Hi Parapianha! Thanks for this video of Birkenhead. It is proof it used to be a functional town. Now it is an apology of one. The planners and politicians have wiped it out. Only the people remain great.
Miss everything about growing up In the 60s and 70s the whole vibe fashions communities sport great tv just the whole simpler way of life a time it was it was a time it was.
I remember watching oak and Eldon fall just like that. I remember the smell of the dynamite. When they where down everyone was allowed to walk over right after they came down and people where taking a piece of concrete as a souvenir lol. Sad. My grandad worked on the crosville buses as a clicky and he also worked as the lost property office right in the corner of Woodside. My grandmother would always send me to the woodbine shop. "That's what she called it. As she lived in oak and Eldon herself.. She was always in the pilot with my grandad and she would be the one to lend out money for your pension book of course lol. And she would always come home with a keg of lamb from the pilot.. I used to think there was a butchers in the pilot lol She would sit me outside in the car with as much crisps and cola as I wanted while I used to listen to music in the car on a tape recorder.. Social services would make up lies and say you was negligted if it was to happen now. I always felt safe back then . And of course everyone who was born in the late 60s 70s will remember the guy on the corner stall on the market who would be doing his delroy trotter."come on ladies come and get your Jean's, not only will I do 2 for one but I will do them for a fiver!! I tell you what love, seeing as your so good looking and your husband's not here they are yours for not five pound "not three pounds but today they are yours for £1.99 lol Lots of memories here. So many good one's. Great compilation..
I lived in 71 eldon gardens, 7th floor, as a kid, i loved it there, always out playing footy or out on our bikes. Never used to bring our bikes in at night, always left them out the door and never had any problems. Everybody new everybody but truly brilliant memories from there
What memories, Grange road with Tj Hughes were you walked through the door and had to go upstairs or downstairs, Behind it was a derilict land used as a car park which is now the Pyramids. I remember Woodside when there were crosville and Birkenhead buses, and the Wallasey corporation 10 service which use to go as far as Port Sunlight. The Birkenhead General Hospital was just around the corner from Oak and Eldon flats and Asda use to be on the site that is now the bus station
Wow what memories your video brought back for me,i lived in St Andrews Square and had buddies who lived in the gardens,i spent manny many days playing and fighting over there,i sure do miss the old Birkenhead of those days,if your a jones,hughes,fowler,woods, in fact anyone from the mid 60's to early 70's who lived in St Andrews drop me a line i'd luv to hear from you.i'm living in Canada now but all my family still reside in Birkenhead.
I was born and lived in Birkenhead for the first 16 years of my life. I then joined the Merchant Navy. Later on my mother & I moved to Bournemouth where I have lived ever since.My mother died aged 94 years. David Leake
12 лет назад
Brilliant footage of Birkenhead. I can remember most of these locations.
I remember the flats getting demolished. A new technique was used and the event was covered extensively by the local media. I lived 4 or 5 miles away and still heard the noise of them coming down. Stock footage of the flats being demolished occasionally used to crop up in television programmes well into the 1980s.
fantastic vid. o m g. i was there when they blow up oak and eldon gardens flats ....it seems like yesterday...thanks for the memories my friend ....regards steve jones
I used to go and get my grandad out of the tub Saturdays for his tea and Sundays the avenue opposite the rugby club or if he was on a session in one of the laird street alehouses,the comet if I remember rightly, Family is from Powell street which I believe isn't there more 2 up 2 down outside loo. Memories 🍺🍺
Hi thank you for this film, could you tell me what the school was called that had the flats in the back ground, (they where Oak and Elm Gardens I think) The kid in the film with black hair and thumbs up was me. I lived in the flats as a short time as a child. That part of the film must of been 1970 or early seventies. Hope you are able to reply thanks.
the flats were called oak and eldon gardens and the school was st lauries ( St Laurences ) I made my holy communion in the church next door, but the church is gone now
Back then the school was St Lawrences. But it was catholic and once they discovered the spelling it was corrected to 'St Laurences'. It must have been pretty new then? It closed about a year ago :(
time 3,19 the boy with the blonde hair,to the left is now daid,he was a good kid ,olso my dad is dead he to is on this video time 3;32 he is on the frander 6 flloor up vittoria court flats.he was a good man.
