OK, let's do a bit of an about turn, heading towards the Irish Sea and the town of Hoylake. Here's the beach, photographed by Tom Bastin (Creative Commons License)
Hoylake's old lighthouse (Creative Commons License).
Hoylake is home to the Royal Liverpool Golf Club (Creative Commons License).
The Green Lodge in Hoylake sold Burtonwood beers when I last visited.
Bus operators in Hoylake included A1A Travel and Avon Buses.
Unit 507 026 calls at Hoylake station.
This signal box once controlled things at Hoylake.
Heading towards Wallasey, we reach Bidston station, photographed by Ben Brooksbank (Creative Commons License) in 1961.
A Merseyrail EMU calls at Bidston in 1982.
By 1989, the 508s had entered service.
Also in 1989, a DMU arrives at Bidston, having come from Wrexham.
Next stop, Wallasey Village. The Cheshire Cheese pub here was once a Higson's tied house.
A1A Travel also served Wallasey Village.
Into Wallasey itself, here's the town seen from the tower of St Hilda's church (Creative Commons License).
A postcard from my collection - the Town Hall in Wallasey.
Wallasey Corporation once ran trams. Here's car no. 22 on Liscard Road.
The Nelson in Wallasey is a large free house.
Sadly, the Prince Alfred has since closed.
Next, we come to the Wirral's premier resort, New Brighton. Here, the St Tudno is bound for Liverpool passing New Brighton Lighthouse in the Rock Channel.
A postcard of the Old Fort at New Brighton.
Here are the Vale Gardens, with Wallasey's famous tower (demolished in 1919) beyond.
New Brighton pier and ferry, with Liverpool across the Mersey.
New Brighton was the terminus of the Wirral Railway.
We now move forward to the mid 1970s.
There was once another, smaller, railway in New Brighton!
Wallasey's trams reached New Brighton, terminating at Victoria Road.
It seems that the Albion Hotel in New Brighton is still worthy of a visit.
The Commercial is also still in business, now called the Harbour.
Finally, we have Stanley's Cask, a renowned free house.
That's a great place to finish this post. Next time, we'll reach Birkenhead. Here's a map of the route so fatr.
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