Bogs"

We could but then who gives a S* lol (Joke).

Looks like George Michaels holiday pics!!

hoseman's comment is the best one-liner I've seen for a while !!! Nice one !

pleasure island - liverpool festival gardens dome?

From what I remember. you entered at an upper level then went down some stairs, to the left was a roller rink, in the center was 10pin bowling, and to the right was The works soft play area and quaser laser gun game.

then outside in the festival gardens site was go-karts and crazy golf.

was there a games arcade and pool tables between the bowling and the works

what do people remember about it?

Why oh Why did it have to close......

I remember it first opening, and then years later it changed to what you said Lee.

I remember the Roller boots where always either fooked, or scallies used to try and roll out of the door to nick them chased by the security

The 10 pin bolwing was 9 pin as a pin was normally missing...

I think you get the jist of what Im trying to say.

It was a really good idea, but the local scallies didnt respect the place and ruined it to the point where repairs / refurbs just wherent cost effective as people would just ruin the place within weeks of it being done

I went past the area about 2 years ago and it was in
such a bad state. I'm not sure if its been flattened by now?
Or re used?

Never went there but heard the stories.

have u ever been in the roundabout that central hotel is on at the bottom of the hill of argylle st? - be careful if u do as it's plagued with smack needles... think that used to be toilets also

yeah they used to be toilets, but they aren't in use any more

did anyone else "flump"off green lane station,i used to climb the walls but my mates used to jump off "the top" the things u do when young eh???

http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2192

That's a good thing about the last couple of years for the Festival Gardens. On a side note: for Liscard & Poulton station there's a Station Road, only no station ever stood on it, it was always on Mill Lane! There's a very slight trace of the station existing now, if you're stood on Mill Lane looking at the site then on the right (or standing on Breck Road looking left) is a very VERY unsafe walkway that the coal was apparently brought up. There's trackway all around the edge of Bidston Moss from what I can see and I'm sure that former marshalling yard leads onto the old Birkenhead Dock Branch. I just about remember seeing a train on there along with one by the docks when Bidston Dock was still open.

Beeching was a fool, imagine the income Wirral could have received if Woodside station still existed and the shorter route for trains to head south instead of running via Runcorn.

remember the old asda roof car park, used to go there on my racer and pedal dead fast, one thing that still exists of old are the bidston railway sidings but you cant see them for grass, visible from link road travelling from penny bridge to b&q (unless your going too fast, not that i would)

There is still some track visable just in front of the Footbridge at Bidston.