The Retirement Thread

[classic33]

Just thought I had been woffling on about personal stuff for rather too long!

Is that all?

 

[Drago]

Feel so ill.

 

[Dave7]

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?????

I know exactly where that was. For maybe 2 years I lived half a male away in Cherry Tree Road.

 

[Dave7]

Egg sarnie, semolina and cream, two hot cross buns for me

Not had semolina since school meals in the 50s.

 

[Dave7]

It might be local history from somewhere else, but why should it be of interest to only those born there!

The top half of the Wirral peninsula is of great historical interest. It was controlled by the Anglo saxons many years ago and many artifact have been unearthed there.

 

[numbnuts]

Not had semolina since school meals in the 50s.

I love semolina use to get it in Sainsburys, but they stopped selling it, so now have to buy it from Amazone

 

[numbnuts]

Feel so ill.

Have a Man Hug, get well soon

 

[classic33]

I know exactly where that was. For maybe 2 years I lived half a male away in Cherry Tree Road.

Out of curiosity, where was the other half of the male?

 

[classic33]

Feel so ill.

Here's to feeling better soon.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I know exactly where that was. For maybe 2 years I lived half a male away in Cherry Tree Road.

Know it well - or more accurately , knew it well many years ago!
No idea why now - but I used to ride down there quite often
which is weird as it wouldn;t really lead me anywhere that I used to go????

Wasn;t there a Scout Hut down there??
6th Moreton or something - maybe

I ask because I was in the 2nd Moreton Venture Scouts and we were the only Venture Scouts in Moreton so Scouts from the 4th and 6th Scouts troops joined us when they left normal Scouts
I think we had a large group (i.e. about 6) of them join at one point so we used to go to their hut sometimes

 

[Sterlo]

Where were you on this day, also a Monday, in 1974?

Boundaries changed, new counties now in place, old ones gone.

Aged 9.3/4, I moved to Humberside overnight. We never accepted it, as far as we were concerned, we were from Yorkshire. We always put East Yorkshire (not East Riding of) as our address. Hated everything Humberside stood for and was glad when it was scrapped 22 years later.

 

[welsh dragon]

Is that your final answer?

Yes and I don't want to phone a friend or ask the audience

 

[classic33]

Aged 9.3/4, I moved to Humberside overnight. We never accepted it, as far as we were concerned, we were from Yorkshire. We always put East Yorkshire (not East Riding of) as our address. Hated everything Humberside stood for and was glad when it was scrapped 22 years later.

Well you would have been in the East Riding of Yorkshire. One of the three Yorkshire Ridings before this day in 1974

 

[Mo1959]

I’ve watched a few Father Browns. That’ll do me tv wise for the night. Just browse and/or read until bed time.

 

[classic33]

Know it well - or more accurately , knew it well many years ago!
No idea why now - but I used to ride down there quite often
which is weird as it wouldn;t really lead me anywhere that I used to go????

Wasn;t there a Scout Hut down there??
6th Moreton or something - maybe

I ask because I was in the 2nd Moreton Venture Scouts and we were the only Venture Scouts in Moreton so Scouts from the 4th and 6th Scouts troops joined us when they left normal Scouts
I think we had a large group (i.e. about 6) of them join at one point so we used to go to their hut sometimes

Group ceased to exist in 2009 it would seem.