Retired Not Out, Paul Chappell's Journal

Posts About the Wirral, Merseyside

The Wirral is a peninsula opposite Liverpool. At the end of the peninsula is the North Sea. To the left (looking out to the North Sea) is the River Dee and to the right the River Mersey. It has also featured heavily in my life.

A Walk Along the Mersey

Today I walked along the river Mersey from near Brunswick Station to the Pier Head.

12th August 2025

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Shorefields Nature Park, Wirral

Photo of the Liverpool waterfront taken from the Shorefields Nature Park. Returning home by train after spending a few nights there.

30th May 2025

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Shorefields Nature Park, Wirral

Photo of the Liverpool waterfront and the Seaforth dock, taken from the Shorefields Nature Park during a visit there with my friend John.

29th May 2025

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Hilbre Island, West Kirby

Photo of Hilbre Island taken from the West Kirby War Memorial on a sunny March Day in 2025.

22nd March 2025

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My Earliest Memory

My earliest memory is of being unable to climb the West Kirby war memorial when I was a toddler.

21st March 2025

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The Breach at New Brighton

These photographs show people on the breach at New Brighton, looking towards the Seaforth dock and towards Liverpool.27

27th November 2024

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Family Trips: Wirral Coast

Photos taken during a drive along the Wirral coast on a grey September morning, in 2007.

1st June 2024

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