Wirral Show Schedule

So the big attractions for Saturday and Sunday’s Wirral Show are the Household Cavalry and the White Helmets motorcycle display team. Here’s the full arena programme (From Wirral’s website):
Arena Programme for Saturday 5th August 2006
11.30 Terry Large Falcon display
11.55 Joseph’s Amazing Camels
12.40 Tom and Tilly (novelty act)
13.15 Black Knights parachute display [...]

First Homes Go At East Float Mills

From the Wirral Globe:
THE SPECTACULAR £19m restoration of East Float Mill at Wallasey had potential buyers camping out through the night to secure their new home.
A queue stretching more than 100 metres formed ahead of the official launch of the first phase of the landmark development by leading developer Gregor Shore and resulted in half [...]

Joytime Memories

While looking through the blog’s stats the other day, I noticed someone had arrived here via a search for “Joytime Wirral”. So I did a search, which revealed precious little information. Some information follows:
Started in 1953 by Norman Trafford and his wife, Dorothy Carr (later known as Aunty Dorothy and Uncle Norman), Joytime ran for [...]

Woodside To Be Overhauled.

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s development news comes this story from icLiverpool:

AMBITIOUS proposals for a complete overhaul of the Birkenhead seafront opposite Liverpool’s Three Graces have been revealed.
It follows lengthy research by planning consultants who were brought in by Wirral Council two years ago to develop a “masterplan” for the Woodside area.
The land near [...]

160 new flats for East Float Mills

Plans have been submitted for a 19 storey residential tower at East Float Mills on Wallasey’s Dock Road. The new building would hold 160 flats.
This area seriously needs investment of this kind, a 19 storey tower can only be the start. With some bars and restaurants added, along with some office space, Wirral’s dock [...]

Plenty To Do This Summer…

With the Open having been and gone, the summer is still far from over as far as events around Wirral are concerned.
Looking at the leaflet in front of me, I can see that today marks the first of this year’s “Summer Sensations Children’s Talent Show” at Vale Park, New Brighton. People of a certain age [...]

Big Profits from the Open

Looks like my informer was proved wrong about the Open bringing in money; From icLiverpool:

Businesses across the region raked in hefty profits with spectators spending £8m in the Hoylake area alone.
The golfers themselves spent £1.27m in the local area while visiting media spent £4m. Ken Davies, chief executive of Wirral’s Chamber of [...]

Let’s hope…

From BBCi:
There was one other winner here this week, Hoylake. Out of the loop for 39 years, many had worried the old course could not hack it anymore.
Well, they were wrong. The links played hard but fair, the sun shone, the crowds came in their thousands and everybody said they wanted to see the Wirral [...]

New Brighton’s New Club

Found on my MySpace:
Ahoy there all Nauticalists
With only 14 days left til Nautical sets sail at the Fort Perch Rock, we think it’s time all of our passengers got prepared for the Oceanic-Indie rock fest that is nearly upon us. If you haven’t got a ticket now then do so, before the Indie Pirates swoop [...]

Open Season

When I asked how many extra people were expected in town for next week’s Open Championship, I was told “Not many. They’ll all go to Chester or Liverpool.”
Even the hopes of Hoylake’s new restaurants and bars was played down by explaining that once on the course, visitors would not be able to leave and would [...]

New Retail Space For Birkenhead

With WH Smith moving into the old Littlewoods store in town soon, word is that their current and surrounding units will make way for a large amount of high fashion retail space.
Warner Estates, who own both the Pyramids Centre and The Grange, obviously have big plans for Birkenhead, with a new 6 unit food court [...]