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Hi Margie i have been enjoying reading everyone's memories from lowther st. and putting faces to the names. the only kid i remember being my best mate was John McKenna. he and Tommy must have been your brothers . i think Tommy was our Roberts mate, what a small world, i hope all are doing well, remember me to john. i was brought up by Jack & Molly Pew at 15 Lowther,

Hi,I am new to this, I lived in 188 Claughton Road,My name was Beryl Burnett,my brother's name is David.Our house was on the corner of Claughton Road & Exmouth Street opposite was a sweet shop across the road was The Bakers & The Music Hall.I went to Cole Street school,then Conway Street School with Carole Williams & Jean Hughes from new Fox Street,Barbara Kerr from old Fox Street, Brenda Lee from Bright Street,also Dorothy Griffiths from Gladstone Street. Lesley Wiggins from Craven Street, Norah Dolan from Bentinck Street. A couple of years before the houses were pulled down Peggy Roberts moved in next door from Back Exmouth Street. Does any one remember me?

I used to live at 263 glaughton rd i met one of your family
on a cruise about 2 years ago in the Mediteranean
She was married to a relation of the Deers

ers my sister Beryl
Hayes was married to Ray Deer
i remember your big house well we lived right opposite i left in
1961 to go to sea, i left Birkenhead for good in 1962
All my pals all lived around there

Sorry about the layout of the message got a problem with my
computer its got a mind of its own

Hi George,We remember you from the cruise, its my husband David who lived in Sun Street then Craven Street who was a cousin of Ray Deer. Davids brother Ian Rhodes married Barbara Roberts,Peggy Roberts daughter who lived next door to us,its a small world.

My partner remembers the Roberts that lived in your house think it was Jenny and Philip Roberts

Hi Beryl, lovely to hear from you, I lived in Lowther st next to the Pews and Gavin, apart from seeing Maurice and Georgy Jones , I've not seen anybody , but I do admit I never go near Birkenhead for anything so maybe that doesn't help.

Davew3 i was struggling to work out who you are, in my very small and getting smaller brain, then suddenly a light came on and i had lovely recollections of Ginny Wiggins, who was always around, a great friend of my nan Molly. all the different names mentioned bring back little memories, Giving a warm feeling, like a cup of soup on a wet winter morning looking out the window onto the white washed walls of our back yard in Lowther Street, knowing my Nan won´t let me out cos i sneezed twice in the same day. lol

When i come to Birkenhead and look around and try to picture
how it used to be, its sad
We had a great comunity sprit in those days people were more friendley ,i used to walk around late at night with no fear
of anybody ,now i would have to think twice walking around late at night
Whats happened to the place what ever it is its not for the
better and it shows

Hi Cavan I remember you as a toddler. Tommy and John are my brothers and are both well I will tell them about our conversation. I remember your nan & grandad. I also used to babysit for your Margie (married Derek Dobbs) if I remember? My friend and I used to go and visit Brenda (married to Paddy?) they had a little boy David? and lived off Oxton Road.
I also remember Peter, he was older than me and Robbie and I started school together. We sat together on our first day and I tried to run out to go home but got dragged back and told off. Happy days collecting the bonnie wood, the fire would be lit on the bomb site at the end of Gladdy and end of Lowther. Hope you're ok nice to hear from you.

I used to live at 19 & 25 Exmouth Street in the 50's. The pawn shop on Exmouth Street near to Conway Street was called Bentley's. The chap who took your items and gave you the money was called Mr Francis. He had wire frames glasses and a well receded hair line practically bald! He used to bang the coins [large old pennies then] hard on the wooden counter to make you jump. The counter was bare unpolished wood and about 4 feet high. Further up Exmouth Street was another pawn shop called Bains. Opposite no 25 was the Raven public house which at that time was run by the Palmer family. My grandmother had the second-hand shops in both 19 & 25. We used to live in the house part behind the shop. When we first moved into 25 Exmouth it still smelt of the fishmongers that was from the previous owners. It still had the old marble slabs in the shop window, which could be open for passers by to see the fish. One sink with only a cold tap, no bathroom, just an outside toilet down the bottom of the yard. A brick air-raid shelter with a concrete slab roof occupied the space between the kitchen and the outside toilet. We used to be on 'first-name-terms' with the spiders that used to live in that toilet! The door that went out to the rear 'living' room behind the shop opened into the room from the shop, the only problem was that directly behind there was a door from the upstairs which opened towards the shop! If some came in from the shop as someone came down the stairs it was a 'push-of- war' to get past!!

i when to hemmy as a lad has anybody got a photo of the school badge thanks rob j

hi the photo is taken from exmouth st with moon st on the left. the car is outside no56 where me and my family lived. the outline on the roof is of attic windows only no56, no54,and no52 had attics .the first house on the left was my grandparents no62 the houses number from 62 to 40 then an entry next to st mattews mission hall the names of residents were 62 the glover,s, 60 the porter's, 58 thelambert's, 56 us robinson's, 54 the nicholls, 52 the smith's, 50 the james's 48 the bishop's, 46 the musker's, 44 the dolan's, 42the stuart's and 40 the griffihs. the backs of houses in the left corner are sun st nellie heggies grocers was on the corner. is there any chance i could have a copy of the photo. i'd very willing to pay thanks

I'm glad that the picture has brought back some vivid memories for you and the others who recognise the location.

You should be able to do a righ-click and 'save as' to download it, otherwise pm me if you wish.

Remember the advert on Miss Heggies' shop's ceiling? It was a big bull (Oxo or Bovril) and it covered the whole ceiling.. I used to be so scared if it when I was a little girl.