EAW001793 ENGLAND (1946). Birkenhead Park and environs, Claughton, 1946

Birkenhead Maternity Hospital , Grange Mount. Me and my three brothers and two sisters born here. My dad owned the Grange Mount garage literally next door !

Grange Mount garage. (Main building has hardly changed) My dad owned during the sixties then moved to Egerton Street and converted a refrigeration factory to a large commercial garage which was compulsory purchased and demolished for the new tunnel entrance.

Now Birkenhead Sea Cadets (TS blackcap).

gore street

Approx location of a 2ndWW barrage balloon operating site.

Park High School

Birkenhead Girls School

This is Cole Street primary school, where my brother and myself attended in the early 1950's. It has since closed and as of 2015 is the proposed site of a new residential development. The white area on the roof was our play ground, used for recess periods.

St Peter's

St. Anne's now renamed as Christ the King

Keightley Street

These houses were bombed in the WW2. Only recently rebuilt

Field Street

Vittoria Street which in the early 1930s contained my Grandma's chip shop & my Mother's greengrocer's shop.

Prince Edward Street

WW2 Air Raid Shelter

Payson Street

This large house was the nurses home for staff working down the road at the General Hospital. Living nearby, we were all used to seeing a steady stream of nurses walking up and down Park Road North between both buildings.

This building in Park Road East used to be the sea scouts hut and here in 1953 I watched television for the very first time when a bank of sets were lined up for people to come and watch the Queen's coronation.

Trinity Street Primary School. I started at this school in September, 1953 and attended until July 1960 when I left to go to Park High, having passed the 11 plus exam.

Laird School of Art

Alfred Holt & Company, Iliad House - For Officers joining Blue Funnel ships.

1917 Eisteddfod Memorial Stone

Birkenhead General Hospital

The Gaumont cinema. In the 40's at least, every Saturday morning had the "Kiddies' matinee". 2hours for 6 pence: 20 minutes "unknown subject"; cartoon; serial; main feature, occasionally pirates, usually western.... Enthusiasm often drowned out the sound.

Livingstone Street Baths

Birkenhead School for Girls

Boathouse

Main Park Entrance

Queens Hotel