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.
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For the benefit of our younger members this is what New Brighton used to look like in 1959
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Yes Joe, That's just how I remember it!! Cheers and Thanks for the photo.
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.
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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!
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Chris
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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 !.
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