Wirral Country Park - the Wirral Way

Advantages: Great day out for all the family
Disadvantages: none

...Now that the warmer weather has arrived I felt it was time to write about one of the places that I have visited on so many occasions from a child through to an adult and somewhere that will never loose its attraction. History of Wirral Country Park During the time of the Victorians a busy railway linked Hooton to West Kirby on the Wirral 12 miles away, miles of the railway line ran near to the Dee Estuary. The Steam Trains that used the railway used to bring townspeople to various stops along the line such as Parkgate for a cheap day out and back to the cities and towns at the end of the day. However, in 1962 the line was closed the seaside resorts as was where silted up and the track lay derelict for many years. In 1973 backed by the Countryside Commision and a lot of work this old railway line was opened as Wirral Country...

Julieshobs 26.04.2009 · Read review
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Review of Wirral Country Park, Cheshire

The village hotel & leisure club in Wirral.

Advantages: Clean and fresh
Disadvantages: Like a rabbit Warren

...The village hotel & leisure club in Wirral Have recently joined here and at £32 per month, each, we feel we have a bargain. They even waved the joining fee, normally £70. We joined, my wife and I, on the ?Flexi? promotion. This is where you are only tied in for 3 months as opposed to the ?Full? 12 month tie in. Extras given include £15 to spend in their restaurants, 10% discounts in the bars and coffee shop and 2 free vouchers for friends/family. The vouchers entitle the user to a free week in the gym, pool etc worth £70. If you recommend someone and they join you also get £50 of a nights stay in the hotel. A fair few incentives but to be honest we just want to use the leisure facilities. My wife is recovering from Breast Cancer and she has some back problems resulting from the Radiography. She...

Maximus-Qualitus 07.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Village Leisure Hotel Wirral, Bromborough

IVE GOT GAS - OF THE LPG VARIETY

Advantages: Cost, Improves range, Energy reliance, green, improving technology
Disadvantages: Small amount of petrol to start

...My LPG conversion was installed a year ago I had being toying with the idea for a while. after hearing my partners uncle had it on a Lexus I took the plunge. 2 grand a small wheel like tank in tool slot at rear of vehicle and it was installed. The LPG can be switched between petrol and LPG and the fact you can have a tank of petrol and a tank of Gas gives your car a longer range. The LPG tank is full for £20 as oppose to £30 for half a tank of petrol - such a big difference but the car needs a small amount of petrol to start so I keep a quarter of a tank of petrol in usually just for that purpose. If you get the LPG system installed correctly the car doesnt suffer much loss in power. I was made aware of rally cars with 200hp engines running on gas and I also drove a converted vauxhall calibre that really flew, overtaking was easy...

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Review of LPG Conversions

LPG should you? My experiance as a guide.

Advantages: Cost if done right
Disadvantages: Cost if done wrong

...I have been running on LPG for a little over five years now, and covered a shade under 220,000 miles in two cars. The first car was a Honda Accord 2.2 Coupe that had 65,000 miles on the clock when I had it converted to gas. Used was a cheap and basic OMVL kit. This basically converted an injection engine, into a carburettor engine by inserting little more than an open pipe into the inlet manifold, allowing the engine to suck the gas into the cylinders for combustion. Luckily the engine was powerful enough to start with to compensate for the resulting drop in power. There was a cylinder in the boot behind the back seats which made the boot one foot shorter, but I still retained the full sized spare wheel. The engine was from the ultimately reliable Honda stable so; all the problems that I could/should of have had with such a cheap...

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Review of LPG Conversions

LPG Vehicles,Should you or Shouldn't you

Advantages: Cheaper fuel costs/extended service intervals
Disadvantages: Finding petrol stations that sell LPG

...At the time I was driving an Alfa romeo 145 Cloverleaf,Any one that knows of these vehicles are aware that they can be a little heavy on petrol with the 2.0 16v engine.A friend of mine suggested I look into an LPG conversion,I read a few reviews as I was not sure how a second hand car with 50.000 miles on would react,Decided that the car was worth investing in the price of the conversion. My first dilema was what sort of tank to use,ie a doughnut tank in the spare wheel well or a free standing tank in the boot area,I wanted a fairly decent range on mileage so opted for a tank in the boot as the wheel well was to small to fit the size of tank I required. The conversion was carried out by a local mechanic & other than a few teething problems with the initial set up I knew I had made the right choice.The car ran fine on the conversion...

Rich1972 19.04.2005 · Read review
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Review of LPG Conversions

Having Essex LPG convert your Petrol car

Advantages: Cheap motoring, Cheaper VED (Road Tax)
Disadvantages: Time to convert it, lose a bit of luggage space

...considerably sturdier than a petrol tank and there are safety cut off valves that click in when the ignition is off. I'm no expert on this but I have used the kit for two months on two cars and it's been fine. On the road. You start the engine on petrol and once it warms up it switches to gas. That's it. No input from you. There is a small postage stamp sized box on the dash that has LED's on it. One green and one red you're on petrol. Flashing red - it's switching to LPG . Two green - you're on LPG. There are four smaller green LED's that tell you how much gas you have in the tank. In the centre there's white button that you can manually switch to Petrol if you want and back. But it's not necessary to have any input at all- it's all automatic. Switch over is set to engine temperature and Rev's I believe. Cost. My wife's Xtrail was...

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Review of Essex LPG Autogas Conversions Ltd, Essex

56p -61p a litre!!!!

Advantages: Cheap fuel, reliable, good for the enviroment
Disadvantages: Takes up some space, only 1200 filling stations

...How would you like to pay 1995 prices again for your fuel? That is between 56p - 61p a litre! Too good to true? A gimmick? Not so, it's even encouraged by the Government. There is no catch, if you want to pay these prices, consider having your car converted to run on LPG. What is LPG? LPG is short for Liquid Petroleum Gas, commonly known as Auto Gas, most petrol driven cars or vans (not diesels) can be converted to run on LPG which almost cuts your fuel costs in half. Currently, there are around 140.000 cars running around the UK able to run on LPG & 11 million worldwide. With around 1200 filling stations with LPG facilities in the UK you are never far away from being able to fill up. LPG is a by product of the extraction & refining of crude oil giving no burn off & it is very environmentally friendly. LPG vehicles emit less Co2...

ScottishWestie 19.09.2008 · Read review
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Some Like it Hot

Advantages: Great Food
Disadvantages: Drab surroundings

...which means that he thinks he knows about ethnic sauces. However, if you've ever tasted what Germans call curry, you'll know that it's a pretty weird fusion of hot-dog sauce and general slightly sweet spicy notes. Another colleague is Belgian and has been to India but can't get Indian food at a fair price and with any kind of authenticity within Belgium. Consequently when called up for 'taking out for dinner' duty, I've marched each of them off to the Wirral Tandoori. First Impressions Wirral Tandoori doesn't look like much from the outside. It's a white painted building with the windows and beams picked out in black paint. It's even got mock beams on the outside like the ones John Prescott put through his expenses along with all the toilet seats. The large red sign above the door contrasts with the green beer-garden umbrellas in...

koshkha 02.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Wirral Tandoori, Bromborough, Merseyside

Hotel with ghosts?

Advantages: Beautiful historic setting
Disadvantages: none.

...a glacier during the Ice Age and legend has it that the Mermaid of the Black Rock sat on these . In 1911 the Trustees of the Railway Convalescent Homes bought the castle and remained the owners until 1970. In 1974 the castle was bought by the Wallasey Corporation who did very little with it and Wirral Borough Council eventually sold it to Ken Harding who opened it again as a hotel. Whilst the Wallasey Corporation owned the hotel I was growing up in the area and there where stories abound about murders and ghosts in the castle, secret passage ways with blood stains and much more, most due to rumour as generally the castle was not open to the public back then. ****What does Leasowe Castle offer us today**** Set back from the main road you have to pass through the wrought iron gates and along the drive which gives the hotel a grand...

Julieshobs 25.11.2006 · Read review
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Review of Leasowe Castle Hotel, Wirral

The Village that was named after a soap

Advantages: Picturesque quiet village with wonderful architecture. Lady Lever Art Gallery!
Disadvantages: I don't live there but would love to.

...Port Sunlight, named after a brand of soap manufactured by Lever Brothers, is a picturesque little village nestling in the heart of the Wirral. Picturesque with beautiful landscaped parklands set amongst quaint rows of houses purposely built for Lever Brother's factory workers overlooked by some impressive public buildings including an art gallery, church and striking war memorial. It was in 1887 that William Lever made the decision to relocate his Warrington soap factory. The Wirral was ideal for the factory needs with excellent transport links by road, rail and water. By March 1888 work had started on building the factory. As well as the factory, Lever had a village built for his workers (In fact until the 1980s all of the houses were still occupied by employees of Unilever). The village, he named Port Sunlight - a port...

MAFARRIMOND 17.05.2006 · Read review
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Review of Port Sunlight, The Wirral