I've been working in the North End of Birkenhead in the last week, and have a load of work there over the next month or two, but all for a landlord. It's grim. North Baghdad, it's known as:
This about sums it up, and this is from someone who thought he knew working class:
Working class life in ?North Baghdad? (er, Birkenhead, that is) (Steve Regan?s Last Resort)
In fact, unless it was for a landlord refurbing a trashed house I can only remember having one job from the North End. That was by the "Blood Tub", a boozer that's now shut down. I was driving under a bridge on Bidston Hill a few years ago when some scallies dropped a 5lt tin of paint smack down onto my bonnet. I went down to the Police Station in the North End. Some grunt came out to take a look saying there was nothing they could do and then started looking at my tax disc to see if it was okay. ffs.
then again, oxton which is a half a mile away, is pretty affluent. other parts of the wirral like heswall, west kirby and caldy are affluent. it's like anywhere