This is a relic of the Ghost Train.
Found and bought at a Bootfare at Leasowe Common about three years ago.
Travels with us when we go camping.
Phredd
This is a relic of the Ghost Train.
Found and bought at a Bootfare at Leasowe Common about three years ago.
Travels with us when we go camping.
Phredd
In the days when we had nothing we had fun.
If tomorrow starts without me, remember I was here.
Work Is Underway On The New Floral Pavilion
The theatre is being almost completely rebuilt.
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What a tourist attraction the Royal Iris II would be in the Albert Dock ,
i can,t see her cruising again, it would cost to much .....But i can fore
see her as a cafe and floating museum of the mersey ferries .
ps. anybody knows what happened to her sister the Royal Daffodil II.
I think you mean Royal Iris III which cost roughly a quarter of a million pounds in 1951. Today a fully functional full-size replica (1300 tons), diesel-electric twin-screw, look-alike, would cost about 14 million pounds, yellow and emerald green paint included. Anyone got the spare change?
Lots of things are possible if only there was a will. For me, I would build a new New Brighton ferry pier for the tourist trade and convert the Seacombe ferry stage into a terminal for small to medium cruise ships (such as those going to the Artic).
Then let's have trams between Seacombe and Woodside, bring back the Number 14 bus, put Tuk-Tuks on the prom, and more, oh dream on!
Oh, yes, and a great eight storey combined car park, hotel, swimming pool, indoor amusements (miniature railway?) and theatre topped by a tower (reduced sized replica of the original) covering what is left of the tower grounds.
Does anyone know what became of the Wallasey Corporation Crest that the "Fish and Chip boat" wore so proudly?
I rememember me Conny Onny butty being full of sand not long after we got off the ferry to New Brighton. One bottle of sarsaparilla between 6 of us and not enough 'slummy' to get into the baths.
I also remember a very sad racial occasion there but will only PM or e-mail it.
FLORAL PAVILION
### CONSTRUCTION UNDERWAY ###
Last edited by Ross08; 05-13-2008 at 01:35 AM.
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We spent lots of time at New Brighton swimming baths during our summer holidays. You would take a big packed lunch egg sarnies where my favourite, and then spend all day there. Saw lots of Miss New Brighton parades there with the footballers as judges we where in awe of them. Nearly had my first date there with the boy of my dreams but as luck would have it there was a bus strike on that day so we never got there and love never blossomed dammed bus drivers.
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To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world.
What fun was had in the outdoor swimming baths.Freezing salty water.
I wonder how many "bunked in" over the years.
The teletext earlier today mentioned the Floral Pavilion...also gets a mention here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/1...de/7009994.stm
Floral Pavilion website (includes a webcam of the site to be developed)
http://www.floralpavilion.co.uk/
Last edited by marky; 09-24-2007 at 06:11 PM.
Thanks Ross and Marky.
The artist's impressions look like a completely new building.
The Floral Pavilion started out as an open-air venue, and has been altered quite a few times over its 90-odd years existence, and there's nothing worth saving, except that long curved red-brick wall at the back.
The Winter Gardens should have been New Brighton's post-war theatre, but that's been demolshed (like most of NB's theatres and cinemas).
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