"Has anyone got a picture that shows Seabank Cottages that stood in front of Cammell Lairds.
It must have been a pretty pongy place at times due to the Tannery, and I think an Abattoir, right on their doorstep. These cottages stood between the Tannery and Cammell Lairds shipyard buildings"
We don't do charity in Germany, we pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments' responsibilities - Henning Wehn
Yes Scoops, Seabank Road is now Ark Royal Way, Chamberlain Street is now Valiant Way.
I have some photoes with these cottages in the distance but you can only just see them, I am trying to do some image enhancement but it doesn't look too good.
I worked at the tannery from 1962 Then the tannery extended from Chamberlain st to Seabank road the only thing besides the road was the street sign At the bottom of it was a Wall across it with a gate for entering and leaving Camel Lairds and on the right hand side was a huge wall where you could see huge black sheds of Camel Lairds. The only housing about were Green Lane Flats and about 6 houses which were on the other side of Old Chester Road more or less facing the area between Seabank Cottages and Seabank Rd. At the end of this row of houses [Rock Ferry end]was a builing which was our canteen for a few years which I was told by the older men had used to be a pub 1930s/1940s?
That pub you where told about was on the end of the row of house on the corner of a little tiny street called WEST VIEW it ran from New Chester Road up to the railway line. It must have been damage during the war because in the late 1940s we used it as are gang hideout and it had no ground floor left, just a few beams. You crawled in through a tiny window at the back and dropped right down into the cellar. The staircase up to the bedrooms was gone so there was no way of getting upstairs.
Ships that pass in the night, seldom seen and soon forgoten
I remember now we called it West view and behind the pub/canteen 2 large sheds were built One was used to store hides in and the other part with the entrance in West View was used as a repair garage for the heavy goods vehicles and company cars
yes it was the British Leather I used to play for them 2 seasons 66/67? with Wobbler,Donny Murray, Lennie Taylor, George Turton etc and most of the others from the limeyard Did you play then or when the salthouse formed a team a few years later
