OMD LANDMARKS

632 3003 The Red Frame White Light Phone Box - Greenwood Rd, Meols, Wirral CH47 6AD
Photo credit - Andy McCluskey
Photo credit - Neil Taylor
Photo credit - Neil Taylor
Photo credit - Neil Taylor

  

Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool where Forever Live and Die was filmed.


 

Meols Primary School Elwyn Road Meols, where Andy met Paul in 1967.
Photo credit - Andy McCluskey

 Hermitage Cottage Lower Heswall where Andy lived in the 80s.

Photo credit - Andy McCluskey

 Martin’s cottage on Column Road West Kirby where he lived in the 80s.

Photo credit - Andy McCluskey

 The White Lion pub West Kirby. The ID had a song called White Lion on a Friday Night. We all gathered there and made one pint each last all night!

Photo credit - Andy McCluskey

 The ugly concrete block that is West Kirby Concourse. Paul and Andy played their last Wirral 2 piece gig at the Youth club on Aug 4th 1979

Photo credit - Andy McCluskey

 St Andrews church hall West Kirby. Andy, Paul and Martin played here on Dec 16th 1978.

Photo credit - Andy McCluskey

 Hilbre School where Andy played his first gig with Equinox and Paul was holding the fuse in the back of the bass amp! 1976

Photo credit - Andy McCluskey

 The house where Martin Cooper grew up. 6 Lingdale Road West Kirby. Mystereality was written in the attic.

Photo credit - Andy McCluskey

 United Reformed Church Hall Hoylake. The Id and Hitlerz Underpantz played here

Photo credit - Andy McCluskey

 Above the Fish shop in Hoylake where The Id rehearsed.

Photo credit - Andy McCluskey

 New houses built on the site of the Old Leper Hospital which became Greasby Library. The Id wrote Julia’s Song and Radiowaves here.

Photo credit - Andy McCluskey

 The Railway Inn - From the corner of Banks Rd and Birkenhead Rd where Andy first told Paul that Messages was in the top 20.

 Photo credit - Andy McCluskey
Photo credit - Neil Taylor

 Paul’s house 3 Frankby Rd.

Photo credit - Andy McCluskey

 Andy’s house 16 School Lane showing the Railway Inn behind

Photo credit - Andy McCluskey

 Malcolm’s house 5 Parkway 

Photo credit - Andy McCluskey

 Andy’s mum’s old house 34 Parkway.

Photo credit - Andy McCluskey

 

20 York Avenue West Kirby. Where Paul lived in the 80s. The garage was converted into a studio and some of Pacific Age was written there.

Photo credit - Andy McCluskey

 

The Motor Museum - OMD Recording Studio. 1 HESKETH ST, LIVERPOOL L17 8XJ
https://www.themotormuseum.com
Photo credit - Neil Taylor
 


 Photo credit - Neil Taylor


Stanlow Oil Refinery


'Maid Of Orleans' filmed at Fountain's Abbey in North Yorkshire.
 

Souvenir the grounds of Stowe House, which is used as Stowe School, in Buckinghamshire.
 

Gramaphone Suite - 56 Stanley St, Liverpool L1 6DS where the Signature Living hotel is now.

Photo credit - Neil Taylor

Organisation The cloud-covered peak of Marsco, in the Red Cuillin hills, overlooking Glen Sligachan on the Isle of Skye with Allt Dearg Mòr in the foreground


Manchester Town Hall - 2012 OMD official photo shoot took place here.






Erics Club - 9 Mathew St, Liverpool L2 6RE

Photo credit - Neil Taylor
Photo credit - Neil Taylor
Photo credit - Neil Taylor
Stand Above Me - filmed at New York - Brooklyn Bridge


Manor Studios - was a recording studio in the manor house at the village of Shipton-on-Cherwell in Oxfordshire. It is now the country home of the Marquess of Headfort.


So In Love was recorded in Almería, Spain


Hilbre High - School Paul Went To - Frankby Rd, West Kirby, Wirral CH48 6EQ

 1993 OMD Calendar - Caldy - The Wirral. 

 Photo credit - Neil Taylor
Photo credit - Neil Taylor

 

Secret was filmed at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex

 

OMD Lambanana- Outside the Liverpool museum (Bank of the River Mersey) - Pier Head
Liverpool
L3 1DG
UK

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Marie Galante
Marie-Galante is a dependency island of Guadeloupe, a French overseas region in the Caribbean.
Andy explains more about this song.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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