Old Photos Of Where You Live

[Joey66]

 

[Joey66]

 

[Joey66]

13 mile tour on the overhead railway , check out the price, oh that it was still there - 9p & 7p -

 

[Chewbacca]

My dad did safety checks in its final 2 years. He said it was rotten and would have fallen down not long after it was demolished anyway.

It should have been replaced by a monorail

 

[Rita_Poon]

My dad did safety checks in its final 2 years. He said it was rotten and would have fallen down not long after it was demolished anyway.

It should have been replaced by a monorail

 

[Chewbacca]

The old hall in the village. It’s still there of course and looks much the same. When I was at school one of my friends lived in one of the wings and was given the basement as a “games room”. The parties were epic.

 

[Eggs]

….digging out the Birkenhead Tunnel (the Old Tunnel).

 

[Joey66]

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

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….digging out the Birkenhead Tunnel (the Old Tunnel).

No hearing protection then

 

[Eggs]

No hearing protection then

....no ‘super mole’ boring machine either. I expect many of the lads working on that job were Irish, I know they build many of the railway tunnels on Merseyside.

 

[Eggs]

…..James St station, opened in 1886 as the terminus for the Merseyside railway tunnel;

 

[Joey66]

....no ‘super mole’ boring machine either. I expect many of the lads working on that job were Irish, I know they build many of the railway tunnels on Merseyside.

My late father working down the pit at Cronton Colliery - Many of his mates left to work on the 2nd tunnel as they needed shot firers etc tripling their wages - he left to work at BICC - as he did not fancy it after being a face worker using a pick & shovel for in his early years before blasting the coalface started.....now if the pits were still open technology they would use a mechanical worm & conveyor belts making a horrible job much easier - Poland has still 300 coal pits & its one of their main industries as do other bigger countries ....

Tunnelling today for roads etc is far more sophisticated... great photo

 

[Joey66]

 

[degsy]

…..James St station, opened in 1886 as the terminus for the Merseyside railway tunnel;

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Had its own...not in a bad way...'Underground Smell' which still takes me back

 

[Joey66]

Two floors - I saw more fighting in this place than any other club in town -