hello to all you scousers

[Graham Tillett]

I am very new at this game so please bear with me. I have read a lot of bloggs by fellow writers and this has inspired me to join this forum. I am currently attempting to write a book about my childhood in Liverpool especially Garston as I have very strong feelings about it I was born in the 1960s but when I talk to my children and friends (from the south) it sound like a Dickens novel especially when talking about the 'Wash House'. I will be asking for a lot of support and clarification about issues surrounding 1960s to the 80s hope you will offer your support many thanks. Great Web site

[gorgeous]

Hiya Graham ,
Welcome to the forum , it's brill !


What year did you leave Garston ? It's changed a lot .no market , no baths , & the good old Garston Hotel has gone .
Do you happen to remember any of these ?
Glennon's
Pritchards
Gibbins.
Maloney.
Skeggs.
Moran.
Good luck with the book .
Karen

[jimmy]

:PDT_Aliboronz_24: Hi graham, and welcome. See your from Garston, so was I. Went to school with a lad called Tommy Tillet any relation? he lived in Speke Road

[jimmy]

:PDT_Aliboronz_11: Hiya gorgeous, went to Garston C E with Billy Skeggs, also worked with him, know of the names of some of the otheres. where abouts are you from?

[Kev]

Hi Graham,

Take your time and things will eventually become more clearer as you navigate the site. Everything you should ever need is under one big scouse roof here, so don't be affraid to ask anything. Our members are here to help.

Welcome aboard :)

Kev

[Steven]

Hi Graham and Welcome

[robbo176]

Hiya Graham
a warm welcome to Yo :PDT_Piratz_26:

Mandy :)

[John(Zappa)]

Hiya Graham
a warm welcome to Yo :PDT_Piratz_26:

Mandy :)

Here here:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

[lindylou]

Hello and welcome. hope you enjoy the forum.
There is loads of info and stuff on here, and especially about Garston as a lot of our members are from there.

Don't worry, you will soon get into it.


ps,

is that Durdle Door on your piccie?

[chippie]

No Lindy it,s the Loch Ness monster having a drink. Welcome Graham from Sandhurst.

We have all got a book in us Graham, I,ve been doodling with one for seven years and might get to put a few thoughts on this forum soon. I was born in an Everton hospital, lived in Anfield and Everton. Grew up in my gran,s house. Money was very short begged from neighbours to feed us. Slept on the floor with coats over us with the fleas and cockroaches. Wet the bedding every night. Ha loads of adventures with fellow neighbours kids. Went missing from home for hours on many occassions.

And then I grew up lived with my dad for a few years and then up sticks and left home.

That,s it in a nutshell. Now if that doesn,t stir your kids imagination of our Dickens days, nothing will.:shock:

[ChrisGeorge]

I am very new at this game so please bear with me. I have read a lot of bloggs by fellow writers and this has inspired me to join this forum. I am currently attempting to write a book about my childhood in Liverpool especially Garston as I have very strong feelings about it I was born in the 1960s but when I talk to my children and friends (from the south) it sound like a Dickens novel especially when talking about the 'Wash House'. I will be asking for a lot of support and clarification about issues surrounding 1960s to the 80s hope you will offer your support many thanks. Great Web site


Hi Graham

Welcome to the forum. :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

I am a writer as well, age 59, and grew up partly on Aigburth Hall Avenue, Mossley Hill, and Lynas Gardens in Garston. My grandmother in Mossley Hill had a wash house and an old washtub and mangle in the Fifties but got a little electric Hoover washing machine in the Sixties that she thought was the bee's knees.

My late friend Margaret Goings wrote some reminiscences about doing the washing in Anfield in the 1920's which you might find interesting. Her poems are on the Liverpool 800 site. See "Wash Day, Anfield, 1920" (http://www.poem800.com/liver.php?poem=149).

Graham, the best of luck to you with your writing project.

All the best

Chris

[gerrards#1fan]

Hi welcome to yo liverpool

[gorgeous]

Hiya Jimmy .
We lived in the " Posh part " lol. The bungalow in Bowden Rd .
Spent my teenage years living in Garston & loved it .
Which part were you in ?

Karen

[Kev]

Hiya Jimmy .
We lived in the " Posh part " lol. The bungalow in Bowden Rd .


Karen

The one with the 'Safe' in the wall?

[gorgeous]

errrmmmmm yes ! lol

[Kev]

errrmmmmm yes ! lol

Wehey! I used to play for the local footy team (Bowden Albion) and at the time a family relation was thinking of buying that house, we went around for a look.

:)

[gorgeous]

Lol.
My dads mate ended up buying it .
We were there for about 5 yrs longest i've ever lived in one house.

[jimmy]

:PDT_Aliboronz_11: Hi Karen, lived in mcbride street,then derby grove next to the lyceum cinema later on speke. Lived on Speke road top of burnsall street, before moving to Australia

[iain]

Hi Graham and welcome to Yo :PDT11

[bigpab]

Hi, I'll help you if I can as I was born in the late 50s in Speke which as you know is right next to Garston.

[Graham Tillett]

Hello

Firstly I would like to thank you all it is so nice getting such a response things like this dont happen down south which makes me feel proud to be a Scouser

as you have no doubt worked it out that I am new to this and I shall perevere

Gorgeous: I knew the Morans and the Skeggs. I lived in shakespeare street in the 60s and moved to Speke in 1973. I have started to write my book and dedicate it to my two children.

It has raised a few eyebrows as if I am exaggerating especially when I talk about the 'wash house' , the Rag and bone Man, the horse drawn milk float. Infact it sounds a bit dickensian. I shall continue with the hard but pleasant work:034:


Lindylou: yes it is a picture of durdle door what a fascinating place:)

Jimmy: Tommy Tillett is my uncle his brothers George and my father is Graham
he still lives in the pool Huyton

[Norm NZ]

And a welcome from me too Graham, (a Garstonian too, but a bit older than you)! glad to see you here in the 'Yo' forum. Cheers:PDT11

[chippie]

Graham, Hello and Welcome to the group. I used to have a school mate who used to live in Shakespear Street back in my schooldays. He was a year senior to me, name of Billy Hayes a ginger haired quiet lad. I think they moved from there to Sir Thomas White Gardens after that.

I remember going to his house and there was a harmonium in the front room just by the front door.

They also had an indoor toilet which I thought was posh in those days.

Lost track of him now since he got married and vanished into thin air, must get Shirtlock Homes onto the case!

Cheers.

[lottie]

Welcome aboard :PDT_Piratz_26:

[molly]

Hiya and Welcome

[Sarah]

Hi and welcome to the forum, Graham. Good luck with the book, it sounds really interesting!:)