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Cole Street Primary School, Birkenhead
A site visitor adds the following:
One of a number of 'inner city' schools based on a restricted space site - there are two playgrounds one at ground level and one on the roof ! - no longer used...
Image: © Ron Gooding
Taken: 17 Oct 2004
0.03 miles
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Yates' Bar, Exmouth Street
Yates' Bar in Exmouth Street with its unusual tower complete with a weather vane that looks like a kookaburra.
Image: © Sue Adair
Taken: 1 Dec 2006
0.11 miles
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Elizabeth II postbox on Oxton Road, Birkenhead
Postbox No. CH41 460.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 25 May 2019
0.11 miles
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Shops on Oxton Road, Birkenhead
Showing position of Postbox No. CH41 460.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 25 May 2019
0.11 miles
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Charing Cross, Grange Road, Birkenhead
A John Smith's pub, the building looking mid C19th.
Next door is an early C20th bank building, occupied by Natwest.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 20 Aug 2014
0.11 miles
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Park Christian Centre
This Grade II Listed Building at the junction of Park Road South and Merton Place was opened in 1875 as a Catholic Apostolic Church. It later became the Church of Christ and more recently the Park Christian Centre. The building was gutted by fire in June 2009 leaving only the walls and tower -
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Image: © Fractal Angel
Taken: 17 Aug 2007
0.12 miles
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Church Of Christ, Park Road South, Birkenhead
Situated at the junction with Merton Place. Recently, badly damaged by fire & threatened with demolition.
Image: © El Pollock
Taken: 20 Jul 2009
0.12 miles
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Detail of 1-7 Charing Cross, Birkenhead
Gothic detail to this building
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Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 20 Aug 2014
0.12 miles
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1-7 Charing Cross, Birkenhead
Built as the Bank of Liverpool, and shops, to the designs of Douglas & Minshull, 1901. The bank occupied the grandest central section (
Image]). The pointiest and stand out building in the area, even if it is "uncomfortably at odds with its neighbours". Grade II listed.
The central part was occupied by Christopher Boyton, a hair salon.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 20 Aug 2014
0.12 miles
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Former pub, Oxton Road, Birkenhead
Its latest incarnation was the Leprechaun, which explains the vibrant colour scheme. In another life it was the Park Hotel.
Although it has since been given a lick of paint it does not appear to have been given a new purpose in life.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 20 Aug 2014
0.13 miles