Birkenhead The 1960's & 70's

Old video clips around Birkenhead including Ferry terminal and Grange Road

[@speakerscorner7]

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??.

[@robertwright88]

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

[@systemler44]

We're about did you live

[@robertwright88]

@@systemler44 Born in Wallasey, had a few years in Bromborough but spent most of my childhood in Bebington and then lived in Claughton after getting married.

[@thezebrafromheaven7568]

TRFC forever. I will support them til the day I die.

[@yvonnejohnson772]

Good song I grew up in birkenhead

[@nestahale]

My dad drove those blue corporation buses, and all through the war ,too.I remember #58 went to Clatterbridge. Mom’s first job out of school at 14 in 1929 was at a newspaper ,book stand at Woodside Ferry. I went to Rock Ferry Primary Ionic St ., then to Park High which was originally called Birkenhead Girls Secondary , on Park Rd South.

[@yvonnejohnson772]

the changes that have gone on over the years in Birkenhead and most off its not good park high haze a different name now

[@itsjudystube7439]

Great pics. Thanks

[@jacquelineithell307]

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

[@petefl1818]

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

[@haeleth7218]

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

[@gymhead]

❤ never forget where your from ❤

[@speakerscorner7]

Aye not you is it Charlie??

[@gymhead]

@@speakerscorner7 nope

[@desmcleod2604]

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

[@Embracing01]

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

[@petefl1818]

You do now.

[@JuniorGrimesLegit]

*such old fashioned-ish vibes...*

[@deaniussssumner89]

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 😊😊😊👍👍👍

[@nickpatterson4318]

So Romeantic.

[@summernulty62]

this video was on my recommended and i didnt look at the account until i was about to comment and then i realised its my uncles

[@johnnickson1455]

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

[@systemler44]

Footage from wirral dvd

[@robanks3895]

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

[@petefl1818]

No a Birkenhead one, yes there's a difference.

[@jacquelineithell307]

More of a refined accent

[@wirralnomad]

If you look at a map of the Mersey Basin you'll see the exact area of influence of the Scouse accent which you can hear in the voices of people from as far as Rhyl to Southport and somewhere between Runcorn and Winsford, now if you draw a circle with those places on the outer edge of the circle then you will see that the exact "epicentre" of the Mersey Basin is the Wirral. On that point it's easy to see that the local accents all emanate from the Wirral and extend outwards and so Liverpool actually speaks with a variation of a Birkenhead accent and not the other way around but as we all know he who shouts loudest and all that yeah!

[@theshamanarchist5441]

@@wirralnomad Liverpudlians spoke with Lancastrian (Mancunian) accents until the Irish came in 1847 thenbthe Welsh throughout the 1850's. So it is a highbrid of Northern English, Southern Irish, and North Wallian. Having said that I'm a Wirral lad and I consider our accent to be a Cheshire accent rather than a Lancastrian one. Peace man. 👍

[@wirralnomad]

@@theshamanarchist5441 Yes they did, but still it was a borderline Lancastrian accent with a crossover with a Cheshire accent, and yet geographically speaking the Wirral is still the epicentre of the Mersey Basin area. By your reckoning Mancunian, Liverpool Lancastrian and the accent spoken in today's Lancashire were all the same, exactly the same with no deviations whatsoever, that is no true in the slightest, Mancunian was and still is a borderline accent which is as mix between the traditional Lanky accent and the Yorkie accent but being on the Lancashire side of the border it had more influence from Lanky. Similarly, a Huddersfield accent too is a borderline accent that borders both Lanky, Mancunian and Yorkie, in the case of Huddersfield though their accent is more influenced by the Yorkie accent due to being on the Yorkie side of the border, and having lived in Liverpool, Manchester, Huddersfield and Preston and the Wirral for prolonged periods of my life I have been surrounded by all of these accents and all of their nuances where I am able to hear both similarities and differences in all. All of my Grandparents were Liverpool born and three of them I knew and even with their Scouse twang I could still hear Old Lancastrian remnants which I have not heard in any Liverpool born accent for almost 30 to 40 years now and yet, the accent I hear now I live in Manchester is not the same accent I remember hearing when I first lived in Manchester in the early 1980's, or that same Mancunian accent we hear in old episodes of Coronation Street from the early 1960's and old newsreels.

[@gbwildlifeuk8269]

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

[@jacquelineithell307]

Towards the end yes when first built the people were the salt of the earth fact 👌 💯 👍

[@earash16]

same shit in 2021

[@gbwildlifeuk8269]

Worse. Full of cry babies on anti social media now. Apart from those on moaning media

[@Sallyjord1]

Terrible quality videos 😅