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Mason Street, WALLASEY, CH45 2LL

This sculpture, located on Victoria Parade, is one of 6 dotted around New Brighton. The trail opened in 2017, the sculptures were designed by local artist Barry Canning Eaton, 4 of them decorated by local school children, the remaining 2 by the artist and a community group.

This seating area is at the junction of Victoria Road and Belmont Road. Straight ahead, what was once a continuation of Victoria Road down to the pier, is now Victoria Parade.

New Brighton has several examples of Street Art. This one on Windsor Road is by Ben Eine.

A watering hole in New Brighton

An example of the many pieces of street art found in New Brighton, The Wirral. The artist is Tom Blackford

New Brighton Tower was a steel lattice observation tower at New Brighton in the town of Wallasey, Cheshire, England. It stood 567 feet high, and was the tallest building in Great Britain when it opened some time between 1898 and 1900. Neglected during the First World War and requiring renovation the owners could not afford, dismantling of the tower began in 1919, and the metal was sold for scrap. The building at its base, housing the Tower Ballroom, continued in use until damaged by fire in 1969. The tower was set in large grounds, which included a boating lake, a funfair, gardens, and a sports ground. The sports ground housed, at different times, a football team, an athletics track and a motorcycle speedway track. The Beatles played at the Tower Ballroom 27 times, more than at any other venue in the United Kingdom except the Cavern Club in nearby Liverpool. * Courtesy Wikipedia

Splendid mural in New Brighton

This was and remains the main bus terminus in New Brighton, one block back from the Marine Promenade. Behind the bus is the New Palace Amusement Park, built in 1939 in Art Deco style as an indoor amusement park. The bus is a Wallasey Corporation Leyland PD2 with Metro-Cammell bodywork, built in 1951. The body style was essentially the builder's pre-war design and looked quite antiquated even in 1966. 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

When I was a kid, I would come to New Brighton on the number 11 bus from Birkenhead (either a blue Birkenhead Corporation one or a yellow Wallasey one) and they would terminate here. You could walk into the funfair through the entrance at the far end (I think).