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Lions Close, PRENTON, CH43 6XB

One of a number of Victorian survivals in the neighbourhood, this example stands at the corner of Howbeck and Shrewsbury Roads.

The extension to this house does not appear to blend particularly well with the original architecture.

The main building of Birkenhead High School GDST (Girls' Day School Trust), an independent girls' school which has been in operation for around 100 years. GDST schools boast some of the best GSCE and A-level exam results in the country, and one or other of them frequently heads the league tables.

Showing the sign, the bridge from the Junior Department, the main administrative building, the library (on the left) and what I believe to be the new Music and Drama building on the right.

This Volvo dealer's garage in Shrewsbury Road looks as if it may originally have been a chapel.

St Aidan's Theological College was a large brick building built in the Tudor style, which taught Anglican students of theology. It is now demolished, and replaced by housing on the site. This plaque in one of the original walls surrounding the site is located approximately 100 metres north of the original building.

At this coordinate, there is supposed to be an OS benchmark, but it has been logged as destroyed. The logger makes the note "Wall shows signs of repair, and there is no trace of this mark." https://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm106864. However, on closer inspection, one can make out the line and arrow on the pale stone diagonally up from the seedling in the lower right corner of the photo. The benchmark was originally 0.5 m above ground level. I suspect that the wall was partly demolished when it was repaired, and this stone found itself in a different position in the wall.

This bridge was constructed to allow children from the Junior Department of Birkenhead High School GDST to cross safely to the main site for their lunch. This was after a series of accidents/near-misses.

A Birkenhead Corporation bus on the anticlockwise North Circle route 94 negotiates the hourglass shaped roundabout at the junction Egerton Road and Tollemache Road (rear left). Until just a few years previously this had been simply a wide open space of road which in the other direction could be swept through at speed to take a run at the ensuing gradient on Tollemache Road. Birkenhead Corporation would lose control of its buses in a couple of years' time with the formation of the Merseyside PTE. This is one of a series of views featuring buses in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=2114547&displayclass=slide

This is now owned by Birkenhead High School GDST. Several changes appear to have been made over the last 15-20 years, most notably and regrettably the removal of the three remaining grass courts to be replaced by (as pictured here) painted tarmac.