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Park Road West, PRENTON, CH43 8SG

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

A single lodge at the west end of Birkenhead Park. By John Robertson and Lewis Hornblower, c1845. Grade II listed.

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.

Castellated gatehouse at Birkenhead Park. Opened in 1847, the park is the world's first public park. It was designed by Sir Joseph Paxton who also designed the Crystal Palace at the Great Exhibition and influenced the design of many parks around the world including Central Park, New York.

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.

The driver would have his foot hard on the floor to tackle the steep section of Tollemache Road ahead (approx 1 in 10). This was my local bus service and usually the bus would have slowed down enough on the gradient to enable one to drop off at the end of my road rather than being carried another 100 yards or so to the official stop. Behind the bus can be seen the rear of St Aidans Terrace, a fine classical terrace from a relatively early period of the development of the town (c.1850), Listed Grade II. The bus is one of the wartime (1944) Guy Arab II buses which were given new Massey bodies in 1953 and would remain in service until 1969 after 25 years' service. 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

An upmarket terrace of the late 1850s or early 1860s, among the best of the planned developments around the perimeter of Birkenhead Park. Grade II listed.

This is the perimeter road of Birkenhead Park. The road can be closed to traffic, due to cycle racing, on Sundays, occasionally.

What's the point of erecting all that fearsome looking razor wire etc. and then leaving the gate open?!