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chriskay #218892 28th Mar 2008 7:18pm
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Originally Posted by chriskay
He must have been Catholic, because I remember seeing nuns going in & he would put meat in their bag. No money changed hands.


I'm saying nothing..

apart from that don't really remember that area well, more Bidston and claughton area myself.

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Chris, is Bernards the one on the corner opposite the old post office (now moved to Grange Road)? If so it's still there.

I have these pictures of Oxton Road, but I have no idea which pub you mean.

Hope these help bring back memories smile



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That bookshop has been there since I was a kid


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That picture with collenade is where i first started working.

It was called Century insurance then 8 years ago, then Arnott Century, then became budget insurance and now owned by swintons who are just down the road so the rebranded them Collenade


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Marks and Spencer ..Liscard ,is now Primark.John Menzies is now W.H.Smith and i cant ever remember a Sainsburys in Liscard thumbsup


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I am sure there was never a Saisbury in Liscard. There used to be Netto where Weatherspoons is now, and there was another supermarket there before Netto - but I cannot remember the name

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Originally Posted by Snodvan
I am sure there was never a Saisbury in Liscard. There used to be Netto where Weatherspoons is now, and there was another supermarket there before Netto - but I cannot remember the name

Snod

Safeways


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That is it!


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Gateway in Moreton, which then became Kwik Save and now Somerfield.

Solo which was owned by Somerfield was also in Moreton, but it was something else before it was Solo. It then became Somerfield, and when Somerfield and Kwik Save merged (until the shitty Labour government decided the likes of Tesco and Asda shouldnt have so much competition) it was eventually bought by Cool Trader and that stands there to this day.

Ill think of other shops soon!

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Macdonalds in Liscard used to be the CO-OP and the Shoe market used to be Lennons supermarket ,who in the dark days of Tranmere Rovers tried to purchase the land which is now a carpark(waste land in them days) to help the club out but they were refused planning permission and the idea and Lennons fizzled out.


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Originally Posted by BMW Joe
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That bookshop has been there since I was a kid


I remember that bookshop, Joe. From memory, it's on the corner of Barton St. Windsor St. is the next one uphill; it's all car park now. I'm pretty sure Bernards was on the block downhill from there, nearer Charing Cross. It was at least a double fronted shop. Not opposite the old Post Office, which I remember well, (just up from Charing Cross, on the left). In the picture with the colonnaded building (looking down hill), on the right there's a blue metal fence; that's where Birkenhead Brewery was. Thanks for the pics, Joe. It's so different now, there's no good memories.

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I'll give you another shop, not one that's gone; it's still there. Pykes the jewellers, in Grange Rd. (corner of Vincent St.)? I was at school with the son. Funnily enough, they've got a branch in Shrewsbury now. Just down from there was W.H.Smith, the first place I worked when I left school in 1952. Opposite there was Robbs, a posh department store. They had lifts & a restaurant called the Oak Room.


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Sainsburys, Safeway pretty similar names. please forgive me considering Im not from that area and am going on stories and things that the wifes Nan has told me.

Shoe Market used to be a supermarket? it was also a picture house called "The Liscard Palace".

anyone remember the Gateway in Eastham by South Wirral High school/ Eastham sec.

so was Robbs department store in a similar place to where the pyramids are now?

and this is going really local now, the sweet shop on plymyard fields in Eastham that turned into a pet shop.

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Here's a map showing the shops I mentioned. Charing Cross is just off the map to the left.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=53.389394,-3.028852&spn=0.001481,0.002886&t=h&z=18&msid=102226494235577172925.000449904a70041088fc2

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Concerning the Oxton Rd. picture of the building with the ornate frontage, I've got a feeling this was probably the offices of the Birkenhead Brewery, which was opposite.

Cheers, Chris.


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