Can anyone reconise the school?

[GeorgePorgie]

I'm thinking this is StGeorges Primary before it was demolished? if it is then its the only photie available on the net

Picture courtesy of......
http://www.my-liverpool.co.uk/Forum-Gallery-Four(1399530).htm

[GeorgePorgie]

The road you see with the pub on the corner will be Heyworth street.

Hah,hang on I can see a bit of a tower in the distance to the right...think this might be StGeorges church steeple? and if it is then the school is not StGeorges primaryie the school was ight next door to the church.

But that building I'm on about is famaliar and would like to know what it is.?

[Ged]

Is that the Thistle pub on the left then, now May Duncans.

I think Harry Ainscough may have taken a pic of that but called it Heyworth st school. Check the schools page of my site as i'm not sure.

[GeorgePorgie]

I checked the Heyworth street School on your website Ged...and the two look similair but with differences,on your pic the flats are at the far side of the school but in the pic in this post they're just before the school but that could be down to the angle of the shot?

[Ged]

Yes, it is the same school, in fact it features in Ainscough's Liverpool book. Although on Heyworth street, it also almost fronted onto St Georges Hill just past St. Georges Heights if going North as seen in the above photo.

[NickPantera]

I don't know what school is it George but nice pic. I wonder why there aren't so many tower apt's like that one still up

[GeorgePorgie]

That high rise went up and then came down...I doubt whether its existance was more than ten years? thousands spent on it to erect it only to see its demise a few years on...bloody council wasting money as usual.

[NickPantera]

how many towers went down in the last 10-15 years? just a curiosity

[wsteve55]

Just a guess,but I think there were about 20 high-rises,around that area,at one time,but now only 3/4 still standing!

[GeorgePorgie]

but now only 3/4 still standing!

I think you mean... none at all.

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Tell a lie,two newins went up on conway street on Nethy road.

[Ged]

A lot of the building dates and demolitions are recorded on this page of my site: http://inacityliving.piczo.com/?g=33776503&cr=7

Thise heights on Conway street hail from around 1967 so not newins but they were sold, then re-sold, then renovated to include a ground floor gym, penthouse tops and security and are now called view 146. Marwood Tower is still up too as are Crete and Candia towers but renamed Freedom Heights. St. Georges Heights on the school pic above lasted around 20 years.

[johnny blue]

Is that the Thistle pub on the left then, now May Duncans.

I think Harry Ainscough may have taken a pic of that but called it Heyworth st school. Check the schools page of my site as i'm not sure.

Ged`wasnt the 'Thistle' on Netherfield Road? Just abit along from the 'Tugboat' 'May Duncans' on Heyworth Street is much larger than the one in the pic. The flats look like St Georges Heights, if you look slightly to the right you can see the top of another multi story which would be further along Netherfield Road, but smaller than ST Georges Heights. If thats right, the pic would have been taken from the waste ground on Hamilton Road, I suspect the school you can see in the pic is St georges, as the School near to St Georges Church was 'our Lady Immaculate' ...............Interesting pic

[Stanier]

Great Picture, brings back memories.
Another confirmation for Heyworth Street School.
The building on the opposite side to the Thistle was Greys the Chemist (later becoming Normans) on the corner of Eastlake Street, shown in my picture from Abbey Street .
The building in the foreground with the yard was in Jasmine Street and I remember it being an ice cream factory. As kids we used to sneak in, and behind the gates were the "leftovers", tins with melted ice cream in, melting lolly ices and toffee apples, a great score for us.
Thanks for posting.

[GeorgePorgie]

as the School near to St Georges Church was 'our Lady Immaculate' ...............Interesting pic

JB you're wrong,StGeorges Primary was next to StGeorges Church,I know this because it was my first infant school.
The School you see in the pic is indeed Heyworth Street.

Ged,l only see two highrise in the Nethy road area in google streetview.

Ah yes,Didn't know we where going that far? Boundry Street East and Great Homer Street.

JB Our Lady Immaculate was on York Terrace.

[Gerard Fleming]

JB you're wrong,StGeorges Primary was next to StGeorges Church,I know this because it was my first infant school.
The School you see in the pic is indeed Heyworth Street.

Ged,l only see two highrise in the Nethy road area in google streetview.


Theres 5... inc the one at the end of Greaty..

[Ged]

The Thistle became May Duncans JB.

[GeorgePorgie]

Ged,there a quest for yer when the LRO reopens? I've searched and searched the net till I was fallin asleep last night for a pic of StGeorges School...alas it was fruitless.

The School had a big wall around it that could be seen on StDoming Road and at the back.

[GeorgePorgie]

Only a map of where it was situated it was part of the church at the time.

[Gerard Fleming]

The Thistle..
May Duncans..
or as known to locals...The little house on the prairie..

The photo in question shows The Thistle pub at 33 Heyworth Street..
the side 2 windows with blocked of centre window in the old photo...
are identical to the window layout on the pub frontage in my photo...

I'll try and add photos inside May Duncans when I get a minute..
also pics inside The Tugboat being ripped out to make new offices...
inc bar area pics...cellars as from the pub days...upstairs rooms..
and balcony views of Netherfield Rd and St Georges Hill area..


This photo is best >>> VIEWED LARGE.. (http://liverpooldays.com/photo/displayimage.php?pid=3075&fullsize=1)



http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c60/gedfleming/Various/The-Thistle-SMALL.jpg

[NickPantera]

A lot of the building dates and demolitions are recorded on this page of my site: http://inacityliving.piczo.com/?g=33776503&cr=7

Thise heights on Conway street hail from around 1967 so not newins but they were sold, then re-sold, then renovated to include a ground floor gym, penthouse tops and security and are now called view 146. Marwood Tower is still up too as are Crete and Candia towers but renamed Freedom Heights. St. Georges Heights on the school pic above lasted around 20 years.

Ged thanks for the link, very informative
I have seen some pics of blocks of high rises and I realized why they demolished, they just look horrible. I mean i still like them when isolated, like the ones on Conway st or the one I spotted the other day south of CC toward Aigburth Rd.

[Ged]

The Thistle. Photo by Frank Lenhan - courtesy of JohnnyBlue.

http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/6194/heyworthstreetcc.jpg (http://img508.imageshack.us/i/heyworthstreetcc.jpg/)

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[johnny blue]

Is that the Thistle pub on the left then, now May Duncans.

I think Harry Ainscough may have taken a pic of that but called it Heyworth st school. Check the schools page of my site as i'm not sure.

Sorry Gang your right, however is the multi-story St georges Heights ?

[GeorgePorgie]

however is the multi-story St georges Heights

Yep,they're... the other heights of the same ilk were further along by the tugboat on Nethy.
St Georges were the highest due to the elavtion built upon although its beleived that StGeorges church stands on the highest peak of Everton.

[wsteve55]

I think you mean... none at all.

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Tell a lie,two newins went up on conway street on Nethy road.

Like I said,3/4 still standing!

[GeorgePorgie]

Like I said,3/4 still standing!

Erm! a quarter of twenty is...five ie a 1/4 still standing :p

[wsteve55]

Erm! a quarter of twenty is...five ie a 1/4 still standing :p

Noooooooooo! 3 or 4 still standing,or more accurately....4/5!:unibrow:

[GeorgePorgie]

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[lindylou]

Yes, its St George's heights, and Heyworth st school.

[GeorgePorgie]

I just spent well over an hour on "Old Liverpool"Flickr,and I cannot believe that there was no photographer around at the time of the "Big Slum Clearence" ie before all the streets got demolished around Everton,Nethy and Graty area.

I mean the biggest slum clearence of our time and no one goes round snap happy...hell thats like having the cake without the cream.

[Ged]

There were George but just not on Flickr or old Liverpool. Check out the books My Liverpool by Frank Lehnan and the LRO (there are plenty of Sackville st, Potter st, Netherfield rd slum clearance pics on my site taken by the City Engineers dept)