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I think I have mentioned it before there are some more old pics of New Brighton on my flickrset
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Quite true about the Catholic school nuns.. Made me Never want to be a Nun..
Funny how many people come home from New Brighton soaked through ! My mate got stuck in quicksand there (very frightening tho' she was nearly up to her waist ! ) and 2 lads helped pull her out.
We'd missed the last ferry from NB and had to do that long walk along to Secombe to catch that one. She was caked in wet mud and soaked!!
Just looked it up - my memory is playing tricks as the accident must have been about a year after I was on it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapo...e_Car_disaster
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This is the boating lake at New Brighton. It looks like it is gonna be a major building programme.
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These were all taken through the fence. I had me litle mate with me, so didn't fancy climbing the fence.
This is the same site today. Taken from the bottom of where the pier was.
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my old pic was published in the Echo on Sat 23rd January half a page with comment from me, found out when friends approached me and said saw your pic in the paper Joe.
Hello. have posted this link for the young at heart.
Enjoyed the funfair when young, and the dances on
a Saturday night when a teenager and beyond. Sad
day for New Brighton.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnS3ZLaXPMk
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Spent a pleasant afternoon on the golden sands of New Brighton yesterday, nobody else there, the excavations must have put them off.I thought they were only using the lake area but it`s much bigger than that.Strolled along to Seacombe for the ferry to Liverpool then into the Midland for a pint of Theakstons,then home for my tea.It`s hard work being a pensioner these days.
I really do sympathise with you! but great photographs, many thanks.
Tony
I have to agree with you Gregs Dad! I don't know how I ever found time to go to work!!!!:PDT_Aliboronz_11:
I am extremely pleased to see that the redevelopment of New Brighton is beginning to - at last - gather momentum. All too often we've heard that 'work is due to start soon' only to then be told that things have been put on hold...
I have visited New Brighton on a couple of occasions this week and I've seen that the Marine Lake has been drained and that the site of the pool has been cleared. I will be visiting again over the weekend and I'll take my camera this time.
I have links here to two Facebook groups that are definitely worth looking at... one centres around photographs of old Liscard and the other looks at old New Brighton:
OLD LISCARD GROUP
OLD NEW BRIGHTON GROUP
I'm sure these will be of interest...
Nice one Ross. I'll have a better look at your sites when I have a bit more time.
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Marine Park bowling greens
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Marine Park tennis courts
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Period Postcard of New Brighton Tower, circa 1905
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HMS Hindustan Passing New Brighton Tower, August 1907
Photograph that appeared in the Liverpool Echo, March 6, 1968, along with the following letter to the editor in a section entited "My Yesterday" which was a series being published in the newspaper at the time:
Days of the Tower
MY MERSEY MEMORY is of a day in August 1907. The Lusitania had arrived from her builders, and ten units of the Channel Fleet, under Lord Charles Beresford, were anchored in the river. Here is one of them, H.M.S. Hindustan, passing New Brighton Tower.
JOHN HERRON,
The Ferry Hotel,
New Brighton
See this page from Mike Kemble's site for a view of New Brighton Tower from the promenade at Liscard
Old Mother Redcap's -- Also features a poem by yours truly.
Chris :PDT_Aliboronz_24:
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Storm on the horizon at New Brighton yesterday
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Morrisons store being erected on the front across the newly restored boating lake
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Variety of gulls resting
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Across the new lake
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Where`s all my mates gone
Absolutely great images love the seagulls on the rail.
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Ye olde lighthouse
They are lovely photos gregs dad, I have put the photo of the Lighthouse with the greenery as my background on the computer. It looks lovely!