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there was also a small chandler's at the top left hand side of Whetstone Lane, run by an elderly man named Mr Bathgate, I never heard anyone address him by a first name, he was related to Tutty's, he was one of nature's gentlemen, when you went into the shop there was a chair to sit on while he disappeared into the darkest inner recesses of the shop, he always had what you wanted. On leaving the shop the door opened for you, he had a rope and pulley operating the door from behind the counter. when he died the shop stood unused for a long time. He used to ride a BSA Bantam, and visit the manager of Tutty's Grange Rd West shop, who was one of my neighbours.

1938 Directory,
James & Frank Bathgate, Hardware Dealers,
115 Whetstone Lane,

still there in the 50s phone books.

Sounds a bit like Arkwright's in Open All Hours. I wonder if Granville applied for the job.

See what happens when you add to an old thread, locomotive.

Chris,
Purloined from here,
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jjwillow/8413969427/in/photostream/

Thanks. So that was the Oxton Rd. site.

Yes, Oxton Road Chris. And as it is today...

Thanks, billy: I wonder when the ornate pediments were removed.

Here's another memory of Oxton Rd.
Morton's bookshop was where the International Food Store is, next to the casino.
Actually, calling it a map of Birkenhead is a bit of a cheat: the map covers from Blackpool in the North to Stoke in the South and Sheffield in the East. I guess any local seller could have his name and the location printed on the cover for a fee.

"Showing Danger Hills" - The mind boggles! Unexploded tubes of Zebrite and unwashed antimacassars in the undergrowth maybe?

There are only two shown in the whole of Wirral; the drop from the Column into West Kirby and Woodchurch Rd. from Arrowe Park to the railway bridge

I have very fond memories of Mortons Bookshop, it was always so quiet in there it was like going into the Library, I used to go in there on my way home from school in the mid 50s, as a child I thought the stairs and the balcony were superb.
My wife worked there for a while in the 70s when it became Collinson's shoe shop.
I like the description "Danger Hills", the one from Arrowe Park roundabout down to the bridge (roundabout) was our favourite one in the 60s, before the speed limits, I daren't say what speed we used to do down that hill

Funny, I don't remember that hill being particularly steep; certainly, cycling up it was not as strenuous as Backford hill on the way to Chester.

Did the Tuttys store become Rostances .And the casino was that Mckenzies.Has anyone got a list of all the shops that were trading in Oxton rd 1960-1971 please

Info, Link, post number 269337, of interest.

https://www.wikiwirral.co.uk/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/269219/Re_Who_remembers_General_Histo.html

Below, 1938, Tutty's etc.

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