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Samaria Avenue, WIRRAL, CH62 1HE

With a banner carrying a safety message

The playing fields these Under-13s were playing on was previously a brickworks up until the 1950s. The "hill" to the right is an uncompleted landfill (it remains to this day uncompleted!) The current view from this location includes a further higher uncompleted landfill behind the landfill in this picture. To think that landfills are supposed to be converted to parks and open spaces within a year of their termination of landfill operations makes one think aghastly toward the local council. This area is one of the most deprived of the borough and to this day local Councillors still ignore it!

Information board at the site of The Great Eastern Hotel. There are now houses built on the site.

Built in 1862 to serve Liverpool daytrippers from New Ferry pier this inn was located at the junction of New Ferry Road with Shorefields. The SS Great Eastern was a ship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and the public house was named to celebrate its launch. She was the largest ship ever built at the time of her 1858 launch and had the capacity to carry 4,000 passengers around the world without refuelling. She was broken up for scrap on the shore at adjacent Rock Ferry in 1889–1890 and many items from the ship were bought by the then landlord and displayed in the pub. The mast was floated across the Mersey to Liverpool from where it was hauled up Everton Valley by a team of four horses and put in place at the Kemlyn Road corner of the Kop stands at Anfield where it stood for many years as a flagpole. The pub closed soon after this photograph was taken in 2007 and despite a local campaign to get the building listed, it was demolished in 2010 and houses built on the site.