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Pillock, that should have read frogs not frongs.
Birkenhead........ God's own Room 101.
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Pub called the 7 stiles because out there used to be fields which were known as the "7 stiles", also there were the Flat Lanes further out towards the Woodchurch. Up the top of Ford Hill used to be the Thermopylae Pass, so, from town us kids used to go through Birkenhead Park, up Bidston Road, through the Thermopylae Pass and on to the 7 Stiles and Flat Lanes. It used to be a day out and there were frongs, taddies and jacksharps in the cattle ponds out in them there fields. Loads of long grass with furry seed heads which used to tickle your legs as you ran across the fields. And......it was always summer. Mmmmm that brings back memories; I used to do much the same, except I'd get the bus to the top end of the Thermopylae Pass. Yes. it was always summer!
Carpe diem.
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Where did you get those pictures from? My dad has got a white book Wirral 1876 -1976 marking some occasion, summit to do with the boundaries changing?? those exact photos are in that book, doubt there are many of those books around now.
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Where did you get those pictures from? My dad has got a white book Wirral 1876 -1976 marking some occasion, summit to do with the boundaries changing?? those exact photos are in that book, doubt there are many of those books around now. Birkenhead 1877-1974
God help us,
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Don't send Jesus,
This is no place for children.
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That's the one 
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The Seven Styles has had another make over and reopend as The Fenderway last week.
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I think the old Birkenhead News ran a competition to name the pub in '68/'69 . Was it to do with the number of stiles between the farm on the site and Bidston village ?
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The pubs on the Ford Estate, say from 1977; starting from Upton Road. 1 Seven Stiles. 2 The Windmill. 3 The Buccaneer. 4 The One O'clock Gun. 5 The Corsair. As a young man my father took me fishing for sticklebacks [small fish] in that area which is now the Ford Estate [Beechwood]. It is my knowledge that there were seven stiles that you had to cross - hence the name of the first pub.
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the buccaneer was in the middle of the estate near the sports center lived on the ford till i was 15 it was brilliant
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the Buccaneer was more or less where the library stands now
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The Bucanneer was by the junction of Fifth Ave and Fender Way. it has since disappeared and a block of shops and a community centre are there now
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i used to rember the ford state used to have friends living in them flats bet its all changed now
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was one of the first familys on there the styles pub was still a style bridle close
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I used to have a friend called rose,who lived there and I went out with a lad who lived over the road called eddie? in the 70s
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I guessed that the Buccaneer would have been where the library is, the random little car park which is outside nothing off the road off Fender kind of suggests it was in that location.
Looks like the pub count is zero now, just been past the Windmill, it is now secured by VPS after what looks like an arson attack.
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