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Bob McEvoy
1 Posted 11/09/2016 at 10:25:12
Rob, I've asked this question a couple of times at the heritage centre and never received an informative answer. Do you know why Dixie's birthplace at the top of Laird St near St James's church does not have a blue plaque? I appreciate it's not the original building but seems to me Wirral BC are missing a trick. Wilfred Owen has got one.
Brendan Connolly
2 Posted 11/09/2016 at 11:47:09
Bob

One of our Heritage Society members, John Rowlands, has been looking into this. John is out of action at the moment due to a health issue, but will hopefully soon be back on the case. It's something John shares your passion on.

Eric Holland
3 Posted 11/09/2016 at 12:00:26
I cant find an option to vote just a blank page??

Any ideas please?

Simon Magner
4 Posted 11/09/2016 at 21:10:21
Also the home of Everton Supporters Trust and one of the Fans Supporting Foodbank's drop off points. We are there every home game. Come in and see us, bring some food with before the game!

Bob, isn't Dixie's birthplace now a petrol station/KFC?

Bob McEvoy
5 Posted 11/09/2016 at 21:52:47
Simon, it's some kind of local community shop but not the original building. It's my understanding that the family moved 6 houses down Laird St and ran a chippy, living above the shop when Dixie was a toddler. That property is still there. Any plaque could just as easily be mounted on the former chippy.
Peter Healing
6 Posted 12/09/2016 at 08:59:43
Do you still have the wanted notice board? I am after Mauritius tournament programme from 1993. I live in New Zealand. Cheers in advance
Simon Magner
7 Posted 12/09/2016 at 13:56:59
Bob, I'm going to try and find out for definite where this is now. According to Wiki, he was born at 313 Laird Street. There are a few houses left towards that end and on that side of Laird Street, but I suspect that the property is now the BP Petrol Station, or the demolished houses/pub on the land next to the Petrol Station. Unfortunately that road is pretty poorly ran down now.

I definitely agree though that he should be commemorated in Birkenhead somehow. Perhaps the better option would be to place a blue plaque on the house that he lived in when he scored his 60th goal?

I'm fairly sure the house is still there on Alderley Avenue in Claughton (as I grew up 3 roads down, and currently live a couple of roads up now!) and there is a great anecdote of him having a thigh injury going into the last game of the season, and the physio having to stay up all night to change the hot/cold dressings on his thigh (perhaps the physio should also be commemorated).

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