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Dave7

Legendary Member
Location
Cheshire
My Mum was also horrified

Postal address was originally Cheshire - which was a nice place
then changes to MERSEYSIDE - basically Liverpool - that nasty place over the water
ACtually where my Dad came from - I think she considered it as missionary work!!!

Pity she died before she could see me buy a house with a postal address of Cheshire again!
(although I pay council tax to Halton and am part of the Liverpool City Region
but the Police cars and ambulances say Cheshire
altogether I am not sure where I live!!!)

On this day - the night before I went to bed in Wallasey
and woke up in Merseyside

Oh and all the debts of the old Birkenhead and Wallasey councils passed onto Merseyside
On a TOTALLY different subject - a lot of new leisure centres and stuff got started in 1973ish and every road sign got updated and new signs appeared showing old village and town boundaries - which must have cost a bit!!
(friend's Dad was high up in the admin for the counsel - he commented on night in the sailing club that the amount of money spent in the last year of the old counsels was amazing!!
Did I know you lived in Wallasey ?
I knew you were from the Wirral but Wallasey ?
Which road/street was that ?
 

numbnuts

Legendary Member
That's not good for your blood sugars.

I've given up with that, took it this morning 8.1.......it's only twice what it should be, so not too bad :laugh:
 
Did I know you lived in Wallasey ?
I knew you were from the Wirral but Wallasey ?
Which road/street was that ?

Technically Wallasey - not the town but the Borough Council.
Really Moreton - near the famous roundabout at Moreton Cross - in fact at what is now a Vets about 1 hundred yards up towards Upton.
The boundary could be found by the change in tarmac towards Upton - I think it was somewhere near where the Motorway is now.
I used to ride my bike around the Cross in spite of having been told not to do so. I reduced the offence by spending as little time disobeying it as possible - which to a teenage boy means going round it REALLY FAST!!

One of the few places that had Birkenhead and Wallasey buses on the same place as the Birkenhead ones used the roundabout as a turning round place - and extended their routes to get to Moreton Shore.

QUite an old house - the roof needed re-doing at one point and my Dad found an grant that was available but only for old houses. The house had to have been built before 1911 (I think - maybe before)
Anyway - somehow my Dad found an old map of Moreton that showed the High tide level for the highest known tides - and it was just before the Cross.
At that point there were very few house on the seaward side of teh Cross and all the houses near the cross were mark - including ours!
well before the time required for the grant so we got the money.
My Dad could be unstoppable when he got the bit between his teeth - didn;t happen often but when it did it was best to just get out of the way!

Anyway - this is the "Local history of the Wirral only of interest to people born there only" isn't it?????
 

Paulus

Started young, and still going.
Location
Barnet,
Change of plan. Fish today

With bubble and squeak?
 

classic33

Leg End Member
Technically Wallasey - not the town but the Borough Council.
Really Moreton - near the famous roundabout at Moreton Cross - in fact at what is now a Vets about 1 hundred yards up towards Upton.
The boundary could be found by the change in tarmac towards Upton - I think it was somewhere near where the Motorway is now.
I used to ride my bike around the Cross in spite of having been told not to do so. I reduced the offence by spending as little time disobeying it as possible - which to a teenage boy means going round it REALLY FAST!!

One of the few places that had Birkenhead and Wallasey buses on the same place as the Birkenhead ones used the roundabout as a turning round place - and extended their routes to get to Moreton Shore.

QUite an old house - the roof needed re-doing at one point and my Dad found an grant that was available but only for old houses. The house had to have been built before 1911 (I think - maybe before)
Anyway - somehow my Dad found an old map of Moreton that showed the High tide level for the highest known tides - and it was just before the Cross.
At that point there were very few house on the seaward side of teh Cross and all the houses near the cross were mark - including ours!
well before the time required for the grant so we got the money.
My Dad could be unstoppable when he got the bit between his teeth - didn;t happen often but when it did it was best to just get out of the way!

[B[Anyway - this is the "Local history of the Wirral only of interest to people born there only" isn't it?????[/B]
It might be local history from somewhere else, but why should it be of interest to only those born there!
 
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