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!
It was. I used to work in the place when it was Pioneer for the lavish wage of £2.06 an hour. The building was quite old and the roof was largely made from glass. I didn't think there would be any question from Asda about demolishing it.
Piooner was a ghost town and it's suprising to me each time I visit Asda how busy the place is.
Evening all, just joined this site and as 64 y/old now living in the West Midlands but growing up in Birkenhead I remember the town as it was in the 50's 60's and early 70's. Noticed some posts that mentioned the Co-Op. Dad worked at the small co-op on Conway Street down the road from the General Hospital. The Co-op laundry on the outskirts of town. The co-op wharehouse was not far from the dock and the old Birkenhead Brewery. Does anyone remember the co-op holding a exhibition in large marques on the Rovers car park? All the fairs and circuses used to be there with parades up Borough Road. There where cinemas everywhere, Plaza, Savoy, Ritz, Super, Regent. There was a goldfish pond in the foyer of the Plaza. They were all very busy but of course very few televisions. Often come back to the town but oh how it has changed. I remember Grange Road as it was and can remember many of the shops. Will write again on the subject.
Welcome, past_resident. I was a projectionist at both the Plaza & the Ritz. I left Birkenhead in 1956 & live not too far from you & like you I go back quite often. I hope you find plenty here to interest you.
hi everyone, i am wondering if anyone can tell me any history on the woods in eastham, now i mean the woods opposite thornleigh ave behind the little chef.when we were kids we used 2 play in the quary , was that a bomb site" plus there was iron spiked fences round the woods. and opposite number 78 thornleigh ave,there was 2 big sandstone pillers that had gate bars on, i went down there with my m8 not so long ago. and we found one piller just a bit of it.what was there years ago.been bafflin me for years.i have just spoke to a friend who said ther was a mill their.
wonder iff you new my granddad he worked at the plaza he saw people to their seats . sometimes he would stand at the front door his name was bert hill lived on marion street.
used to play around there to as a kid 1960s the pits if i remember were clay pits left over from the brick factory at hooton they filled up with water and we used to sail model boats on there the motorway splits the site up because in those days you could walk from eastham to hooton across a massive field hope this helps.
I can remember the joke shop on the corner of Exmouth street, called Jokers palace and the Sayers shop along the road and a newsagents where you get stuff on tick but you had to be known to the owner
