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Thanks for that Chris and Pinz I knew you would come through.



Dave Miller

You're welcome, Dave.
Since you're abbreviating Mike Pinzgauer's name & since you're linking us, maybe I should adopt the pseudonym Needles.

Chris has been on the cooking sherry again !!!!!

No cooking sherry for me, Mike; I like a decent manzanilla!!

mindplayer? Why the name?

Moreton had loats of Prefab houses & bungalows after and during the war, it was also nick named Bungalow town

was that built down by the lighthouse ?

this is wot i think
i think so yes because i've seen some photos in a book of mine

Here is tithe map 1847 and modern day map:
1847 Tithe Map

I was reading a book once called Mindplay about electronic devices messin with your mind. So it came from there.

Dave Miller

Townfield School field has a bomb crater on it im sure. Its either the school field or the field directly behind it (has houses on it now though). One of the old teachers told me about it. They found shrapnel on there and also some bronze age artefacts aswell.

The pond had a large tree at the edge of it with one large branch that arched out over the middle of the pond....a wooden raft supported by a couple of oil drums was anchored there ...you wrapped your legs around the branch and shimmied along ....always in the back of your mind was the thought that "today may be the day that it breaks" .

Heavens, this one has certainly run. Oddly enough, I got to visit the pond again this summer when Townfield School had the open day for their 40th anniversary. I'm a former pupil.

I took a stroll down to the pond and it looks different and smaller. It seemed to be very shallow and choked with reeds. It does look clean though. The school has somehow annexed the land to the rear. This was all public access when I was a lad.

As a boy I remember walking down Townfield lane towards "the Flat Lanes at the top of the lane their was an old cast iron Gas lampost.. but not working...that particular afternoon I spotted a Goldcrest disappear into the top of the opening of the lamp ...out it popped and flew off I climbed up the lamp and peered inside .....to a wonderfully constructed nest and cupped inside thirteen of the tiniest eggs you could imagine ...each smaller than the fingernail on my smallest finger ....all of that has now been lost as urban sprawl eats away the open spaces around the Wirral .

The ponds along the Flat Lanes were always called the Seven Sisters ....although I never was able to find seven...four maybe ...even when you walked to the Birket and the Fender....but they were all magical places to explore as a child including the streams .

used to go to townfields infant school at the time we was putting fish in the pond and also we was doing a project searching for tadpole spawns it was in 1990-93 i think