Anybody got any information on Rock House on Rock Lane East?? a grand old house that used to give me the creeps when I was a kid! it was like something from the Addams family.
Talking of Rock Park, it really was once a very exclusive place, especially before Rock Ferry bypass was sliced through it. In the early Sixties, when as kids we went there on our bikes, there was a small lodge at the entrance where an old lady would charge you 2d (two old pence) to let you in and you could ride around, goggling at all the posh houses. Does anyone remember paying this toll?
you where lucky to get in, when i was a lad {late 40s early 50s} we use to get chased, there was a big black wooden gate and the lodge keeper would never open it to let us in on are bikes. Always told us to bugger off as all we where doing was causing trouble.this was at the Rockferry end of the park.
Ships that pass in the night, seldom seen and soon forgoten
The refreshment rooms on Bedford Road by Rock Ferry pier. The top picture is from 1882, the bottom one shows it today, the derelict Admiral pub. How much longer will it survive?
It's a shame looking at how things have just gone to pot. I never knew the 'Addie' had been there for so long or that it was refreshment rooms.You learn something new everyday!
yes this is the peir i go for a walk in the summertime i think it is a shame the way the council has let things go to pot because its a pleasant walk and the houses are massive as well
Originally Posted by ChrisNewcastle
Anybody got any information on Rock House on Rock Lane East?? a grand old house that used to give me the creeps when I was a kid! it was like something from the Addams family.
rock house is still a very grand family home and is being well maintained .it makes me sad to walk there now as it has for sale on alot of propertys.i saw the convent has been boarded up does anyone know what the future holds for it?better still past and present piccis please
Ive recently been on the pier , putting it out basically , and it is in pretty poor shape timbers missing etc theres only the saling club still there the pub has been closed a while too .
I have it from someone who remembers that there was a ferry boat that used to travel between Rock Ferry Pier and Liverpool until the bus route from Rock Ferry to Woodside became more popular and put it out of service. There were also ferry boats that visited Eastham ,Seacombe, New Brighton and Woodside from Liverpool.
At least up until 1979, the old wrought iron "destination board", where the ferry hand turned by hand using a pole just before tying the ferry up, had Rock ferry, Eastham, New Brighton, Wood side and saaecombe still on it.
Of course then, only Seacombe and Woodside were ever used.
Oh. and are the high level gang ways still at the ferrys, those with the steps up to them from the days when the ferrys were so full they exited, and boarded on the top deck as well?
a photo of Rock Ferry pier looking out onto the river. this photo will be part of a new thread once i have gathered all the facts to go along with a lot of photo's {patients is a vertue}
Just a small point, but the photo in the book is actually of New Ferry Pier, not Rock Ferry. Oops!
