I doubt that the dips were ever rubbish dumps as they weren't in living memory and they wouldn't have been when New Brighton was at its prime as a major holiday resort, which started long before the sea wall was built.
I guess they were created when the sea wall was built (or shortly after) as flood water collection areas and that the term "infilled" has been interpreted as infilled with rubbish.Holiday Chalets Wallasey beach,
Alternatively they may have just areas kept low to shield them from sea breezes and were just for public amenity.
The chalets were much further along, between the Harrison Drive slipway and the Derby pool. Worth a thread in themselves! Destroyed in the winter storm of ?1978.
No they were filled with rubbish. Trust me, my grandfather was on the building of it.
They almost certainly were. This was a common method of land reclamation in those days - when Otterspool Prom was built on the other side of the river the area behind the sea wall was infilled by being used as a domestic rubbish tip for several years.
Perhaps the term "rubbish" is causing confusion? In the thirties there wasn't the packaging we have now and all that stuff that goes to landfill, and people didn't throw household stuff away as they do now. Most couldn't afford to throw much away at all
Mostly it would have been cinders, ash from fires, pottery and bottles perhaps? Wouldn't mind having a dig there but obviously that's against the law.
I went down there on Friday evening and it was full of rubbish - Cider bottles, cigarettes, chavs... and police cars were just driving past ignoring the masses of underaged drinking...
Are they artists impressions? Clever if so as they have shadows etc. It's the two shelters in the top picture that has me baffled unless they were taken down or may removed in the war?
Are they artists impressions? Clever if so as they have shadows etc. It's the two shelters in the top picture that has me baffled unless they were taken down or may removed in the war?
I remember them (iirc of course) and I was only born in '52, there were public toilets there I do believe... one shelter had the gents, the other, the ladies. I can't remember when they may have been taken away though - but then, all such public toilets were magnets for pervs so they probably 'went' along with all the others... That 1st pic looks to me to have been taken about where the coastguard station is (if you were to look to your right you'd be across the way from the (West Wallasey) sailing club and the pitch & putt, I think?) (edited to add that last paragraph)
There are still toilets but only one building and they are still notorious for pervs. If they are the ones in the photo, then only the far one is still standing. Ladies at one end, gents at the other.
The police installed cameras some years back to catch naughty men and they caught a lot. Personally I am not comfortable with cameras in public toilets (I'm shy) and think they could have done it better. We don't have many public toilets as it is and these people who go to them for sex are ruining it for those in genuine need. I just don't get why they do it anyway? Surprisingly or maybe not (?) a lot of those caught were married.
I was born 1950 btw and New Brighton born and bred.
i thnk the 2 buildings in pic 1 ( the public toilets) are still there but sealed up now. Looks like the pic is taken from the furthest end of the promenade
IN the bottom left of pic 3 there is some kind of box and you can see them in the other pics too...What are they ? some kind of traffic sign ? or bollard ?
i thnk the 2 buildings in pic 1 ( the public toilets) are still there but sealed up now. Looks like the pic is taken from the furthest end of the promenade
IN the bottom left of pic 3 there is some kind of box and you can see them in the other pics too...What are they ? some kind of traffic sign ? or bollard ?
I think they're just illuminated 'Keep Left' signs; roundabouts were something of a novelty in those days so motorists were thought to require instructions about how to cope with them. (Come to think of it they still do, most modern roundabouts have direction signs of some sort on them.)
In the first picture the two buildings still exist. The nearest one to the photographer still looks much the same & the far one now houses the public toilets which are still in use.
