Memories & Photos: 1930-1939

BEBINGTON ROAD   c.1931

Further down Bebington Road, let's take a look back towards the crossroads. 

Several of the terraced houses on the left have now been converted to shops (see the photo of them in the 1900s before their conversion).  Not easy to tell in this grainy old photo, but the sun must be out as several of the shops have pulled their sun canopies down to keep the inside of their shops 

LYCEUM PICTURE HOUSE, NEW CHESTER  ROAD, 1939:

Let's have another quick look at the Lyceum cinema at the junction of New Chester Road and Grove Street.  It had been built in 1913.  Old style cinemas like this were often known locally as "the flea pit" because in those days, when some people did not keep themselves clean and could potentially have fleas, it was thought there was the possibility th

LYCEUM PICTURE HOUSE, NEW CHESTER  ROAD, 1939: 

Cinemas in those days tried to offer some "luxury" to their customers who often lived in drab homes with minimun facilities.

In this photo of the entrance lobby of the Lyceum, however, we can see wall to wall carpeting (definitely a luxury in those days!) with exotic pot plants.

SHORROCK'S NEWSAGENTS, 81 NEW FERRY ROAD, November 1939:

Image and text supplied by Christine Glover, February 2011

"This is Shorrocks news agents at 81 New Ferry Road with Mr Shorrock hiself in the doorway.  As children we would go there to get newspapers, sweets, bundles of wood for the fire and fire  lighters.

"When the Beatles were at the height of there fame they had a magazine  called 'Beatles