Many thanks to Terry Roberts for sending me this photo that shows the old bridge at the bottom of Grange Hill/Grange Road. Terry dates this photo at about 1956 and wonders by any chance if anyone recognises the boy in the photo.

I remember the old bridge being there in the late 1970′s early 1980′s but I can’t recall when it removed? I remember the school buses (Crosville) turning round near the bridge on what was probably one big mud patch.

Feel free to comment.

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Friday Photo: Grange Road Bridge

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It appears that the rumours about the West Kirby Loch Fyne venue closing are true.

The Ring-o-Bells in Village Road is to become a Greene King pub after a £150,000 refurbishment programme. It is expected that the venue will offer both drinks and food with a 60/40 split in favour of drink, with an anticipated turnover of £15,000/week. The once popular beer garden is included within the redevelopment.

Here are the retail manager vacancy details.

Photo by Sue Adair

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Loch Fyne To Close

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This brightly painted chap is sat on his concrete plinth outside Surfers Restaurant in Banks Road. He’s one of the Wirral based Go Penguins and you can read all about the penguins at the official site.

This particular penguin is being used to raise recognition of Antarctic Warming (that’s what he’s called) and he’s been painted by artist Lee-Ann Pritchard and sponsored by Surfers.

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Friday Photo: West Kirby Penguin

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This is the top of one the buildings in The Crescent in the centre of West Kirby. Does anybody know what this building was originally used for? Those old windows are lovely!

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Friday Photo: Crescent Building

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West Kirby Sailing Club Bonfire

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Matt Thomas

Matt is a freelance photographer who often includes striking images of both people and places in and around West Kirby.

Little Shop of Sorrow

Keep up-to-date with Hazlehursts Linen Shop as the owner Ian fights against the recession and shares his thoughts right here.

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Visit West Kirby

The Visit West Kirby blog is a relatively new blog and includes posts about the shops and businesses that you’ll find in West Kirby.

Know of other interesting West Kirby blogs? Get in touch and let me know and I’ll try and get them listed. Note: blogs purely promoting a single business may well not cut the mustard sorry.

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West Kirby Blogs

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Many thanks to Chris Hankin for sending me a few old photographs of the old West Kirby Station. This is the old station that served the line that ran the route of what is now the Wirral Way. Those of you who have lived in West Kirby for some years will recall the old railway bridge that was at the bottom of Grange Hill (if that’s you, you’ll also remember the old Crosville bus yard too)? I think that old bridge must have been demolished around 1980.

Chris comments:

The GWR (or more correctly GWR/LMS joint) station was to the east of the current station [Orrysdale Rd]; coming from Hoylake the track curved left pretty sharply after coming through the Bridge Road bridge, and through the station, onto what is now the Wirral Way.

The photo of the demolition of the GWR station was taken from the bridge that took Grange Road over the railway track. If you extend the Wirral Way over Grange Road towards Hoylake that puts the station just about where the eastern edge of the Concourse Car Park is now. There were a number of sidings between the GWR Station and the current station – lots of coal and timber was dealt with here – there was a massive fire in the timber yard once.

I’ve found this wikipedia article about the old station too that adds a little more detail.

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Friday Photo: Old West Kirby Station

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As you can see from my photo, repair work is being undertaken on the war memorial. Does anybody know what the work entails and how long it will take?

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Friday Photo: War Memorial Repairs

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There were 6 registered house sales in West Kirby in August including:

• the highest transaction was £210,000 for a property in Sandstone Dr
• the lowest transaction was £105,000 for a property in Hilton Grove

Current market details include:

• There are at least two properties currently on the market priced at over £2 million.
• There are approximately 145 West Kirby properties for sale at the moment.

Across Wirral as a whole, average property prices rose 0.4% giving an annual change of -12.3%

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West Kirby Property Watch: August 2009

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Or maybe you don’t agree? Please feel free to leave a comment and have your say.

I don’t know what was previously on The Concourse site – can you enlighten me?

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Friday Photo: Dee Lane At Dusk

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