New Ferry Online

New Ferry OnlineNew Ferry OnlineNew Ferry OnlineNew Ferry Online
  • Home
  • About New Ferry
  • Business Directory
    • Business Directory - Home
    • Business Listings page 1
    • Business Listings page 2
    • List your business
    • Commercial space to let
  • Clubs, Groups & Societies
  • Community Involvement
  • Community Land Trust
    • Community Land Trust
    • What is the CLT?
    • Governing Documents
    • CLT Regeneration Plans
    • Pop-Up Markets
    • Community Litter Picks
    • Our achievements
  • Events & Meetings
  • History of New Ferry
  • Local Services/Facilities
  • Memories & Photos
    • Memories & Photos - Home
    • 1875-1899
    • 1900-1909
    • 1910-1919
    • 1920-1929
    • 1930-1939
    • 1940-1949
    • 1950-1959
    • 1960-1969
    • 1970-1979
    • 1980-1989
    • 1990-1999
    • 2000-2009
    • 2010-2019
    • 2020-2022
  • News & Announcements
    • New Ferry in the News
    • Community Announcements
  • Parks & Open Spaces
    • Parks & Open Spaces
    • Mayfields
    • New Ferry Butterfly Park
    • New Ferry Park
    • Port Sunlight River Park
    • Shorefields Nature Park
  • Regeneration Plans
  • Contact Us

New Ferry Online

New Ferry OnlineNew Ferry OnlineNew Ferry Online
  • Home
  • About New Ferry
  • Business Directory
    • Business Directory - Home
    • Business Listings page 1
    • Business Listings page 2
    • List your business
    • Commercial space to let
  • Clubs, Groups & Societies
  • Community Involvement
  • Community Land Trust
    • Community Land Trust
    • What is the CLT?
    • Governing Documents
    • CLT Regeneration Plans
    • Pop-Up Markets
    • Community Litter Picks
    • Our achievements
  • Events & Meetings
  • History of New Ferry
  • Local Services/Facilities
  • Memories & Photos
    • Memories & Photos - Home
    • 1875-1899
    • 1900-1909
    • 1910-1919
    • 1920-1929
    • 1930-1939
    • 1940-1949
    • 1950-1959
    • 1960-1969
    • 1970-1979
    • 1980-1989
    • 1990-1999
    • 2000-2009
    • 2010-2019
    • 2020-2022
  • News & Announcements
    • New Ferry in the News
    • Community Announcements
  • Parks & Open Spaces
    • Parks & Open Spaces
    • Mayfields
    • New Ferry Butterfly Park
    • New Ferry Park
    • Port Sunlight River Park
    • Shorefields Nature Park
  • Regeneration Plans
  • Contact Us

Memories & Photos: 1970-1979

ROSTANCES, TOLL BAR CROSSROADS, 1970:
The famous store where you could buy ANYTHING!  Older residents were dragged there by mums for school uniforms.

SHOREFIELDS, 1970: 


This was where many New Ferry residents played as children in the late 1960's and early 1970's.  An old boat was sited in the grass at Shorefields, near the junction with Shore Drive.  Many of today's 40 and 50 somethings must have "rowed" over to Liverpool or somewhere else on their adventures in this very cheap and simple piece of "play equipment".  It was taken away in the ea



Show More

NAPIER ROAD,  circa 1971:


There was a time, long long ago, when our streets were fairly empty.  Very few people around here owned their own car, and the street was where children played, happily and relatively safely, outside their own front door.  Today, our streets are filled with parked cars, and children have to go elsewhere.

Aerial image of New Ferry, 1973

This mid 1970's aerial photo (shown above) of New Ferry is fascinating.  Some of its features will come as a surprise to younger people.

  • A - The former New Ferry Pier is long gone, with just the apron with the car park on it as it is today;
  • B -  The Great Eastern Pub had its own bowling green behind it.  All demolished in 2010;
  • C - New Ferry Swimming Baths and the area with trees next to where visitors sat on their towels under the trees under the hot summer sun in the days before sun-cream that worked (all demolished and built over with housing in the 1980's);
  • D - Site of the former Isolation Hospital which had been demolished 10 years earlier (all built over with new housing in the early 1990's);
  • E - Silting ponds where silt dredged out of the Bromborough Dock was deposited.  The last deposits came from the Albert Dock in Liverpool when it was being restored in the early 1980's (now all buried underneath Port Sunlight River Park);
  • F - PLUTO Hill, underneath which were the super secret fuel storage tanks that played a part in the D-Day Landings of World War 2 (still there but no accessible!);
  • G - When the first part of the New Ferry bypass was built in 1960, it only came as far as Thorburn Road where there was a large roundabout. When the bypass was extended through Rock Park in the mid 1970's, the roundabout went and was replaced with the pedestrian underpass;
  • H - New Ferry Park is mostly unchanged, except that in the late 1970's it lost its bowling green. The tarmac kickabout pitch sits on the site today.

FORMER BUS DEPOT, NEW CHESTER ROAD, 1975:

The bus depot moved to Laird Street in the late 1970s. Its old building was demolished for the post office.

NEW FERRY SWIMMING BATHS, 1975

In the days before Brits spent their holidays on beaches abroad, they had to settle for open air pools within their own community.  A crowded summer at New Ferry's own swimming baths.

99 NEW CHESTER ROAD, 1975:


The flatiron site at the junction of New Ferry Chester Road and Beaconsfield Road has had an interesting past.  At the start of the 1900s it appears to have been New Ferry's post office.  The building must have proven too small for this purpose, as we know the post office relocated to 60 New Chester Road (currently Discount Inferno II on the corner of New Chester Road and





Show More

NEW FERRY SWIMMING BATHS, 1970s


Text and photos submitted by Geoffrey Markley, 3rd October 2009


"The Vauxhall Diving Club used the pool in the winter when it was closed to the public.  I was a member and we used to go on Saturday mornings.  The pool was always in a right mess towards the end of winter with all the dead leaves from the surrounding trees (a big slimy mess!). 


"We used to dive under 







Show More

MAYFIELDS FOOTBALL PITCHES 
April 1976 


The picture was taken on Mayfields, looking towards the river. Today, the same view has completely changed and you can no longer see the river as in this photograph. The hill on the right is the PLUTO hill under which oil storage tanks were built to unload and store fuel during WWII. The tanks were connected to the pipeline that ran down the country to The C


Show More

NEW FERRY ROAD, 1979:

The last three shops on the right are all long since gone and converted back to houses which they originally built as.  

"The Clip Joint" (just left of centre) was a hairdressers run by Andra Fall.  To its left is what we all know today as Tam's Chippy. But who else remembers the following in that block of yesteryear?   Iggy's Barbers, Sharrocks Tobacco Shop, Mrs Burnhams o

Show More

NEW FERRY MARKET, NEW FERRY ROAD, 1979:


After the bus company moved out to the former tram shed in the 1930's, their former garage became New Ferry's indoor market selling a range of mostly food produce which many older residents will remember...in particular the smell of fresh fish.  In the 1960s it had a dozen stalls inside it, but by the 1980s there were only a few left.  It closed down in the e



Show More

NEW FERRY BYPASS, 1979:

Seen from the New Ferry Road bridge looking towards Rock Ferry. Note the absence of central crash barrier in those days.

NEW FERRY ROAD, 1979
Another photo showing some of the shops which used to be along the road.  Good detail of the cars seen on the roads during the 1970s and early 1980s.

forward to the 1980's
back to the 1960's
  • Home
  • About New Ferry
  • Business Directory - Home
  • Clubs, Groups & Societies
  • Community Involvement
  • Community Land Trust
  • Events & Meetings
  • History of New Ferry
  • Local Services/Facilities
  • Memories & Photos - Home
  • New Ferry in the News
  • Community Announcements
  • Parks & Open Spaces
  • Regeneration Plans
  • Contact Us

Copyright © 2023 New Ferry Online - All Rights Reserved.

Powered by