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Originally Posted by ianbx1
Thanks all of you for keeping this post going,it's fantastic. Do any of you have photos of the tower grounds and it's fairground? I spent many a summer holiday there as my Gran, worked there and I used to stay with her a couple of weeks every year... A child's dream, two weeks in a fairground.

Try here Ian
https://www.wikiwirral.co.uk/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/429353/Index_of_Pictures.html#Post429353

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The Gaumont, King Street, Egremont.

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The Royal Picture House, King Street, Egremont. Was a Bingo Hall, Then Rocket Ronnies Snooker Hall. Still a snooker place I think.
Also The Irving Theatre, Borough Road. Used to be The Empress Club, then a bingo hall

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Last one for the night.. my cat.. well she lives in the Wirral :-)

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AH ! Looks like she's been shut out...... do you love cats Zipper ?


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I love them to bits, I`d go in a lion cage. My poor cat is very frail now, I don't think she has long to go :-( Plenty of loving is required.

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p.s. Wasn't touting, only pouting.

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She jumped on the keyboard to stop me from typing, not so daft are cats

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Originally Posted by ZipperClub
The Gaumont, King Street, Egremont.

I think the second photo is the updated foyer to the ABC
Liscard around 1959?

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Re The Shepherds Rest, yes it was the first pub in Wallasey with draught Stella, it was 5/- a pint (25p) which everyone thought was extortionate. Great times and I remember Jack Randles being the boss.

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Originally Posted by granny
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Entrance gates to Liscard Castle

it wasn't really a castle. Locals gave it that name but it's proper name was Marine Villa. It belonged to a John Marden (Seabank Road was originally Marsden's Lane). John Marsden manufactured brooms, hence it became Broom Castle, then Liscard Castle


Actually the entrance gates to Sea View or Seaview House, later renamed The Anchorage, the property next door to Liscard Castle. As for the latter, all surviving maps from the mid-1850s onwards clearly name the property as Liscard Castle, so it wasn't called Marine Villa for very long.

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Entrance gates to Liscard Castle

it wasn't really a castle. Locals gave it that name but it's proper name was Marine Villa. It belonged to a John Marden (Seabank Road was originally Marsden's Lane). John Marsden manufactured brooms, hence it became Broom Castle, then Liscard Castle


Actually the entrance gates to Sea View or Seaview House, later renamed The Anchorage, the property next door to Liscard Castle. As for the latter, all surviving maps from the mid-1850s onwards clearly name the property as Liscard Castle, so it wasn't called Marine Villa for very long.


Sorry Marty, we are only as good as the script we read. As link below .
http://www.wirralhistory.net/liscard.html

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and a pic of where it is in Seaview Road.

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Wow - excellent 'timewarp' picture, there!

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