I was down New Brighton before. They have drained the boating lake and have started to build a new supermarket down there. What a shame. I'll see if I can get some pictures tomorrow.
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I was down New Brighton before. They have drained the boating lake and have started to build a new supermarket down there. What a shame. I'll see if I can get some pictures tomorrow.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2753/...418b729f_o.jpg
For the benefit of our younger members this is what New Brighton used to look like in 1959
I love that photograph of a vibrant and flourishing New Brighton as a seaside resort of fifty-one years ago. Thanks for posting it, Joe! :handclap:
Cheers
Chris :PDT_Aliboronz_24:
Yes Joe, That's just how I remember it!! Cheers and Thanks for the photo.
There is a campaign to make Wirral MBC restore the tidal paddling pool - I'll try to find the contact. The pool was breached on grounds of - yes, you guessed it - that scourge of the 21st century, 'Elf'n'safety.
Swimmer Pete
My Mum took me on many days out to New Brighton, what an adventure it was !, over on the ferry then onto the "old" fair, then the new one (the indoor one !), then fish and chips in a cafe on Victoria Road LOvely !!!!...
Years later I lived just up the road from New Brighton off Seabank Road, what a change I saw no outside fair just a new housing estate !, the indoor one was run down, the shops and cafes where mostly closed, it was so sad.
I think the demolition of the pier was the end of New Brighton !.
I love it too , it took me right back to my childhood .
I remember being there once with my grandad and brother, and once of us fell in the boating lake and had to travel home wet-through on the bus. For the life of me I can't remember if it was me or my brother. Grandad got told off by my mum!
I've posted this before, but probably on a sailors forum before we migrated to Yo.
Off topic a bit but it is a memory brought back by mention of a chair lift.
We had one day in Singapore before flying home. We'd been up nearly 30 hours when we arrived there so should have been sleeping. Me and an electrician from Liverpool - George Fisher - got in a taxi and asked the driver to show us the island. He finished by dropping us off for the cable car across to Sentosa Island. It goes from a hill on Singapore to a hill on Sentosa, so when it crosses the water you are exceptionally high.
As we crossed the water George admitted he was scared of heights. Being a total tosser, I started to rock the car. I stopped when I realised that George was genuinely freaking out. He was trembling when we got off and I said there was nothing to be scared about as it was totally safe.
A few weeks after we got home I saw on TV that the cable car had come down and people had been killed.
I have such fond memories of New Brighton , my friend has a photo of me coming down the bumpy slide when i was seventeen ..
Farmer not Father ! Farmer Ted's i just past Tesco's in Formby , just drive towards Ormskirk and you'll see it !
Yes Kevin is right , Father Ted's house is indeed on Craggy Island .
No honestly , Farmer Teds is a farm , the kids can pet and play with the animals and everything , it also has a big indoor play area , it's a great place for kids ..
For Pablo.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/f...ed/4od#2922970
One of the best comedies in recent years. Such a tragedy that Dermot died so young.
Me thinksI'm getting wound up.