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Thanks for posting!

born in st caths birkenhead in '72 raised in rock ferry ...best days of my life in the late 70's

Hi, just discovered your channel. Having spent most of my life on the Wirral I can recall the Garden Festival in 84 (age 9). I went on a school trip from Gayton primary, then again with my late Grandmother. I'll take a look at your other stuff. Thanks for the fond recall. Whatever happened to that massive dome? I remember dancing to the birdie song in that dome with my Nan. Worzel Gummedge, the chinese garden.

A sad loss. Inevitable when the new bridge runs exactly alongside. Ours, crossing the Tees at Middlesbrough, survived because the newer crossings were a long way further upstream. We're still likely to lose it, though. It has been the subject of 'closure by stealth' ever since its centenary in 2011.

At which point within this video is the infamous CCTV still captured

At West Kirby station the camera caught an advertisement for “Ace Audio” in Liverpool… I worked at Ace Audio in the early 70’s; in my wild days.

I lived near Brombrough in the seventies. Us kids would call an asphalted public path between two houses to the next road " the cinderpath". I never knew or wondered why until now. But perhaps cinders were in good supply at some point during Wirral history. So they may have been used for rail footings and public paths alike. Will probably never know.

St johns tiwer was built in 1969 so shoildnt of geen in this video,lol

My mum grew up in walsey village.

Does anyone know the flat Denise lived in with Ralph and baby James

Does anyone understand how he walks upstairs and onto the top floor then walked out the doors onto the street? This doesn’t make sense

Harlow Railway station is now unfortunately completely ruined. More like eat at Joe's cafe with part of the station ticket office converted for eating you cannot walk properly along the platform with tables chairs people stuffing their guts, if that was not enough they added two Hotdog stands outside as well inside the Toilet has been converted to a unisex toilet The signal box had its windows smashed so many times they put in plastic glass Horrible place....... money money money 🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑💰💰......PS at Thurstaston you are now charged for parking your car to get fresh air ( station gone long ago )

I'd forgotten how 'tatty' the railways around Wirral had become by the early 70's. I was brought up in Port Sunlight and actually travelled to West Kirkby from Hooton and remember the old Mersey Railway Westinhouse stock!

Having just watched the video. My Dad could have been one of those erectors seen in the film 😢

My Dad Gordon Smith( R I. P ) was one of the steel erectors who after having helped build the Widnes/ Runcorn bridge moved over to the demolition team that brought the old transporter down.

Superb. Wish I could go back and revisit this.

They knew exactly what they were doing. Deranged freaks.

mad seeing roads i walk down every day look like this

four bridges Birkenhead docks

Terrible death walk.. ☠️.😭💔🥀🥀

Hearing the church bells ring was haunting..😞😓😓

That poor baby must have been terrified at the ordeal of this long walk..unaware of his violent end..💔😭🥀🥀

I never realized that they took James into the next shop & to the back up the stairs. That’s devious as hell. They definitely didn’t want his mom to spot them by staying on the main aisle.

This truly is the worst crime ever seen, and cannot ever be understood, whoever that person is, it cannot be understood, it was too horrific.

1:05 is eerie hearing a young baby crying, then a mother calling out for son “Louie” saying something along the lines of “stay with me, don’t get lost”. Just goes to show how quick it can happen

What a lovely comparison between the two eras. As a Railwayman of 33 years I worked on that part of the system for a while and looking at some of the footage from the 1970s, the layout has hardly changed today. The Wirral way is a nice place to go for a walk on a sunny day and the chippy at Parkgate does some of the best Fish and Chips around.

The audio is from 1913. The film is from 1973/74.

Is 1:59 the step and the bench the old lady with the dog saw them at?

What is the butchers nowadays?

From the look of it nowadays nobody can access the railway/crime scene anymore?

Looks remarkably modern for 1913

The fact they took secluded routes shows they had intent to conceal and motive to want to kill him.

This is really heartbreaking. Studying this for current Postgrad dissertation. Does anyone who lived in Walton/Norris Green area remember anything about the Venables/Thompson family? I know it was 30 years ago but someone must remember them and have some light to shed about how and why a crime like this could have taken place.

I watched all the 5 videos and I have to admit that I almost cried, thinking of poor little James being beaten up and dragged during this horrific journey. It also made up my mind not to watch the film Detainment, based on the events (I watched the trailer and three extracts, and made me sick). At that time, media were questionning who, between Thompson and Venables, was the leader during this barbarity. Both were evil : Venables attracted poor James, and Thompson had the idea of killing him (they imagine pushing a child into the water or under a car !). Justice were at that time too lenient, giving them 8-year imprisonment. 15 or 20 years would have been much justified. I hope Venables will stay forever in jail, and Thompson to live with this tragedy in his mind until his death.

1913?

Our lovely Wirral.

1973 not 1913

almost all the video was from the 60s . woodside station was closed in the 60s .

the fella who done the commentary wasn't Richard was it . lol

I love this

Take my dog to Hadlow every morning..looks better today

It was a crime it was demolished....

Brilliant piece of film.

What do they mean "The entertainment's free" ? It most certainly was not, you had to pay to get in !

Especially the poor family.

Sad story

Two years time will be 30 years since the loss of james life

So true after a long journey the person is likely to be hungry.

The act was so brutal and heartless.

This is nearly coming to the end