EAW001792 ENGLAND (1946). Birkenhead Park Station, Birkenhead Park, works off Cleveland Street and environs, Birkenhead, 1946

Colwyn Street

Falkland Street

Elfet Street

Dundonald Street

Methuen Street

Thornton Street

Clifford Street

Kingsley Street

Upper Brassey Street

Portland Street

Mallaby Street

Victory Kidder Factory

Grange Sec. Modern. (Known as Tolly), due to being on Tollemache Road.

Present day Our Lady's Club. While Our Lady's School was being rebuilt it was used occasionally as "overspill" classrooms.

Great Float Pub...(Known as Hughie Toales, after the long serving boss..top man)

Site of Our Lady's & St.Edwards rebuilt School

Pacific Pub

Pre Fabs Patten Street

Approx location of a 2ndWW barrage balloon operating site.

Myrtle Street

Myrtle Street

uncle charlie wilsons bookies

old englishgentleman pub

45 livingstone street

324 Beckwith St.

WW2 Air raid shelters, possibly timber framed.

Brook Street

St. Anne's School, I left aged 6 in 1978

Primary school

Our ladies rc church

The library

st.annes church

brassey street school

20 dawson avenue

Advertising hoarding

WW2 Communal Surface Blast Shelter

What is this refuse?

Harcourt Street - I lived at number 30 till I was three. I had always thought the house was pre-war, but clearly not - it stood where the long open stretch is visible.

Price Street public library

The Rio cinema. My auntie and uncle used to live opposite and provided hot water for the staff for tea breaks. They used to let us in free in return!

Livingston Street salt-water swiming baths

Birkenhead General Hospital

Largely rebuilt Birkenhead Park Station - devastated by bomb damage - note the number of houses in the area with new roofs. Many of the bombs dropped in this area - were 'Parachute Mines' - which floated silently down and exploded about 100 feet in the air.

Birkenhead Head Park RUFC

Park High Grammar School

Post war pre-fabricated houses.

Birkenhead Park

Pagoda Bridge

Birkenhead Park signal box