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Temple Road, BIRKENHEAD, CH42 9JZ

Inside Singleton 33kV substation is this plaque: This sub-station completing the high tension ring main round the borough was opened by couincillor J W Collins ESQ. Chairman of the electricity committee September 4th 1924

The 11 thousand volt transformer to the left, the big grey finned thing, and the fuses board to the right. When the light around Singleton avenue go out watch out for the local engineers rushing in to sort things out. It is worth pointing out that it is pretty easy to get killed in these places as the conductors are not shielded. Touch one and flash bang, gone.

Anonymous brick building housing the sparks for the borough. Inside a plaque commemorating the area electrification in 1924.

By the UC road, in parish of Birkenhead (Wirral District), Gorsefield Road, Devonshire Park, by No 135 built into low wall. Inscription reads:- : WOODSIDE / FERRY / 2 : Surveyed Milestone Society National ID: CH_WSFC02

This school was built on Woodchurch Road, Oxton on the site of ‘Heathley', the home of Mr Joseph Bell Topham, the main benefactor of St Joseph's Parish. He was descended from one of the oldest and best known Catholic families in Cheshire and offered the private chapel at his house for Mass prior to the building of the first church. St Joseph's foundation stone was laid in 1899, the land at the junction of Willow Bank and North Road having been purchased and then donated by him to the parish of St Joseph’s for the building of a church and presbytery.

The school was opened as Temple Road Council School in January 1914. It was redesignated a Central School in August, 1922 - one of six intended to take in all pupils from local Elementary schools at the age of eleven. In 1983 it lost its 11+ pupils and became Devonshire Park Primary School.

On the end wall of a building at the corner of Prenton Park Road and Woodchurch Lane in Prenton, at upper storey height, is this curious little statue of a man and his headless wife - no indication of who they are or whether the lady should have a head.

The home of Tranmere Rovers Football Club and also the stadium where Liverpool reserves play their home games. The ground seen from Prenton Road West.

It's not surprising that one of the two pubs adjoining Tranmere Rovers' home ground (the other being the eponymous Prenton Park) should be decorated for the World Cup. But I would have expected them to get the England flag the right way round!