Yesterday was the Centenary Celebration of Wallasey becoming a Borough. The event was hosted by the Mayor and Mayoress of Wirral and the guest of honour was Dame Lorna Muirhead, who is the Lord Lieutenant of Merseyside. After presentations in the Town Hall we watched a fascinating film of Wallasey in the 50′s and 60′s. We listened to a fanfare for Wallasey played by Wallasey schoolchildren, especially written for this occasion by Oldershaw’s head of Music, Philip McGinity.
We were then taken on a restored Wallasey Borough Bus to Church Street near to the junction with Brighton Street where Dame Lorna unveiled a plaque commemorating the original Town Hall which had stood at this location.
A very interesting morning bringing back lots of nostalgia. The one sad point was that even though the film was very old, I could remember a lot of the things in it!