You would all like too know its now 2024, and its still going strong today. Arcades still stands and many of the shops. Marine lake was given a facelift couple years back. New shopping outlets now spread across the prom, morrisons, burger king, starbucks and many more. They added crazy golf course some years back too. The dips still fill over summer holidays with circus and amusements from across Europe . I have enjoyed New Brighton throughout my life and have always taken my children too. But most of all, i had the pleasure of living there during my teenage years on Wellington Road and since then I've had a deep love for New Brighton. So watching its history here today certainly brought me joy. Thankyou.

Killer track.

Once the biggest town in Cheshire now a shitty part of Merseyside, 40 years of neglect. Like most northern towns we gave our all to help build and sustain the empire and this is how they treat us.

How about clocking off time at CAMMELL LAIRD SHIP YARD NOW THATS A SIGHT TO REMEMBER

i remember the summer school holidays the fairground the eternal summers "as it felt" the ice-creams simpler times, wirral has so much to offer for kids then, i felt really lucky to have all these opportunities on the peninsula, great times to be alive (70s) a lot has changed since then, but i still have the beautiful amazing memories, thanks for giving me the chance to revisit my childhood, never STOP Loving,,xxxx,

Terrible quality videos 😅

Thank you. What a blast from the past 🙏❤️🙏❤️

born in '72 in St.Caths birkenhead, lived in rock ferry as a kid then moved to wallasey in 1980, loved new brighton outdoor baths (always cold water and dead flies) but great memories, my mum used to take us to the baths firework display on bonifre night shortly before the storm destroyed it. also did a few seasons for dave wilkie in the fairground in my teens :) it's a shame new brighton is basically a ghost town in comparison to the good days.

I remember being really scared in here as a kid

Footage from wirral dvd

I have heard Liverpool want more connection with wirral birkenhead I think a new CENTRAL MAINLINE is in ORDER for the people and community of wirral BIRKENHEAD I think it is a good Idea to have a bus INTERCHANGE at WOODSIDE area since the TRAMS will be reused for transport again I think that these Ideas are amazing 😊😊😊👍👍👍

Correction: The "secret" little underground bar at The Palace Amusement building was called "The Creep Inn", I now seem to recall. A fine social atmosphere, with a great moniker. Neat for the documentary to well-address the major Wilkie contribution to New Brighton. There was also (Councillor) Tommy Mann. He ran (owned?) the big boating pool by Fort Perch Rock, and other ventures. Another asset to the resort. Fort Perch Rock, built as a defence against Napoleon I think, saw service in WW2. It had a little WW2 museum and "club" for vets. John Stanley (The Kraal Club) ran a few rock shows in the courtyard there.

Thank you for such a wonderful documentary. It brought back so many memories. When I worked at Wallasey Borough Council Town Hall, 1958-63, Joy Hockey would come in frequently seeking planning approval for her plans. A very talented architect and a lovely person. My mother told me that, just before WW2, one of the Figure of Eight buggies flew off the top tight bend and sailed out over the promenade to crash onto the beach, with the loss of lives. Great to see the WW2 DUKW being a tourist attraction immediately post-war. I have always remembered my ride, but never seen a video of one in action there. After the war, there was often a sign on the promenade "Don't forget the diver". A legless man would seek donations for jumping off the prom into the sea. I expect that he was an injured war vet. R.I.P. The Tower Grounds were always a delight, especially the miniature railway, the dodgems; The Wall of Death and The Waltzer. The Tower ballroom was incredible; the finest in the North of England and possibly in the UK. It has a sprung floor that continually "creaked" if there were few dancers; 2,000 folk dancers and it seemed quite "empty". Superb sound system. That was a very fine dance band. Wednesday nights were typically free entrance - one just needed to find the man who went around handing out free tickets at the nearby Lakeside Bar or other bars, or in the road. Weekend dancing was usually tremendous for the dancing and meeting folk. The came The Skiffle Craze and then Rock, with many fine top-rank shows. So many incredible nights there. The Palace Amusement building had some fine rides .... dodgems, car racing, and a fierce "giant bullet" that spun, tilted and swung around fiercely. And a "secret" bar underground, "The Creep". I think it was supposed to be only for Palace employees and their guests. Then The Bowling Alley was built on the circus/ car park next door. And all the local scallies were running around town wearing pinkish/reddish bowling pumps. (The Bowling Alley itself was built a few feet in the wrong place. Building Inspector's error. Bit embarrassing that. There was a pretty tough Rock Band place above a shop at the lower end of Victoria Street, "The Empress". One night I saw "Derry/Howie Casey and The Seniors" with their new-singer Freddy Fowell (later Freddy Starr). I was near the front and a, fortunately empty, flying glass pitcher smashed against the wall by me. The band did not miss a beat. The Brighton Pier a classic. And it was reputed that its draught Guinness was the finest on The Mainland, "brought in straight from Dublin" so the local cognoscente said. I have often wondered how high the top diving board was. It seemed terrifyingly high. The Royal - a fine little cinema that showed "B" horror movies every Sunday night. Often with some "encouragement" from the thoughtful management. I recall on one Sunday there being a large "bucket of blood" in the foyer, in keeping with the movie's title. So, so much in the documentary. Possibly the only other thing that I was hoping to see was something of The Kraal Club (set up by John Stanley and John Pennington), that I always felt was far finer than The Cavern. Resident band were The Pressmen, with Aynsley Dunbar on drums; but other fine bands like The Undertakers and The Roadrunners were regulars. Another fine place was The Grosvenor in Liscard. Regulars were Cass and The Casanovas/The Big Three. It might have not seemed like it at the time, but it was a special town. It had about 350 pubs. We planned on having a pint in each before our 18th birthday. The target was almost achieved before the first in the group had his 18th. Cheapest pint of mild was 11 pence, a small pub with a sandstone cellar wall near Seacombe Ferry. So, thank you so much.

Wirral borough council what a joke they have done nothing for wàllasey but sell it out for their own gains now it is getting better but with liverpool drug money being used to open bars but even that has changed when they first opened where nice but now no so with an uneasy vibe about if and feral kids wearing balaclavas on mountain bikes things need to change and people need to look after what they have or will soon have nothing like in the early 80s

Birkenhead 1960, emigrated to Sweden in 71, this does bring back a few memories

I remember going down the helter-skelter in the early sixties, expecting to fly off any moment into the Mersey.

Hi great photos of past being I used to live in 1 princes road ust to fish in prinny park for carp, last time I was the Id seen a very good friend off at st margrets his wake 2015 RIP Norman-B peace from spain

I remember the ghost train. As a kid I thought this was the Bees knees

Lovely pictures, but that music in the second half had me wanting to jump out of the window!

I was born and bred there am a mad liverpool fan but always check Tranmere Rovers score why my home town simple

Was that Eli at 2:35, he had a stall on Birkenhead market selling China and other stuff from boxes that he claimed not to know the contents before opening. Always a big crowd there begging to buy from him

I was living at the back of Vale Park at Aylesbury Road I would try to sleep but the row those kid kept me wake .

I worked at a fish and chip shop there as a kitchen porter on the corner of Wilkies fair ground

Try turning the photos to black an white, think it would work better.

Born in Wallasey 62 living in Canada now but remember so much of the place. Learned to waterski right to the west of the pier at the Wallasey power boat and ski club. Jumped off the top of the diving tower at the baths. Went back for holiday in 91-92 it was such a shame to see all the things that I grew up with destroyed but I knew the people there would rebuild better. Thanks for the memories 👍.

My memories of this exact area involve flashers in their macs sticking their knobs through the school fence on Ullet Road most weeks, my dads car getting broken into every time he parked it on Belvedere Road, it looking an absolute shit hole in the early 80’ and still in early 2000’s, me getting assaulted and my nose broken by two teenagers when I was at uni and numerous other incidents. Despite that I also remember fab times in Princes Park with the dogs and it’s home 🖤

Great pics. Thanks

Wow, I remember Woodside looking like that. The buses were a bit more modern but it was the same Woodside (born in '72).

possibly in some salvage yard

What piece of music is this.

Love the jazz sounds like alfie or basil kirchin:))

Watched this afew times now grew up in Birkenhead worked on market and delivered papers on swan hill great place when I was Kidd till 80s came and went to Australia

God lord the 58 passing the 3 Stags, memories are made of this.

So blurred .Why so poor the quality of the film, ?

No mention of wall of death.my grandads sister was the first woman to ride the wall with her husband ..cassie and fred God bless them..

What type of accent do Birkenhead people have, is it a scouse one?

I never knew WHSmith used to be called WHSmith & Son.

My grandmother worked on the crosville buses as a clicky..then in list property at Woodside. Also I remember the old Birkenhead market that got burnt to the ground.not the one now. We used to have a great day out at the current market. Hot dogs and onions was everyone's favourite. I watched oak and Eldon get blown down by Ogden demolition. It's crazy how things stay in your head from childhood??.

I lived in Virginia road..life was so different back then

I lived in Selbourne street rear of princess avenue, great times growing up in the 70’s& 80’s

Wtf is that god awful music ?!?!!!

3:42 oak and eldon gardens. Good riddance! The people in there were forever shitting and pissing in the lifts !

I love it here I was there yesterday

And then heroin took over . Now look at it .

I lived on the Wirral from 1956 to 1983. I still support Tranmere Rovers!

My great grandfather,Samuel Oxton -Langley,died in 1910 Stuart,he was on his way back to Birkenhead after a visit to the Zoo,he had a pony and trap,and coming over the Four Bridges,he was in collision with a railway shunt,and was thrown from the trap,he died a few months later,his Death Certificate states,that” He died from exhaustion,following upon insanity,due to being thrown from his trap,after collision with certain goods wagons on Tower Road “

same shit in 2021

❤ never forget where your from ❤

Lived in the baths at summer time

Born and bred in Richmond St Newbrighton memories