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World War II and Myths & Legends Tours at Fort Perch Rock in New Brighton with our Local Historian & Author. Operating Tours & Events for over 14 Years.

Checkout our evening Ghost Walks and Events throughlut the year via the events tab History of Wallasey

05/09/2024

Liscard Road in 1950 Compared to Modern Day

Looking down Liscard Road in Seacombe with Seacombe Congregational Church on the Right in 1950

The Modern Day view shows the Houses before the Church still in place but the Church was removed and later replaced by a Petrol Garage which still stands today

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05/09/2024

Keenan's Cottage on Mill Lane in 1880 Compared to Modern Day.

It was located where the Grey House is Opposite St Alban's Church.

The Lane was an old Country Lane with Farms, A Church, Water Tower and Pond. The Railway Station was located a little further down at Station Road

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04/09/2024

This picture of Lancaster Avenue after some of the heavy air raids of 1941, shows how badly Wallasey suffered during the Luftwaffe's onslaught. It was here, on the night of 12th, March, that a German land mine landed on Lancaster Avenue. At that time there brick air-raid shelters which were built in the middle of the road. Many were killed. Whilst searching for survivors three-month old baby Irene Foulds was found under the debris by rescue workers some three and a half days after the air-raid.

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04/09/2024

🔥 Fire on the Ghost Train 🔥

Blaze After An Explosion Destroys The Ghost Train
17 September 1966

Flames 50 feet high wrecked two amusement houses and caused thousands of pounds worth of damage in New Brighton Tower Grounds on Monday night.

An explosion at about 9.15 pm in one of the oldest rides in the fairground – the Ghost Train – started the outbreak and it quickly spread to the Fun House.

A wall of the building housing the train was blown out and house windows 300 yards away were shattered.

Both the buildings involved were made mostly from wood, steel and plastic, and giant flames caused sparks and clouds of smoke surrounding side-shows.

Thirty firemen under Mr Frank Fradley, Wallasey deputy chief fire officer, poured thousands of gallons of water into the area, and limited the fire’s spread.

After about half-an-hour the flames were beaten down and the firemen neared the seat of the outbreak. But then parts of the house and train circuit fell, causing more flames, and it was not until after 10 pm that the fire was completely under control.

The manager of the ghost train, Mr Stanley Crighton, aged 54, of Rowson Street, Wallasey, was in the Floral Pavilion when the fire broke out.

He dashed to the fairground and guided firemen, showing them where electricity points were located.

Mr Crighton said he had been working until early evening on the train, preparing if for the weekend. When he left he turned all the lights off and took the fuses out of the socket. He switched off all the electricity.

On Wednesday morning detectives and firemen were in the area carrying out investigations into what caused the explosion and fire.

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04/09/2024

The first half of the 1940’s were years of war, of bombs and blackout, of queues and coupons. The next five were of peace, of permits and town planning. It was the decade of sirens, and then a fresh start.

The first year of the 1940’s was strangely quiet. Thousands of children had been evacuated. The sirens didn’t sound until June, 1940, and then it was a false alarm.

After eleven months of the ‘phoney’ war, Wallasey had its first air raid on August 1o, 1940, It was just a taste of what was to come.
Over 500 alerts followed between then and January, 1942. In addition to 340 townspeople killed, 275 were seriously injured.

Over 1,150 houses were demolished. Over 17,000 were damaged. Wallasey was a front-line town.

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04/09/2024

New Brighton Beach at the Turn of the 20th Century before the Kings Parade area was developed

During the war, the caves in the Red Noses were used by British soldiers encamped nearby, to store supplies and also as air raid shelters, while anti-aircraft guns were sited on the cliffs above the Yellow Noses. The 1960 exploration revealed helmets, gas masks, ammunition boxes, an ammunition trolley and the remains of a small railway, suggesting a small-scale Maginot Line. The caves under the Yellow Noses are referred to as the “Wormhole Complex” and run under a house in Portland Street, but were blocked during World War Two when an enemy bomb was dropped on the cliffs.

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04/09/2024

‪Looking up Seaview Road in the early 20th Century Compared to Modern Day‬

By the 1930s, the shops in Sea View (two words in those days) Road were, from the Wellington Hotel, Haigh's the fish and chip shop, Mrs Hitchlock tobacconist, Bill Morton, the grocer, which later became Rediffusion the radio cable people. There was no televisions at that time. Subscribers to the company were supplied with a speaker and the programmes were relayed to people's homes by means of cable. The main receiving station was in Birkenhead. There was the tailor, Mr Feintuch, who was on the opposite corner of Silverlea Avenue. Next door was was the opticians run by Mr Harris. At a later date, Mr Hayes took over the business. He was a keen photographer and was the founder member of the Wallasey Amateur Photographic Society in 1904. At No.27 was Bill Molyneux, the butcher, and next to Whalley Chandlers was Irving Little, the paint people, and on the corner of Merton Road was Foster's, the greengrocers.

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03/09/2024

In St Hilary's of Wallasey, an area of the churchyard that contains no graves is said to be where the bodies of several notorious pirates were interred. Smugglers’ tunnels lead from beneath the old tower, from the old Rectory, and from a grave in the churchyard, in the direction of Liscard Castle, possibly as far as the Wormhole Complex of tunnels in New Brighton. According to a story told in 1866, by the coroner at the inquest into the wreck of the ship Elizabeth Buckham, one Sunday, when a wreck was reported off the shore, the rector of the church said: ‘Keep your seats till after the collection and then we can all start fair,’ and then led his entire flock to plunder the cargo of the wreck. ‘Wrecking’ was a way of life in Wallasey of yore, and the same coroner related a prayer taught to children in the old days:
God bless feyther and God bless mather,
And God send us a wreck afore morning.

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03/09/2024

Today marks 85 years since WW2 was Declared.

Life was about to change drastically for many living in Wallasey, especially the Children whom were about to be evacuated. Checkout this wartime story for an insight into a local girls wartime life

The Big Adventure: Evacuated from Wallasey
People in story: Beryl Frances Houghton

On September the third 1939 I sat quietly by the wireless with my parents listening to Mr Chamberlain telling us that we were at war with Germany. My brother slept peacefully in his pram but I realized that this was a really important message.

I was six and a half years old and although my inquiry about the wailing sirens in the previous months had brought the answer, " They are new alarms that they are trying out in case we have to be told of danger." ,I was blissfully unaware of the the radical changes that were about to happen to our lives. We lived in Wallasey on the banks of the River Mersey. We had recently moved from another part of the town and lived in a pleasant council house, that was not fully furnished as my parents had married at the time of Depression those were had years on Merseyside. After years of very sporadic employment my father had found work at sea, often away for many months at a time but now he had found a job ashore. My parents had thought that there was a glimmer of light at the end of a very dark tunnel.

After the broadcast I looked at my parents' anxious faces , half understanding their talk of war mongerers, and then went out into the garden with my skipping rope to find reassurance in normality.

Two men called one evening to fit us with gas masks. They showed us how to put them on, putting our chins in first and pulling the mask up over our faces and the straps over our heads. The strong smell of rubber was both alarming and intriguing, reminding me of new Wellington boots.
My mask was blue, the grown ups had black masks. After a little while my oval window misted up and the friendly man explained that I would have to sit still and not talk much if we were wearing the masks to keep us safe from gas.
My baby brother was terrified at the sight of us in our masks and hated being put into his whole body mask. He screamed and kicked and his window was covered in steam very quickly. My poor mother couldn't get him out fast enough, he emerged red and purple in the face and took a long time to calm down.
An announcer on the wireless told people how to get their children ready for evacuation . They had to have a luggage label with their name and address tied to their coat lapel. They had to have nightwear and a change of clothes in a haversack. If a haversack couldn't be provided one had to be made out of a pillow case. My mother told me that I was going to be evacuated and that it would be a big adventure.
The day came when I had to set off on my big adventure. I had my packed haversack, my gas mask and a luggage label tied to the top buttonhole of my coat. My mother ,unusally, walked up the road to school with me.There was no big farewell scene ,she probably just told me to be good. There were lots of excited children in the school yard . The teachers lined us up in classes. Because I was new to the school the children in my class were really just acquaintances, so I couldn't latch on to a special friend. I looked about for haversacks made from pillow slips - but didn't see any.
When everyone had arrived and the registers were called we were formed up into ranks and files like soldiers and marched off to the little local railway station. We marched on the road, the pavements were lined with people waving and calling out encouragement. I looked for my mother in the crowds but didn't see her, so assumed that she was too busy with the baby to come.

Years afterwards when I told my mother this she was shocked that I hadn't seen her and my Gran who were both there waving.

I knew the trains that ran on this little branch line as I had travelled on one during a Sunday School Treat. We had gone to a station called Heswall Hills, about eight miles away by rail, and from there we had gone for a picnic and a sort of Sports Day.The carriages were separate with no corridors to join them. To open the window you had to pull a heavy leather strap up and towards you before you could use it to gradually lower the window. When you had the window where you wanted it you had to press the brass stud on the frame into a hole punched in the strap.

We were all chattering excitedly as we got on the train. One of the boys set about opening one of the windows but was quickly stopped by a teacher. There was lots of happy chatter,I didn't notice anyone looking unhappy.Before long we arrived at Heswall Hills, where we got off the train.

I think that we went on 'buses but really can't remember, I also don't remember anything about eating any food.We eventually arrived at something like a village hall in a big room set up like a class room with tables but no chairs.We had to sit up on the tables we were told that two special ladies were coming, a President and I think a Chairwoman. They were going to pick chilren to take home.

I can't remember now what those two ladies looked like, I think they may have worn uniforms, but I know I thought that they looked very smart and wealthy. The other women present showed them great repect. The President wanted two children so she chose twin girls. The other lady came across to me and asked me to go with her. I went without saying goodbye to anyone. In the next room a woman at a table gave me what I suppose were iron rations,the largest chocolate bar I had ever seen, some condensed milk and some other things.
When we got outside we walked to a lovely red sports car. I had only been in a car about twice before, even our doctor came to the house on a bike! Inside, the car smelled beautifully of petrol and leather. AS we drove along the lady told me that she had twins at home who were also six., Christine and Christopher. We drove into a sweeping drive leading what seemed to me to be a mansion.

Standing in the large entrance hall I was introduced to the cook who was given my iron rations, and other servants, I think. Then I was taken up the grand staircase to a large room that was the day nursery, and introduced to the nurse and the children. I knew about children's nurses and nurseries , presumably from Children's Hour aand story books.
The nurse took me to a small room with a bed and a chest of drawers and a wash hand basin with taps. I'd never seen a bedroom with a plumbed in basin before but thought it a very good idea. We sat on the bed while the nurse wrote to my parents on a picture post card of Heswall ,after consulting with me and I signed it . Then she suggested that I might like a wash.She soaped a fannel and began to wash my face. I was a big girl and my mother hadn't wash my face for me except at bedtime for many months' I felt suddenly very homesick and burst into tears crying that I wanted my mummy.
After the sobbing had subsided I had a biscuit and a drink of warm milk and lay on the bed as directed for a nap.I went straight to sleep.

I was never upset again aand don't even remember thinking about my home and family! It is hard to understand that now, as I had been an only child for six years and had been a close companion to my mother while my father was at sea.I don't even remember receiving any letters from home, if I did they made no lasting impression.

I slept in that little room for several nights' I suppose that was to make sure that I wasn't infectious. Then I joined the children in the night nursery and shared their bath time. Three in a bath! It was a bit crowded but fun.

An evacuee school was set up in a village hall, small tables and chairs were crammed in making it difficult for the teacher to get round. The only equipment we had was paper and pencil and I think reading books. I don't remember learning anything new while I was there but we were happy enough and I don't remember any naughty behaviour.

I got on well with the twins and felt totally part of the family except when the gardener brought the pony round for the twins to ride on and I was not included! They seemed hardly ever to see their mother who never ate with us although if she was in we would go down to have elevens's with her. Their father was in the army and occasionly showed up looking smart in officer's uniform. If visitors came in the evening for dinner the twins would go down in their nightwear to be introduced and I would have Nurse all to myself.
After I had been there about a month the twins and I were playing on the top terrace of the garden when the nurse asked me who this was who was coming up the garden. I stopped and looked and saw a young smiling woman wearing a navy blue swagger coat, they were very fashionable at that time.I looked for a minute or so before remembering that my mother had bought such a one earlier in the summer. Then it slowly dawned on me that this was my mother.How quickly children forget.

I was delighted of course, and had so much to tell her. I told her that everyone had been talking about the the evacuee women who had wet their knickers. My mother became very cross and explained that the women concerned were all just about to have babies. They had travelled in a train with no toilets then had had to stand waiting for 'buses to take them on, there was no where for them to get to a toilet.They were very unhappy and embarressed.

Although I enjoyed being with my mother I quite accepted the fact that she would have to leave me soon. I think that she visited two or three times , the only time that I cried when she left was when we had gone to the bus stop with her, I was playing about with the twins when the 'bus came and missed her goodbye kiss.

My mother had been evacuated to a near by village, the first house that she went to was dirty and she and my baby brother woke up with flea bites. I think that they only stayed there the one night.

When Christmas came I went home to Wallasey for a few days. While I was there my parents decided that as there was no sign of danger they would keep me with them. So I never got to say goodbye and thank you to the people who had made me feel so welcome.

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03/09/2024

Childhood Memories until 1941 of Wallasey Cheshire, including the Blitz
By Peter Forshaw 11/5/1936

We lived in Vyner Road Wallasey. I remember the brick shelter being built with what looked like purple mortar, in the brickwork in our back garden. Next door had one built, no 17. He was a Mr Thomas who had built all the houses in Vyner Rd and several other roads roundabout in collaboration with a Mr Linley. The shelters had no damp proof courses and always smelt damp and dank. There was a metal handle in the wall which was supposed to create an emergency exit but I couldn’t see how it would work.. There were two chest high bunks along two walls and the rest slept on deck hatch planks on the floor. There was an electric bell on the side of the bunk nearest the door, which connected with the kitchen in the house only to be used by the children in cases of dire need.
I can remember hearing the bombing all around us and not being the least bit worried or frightened, in fact I beat time to the bombs on a case as they fell.

Anticipating shortages that were likely to occur my mother had bought new spare clothing to see us through the war. One evening during the bombing she was going upstairs and noticed under, my bedroom door, a bright light. Almost simultaneously an ARP warden ( ARP Wardens Seen in Photograph) called at the house to inform us he had seen a bomb go through the roof . An incendiary bomb had penetrated the roof and entered my bedroom and buried itself in the suitcase of brand new spare clothes, which smothered it and saved the house.

After a heavy raid we would walk up the hill to Claremount Rd and look towards Liverpool and see the red sky, the after effects of all the bombing. Three or four houses away from us a land mine dropped, totally demolishing a pair of semi detached houses, substantially damaging several others and killing several people. The next road Broadway Avenue, gave access to Belvidere playing field, in which was moored a barrage balloon which caused great excitement one day when it escaped and its trailing cable removed the chimney pots from many houses roundabout bringing the Air Raid Wardens on to the streets ordering all the children indoors.

My brother was born on 21st December 1940 and due to the bombing my mother decided it was safer to leave him in the nursing home at 89 Penket Rd, Wallasey. Unfortunately a bomb dropped close to the nursing home whilst he was being taken to the air raid shelter and due to the after effects of the blast and pneumonia he died aged 6 weeks. My Father told me that he took “Joseph Anthony” in a white box in the back of a car to the cemetery where he is buried with my grandmother Florence Dowdall.

When she used to visit us in the air raid shelter she would frighten us to death by chanting in a weird voice that if we did not behave ourselves “Boney “ would come and get us.( Boney goes back to Napoleon Bonaparte )
After several short term evacuations to Leasowe and West Kirby on individual nights, we ended up living with Florence Dowdall in Burns Drive Rhyl where our near neighbour was Rob Wilton one of the most famous voices on radio during the war whose catch phrase was “The day war broke out my missus said to me ……..” “ She has a cruel tongue “

One morning in Rhyl I was in bed in the loft when a mine went off on the beach and I distinctly felt the bed move. During all this time attempts were made to educate me at various schools. Marymount Convent was bombed and I recall the chapel being in ruins and thinking it very exciting when the air raid warning sirens went resulting in an immediate suspension of lessons and adjournment to the large shelters on the school playground.

Returning home to Wallasey in 1944 was very exciting after the dullness of Rhyl under the threat of Boney.
The nuns at Marymount would not allow boys on the premises after the age of 9 so I had to move to St Albans Catholic Primary, which, having been bombed out,was housed in a non catholic building known as Church Street, Egremont, Wallasey. Imagine the denominational friction. We quickly learnt to keep a low profile. I distinctly recall our initiation, being roughed up in the air raid shelters, by the Protestants ( Proddy Dogs ) in what they called Belsen. A word which had already entered schoolboy parlance, just over a year of its liberation.

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03/09/2024

‪Wallasey village in the early 20th Century compared to Modern Day ‬

Looking at the top of School Lane, with No.1 being at one time a public house called 'Ring of Bells' where John Robinson was the landlord. Joe Coventry also had it at one time. In the early 1900's it was converted into a house and a shop. Mr. Jack Jones ran a small business which was later carried on by his wife. Mr and Mrs. Harold Kemp came to live in the house part. Their son, Herbert, became a member of the Wallasey Silver Band as a boy and was a member for many years.. Harold Kemp was an electrician. The small, slated house had a shop window on one side of the building with the name "J.Jones" written above. Over the door was an advert for "Players Please" (ci******es) and further adverts were at the side of the shop window for "Wild's Gold Flake" and "Will's Capstan Navy Cut". Another sign for "Craven A" ci******es appeared under the window.

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03/09/2024

The Legend of Liscard Castle in Wallasey

Another place noted for tunnels is the site of the so-called Liscard Castle, a large house whose site is marked by Castle Road and Turret Road, off Seaview Road, which fell into ruin and gained a reputation for being haunted, before being demolished about 1902. The ghost was said to be that of a young woman who married a sea captain who lived there. One day the news reached the young woman of her husband’s death by drowning. Driven mad by this discovery, she drowned herself in the duck pond on Hose Side Road, which is how it gained its name of “the Captain’s Pit.”

A later resident discovered “weird old passages” in the basement, and called in workmen to have them blocked up. One evening, after the workmen had gone, he heard a loud knocking from below, and panicked, thinking someone had been accidentally walled up. He rushed down to the basement and shouted out. No reply came, but the knocking continued. Overcome by an inexplicable dread, he ran from the basement…

The passages in question are said to extend as far as St Hilary’s, Leasowe Castle, and even Chester Castle. Although the latter seems highly unlikely (what Stonehouse would have called “stuff”), it is possible that the tunnel leading to St Hilary’s joins up with one of the tunnels from beneath the Palace. Perhaps they are one and the same tunnel.

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02/09/2024

A Smugglers tunnel is said to have run from Portland Street up to the grounds of the church of SS Peter and Paul at the top of Atherton Street, where it exits within the church beneath the old statue of the Virgin Mary. This tunnel, filled in during the 1940s, is supposed to link with the smugglers’ well at Mother Redcap’s and the tunnel that led towards Bidston Moss. Yet another passageway also runs from the same church to the cellar of a modern house on the corner of Albion Street and Mount Road (discovered in 1978), and another to the sea. Joseph Ruiz a Local Historian, discovered an old Victorian tunnel leading to the water tower in Gorsehill Road, and notes that there are caves in the rock behind the tower. There has also been Ghostly Sightings of the Lantern Man who is said to be guarding over the Smugglers Entrance. He is often seen in the grounds of the Church. The Victorian Superstitions say that the last person to be buried in the churchyard is to guard over the grounds until the next person arrives at the church gates. This resulted in squabbles over who got to bury their dead first. The present church was built in the 1930s.

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02/09/2024

The Ghosts of Leasowe Castle

there is a room on the mezzanine level between first and second floors called the Boardroom, also known as the Oak Room, or the Ghost Room. Octagonal in shape, it is lit by two windows set in the thick walls and it is panelled from floor to ceiling, although originally the walls were rough-hewn stone. At some point in the building’s history, the owners became embroiled in a family feud with another noble line. They took prisoner the head of the rival family and his young son, who they shut up in the Oak Room. Fearing that their captors would torture them, the father smothered his son then killed himself by dashing out his brains against the wall. The building has been a hotel several times during its chequered history, and the room itself was at one point a bedroom. A visitor, who had heard nothing of the story related above, made “a terrible hullabaloo at midnight,” saying that he had seen a man and a boy standing in the moonlight between his bed and the windows.

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02/09/2024

The Haunting of Earlston House

This Old Liscard Manor House is haunted by the Ghost of a former Grounds Keeper who Keeps watch over this 15th Century Wallasey Mansion. He has been seen strolling around the grounds of a night time and has even been spotted nearby in Rake Lane Cemetery.

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Thank you once again to The New Brightoners and Biffa who keep our beaches nice and clean after the visiting hours. ❤️ Respect the Beaches, take your own litter back home with you ⛔️

Book now and Join us this weekend for our WW2 Tours inside the Napoleonic Fort Perch Rock Battery on the Banks of the River Mersey Come and Learn the History of the Fort and all about Life during WW2 in New Brighton. You will hear about what life was like on the British Homefront and our Seaside Town. Starting inside our Napoleonic Fort, You will learn about The Bombings of the Blitz, The arrival of the US Army, German Spies in Wallasey, The AA Guns at the Red Noses, The Maunsell Forts in the River Mersey, local Rationing, The Dig for Victory Campaign, Ladies and their new duties, Evacuation, War Dances at the Tower Ballroom. You will also undertake a Tour of the Art Murals around the Victorian Quarter where our Historian will tell you of their history. Book now and join us https://wallasey-days-gone-by.sumupstore.com/product/when-the-bombs-dropped-on-new-brighton-seaside-resort-ww2-tour

We are blessed living at the seaside, clean air and clean living Thank you to the New Brightoners and Biffa who between them keep this place clean from other peoples mess ❤️ We’ve our tours running all weekend at Fort Perch Rock so book now and join us

A special treat for Uncle John at his 100th Birthday Bash inside Fort Perch Rock. We will be having more historic talks on WW2 starting in September which are now available to book. We also have our Fundraisers for RNLI New Brighton starting next month so come and join us Tickets available here https://wallasey-days-gone-by.sumupstore.com

It’s a beautiful evening in New Brighton so come down to Fort Perch Rock this evening where the amazing Abbie is performing Live. We have Italian Pizzas and French Wine throughout the night. Doors now open so get your seats and relax in the sunshine 😎

The height of Summer in New Brighton 2024 - where did it go or when will it arrive ☔️

Sunset at Leasowe Bay 😍

Leasowe Bay 😍

It’s a nice warm summers day in New Brighton 🤠 Summer has finally arrived 🏖️ Our summer Tours are now on Sale so come and join us at Fort Perch Rock Book Now https://wallasey-days-gone-by.sumupstore.com

Yesterday evening we held an evening at Fort Perch Rock in honour of Uncle John our D-Day Veteran. He unveiled a plaque for the 80th Anniversary of D-Day. It is now on the wall inside The Mess Cafe bar so please pop a long and take a look. We also have our D-Day Special WW2 Tours taking place in June https://wallasey-days-gone-by.sumupstore.com/product/when-the-bombs-dropped-on-new-brighton-seaside-resort-ww2-tour

Abnormal weather on our Coastline today, this is the normal Spring tides we expect in February Can you remember how bad the storms were in February 1990 when the baths got destroyed?

Lots of White Horses on our Coastline today

We have a lovely Red Sky over our Seaside Town this evening 😍 It’s nearly time for our Myths & Legends Tours to begin once more so get your tickets and Join us in March and April to hear all about the local Maritime Tales of this famous Seaside Resort Book now

We have a nice Sunny start to the day in Wallasey and a great view across to the Snow on the Welsh Mountains 🏔

It’s a bit fresh outside this morning ⛄️⛰❄️ Nice to see the snow on the Welsh Mountains

Snowfall 16th January 2024 in Wallasey

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For Over 6 Years Hidden Wirral have been creating memories for visitors and locals alike in the Historic Wirral Peninsula. Best known for our spine-tingling Ghostly Walks, we also offer a range of interesting History Tours that run day and night, all year round. Our commitment is for a fun, insightful and memorable walking tour experience, facilitated by our exceptional team of storyteller guides, led by New Brighton's pre-eminent historian, Tony Franks-Buckley Join us on one of our tours today!

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