EAW001767 ENGLAND (1946). Vyner Road North and housing around Birkenhead County Borough Infectious Diseases Hospital, Bidston Hill, 1946

NOT MERCER Road....Nanny Goats Mountains

Actually NAYLOR Road

Is actually COLLIN ROAD...not Arkle

Egan Road

Mercer Road

Challis Street.

Hoblyn Road

Arkle Road

Egan Road

Mercer Road

"Nanny Goat Mountains"

This site would see Holy Cross RC Church (now closed), built upon it.

These fields are now covered by the Ford Estate (Beechcroft)

Sections of Flaybrick Cemetery.

Bidston Pub.

Hillside Farm Cottage

Tam O'Shanter Farm

Bidston Lighthouse

Boundary Road

Tollemache Road

Boundary Road

Site of Hill Crest a very large house. Can be seen in photo's dated 1926

emergency exit and ventilation shaft for Bidston Hill large air raid shelter. Tower now demolished and sealed at ground Level.

surface Air Raid shelters with blast walls.

Gautby Road model boating lake

Blocks with outside balconies whereby beds could be wheeled onto the balcony for the patient to get the fresh airs - deemed at hat time to be necessary - and usually effective !

"The Home", Overchurch. Originally the home of Mr Paul (owner of flour mills/"Homepride") who was a major figure in the 1925 Boy Scouts World Jamboree and created swimming pool/scouts camp ground. He sold it on to a religious organisation who ran a Children's Home for displaced children during/after WW2. Demolished in the 50s. (Much was owed to Nancy Kinmont, e.g. see blog on internet, specifically "chapter 8: Blue birds over...")

Brookside Farm, Saughall Massie.

Site of M62 Spur (through Professor Harper's home).

Overchurch Primary School; before the two-end extensions to the original building; with air-raid shelters' "hummocks" in front of this this rear facade.

hoylake rd

upton rd

windmill

observatory