FKoE inspired me to look through my old pictures that have been locked away for ages.

Looking through old photeez is great, brings back lots of memories....

Here's what I found:

Wales, on the beach. Check out my old Adidas t-shirt.

http://static.flickr.com/88/229184538_b18c3c810e.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/229184538/)

Getting my hands dirty.

http://static.flickr.com/60/229184447_f2f8d327fd.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/229184447/)

With 'our Judy'.

http://static.flickr.com/78/229184369_7b1e2587f3.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/229184369/)

My nan.

http://static.flickr.com/67/229184271_19695c684c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/229184271/)

Sefton Park lake with my dad.

http://static.flickr.com/92/229184215_db5abbb85a.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/229184215/)

With my uncle.

http://static.flickr.com/60/229184141_f716ba7521.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/229184141/)

My sis.

http://static.flickr.com/81/229184091_3f7150f2aa.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/229184091/)

Proper anti-social in those days. Hanging from a bridge in Wales.

http://static.flickr.com/63/229184025_f38ad4cf5b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/229184025/)

With 'our Butch'.

http://static.flickr.com/94/229183951_ba55a301f1.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/229183951/)

My mum.

http://static.flickr.com/76/229183898_e26807628e.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/229183898/)

Nan's yard.

http://static.flickr.com/82/229183820_4df2ceda70.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/229183820/)

So, have you got any? Share them!!

Nice one Kev, yer scamp :D



Me and 'our Butch'

http://static.flickr.com/82/228210868_bf63024005.jpg

With 'our Butch'.

http://static.flickr.com/94/229183951_ba55a301f1.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/229183951/)



Nice one Kev, yer scamp :D



Me and 'our Butch'

http://static.flickr.com/82/228210868_bf63024005.jpg

We both had 'our Butch', lol. Good times :)

I have to say, your the spitting image of me younger brother in that pic ... I'll scan and post later :D

Find me...
http://www.staff.livjm.ac.uk/beshpate/childwall1962.jpg

This is me now...
http://www.staff.livjm.ac.uk/beshpate/howie001.jpg

Back row 2nd from right :D
http://static.flickr.com/57/228216874_4a04d4c0f8_m.jpg

Back row 2nd from right :D

Nope! :Colorz_Grey_PDT_16:

Back row, 3rd from the right.....

Back row, 3rd from the right.....
No, I'm not on the back row. :unibrow:

Next to back row - 4th from left - looking very serious?

Next to back row - 4th from left - looking very serious?
Very close!

Howie looks dehydrated in his now pic!:eek:

4th from the right and the wife has just said 'how cute' :celb (23):

4th from the right and the wife has just said 'how cute' :celb (23):
Yep, the grinning, freckle-faced, jug-eared, mop-topped, meff in the white shirt is me! :o

what did you do to upset that boy stood next to you???

and what's to do with gozzy on the front row?? (where's his other hand!!)

what did you do to upset that boy stood next to you???

Probably passed wind

Yep, the grinning, freckle-faced, jug-eared, mop-topped, meff in the white shirt is me! :o

lol :D

Sports Day at Garston C of E, how they used to be :)

http://static.flickr.com/65/229964354_e2025e894a.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/229964354/)

My class

http://static.flickr.com/98/229964545_d98223db5c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/229964545/)

We took part in a junior school football tournament in Stoke called The Matchmakers Tournament. We won this, our final match was 9-0 to us! The year was 1985, possibly my most memorable year ever!

The day finished with a game of football, Everton V Stoke City.

http://static.flickr.com/63/229964610_5388b1ed50.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/229964610/)

http://static.flickr.com/67/229964492_48a43473c3.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/229964492/)

http://static.flickr.com/93/229964443_815bf12508.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/229964443/)

Me again

http://static.flickr.com/60/229964396_3243bd4691.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/229964396/)

They're great Kev - the school hasn't changed that much - new fence and adventure playground for the kids but we have the only school field in Garston so all the other schools get the benefit of it too. I remember when we used to take our chairs out in the summer and do our work on the field. I will try and find some photos of my happy schooldays - though it was all impetigo and nits in the sunny 60s!!:eek:

Towards the top left of the pic, I think there used to be a group of bushes. On the odd sunny afternoon, we used to go out, hide in the bushes and 'bird watch', on our own, the good old days eh?!! Wish I was still there :sad: :)

Not the feathered kind I bet. Lol.

Not the feathered kind I bet. Lol.

lo, yes, it was. We were very innocent in them days :)

Hmmmmm. Ok, I'll believe you Kev.:Colorz_Grey_PDT_16:

Check me out in the 1970's!! I cannot believe how much I look like my youngest lad!! Weird!!!!

http://static.flickr.com/86/247615595_f8eff38cf9.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/247615595/)

http://static.flickr.com/92/247615507_1414a71dd4.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/247615507/)

On my dad's Honda 50. He would never let me have a go, ever. Even when I was old enough.

http://static.flickr.com/86/247615721_839a9646e5.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/247615721/)

From left to right....my sis, my grandad (dad's dad), me then my nan and grandad (mum's parents).

http://static.flickr.com/90/247615844_efaebc19c0.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/247615844/)

i'm still smirking at the top two...:D

BLESS ;D

That's me at the bottom right, taken at St. Stephens Gateacre.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c81/sc0use/aliceswedding22april1946.jpg

That's outside our church innit Kev? I have got one there of my confirmation.

That's outside our church innit Kev? I have got one there of my confirmation.

I think so :)

That's me at the bottom right, taken at St. Stephens Gateacre.
Right little trouble-maker if I ever saw one. Lol.:Colorz_Grey_PDT_16: :Colorz_Grey_PDT_16:

Days gone by. Anyone who grew up before 1970s might remember when local parishes had Rose Queens. The community would vote to nominate a Rose Queen and it was an honour to be chosen. Families would be very proud if their daughter was elected.
The previous years Rose Queen would hand down her crown to the new one -as seen in this picture. (the previous Rose Queen seated). It was all very important ! :)
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y249/rubinda/misc/tn_RoseQueen001.jpg

the procession would walk around the district ..


http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y249/rubinda/misc/tn_RoseQueen.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y249/rubinda/misc/tn_02RoseQueenprocession.jpg

can't imigine any 14 year old girls doing this these days !! :rolleyes:
Those times were so much more innocent. :)

Rose Queens... I remember having a crush on no names... our Rose Queen :)


Was you a Rose Queen Lindy ? :D

Fantastic thread.
Here's a few of mine already floating around this internet highway thingy:rolleyes:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/localhistory/my_memory/hughes_street.jpg
Hughes Street. Mill Road Ossie and the nursing home in the background.

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/boaler1.jpg
Boaler St school. I'm the big lump in the top right.

http://pics1.friendsreunited.co.uk/pics1/000/664/898/129.jpg
New Hutte School, Halewood. Once again, I'm the big lump, centre back.

http://pics1.friendsreunited.co.uk/pics1/000/664/897/762.jpg
Barons Hey FC, Canny Farm. Big lump, centre back again.

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/butlins.jpg
I think I was off my nipples on acid when it was taken. You can't tell:)

http://pics1.friendsreunited.co.uk/pics1/011/343/660.jpg
Wedding photie, St Cecilia's, Green Lane. Cracking keks!

http://pics1.friendsreunited.co.uk/pics1/016/700/773.jpg
Missus and I, 2002

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.com/philippines2006/nak/images/sanmarcos003.jpg
Myself, Mum, big bro' in law and grand nephew, September 2006

Fantastic thread.
Here's a few of mine already floating around this internet highway thingy:rolleyes:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/localhistory/my_memory/hughes_street.jpg
Hughes Street. Mill Road Ossie and the nursing home in the background.

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/boaler1.jpg
Boaler St school. I'm the big lump in the top right.

http://pics1.friendsreunited.co.uk/pics1/000/664/898/129.jpg
New Hutte School, Halewood. Once again, I'm the big lump, centre back.

http://pics1.friendsreunited.co.uk/pics1/000/664/897/762.jpg
Barons Hey FC, Canny Farm. Big lump, centre back again.

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/butlins.jpg
I think I was off my nipples on acid when it was taken. You can't tell:)

http://pics1.friendsreunited.co.uk/pics1/011/343/660.jpg
Wedding photie, St Cecilia's, Green Lane. Cracking keks!

http://pics1.friendsreunited.co.uk/pics1/016/700/773.jpg
Missus and I, 2002

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.com/philippines2006/nak/images/sanmarcos003.jpg
Myself, Mum, big bro' in law and grand nephew, September 2006

Arhhhhhh Dave! They brought a big smile to my face mate, thanks for sharing :)

So where u a rep in Butlins Minehead then?

Arhhhhhh Dave! They brought a big smile to my face mate, thanks for sharing :)

So where u a rep in Butlins Minehead then?
Thanks Kev.
I worked on the fairground. If you mean "rep" as in Redcoat, no way! We used to mock them at the time. Looking back though, they were a talented buch of folk.

Dave, what year is the New Hutte Photo, I must know some of them on the photo?

Dave, what year is the New Hutte Photo, I must know some of them on the photo?
John, I think it was 1965 just before we moved to Canny. The teacher on the left is Mrs Allen. Her dad was Lord Mayor of Liverpool at the time, Herbert Allen. BTW, do you recall a lad called Eric Chin? The family name sounds Chinese, but he was a black lad, my best friend at the time. He moved to Canada around 1964/65. I was gutted when he told me he was emigrating, but you don't "verbalise your feelings" to your mate when you're a kid, do you? I've made a few enquiries as to his whereabouts, but no luck so far.

Rose Queens... I remember having a crush on no names... our Rose Queen :)


Was you a Rose Queen Lindy ? :D

no, it's not me on the photie - it's my cousin.

Some Huyton Kids circa 1980 outside the Roscoe Arms off Renshaw Street.

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j228/motorhemp/HuytonPunkKids.jpg

Some Huyton Kids circa 1980 outside the Roscoe Arms off Renshaw Street.

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j228/motorhemp/HuytonPunkKids.jpg

Class photo!

my dad & me

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94/robbo176/oldphotos028-1.jpg

Me & my mum in Sefton park.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y249/rubinda/more%20old%20pics/park.jpg
1950's
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y249/rubinda/more%20old%20pics/park001.jpg
Otterspool park. I'm the one on the far left crying ! :)

http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/4814/dolan1lv6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

The Dolan family c.1908, outside the family home in Lusmagh, Co.Offaly.
Back row: Thomas (3rd child), John (7th), Edward (5th & author of the Lusmagh Fields), Loughlin (8th), Joseph (9th), Michael (4th), Daniel (2nd) & Cousin Steve Couglin.
Front row: Patrick (1st), Mary (6th), Uncle Dan (home from Australia), Margaret & William.

That cottage that they are outside is where my dad was born and my grandad was the third from the right on the back row,the vast majority of my family are Irish and I rarely get to see them now because they are all so spread out.


The Lusmagh Fields So Green

This poem was written by Edward Dolan (my grandfather's brother) in 1908 and he posted it home while en route to Australia, via Liverpool and London, with the instructions that his cousin Stephen Coughlan should write music for it, which he did. It has become the Lusmagh Parish anthem.

Edward Dolan left for Australia with his uncle Dan (who had come home from Melbourne) after a farewell party. Edward and Dan Dolan are pictured on the Dolan family photograph in the 'Photo Album' which was taken outside the family home in Lusmagh, Co.Offaly, prior to them leaving for Australia.

In London town I do lie down upon my bed to sleep.
When I think of home and how I must roam across the waters deep,
I can't sleep a wink when 'ere I think of home and my cailin,
Ah will I ever more see you astor, or the Lusmagh fields so green.

In my youthful sport I did resort to dear old Foolagh lane,
And it runs in my head the old car shed, I will never see again.
For a long while I'll be an exile until God's will has been
For me to roam back to my home in the Lusmagh fields so green.

In Cruchan Street where I used to meet with the lads so bright and gay,
Where we did conspire to our hearts' desire and always got our way,
Twas through the village I used to pillage while I was that age sixteen,
How I did delight to roam at night through the Lusmagh fields so green.

Where I used to lie when I was a boy just at the Deerpark stile
In Cruchan Wood where I oft times stood with the lads to talk awhile.
Going to 'the sports' I passed Clufan fort where the ghost used to be seen,
But I don't believe that a ghost could live in those Lusmagh fields so green.

In a few days more I'll leave the shore of this great British town
And I'll take my leave with a farewell wave as the Thames I do sail down.
Through Biscay bay I'll sail away and I'll view many a scene,
But I'll see none there that can compare with the Lusmagh fields so green.

Through Gibraltar Strait and Mediterranean great, the Suez and the Red Sea,
Going through Port Said and Arabia's Head, shure it's all like a dream to me,
When I'm far apart, it will break my heart to see all those miles between,
The Deerpark Hill and the ruins of the mill and the Lusmagh fields so green.

On Fremantle's earth not far from Perth I do expect to land,
Where the tiger-snake, it often takes a life on the desert sand,
If it be my lot on that foreign spot, to lie and never be seen
But when I die may my soul fly, to the Lusmagh fields so green.

Great stuff Paul. Thanks.

My Grandad, Lawrence Wood and my youngest brother, Ken. They look so similar. Never got to meet my Grandad. He died 3 years before I was born.
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/grandadken.jpg

Dave, the loss of my grandparents was devastating :disgust:. Wish they could have seen my kids. Here's my grandad at Garston Police Station.

Harry The Brush

http://static.flickr.com/70/204904403_70d1508bf6.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/204904403/)

Dave, the loss of my grandparents was devastating :disgust:. Wish they could have seen my kids. Here's my grandad at Garston Police Station.

Harry The Brush

http://static.flickr.com/70/204904403_70d1508bf6.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/204904403/)

I love this pic, Kev. I bet he was a right laugh. I wish my Mum and Dad were still around to see their grandkids. I lost my Dad in 1996 and my Mum last year. I took this pic of my Mum about 7 months before she passed away.

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/mum/mum.jpg

A lovely pic Dave. My grandad was full of laughs. He's the one that would find humour in the most unlikeliest of situations, family weddings he would have us laughing out loud at the most inapropriate times. Sunday afternoons were his thing, a drink down the local boozer (The Masonic, Garston). I was still a little too young to endulge in a beer or two. He bought me my first suit for my work experience.

When he died, the police all took up positions on the street corners of every rd from Argyle Rd, Garston all the way to the Crem at Springwood as a mark of respect.

:) My Grandad, Lawrence Wood and my youngest brother, Ken. They look so similar. Never got to meet my Grandad. He died 3 years before I was born.

I never got to meet one of my Grandads either but my other Grandad sailed around the World 27 times and was on the great Liverpool cruise liners like Mauitania,Lusitania and the Brittanic,thanks for the pictures and for sharing your stories lads.

My grandad. second down from middle of doorway. First world war soldiers.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y249/rubinda/more%20old%20pics/01-Blackpool.jpg

My grandad seated behind the cup.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y249/rubinda/more%20old%20pics/grandad.jpg

Kev's thread has prompted me to begin scanning the family pics which I've been given charge of since our Mum passed away.
Here's a few

Three of my Dad as a kid when he served in the Royal Engineers in Egypt and Libya in the early '50s. First pic he's middle row in front of the goalie.
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/scanned/dad001.jpg

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/scanned/dad002.jpg

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/scanned/dad003.jpg

My Mum, aged 8 years old when she was evacuated to Pen-y-groes in WW2
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/scanned/mum.jpg

Myself and younger bro' Colin at Formby
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/scanned/colme.jpg

I traced the ship that my mothers brother (my uncle) was on when he was killed. She never knew the name or any details. The ship was torpedoed by U-135 near off Cape Race. He was seen to take to the lifeboats but never seen again - a Belgian ship. Why was he on a Belgian ship? He was a deserter from the British army. As a merchant seaman he hated the army. He joined an armed Belgian tub that was German owned, sold to the Belgians and due to be scrapped in 1939 and kept on for the war. The army came for him after he was killed - he would have been jailed. The Belgians have his name on the Cenotaph in Antwerp. In the UK he was a disgrace and in Belgium a hero. And all in the same war fighting the same enemy.

http://www.uboat.net/allies/ships/photos/be/gandia.jpg

http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/1282.html

There a list of civilian dead available online that lists the death of the merchant marine too in its indexes ... searchable by surname. I'm sure its a .gov.uk site ..

does anyone have the link at hand ?

http://www.cwgc.org/

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk


Links to tracing relatives who died during WWII can be found here ^^^

As a Suez Vet., who also served in the zone in the early 50s, (1952) at the same time as you Dad,you might care to look at a couple of sites concerning Suez! One is The Suez Vets Site, and another is Britains Small Wars (Suez Section) you might find them interesting! Best Regards.

Thanks Norm NZ. I'll have a look at them this morning.

Me in the school football team around 19084/85. I'm sure Mr Norris would confirm that we had the best school team in Liverpool, guess where I am?

http://static.flickr.com/121/257350531_22554ae33e.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/257350531/)

http://static.flickr.com/88/257421291_4966aebe68_m.jpg

My Dad, Mum, me, aunties and cousins about 1961

Kev, are you on the end of the top row - right hand side ? :)

Great photos people:)
Lindylou, got anymore New Brighton photos to show off? Is that the Tower Ballroom in the background?

Kev - back row, end one on the right.
Easy!http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/7862/36884em.gifEasy!

On board RMS Sylvania (http://web.greatships.net:81/sylvania2.html)
Philip Ledsham and his dad, Georgie. I'm on the right. They were our neighbours when we lived in Hughes St.
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/sylvania.jpg

a few pics, most have been lost over time.

more

another one

I always knew you were a hooligan,:)

Kev, are you on the end of the top row - right hand side ? :)

Great photos people:)
Lindylou, got anymore New Brighton photos to show off? Is that the Tower Ballroom in the background?

Kev - back row, end one on the right.
Easy!http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/7862/36884em.gifEasy!

Yep, that's me.

Aye well, :Colorz_Grey_PDT_16:

more, 1960

This should have been with the above.

yet more

All smashing photies :celb (23):

Scouserdave - I havn't got anymore of New brighton. Yes, that will be the Tower ballroom in the background.

My dad was home from sea from New York, I think he looks cool on the photos. :)

notice there's an army guy over to the right too.

Larkhill park in the 'good old days'

Howie might know this street.
My dear departed Grandma's house 137 Leopold Rd, Kenny.
My baby brother Ken and former

Sandgrounder Southport FC footballer niece Lucy (http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/sandgrounders/) are in the

pic
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/leopold.jpg

Abersoch
The three bros:)
L-R Me (12 yrs), Our Ken (3 yrs), Our Colin (10 yrs)


http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/photos/abersoch.jpg

Barons Hey, Canny Farm
L-R Our Colin (13 yrs), Our Ken (6 yrs),

unknown
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/photos/canny.jpg

Barons Hey,

Canny Farm
L-R Our Colin (13 yrs), Our Ken (6 yrs), unknown
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/photos/canny.jpg

Oh look! A

Ford Anglia with a Liverpool registration and a go-faster stripe. I had one once - a banger. Bought it from the Parkfield auctions and the doors kept

flying open going around corners.

Oh look! A Ford Anglia with a Liverpool registration and a go-faster stripe. I had one once - a banger. Bought it from

the Parkfield auctions and the doors kept flying open going around corners.

I thought you'd remark on the Ford Anglia:)
I think my

Dad's car was the Vauxhall Viva just behind it.

I thought you'd remark on the Ford Anglia:)
I think my Dad's car was the Vauxhall Viva just behind

it.


Vauxhall Victor, not Viva. The Anglia is the De-luxe with the full chrome grill and someone put a badge bar on it. Yes people would

put metal badges on these - yes, they really did! They would lacerate pedestrians if they hit them.

Vauxhall

Victor, not Viva.
Spot on. Apologies.

Mum and I having a dance and a laugh at Huyton Social Club. Probably circa 1985!

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/mumandi.jpg

I'm NOT GAY! **** you!:)
1976. On top of the roof of our digs in Highbury New Park, London N5. The two Japanese lads were on secondment for 2 years. I can't recall the middle lad's name, but the one on the right is Tsukata Watanabe. I was really into martial arts at the time and he was my sparring partner. He used to kick me all over the gym:eek:
He's a big shot at Narita Airport nowadays. Loves his malt whisky, as do most Japanese men:PDT_Aliboronz_24:
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/3muskateers.jpg

Here's me early 1970s.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y249/rubinda/more%20old%20pics/wales001.jpg

Great to see, Lindy and Dave!

Chris

Cracking photie, Lindy:PDT_Piratz_26:
Were you on holiday?

Check out the keks!
Taken outside Paddy's Wigwan in late '75. My lovely Dad on the left.
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/keks.jpg

Bell bottoms, Dave? :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

Bell bottoms, Dave? :PDT_Aliboronz_24:
My youngest lad and his mates saw this photo at lunchtime and started taking the piss out of me. Cheeky young whippersnappers!

You know who's to blame for this recent glut of photos? Lindylou! If she didn't post those cracking Rock Against Racism photies, I wouldn't have rummaged through mine.
Here's another.
Stalybridge, Cheshire at my brother Colin's wedding in 1980. My Mum's a bit prim and proper and she's giving me one of THOSE LOOKS because I made (lets call it) an inappropriate remark to one of my mates who was out of camera view giving me the W----r sign. The lad who's got his head in the picture between my Mum and Dad is Steve Molyneux, Cantril Farm's most flamboyant cross dresser:)

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/look2.jpg
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/look1.jpg

I think I'm wearing bellbottoms or flares on that photo. :D
I have to think now ... were bell bottoms wider than flares ?? lol !
The satin top I'm wearing was very fashionable at that time. :)

That photo was taken at a caravan site in Wales.

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/look1.jpg



**** you Davey...:disgust: I just spent two minutes trying to wipe the dust off me monitor :D

Here's me early 1970s.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y249/rubinda/more%20old%20pics/wales001.jpg



Whey Hey :D ..... **wolf whistle* ;)


:unibrow:

**** you Davey...:disgust: I just spent two minutes trying to wipe the dust off me monitor :D
LOL! I see what you mean:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

Check out the wall of my London digs in 1976. My little piece of Liverpool:celb (23):
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/digswall.jpg

You got Diana Ross in the corner there.:celb (23):

You got Diana Ross in the corner there.:celb (23):
And if you look closely to right of the LFC pennant, you can see the Blues & Soul magazine logo:celb (6):

Here's another lot.

The North Wales Holiday Camp, now sadly knocked down. Standing outside our chalet.

http://static.flickr.com/139/321582254_8097c30d2e.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/321582254/)

Trophies from the Matchmakers Tournament, Garston c of e had the best team in Liverpool then.

http://static.flickr.com/134/321582183_3d26e8f789.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/321582183)

Me and my dad

http://static.flickr.com/83/321582094_b370650f3d.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/321582094/)

Me and my grandad (Harry the brush)

http://static.flickr.com/144/321582020_9b9648eedb.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/321582020/)

At St. Margies, I'm on the right.

http://static.flickr.com/129/321581958_a5e7c31bc1.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/321581958)

Garston c of e at The Phil Hall, with the rudees on the wall.

http://static.flickr.com/138/321581887_22f633f9fa.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/321581887/)

10 house points if you can spot me :)

Kev, lovely pics. You've made me feel all broody again LOL!

This pic brought tears to my eyes
http://static.flickr.com/144/321582020_9b9648eedb.jpg

Garston c of e at The Phil Hall, with the rudees on the wall.

http://static.flickr.com/138/321581887_22f633f9fa.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/321581887/)

10 house points if you can spot me :)

I can spot Mrs Jennings - she still comes in to play piano and coach the choir - lovely woman. Never mind footie - out school's still the best!!!:celb (23):

This pic brought tears to my eyes
http://static.flickr.com/144/321582020_9b9648eedb.jpg

My grandad was the best, he bought me my first suit for my work experience, then sadly got ill and had a stroke, my nan found him in his favorite rocking chair one morning. God I wish he was here to see his great grand kids :disgust:. When his funeral took place, as a mark of respect, the Police from Heald Street (he was the caretaker - hence the nickname Harry The Brush) placed a copper on every street corner from Argyle Rd and Garston to the crem in Allerton, I'll never forget that. My grandad was the type who would have you in fits of laughter at weddings and funerals.

I can spot Mrs Jennings - she still comes in to play piano and coach the choir - lovely woman. Never mind footie - out school's still the best!!!:celb (23):

Mrs Jennings - I remember her, nice lady. It was all footy footy footy back then and a bit of bird watching on the field.

Your grandad must have deserved such a good send off. He was obviously well liked and respected by all and loved by his family.

Kev, are you on the first row, far left ? :)

Garston c of e at The Phil Hall, with the rudees on the wall.

http://static.flickr.com/138/321581887_22f633f9fa.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/321581887/)

10 house points if you can spot me :)

Third from left, front row.

Great pics, Kev. Thanks for sharing!

Chris

Third from left, front row.

Great pics, Kev. Thanks for sharing!

Chris

3rd from the left is a girl, cheers Chris :Colorz_Grey_PDT_16:

3rd from the left is a girl, cheers Chris :Colorz_Grey_PDT_16:


Whoops! :shock:

You wouldn't have had a sex change operation since then, would you, Kev? I felt sure with the fringe it was you. . .

Chris

A few old pics and a couple of questions which I hope you can answer please.

My grandad is back row, third from the left. I always thought he played for the Cabbage Hall Pub. Is Walton Park Bowling Club another name for the Cabbage Hall bowls team? The pic must have been taken in the 50s, because there was a newscutting with a pic of Phil Taylor, who was captain of Liverpool FC.
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/way001.jpg

1985 with my sister in law who lived with us for a year. Is the scaffolding on the Cunard Offices for repairs or was it just for a clean up?
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/way003.jpg

I've no idea where this was taken. Somewhere around West Derby Rd/Everton Rd perhaps?
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/way004.jpg

That's me with the checked keks with my Dad. The back of my grandma's house in the Boot Estate. No. 5 Heathwaite Crescent, if I recall.
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/way005.jpg

Mum, our Colin and Ken. New Brighton 1971. Check out the scooter and is that New Brighton Baths in the background?
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/way006.jpg

Fantastic photos. :)

That's interesting about the Cabbage Hall Bowling club. Couldn't say for sure if it was known as Walton Park. Although it could well be, as that bit of Anfield was under the boundary of Walton On the Hill (could still be).
The bowling green is still there at the back of the Cabbage Hall pub but no longer in use.

My grandfather played in a bowls team ( in the 1950's & early 60's) - he played for Walton Hall Park. I think the greens where somewhere by or behind the Alsop school. I'll ask my dad tomorrow.
He might know about the Cabbage Hall team.

Maybe our grandads played against each other ! :D

Fantastic photos. :)

That's interesting about the Cabbage Hall Bowling club. Couldn't say for sure if it was known as Walton Park. Although it could well be, as that bit of Anfield was under the boundary of Walton On the Hill (could still be).
The bowling green is still there at the back of the Cabbage Hall pub but no longer in use.

My grandfather played in a bowls team ( in the 1950's & early 60's) - he played for Walton Hall Park. I think the greens where somewhere by or behind the Alsop school. I'll ask my dad tomorrow.
He might know about the Cabbage Hall team.

Maybe our grandads played against each other ! :D
Thanks Lindy. It wouldn't surprise me if they did play against each other. My grandad, Jimmy Nash was still playing bowls when he was into his late 70s!

Mine too !! :)

My grandad was playing when he was into his 70s.

I'll ask my dad if he has any photos.

Wasn't there a bowling green up by the Everton Water Tower too ? I know there was some kind of park there - built sort of high up from the ground.

There where lovely greens on Lower Breck rd. I have a photo which I'll post.
Actually .. those photos I posted in the Autumn pics thread - Breckside Park - are where the bowling greens used to be. (do you remember them ?) There were 4 greens kept in pristine condition and also nice flower beds there. They were removed approx mid 1970s and now are just common ground.

I remember the prefabs on Lower Breck rd. (don't suppose anyone has any photos??) :D I'd love to see them again to refresh my memory. We used to play 'house' in them when they became derelict. :)

ps,

Have a look at the first photie I posted in Autumn pics 'where I walk my dog'.

That's the exact place where the flower beds used to be, then there's a slight downwards slope where the greens where located.

Mine too !! :)

My grandad was playing when he was into his 70s.

I'll ask my dad if he has any photos.

Wasn't there a bowling green up by the Everton Water Tower too ? I know there was some kind of park there - built sort of high up from the ground.

There where lovely greens on Lower Breck rd. I have a photo which I'll post.
Actually .. those photos I posted in the Autumn pics thread - Breckside Park - are where the bowling greens used to be. (do you remember them ?) There were 4 greens kept in pristine condition and also nice flower beds there. They were removed approx mid 1970s and now are just common ground.

I remember the prefabs on Lower Breck rd. (don't suppose anyone has any photos??) :D I'd love to see them again to refresh my memory. We used to play 'house' in them when they became derelict. :)
I remember the Breckside Park greens, I thought they were still there. That's a shame. Not sure if there was a bowling green by the water tower. I know what you mean, it's about 15 feet above street level isn't it? I was there a couple of years back and everywhere was overgrown and full of rubbish. May even have a pic somewhere.

I've no idea where this was taken. Somewhere around West Derby Rd/Everton Rd perhaps?
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/way004.jpg


There is a statue plinth in ther background.


http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/way006.jpg

Wow, a Vauxhall Cresta, Mini, Morris 1000, Ford Anglia and a Lambretta SX200. and the baths in the background.

http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/CunardJPEGs/Sylvania04.jpg
Source for above pic (http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/CunardJPEGs/Sylvania04.jpg)

Another one of our Colin, myself and our Hughes St neighbour Philip standing on the deck of the Sylvania.

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/way007.jpg

Hi Dave

Great pics, Dave, thanks for sharing. I was pleased to see the pics of the Sylvania, since I first emigrated to the United States aboard the Saxonia, her sister ship, from Liverpool to New York along with my mother in January 1955. My dad had gone out earlier in September 1954 via the Queen Elizabeth sailing from Southampton.

Chris

Another one of our Colin, myself and our Hughes St neighbour Philip standing on the deck of the Sylvania.

[IMG]http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/way007.jpg

The Syvania is in dock. The sheds are either being demolished or re-roofed. She usually docked in the Gladstone if I recall.

ScouserDave, here's my grandad (2nd from left top row). Don't know his age on this one, but the following 2 pics he would be in his 70s by then.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y249/rubinda/more%20old%20pics/tn_05bowlingclub.jpg

not sure when these next 2 were taken as there are no dates on the back of photos. Must have been late 1950s early 60s perhaps. (he died in 1968).
He's 4th along from left, top row. wearing glasses.
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The Bowling team he played for was called 'The Priory Bowling Club' .. and not Walton Hall like I first said on previous post. (there was a club by Alsop too as I mentioned).
The official address for the club was 139 Walton Breck rd. (my dad tells me).
The club would play in Stanley park.

Lower Breck rd bowling greens.
There were 4 immaculate and well kept greens and flower beds further up towards the road. Mums would stroll around with their kids and meet up for a chat on summer days. As you can see there is no litter or vandalism even though the fencing was low, no one would think of climbing over to trash the place. There was a hut where the bowls and stuff were stored and for the cockywatchman. They were strict and woe betide any kid that put a foot near those greens ! I remember being little and trying to scoop out some of the sand that was in the ridges around the greens, and if you tried to step up onto those grass edges someone would shout or shake a finger at you - the cockywatchman would be watching like a hawk ! ha!
Those greens wouldn't survive a day now what with the yobs and their quad bikes. :disgust:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y249/rubinda/more%20old%20pics/tn_bg.jpg
you can just about see in the distance the prefabs that where on Lower Breck rd.

... and this is what's there now in the exact same place ..nothing ! :rolleyes:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y249/rubinda/7.jpg
the greens were here and the flower beds up by the fencing by main road.
The prefabs were over to the left.

ps,
Newsham General hospital was over the main road. The old walls still remain. You can see them to the left of the houses.

Thanks for the pics and descriptions. Your grandad's pics look a little earlier than my grandad's. Done a search for 139 Breck Rd and it's the offices of Anfield Gas Electric nowadays.

The middle photo of my grandad could have been in the 1950s, so it's possible that our grandads might have been playing around the same time. :)

Dave, it's 139 Walton Breck rd and not Breck rd. :)

A few old pics and a couple of questions which I hope you can answer please.


1985 with my sister in law who lived with us for a year. Is the scaffolding on the Cunard Offices for repairs or was it just for a clean up?
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/way003.jpg

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An 80's bleached hair Dave!:shock:

The year I was born in.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

An 80's bleached hair Dave!:shock:

Deffo not Max:PDT_Xtremez_12:

re the subject of greens;
I came across this old envelope while rooting through some old greeting cards;
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y249/rubinda/letter.jpg

Relax in your local parks.

Shame that can't be said for the parks these days !! What with quad bikes, hoodies and dangerous dogs roaming around :rolleyes:

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Shame that can't be said for the parks these days !! What with quad bikes, hoodies and dangerous dogs roaming around :rolleyes:


:celb (23): well played :D

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/321581958/

Why does the guy next to Kev look like Rick Waller and Peter Kaye?

Here's my assortment and before anyone starts, this gear was all the rage back then....<whistle>

First one is me as a babba, arrrrr. No.2 March 65 in Jeromes photo studio, London rd, No.3 Outsides Scotts bakery off St. Anee st where Martindales is now. No4. On the corner of Holly st/Christian st. No.5 In crosby with the baths behind. No.6 Playin' me guit :PDT_07: No.7 At the Steble fountain. No.8 In St. John's Gardens with the cranes building the precinct. No.9 This time the museum's behind. No.10 At Chester Zoo. No.11 On me trike with Gerard Gardens in the background :cha (5): No. 12 With Holly st tennies being demolished. No.13 Looking along Christian st, that's the side of the Pontack pub and Clare st wash-house. No. 14 My 1st Holy Communion day 1968. No.15, the same day in one of the parks. No.16 Hair bear bunch on the prom. No.17 Sunday best this time. No.18 On my bike over t'water.

Brilliant pics, the ones on the bike are class! :PDT_Piratz_26:

An He's still a little hard faced monkey !!!..Great Pics Ged.

:handclap: :handclap:

aahh, you look so cute on the bike. :) :)

Great pics.

I love the sunglasses one, cool dude:cool:
Looks like Sefton Park

Thanks folks. I'd post some more up to date ones but don't wanna scare yers.

Thanks, Ged.
They're great.

Short trousers - that dates you.
I got my first longys when I was 14.

Is that tall chimney part of Clare Street Baths?

I knew it as the wash-house (pics of it on the reflections of liverpool website and the port cities) but never knew it as a baths, was it?

The street which ran up the side of it from Christian st to St. Anne street was Springfield street. St. Annes school was on one side with Jimmy Romero's (or Romeo's) sweet shop on the opposite corner of Clare st.

Can anyone make out the name of the street here above the bread van, seems to be a long name. It's supposed to be 3 women on the way to Clare st wash-house so can only be in the locality.

Picture is off the Reflections - photographs of Liverpool website.

Sorry Ged.
Another case of not checking before I post! :Colorz_Grey_PDT_24:


This is what I have on Clare Street Wash House:

Clare Street Wash House opened September 1935 on the site of the circus ring/auditorium of the old Adelphi Theatre, Christian Street. It closed 27 September 1969.

Former Library and former Clare Street Wash House (site of old Adelphi, Christian Street) Demolished 1986/7. Houses have been built on the site.

How do you find this stuff out Phil? :handclap:

How do you find this stuff out Phil? :handclap:

From reading too much & spending a lot of time in the library, and then compiling my own "Annals", then I just do a search. :)
There is a book on sale in the LRO about the Wash Houses.

Yes, i've read that but don't own it, a flimsy booklet type. Good stuff Phil.

Family reckon I look like my grandad. I'm the one on the right, by the way (14 yr old). I can't see it. What do you think? He was ginger as a kid (Waterford City), like my two younger brothers, whereas I was blond. He was a miserable bugger, but I was the life and soul of the party, much like Noel Coward:rolleyes:

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/grandad.jpg

Sis in law and me, 1985. Think I've mentioned this before. She was 15 when she stayed with us for a year, and we took her to all the home/away LFC games. She didn't have a clue about football, but she fell in love with Paul Walsh and understood the offside rule after her first match! Visited her last year and she asked me if Kenny Dalglish was still playing:eek:

Luv her to bits. Married with two kids and is some sort of big shot in banking nowadays.

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/memories001.jpg

Family reckon I look like my grandad. I'm the one on the right, by the way (14 yr old). I can't see it. What do you think? He was ginger as a kid (Waterford City), like my two younger brothers, whereas I was blond. He was a miserable bugger, but I was the life and soul of the party, much like Noel Coward:rolleyes:

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/grandad.jpg

Soz dave, can't see it, well hang on.....maybe in the eyes....hmmm...(looks closer)

Good stuff. Just been looking at some of the photies on Pat's site and noticed you've contributed, but tell me, I'd heard that you were the miserable bugger - it's nothing to do with being down in Luton is it? :)

Good stuff. Just been looking at some of the photies on Pat's site and noticed you've contributed, but tell me, I'd heard that you were the miserable bugger - it's nothing to do with being down in Luton is it? :)
Look into my eyes, look into my eyes, the eyes, the eyes, not around the eyes, don't look around the eyes, look into my eyes. [click] You're under! You will pay me £5 for smartarse quip sent to Yo:unibrow:

Seriously though, don't get me started on Luton or I'll slash me wrists! The people are fantastic, but it's so landlocked and the town centre is a shiithole.

On the plus side, my kids have the same mates they had when they were babies and they're all good lads. Something I never had. No disrepect to my Mum and Dad. They done what they thought was best for us by moving around.

You've turned out alright haven't you. That's all that matters mate. :)

You've turned out alright haven't you. That's all that matters mate. :)
Thanks Ged. Don't know about turning out alright, but I'm not as screwed up as some of the folk I've encountered recently. LOL!

Cracking missus, stable relationship, three lovely lads. Can't really complain:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

I was a good boy once upon a time ago:unibrow:

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/report.jpg

I can see a bit of tippex just under the "1st" writing there Dave, did they have that back in 65?

I notice you seem to be fair to middlin on your oral too and a bit mental :unibrow:

I notice you seem to be fair to middlin on your oral too and a bit mental :unibrow:
I was also first in Problems:unibrow:

I can see a bit of tippex just under the "1st" writing there Dave, did they have that back in 65?
LOL! Missed this post. Just spotted it.
Bar Steward!:PDT11

When I was a baby my mum said In the hospital that the doctors thought I was massive compared to the other babies.

Looking at my baby pictures makes me think I look like a fat Italian mob boss. I'm not Italian enough to give the kiss of death.:PDT10

Sports Day at Garston C of E, how they used to be :)

http://static.flickr.com/65/229964354_e2025e894a.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/229964354/)

My class

http://static.flickr.com/98/229964545_d98223db5c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/229964545/)

We took part in a junior school football tournament in Stoke called The Matchmakers Tournament. We won this, our final match was 9-0 to us! The year was 1985, possibly my most memorable year ever!

The day finished with a game of football, Everton V Stoke City.

http://static.flickr.com/63/229964610_5388b1ed50.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/229964610/)

http://static.flickr.com/67/229964492_48a43473c3.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/229964492/)

http://static.flickr.com/93/229964443_815bf12508.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/229964443/)

Me again

http://static.flickr.com/60/229964396_3243bd4691.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ijob/229964396/)


Love the old Merseyside Transport logo on the side of the coach Kev! Seems like "Bleems" ago since I last saw that lad!!

Great photographs, Gilly! Thanks! :handclap:

Chris

First time the missus met the family in 1975. Notice how baby bruv Ken on the left is copping a feel? LOL! He's now a 6 foot streak of piss who's just retired from the RAF and living in Plymouth.

May have mentioned this before, but my Mum remarked to my Dad after we went back to London "He's going to marry that girl":PDT_Aliboronz_24:

The second pic is on a camping holiday near Biarritz France in 1992. Missus was carrying our third lad Alex at the time.

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/firstvisit.jpg

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/france.jpg

Great pics Dave. On that first pic, where did you get those curtains. I'm not mistaking the ones behind you by the way, I mean the hair curtains ha ha.

Great pics Dave. On that first pic, where did you get those curtains. I'm not mistaking the ones behind you by the way, I mean the hair curtains ha ha.
Don't mock. It took a whole can of hairspray before I posed for this pic mate!:unibrow:

Cossack was it Dave, get your money back :)

I thought it was Cody Kasch (Zach Young) off Desperate Housewives when I first saw it mate.

Cossack hairspray! Jeez, how old are you? LOL!
Roger Clark's RS1800, 1976:PDT11
http://www.all-rs.co.uk/files/cossackescort230606.jpg

No doubt a firm hold on the road Dave.

Don't mock. It took a whole can of hairspray before I posed for this pic mate!:unibrow:

Dog (Dawg) the Bounty Hunter Could use any hair-spray you have left.

Find me...
http://www.staff.livjm.ac.uk/beshpate/childwall1962.jpg

This is me now...
http://www.staff.livjm.ac.uk/beshpate/howie001.jpg

Gotcha! Bottom row, centre? :retard:

If I ever get a scanner I might post old me pics.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof

lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound,no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!

Football teams had trials and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.They actually sided with the law!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned

HOW TO

DEAL WITH IT ALL!

And ALL of you are one of them!

CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our
own good.


and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.


Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!


PS -The big type is because your eyes are shot at your age

Thats where I got my signature line from

Phredd

Well done Phredd - seen it before but still very relevant.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof

lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound,no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!

Football teams had trials and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.They actually sided with the law!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned

HOW TO

DEAL WITH IT ALL!

And ALL of you are one of them!

CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our
own good.


and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.


Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!


PS -The big type is because your eyes are shot at your age

Thats where I got my signature line from

Phredd

Technically you wern't brave because at the time none of you knew the risks of foods and lead paints.

I can be aruged the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's Generation could of been born with problems because of the past generations and stuff around them and what they did though so how exactly are they the best?

I still see most kids outside playing now, I occasionally did as a kid but I don't do well with other people so I was Indoor as well.

The 1980s.

http://pic7.piczo.com/inacityliving/?g=35123828

ahhh, great photographs Ged. :handclap: Thanks for letting us have a look :)

Good Laugh Ged
Nice one for sharing.

I like the look a likes what about Bobby Ball?

great photos Ged :handclap: sure you weren't in Harry Enfield's scousers:PDT10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7VspOs3Qt0

Listen you two... only kidding. Yes Bobby Ball and the calm down, calm down brigade as in that pic that goes around with the Barry Grant/Terry Sullivan crowd in the kop. You see, weren't I in fashion for the time then (well ok, except for that suit, oh and the green flash, and err yeah, whattabout that belt on me jeans and that - ok ok I get it...)

Listen you two... only kidding. Yes Bobby Ball and the calm down, calm down brigade as in that pic that goes around with the Barry Grant/Terry Sullivan crowd in the kop. You see, weren't I in fashion for the time then (well ok, except for that suit, oh and the green flash, and err yeah, whattabout that belt on me jeans and that - ok ok I get it...)

did you have a shell suit?:PDT10

@phredd Great that list was!

Who remembers:


Taking your empty bottles of Barr's lemmo back to the shop and getting
10p (how's that for recycling eh? )
Giving stuff to the Rag & Bone man and getting a balloon back off him? More recycling!
Curling up inside a tractor tyre and being pushed down the hill?
Bringing your empty milk bottles back to the shop. Even more recycling!
Nickin' sweets from the pick 'n' mix counter in Woolies on Church Street.
Climbing up the highest tree you could find and making a Swing with some dock rope.


Great stuff!

did you have a shell suit?:PDT10

I can honestly say that in the 80s I DID NOT own a shell suit.

I did in 1990 though hee hee.....

I did in 1990 though hee hee.....

And yer never used yer Mrs's mazzie as well Ay..Ay did yer !!

No Gerard, but as you can see, we did watch Prisoner Cell block H. That programme made the ladies of Pickwicks seem elegantly beautiful.

''Aaaar ey Bea.''

No Gerard, but as you can see, we did watch Prisoner Cell block H. That programme made the ladies of Pickwicks seem elegantly beautiful.

''Aaaar ey Bea.''


Happy days Eh Ged Lad..


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I don't remember you having that caravan mate. Of course we had another name for Pickwicks didn't we, well the gals did. I first went in there aged 15 at the very first Beatles convention on JL's birthday 9/10/77 and we got served ale dead easy. The start of many a good night in there though we graduated to Gatsby's when we got a bit braver.

Some of the girls from Pickwicks class of 79.

I can honestly say that in the 80s I DID NOT own a shell suit.

I did :RAP:

Come on Kev - photies please, and of you dancing with the hit man and her.

I did in 1990 though hee hee.....

Ha ha great pic Ged :handclap::PDT11 calm down! calm down !:PDT10

Ged, we met B. Smith (Val Layman) at the B.A. Club in Orrell lane. We got her autograph :) We had a photo but I'm not sure if I've kept it. I'll have a look for it.

Fancy owning up to that ha ha.

In a city living 3 got a good mention in the Star today by Kiron Reid.

Does it Stan? Thanks for that, a complete surprise, where do I get the star. I believe Kiron Reid lives in Abbeygate apartments which were Wavertree Gardens and they feature in book 3.

Fancy owning up to that ha ha.

It wasn't me that liked Cell Block H .. honest !! I just tagged along with friends. :)

Arrrrr eyyy Bea, i'm gonna get that vinega t.its. (Lizzie Beardsworth: Circa 1990)

Does it Stan? Thanks for that, a complete surprise, where do I get the star. I believe Kiron Reid lives in Abbeygate apartments which were Wavertree Gardens and they feature in book 3.


Aye,I get the Star free through the door.I think (although I'm not sure) that you can pick it up from good news agents.

It really is baby faced Jona!

2927

If I was a woman i'd say Arrrrrrr but I'm not so I won't.

Ahh, Jona, you little cutie...........Lol

Jacky :)

Ahh, Jona, you little cutie...........Lol

Jacky :)

LOL I dunno where the blonde hair came from but it's not any more! :)

I did in 1990 though hee hee.....


Is 118 part of your phone number?:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

Arrrrr eyyy Bea, i'm gonna get that vinega t.its. (Lizzie Beardsworth: Circa 1990)

nearly forgot to show you - Bea Smith autograph :)
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Is 118 part of your phone number?:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

Could you repeat that please?

nearly forgot to show you - Bea Smith autograph :)
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y249/rubinda/val001-1.jpg

Is she a stripper now, what sort o' turn was she doin'? :)

Could you repeat that please?

Well you do look like the 118 advert people.:PDT10

I know and when I asked you to repeat it, i was getting at 118 118 - get it (it's never funny if you have to explain it ha ha)

Ged,did you ever find the letter in the paper I was talking about?
It was in again a week later and went into more detail.

Yes thanks Stan. Ron Formby of the Scottie Press whom was also mentioned in it emailed me a scan of it. Don't know why it was in again, my cousin reckons there's no such person and it's me writing letters of congratulations to myself under an assumed name (but it's not - honest. I use 'delighted from Ols Swan etc')

This is a youtube special! Me in the Conti back in 1994 at a Psygnosis party. One of the chaps in the video department recorded the whole night and has stuck an arrow over my head so no one misses me when I'm struttin my stuff!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-G1gEMFzLE

I used to customs clear some of the Psygnosis airfreight Imports at Liverpool when they were in Brunswick business park, long before the Sony buyout. I still have the 709 phone number in my very old book but I don't have the fellas name and have forgotten it.

Jona, whatta you doin' there - Power Walking or summat?

I hope you normally last longer than 7 seconds (you didn't do a hit with Nenah Cherry did you by any chance)

Jona, whatta you doin' there - Power Walking or summat?

I hope you normally last longer than 7 seconds (you didn't do a hit with Nenah Cherry did you by any chance)

It was a 'if I stop moving I'll fall over with all the ale I've drunk' :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

7 seconds...LOL I used to do all nighters at Cream in my 'youth' - now Top of the Pops is too loud for my liking :PDT10

John Travolta must have been worried, competition :shock:

Nice one for sharing

Some late 60s shots:


At Crosby beach outside the baths when the sand came right up to those big white houses on the front and those concrete pyramid anti-tank/landing craft things were dotted about.

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At the Steble Fountain when buses could go up William Brown Street and Islington. Rushworths, next to the County Sessions House has gone but there's still some old property yet to be demolished. We only lived 5 mins away.

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Outside Gregs dad's old workplace - Scotts bakery. This was on the corner of St. Anne Street and Rose Place and is now Martindales.

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In St. John's Gardens. The cranes behind are building the precinct.

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Another one Gregs dad may remember being a Kirkdale lad. Canon Hopkins pictured near the flower streets.

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Great photos Ged :PDT_Piratz_26:

Cheers Robbo.

I like the last one, the faces on them kids :PDT11

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Hi Ged, anti tank pyramids used to keep paddling pools on the beach when the tide had gone out. This is the missus with our first born taken from an old colour slide in 1959.

great photo greg,s dad I will keep that for my arch, ark, files.

Ged I can old see one of your photos me old turnip, are the other,s only for the grownups?//!1

Wonderful photograph, greg's dad, both for the people in it and those anti-tank pyramids. What a time capsule! I very much like the colours in the slide too. Splendid! :handclap:

I'm going to copy that photo to the World War II defenses thread if I may.

Chris

I don't know what's happened to them Chippie, must be something to do with imageshack which I used to upload them so i'll do them again as thumbprints via the uploading facility on this site.

Here you go, now you'll just have to click on them to get them to a laughable size ;)

[/QUOTE]Hi Ged, anti tank pyramids used to keep paddling pools on the beach when the tide had gone out. This is the missus with our first born taken from an old colour slide in 1959.[/QUOTE]


Great pic and colours Gregs dad. Could be Spain.

:PDT_Aliboronz_24:My story of my growing up is being considered for the 800 lives project run by the museum.

I,ve had two e mails from them up to now but I have to be "sifted" in order of interest I suppose.

The prize is to go back in time and meet the ancestor of your choice. I,m going to see the policeman gt gt gramps to take a few photos of him arressting a runaway piglet in Gt Homer Street back in 1865, that should make headlines in the "Echo" I,ll show them what a decent photo looks like!

thanks Ged, I,ve put them safely in my x cons file. lol:hug:

Here you go, now you'll just have to click on them to get them to a laughable size ;)

Ged, just remembered another thing about Canon Hopkins in your last picture. He used to come around our school,St Johns infants school every friday afternoon with his base fiddle, which he played very well, and entertain us.
His signature tune was "My bonny lies over the ocean" which was supposed to be the Beatles first record ever made This was in 1947 while he was still an ordinary priest.

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee283/exactavarex/image-2.jpg
Ged, here`s another view of the Scott`s advert without the railings sorry
about the colour, cheap Geveart slide film.

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee283/exactavarex/dserve-4.jpg

This was one of our playing fields in Kirkdale,a bomb site in Aspinall St. I remember scoring 99 not out (the girls were bowling underhand). You can just
see the wicket drawn on the wall. This street with Rockingham,Flinders,Lemon, have all disappeared now.
I wasn`t born in this street but I always played there, may be the girls were better looking

pic courtersy of L R O

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My Brother Joey (still not a priest) pictured in Wally Hall park in the late 1960s with his mates (when mates weren't condoms)



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The Altar boys in procession during my first holy communion in the mid 1960s, this is around the Comus Street/Grosvenor Street area in the St. Joseph's parish.

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And that's me, grey shorts, arms straight down by my sides being a good little boy.

Boss pics Ged:PDT11
(I hear you still wear them short shorts):PDT_Xtremez_42:

Great photos, Ged. Thanks for sharing with us. With all the scuff marks on the first pic, it's almost looks as if the lads played footie with the photograph.

Chris

This is me sitting on the corner of Holly St (we lived in 39) and Christian St. These were cleared in 1969 for the new St. Anne Street police HQ.

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/1622/hollycornermedd0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)


At Crosby beach before the marina was constructed and the beach came right up to the big white houses on the front. Those anti landing craft pyramids were still there too.


http://img398.imageshack.us/img398/6030/crosbywithyeoud3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

At Wally Hall park with my older brother and his mates in 1967. I'm holding a souvinir pendant which we got when the new cathedral was consecrated on the feast of pentecost.

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/3997/wallyhallpkpendantav1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)


I was a bit too young for the Beatles so had to refuse them and besides, those nylon strings hurt my fingers - ((((k'twang))))

http://img398.imageshack.us/img398/9260/guitarmecr1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

At Chester Zoo. The spotty thing at the back is a giraffe, the spotty thing in front is me.

http://img398.imageshack.us/img398/2488/zoomesk2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Dinner, dinner, dinner, dinner - BATMAAAAN

Near Newsham Park.

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/7926/batmanbackiq8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Many have said this masked one of me is one of my better ones.

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On the prom again.

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/9281/hairbearbunchqd8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

And again and don't anyone deny they had cords or a snake belt.

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/536/cordsnbxa5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

With the recent closure of Rose Hill bridewell someone had to keep order.

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It's 1969 now and the city bound flyover is yet to open for traffic so I get to have a go on it.


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On that prom again, did me dad have shares in the mersey ferries.

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It's 1976 now as you can tell by my cousin, Paul's Montreal Olympics sweatshirt. We're outside the Old Roan pub enjoying a top deck shandy after spending the day fishing on the nearby canal for sticklebacks.



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That's all for now folks - in fact maybe ever - there's some you're definitely not seeing, especially the ones where I look like a girl :)

God Ged - you look like a young Mickey Pearce :)

Gawwd - not you too :)

Yes!!! Great photos though :PDT11

Ta.

http://pic7.piczo.com/inacityliving/?g=35123828

Scroll down to near the bottom......:rolleyes:

Ta.

http://pic7.piczo.com/inacityliving/?g=35123828

Scroll down to near the bottom......:rolleyes:

So it's official!! Excellent :PDT11

:o(

Ged they are brilliant.My chords and snake belt I remember well.
What brilliant pics for memories.:handclap:

Thanks for sharing your photies Ged :) :)

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Is that Lee Evans ???????????????

My mouth l00ks more like Shane McGowan of the pogues. :)

Thanks for the comments folks.

My mouth l00ks more like Shane McGowan of the pogues. :)

Lol

Not many survive of me, they where lost in the fire or my stupid older brother took off with them all.

here is one that i have.

http://h1.ripway.com/andalucia/aame.jpg

a great haircut innit, as you can see i was very shy. i still have that bloomin tuft on top off me head.

Mt Aunty has some of me, i shall ask her for them.

http://h1.ripway.com/andalucia/aaaaaaaame.jpg

School Pic, with trademark Tie thrown away. I hate ties and i wont wear them unless i really have to. The missus says i have to wear one for me wedding day:shock:

Ha ha - it's like that Hamlet advert where the stool in the photo booth falls just as the camera clicks Tony.

Ha ha - it's like that Hamlet advert where the stool in the photo booth falls just as the camera clicks Tony.

Loooooooooooool :handclap:

aah, nice pics Gnomie :)

.. here's me .. :D

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y249/rubinda/03-1-1.jpg

ps, I've still got that teddybear !! - it's ancient. lol !

Nice pics Lindy:PDT11

Ha ha - it's like that Hamlet advert where the stool in the photo booth falls just as the camera clicks Tony.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbdxm8Ia0Wc

This sketch was originally from Naked Video as was this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywttPZY9oC0

Great pics everyone :handclap:

Well dug out John.

Lindy, you've still got the same face in that 2nd one - hee hee.

Me in Woolton Woods in 1969. The Milky Bars are on me :)

Mid 1970's as a budding Ayrton Senna...Pity it is blurred - I think me Dad was p***ed when he took it :)

Mid 1970's as a budding Ayrton Senna...Pity it is blurred - I think me Dad was p***ed when he took it :)

Awww how cute!

A few of me

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94/robbo176/00.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94/robbo176/00train.jpg

with my dad
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flashing my knickers (shut up Ged :PDT10 )

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94/robbo176/00newbrighton.jpg

Poor Old Ged has done nowt, just coz you flashed your knickers dont be blaming Ged.

( Hurry up Ged and reply, im waiting the punch line)

They're not knickers - they're bloody, bloody - well passion killers for a start, ok, I know she's only a kid on them there but I believe Chippie said she still wears em. They're like school p.e. shorts ha ha

I think they were my navy blue school knickers
& don't believe everything Chippie tells you ,I didn't when he told me about you ;)