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.
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.
For the benefit of our younger members this is what New Brighton used to look like in 1959
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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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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 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!
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