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when the leather works burnt down we had a lot of white stuff landing all around the place in higher tranmere and it was not normal ash.a day later we had men in full hazard suits collecting big chunks and spraying some sort of chemical around,we were told it was asbestos at the time.i remember it very well because when i got up in the morning and opened the curtains the guy was standing right in front of my window in the garden and i sh** myself.

would be interesting to find out how many people have been affected by that fire .my mum got covered in the dust from the fire and she died a few years ago of lung cancer and she isnt the only one ,we lived in hampden rd tranmere and she worked in mersey park school.sorry to be morbid but i have always thought that that fire let off a lot of crap

im 26 an lived in mersey mount flatts on old chester road an i can clearly remember the fire in the leather factory, there were coucil workers every were cleaning black clumbs off the roads an every one was warned to close windows an stay in doors because the asbestos was everywere

I remember when they said they were getting rid of the ugly flyover, I assumed they meant the one by Central Station - what a great vista of gas holders for any visitors to the area! The Conway street one, whilst ugly, seemed slightly less obtrusive.

Seems a lot of buildings get burnt down on new chester road?

Such a shame with the Peel Holdings Industrial developmnt plan running down the length of it to Eastham.

any one got any pictures of mersey mount flats not far from green lane station

I remember Ford Towers, we lived in the end block, on the third floor for about 2 years. We had a very good Janitor who was always cleaning the place. Also there was some very nice people who lived there.
We had a baby and often I had to drag the pram up 3 flights of stairs as the lifts were often out of order.
Eventually we bought our own house and we were both glad to move away from there.

a few more pics
council must have seen similar carpark pics and thought there's money to be made here if we charge for parking
(can't remember if it was free)

The Asda car park was free.

They charged for car parking even then trying to park was murder,remember being parked just about where the bus station starts and two young girls who parked put up a blue parking thing and ten minutes later got done for parking,later they came back and the swearing was unbelievable,I was sitting in my car and they came screeching and asked me who came and gave them the ticket then I stupidly said,I presume one of you has health problems and that's why you have the parking badge,both said no ,it was their nan's, I then said that's why you got done if your nan was with you,you would have no problem,but your using the badge illegaly,that went down well,they screeched off looking for the parking guy.

I don't remember paying, then again i only went for a couple of years when it first opened, maybe i was lucky not getting a ticket, or perhaps they started charging later on.

Think they started charging later on when they tarted it up from waste ground to waste ground with tarmac and parking lines.

The second photo down shows the royal mail car park under the flyover. The times we couldn't get in or out because some member of the public decided it was okay to park there and block us in/out. We even put a trolley jack under one and pushed it into a corner just to get our own back once.

i remember it happening,and my mum lived in the next road to your mum and she died of lung cancer,