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Ged, do you have a Wirral section on your site? B#'head and Wallasey are a part of Liverpool as Huyton is.
No I don't.
A few reasons.
I started the site mainly to show old photos of my old area that were kindly lent to me. Ex pats started emailing me asking to find places for them in the LRO which obviously they had no access to. This included people who had moved out of my old area to outlying districts including Huyton, Kirkby and Halewood which I know is Knowsley. I don't know of anyone personally that moved over the water when being rehoused from any slum clearance programme though I know there's bound to be some - to Ellesmere Port for instance but that's Cheshire anyway.
I have friends and family in Litherland and Bootle which I pass through every weekend to get to Kirkdale to I take photos there too which I know is Sefton.
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I have no desire to make special trips through the tunnel due to the costs and lack of interest i've come across though I did take a few one time when I was over there and put the blood tub pub up on my site in an art deco section.
This has nothing to do with an ingrained feeling in my mind that whilst the likes of Huyton and Kirkby wants to be and is in my mind Liverpool, Wirralians are not particularly fussed, even though if you take away a narrow stretch of water between the city centre and Birkenhead, the people and housing are very much similar. I reckon most on the West coast of Wirral actually are like the people of Southport and prefer to be distanced from being involved with Liverpool - unless they want to come and work here of course
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