Pre-Slum Clearances Housing Images

[Kev]

Please see attached images courtesy of Liverpool City Library and the Records Office:

[A.D.W]

Spartan conditions, Kev!

:shock:

[Kev]

A few more:

[Kev]

and a few more.....check out the medical officer taking measurements:

[A.D.W]

and a few more.....check out the medical officer taking measurements:

I am not sure if I could walk through that alleyway! Would be a tight fit, like.

:shock:

[Kev]

These were before the 'clearances' that took place.

[wyestreet]

Hi
I would really welcome any old photo's of st domingo road,wye street,sir thomas white gardens,our lady immaculate school as this is where i grew up late 50's till late 60's when everything was demolished.thanks Joe

[wyestreet]

Hi
Does anyone have any old photo's of st domingo road,wye street,sir thomas white gardens,our lady immaculate school as this is where i grew up late 50's till late 60's when everything was demolished.The area is unrecognisable now,any help would be very welcome.many thanx - Joe:PDT11

[mike delamar]

i think they forgot to knock our house down when they where doin it lol



mike

[PhilipG]

Hi
Does anyone have any old photo's of st domingo road,wye street,sir thomas white gardens,our lady immaculate school as this is where i grew up late 50's till late 60's when everything was demolished.The area is unrecognisable now,any help would be very welcome.many thanx - Joe:PDT11

Perhaps somebody does, but you're almost guaranteed to find some at the Record Office (4th floor, Central Library).
Take some ID, even if you're a member of the Library, as you'll need a ticket for the Search Room.

[goldenface]

Its a wonder half of those court houses didn't fall down before they were cleared.

Different world that was. You had to have proper Scouse Nouse to get through those times eh?

[Ged]

Hi
I would really welcome any old photo's of st domingo road,wye street,sir thomas white gardens,our lady immaculate school as this is where i grew up late 50's till late 60's when everything was demolished.thanks Joe


Wyestreet. I take it you haven't seen this site then?


http://www.emanuensis.btinternet.co.uk/index.htm

[Barry Clarkson]

and a few more.....check out the medical officer taking measurements:
and no litter or graffiti. Proud people. It leaves a lump in your throat.

[Waterways]

and no litter or graffiti. Proud people. It leaves a lump in your throat.

I remember the tail end of them. They were not nice. They were supposed to be demolished in the early 1900s, however two world wars got in the way.

[Ged]

Dozens here including some uploaded today.

http://inacityliving.piczo.com/?g=44922707&cr=7



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[Barry Clarkson]

Dozens here including some uploaded today.

http://inacityliving.piczo.com/?g=44922707&cr=7



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a truly fantastic collection brings memories back of when I delivered lino and oilcloth all round these areas. Often offered a tip. On one snowy winters day I was once offered a whisky. I would have been about eighteen at the time. These folk were the salt of the earth.

[shytalk]

a truly fantastic collection brings memories back of when I delivered lino and oilcloth all round these areas. Often offered a tip. On one snowy winters day I was once offered a whisky. I would have been about eighteen at the time. These folk were the salt of the earth.

Very true Barry, I enjoyed my time working for your family business before you. Did they still have the big Bedford with the crash gearbox when you drove for the store?

[Samp]

Dozens here including some uploaded today.

http://inacityliving.piczo.com/?g=44922707&cr=7



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Hello Gad!

You can have these for your site if you want them.

They show the backs of the houses in Sherif St between Beresford St and Kermode St. Taken about 1958 from our back bedroom window (Prince Edwin St) believe it or not they were still occupied at the time.

The ramshackled outhouse seen on one of the pictures passed as a kitchen.

Note the lack of windows in the houses.

[Samp]

A couple more! the one of the court is not my picture, but is a court at the top of Prince Edwin St, Which ran down behind the houses on the right hand side at the top of the street, taken about te same time.

Believe it or not the first picture shows what the people had as a kitchen for cooking the meals.

The front of the house had a front room in off the step, a room above that and an attic above that. No back windows to the house, except for the small window shown on on of the pictures, which gave light to the stairs!

[Ged]

Thanks Samp. I'll add them on.

[John(Zappa)]

Good pics Samp (as usual).:)

[Barry Clarkson]

Very true Barry, I enjoyed my time working for your family business before you. Did they still have the big Bedford with the crash gearbox when you drove for the store?
They did but I never drove it. The old Bedford must have been replaced soon after you left with a smaller bedford at the start of the 60s
The furniture became smaller and our department less busy. The credit stores and TJs Provident cheques made for sharp competition as we were a cash trader.

[pablo42]

Some great pictures. Amazing that people lived like that. I wonder if future generations will look back at us and be equally horrified. You wonder what gave them the strength to go on. No wonder the pubs were doing good business, the pubs must have been seen as palaces.

[Ged]

A lot of us on here seemed to have lived in the tennies. I never thought of them as drab or run down when living in them as you knew no better but some people obviously do looking back and in comparison to what there is now although there were always nice garden houses from way back. Look at Wavertree Garden suburb.

[George]

A lot of us on here seemed to have lived in the tennies. I never thought of them as drab or run down when living in them as you knew no better but some people obviously do looking back and in comparison to what there is now although there were always nice garden houses from way back. Look at Wavertree Garden suburb.

<Puts hand in the air>

Not me,me mam&dad had a house in Albion Street at the back of St.Domingo Vally...3 up 2 down and it had a bit of a garden at te front this was part of the slum clearence back in 79.

[Ged]

Same here, I can't say a bad word against them.

Community spirit, always something on the go - maybe just the way of the world back then but i'm only talking about the mid 70s in my case.

I knew a couple of lads who lived in more well to do areas (well that's how it seemed to me) with garden houses who couldn't stay away from the squares.

A time lost for good now it seems.

[George]

Does anyone believe in their fate is mapped out?

I do each day I find that I'm getting nearer and nearer to my roots.

Due to slum clearence we got moved out of Albion Street to the Cantril Farm area, I lived up there with Mam&Dad till I moved out and got me a flat near anfields ground,lived in that flat for 4 years and moved out into a house near stanley park,it seems my neighbour used to live in Ciscero Terrace which was a couple of streets away from Albion Street,by the looks of things I'm going to have my church service in St.Georges were I was christened.

Ain't that something. :eek:

[pablo42]

Does anyone believe in their fate is mapped out?

I do each day I find that I'm getting nearer and nearer to my roots.

Due to slum clearence we got moved out of Albion Street to the Cantril Farm area, I lived up there with Mam&Dad till I moved out and got me a flat near anfields ground,lived in that flat for 4 years and moved out into a house near stanley park,it seems my neighbour used to live in Ciscero Terrace which was a couple of streets away from Albion Street,by the looks of things I'm going to have my church service in St.Georges were I was christened.

Ain't that something. :eek:

Yes George so true. My kids were christened in the same church as me and my grandson likewise. I moved away a long time ago and never thought I'd be back. Tis indeed a short road.

[squiggs]

I've got no chance of "getting back to my roots !" my old house in Greta Street fell down !! a couple of years before the whole area was pulled down !,the hospital I was born Sefton General gone but not forgotten !, the church where I was christened St Cleopas was knocked down ,my old School St Silas is still there but not the old buildings I knew !, my old "big" school Liverpool Girls College was knocked down.... I'm getting a bit of a complex !.

[George]

Squiggs,its not about the buildings still standing when going back to our roots,its about living near the area we were born after being/living away from it for so many years.

Albion street which is were my youth and growing up was,is now an area of two storey maisonettes and is bismall depressing eyesore to what was once a community spirit of terraced houses..

These eyesores are still standing.

[scouse smurf]

I've got no chance of "getting back to my roots !" my old house in Greta Street fell down !! a couple of years before the whole area was pulled down !,the hospital I was born Sefton General gone but not forgotten !, the church where I was christened St Cleopas was knocked down ,my old School St Silas is still there but not the old buildings I knew !, my old "big" school Liverpool Girls College was knocked down.... I'm getting a bit of a complex !.

Remind me never to buy a property u've owned !!! :)

[squiggs]

Squiggs,its not about the buildings still standing when going back to our roots,its about living near the area we were born after being/living away from it for so many years.

Albion street which is were my youth and growing up was,is now an area of two storey maisonettes and is bismall depressing eyesore to what was once a community spirit of terraced houses..

These eyesores are still standing.
I dont think I will ever again live near where I was born or brought up !, I have some lovely fond memories of "The Dingle" but sadly it is not the place I rememeber, during my childhood it felt safe, friendly, and homely I never knew a front door to be closed during the day and everyone knew evreyone else, it was wierd I lived "in a slum" but couldnt haver been happier if I had lived in a castle !.

[wsteve55]

I dont think I will ever again live near where I was born or brought up !, I have some lovely fond memories of "The Dingle" but sadly it is not the place I rememeber, during my childhood it felt safe, friendly, and homely I never knew a front door to be closed during the day and everyone knew evreyone else, it was wierd I lived "in a slum" but couldnt haver been happier if I had lived in a castle !.

Hi Sqiggs,
not an usual view,I think, but was it really so different, or as kid's,are we just unaware!?