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lindylou
12-30-2007, 08:05 PM
Who can name the flower streets?

I'll start off with Pansy :)

PhilipG
12-30-2007, 08:19 PM
Who can name the flower streets?

I'll start off with Pansy :)

Crocus.
Everybody will be checking their A to Z's, or they might have a copy of "Streets of Liverpool" which covers street names very well.
Of course, the main reason areas were grouped together under one theme was to help the postmen.

Kev
12-30-2007, 08:25 PM
Pics, pics, pics!!!!

lindylou
12-30-2007, 08:30 PM
I'll try and get some on my travels :)

A.D.W
12-30-2007, 08:40 PM
Snowdrop Street.

Ged
12-30-2007, 08:40 PM
My in-laws have lived in both Crocus and Harebell Street. There is also Daisy Street and Daisy street school had an underground baths. Woodbine street is where they smoke untipped ciggies ;) Snowdrop is another and the early Mersey ferries had some of these names too.

A.D.W
12-30-2007, 08:42 PM
Woodbine street is where they smoke untipped ciggies ;)

Oh dear! I used to smoke the old Woodies!

Cough!

:PDT_Xtremez_42:

lindylou
12-30-2007, 08:45 PM
My in-laws have lived in both Crocus and Harebell Street. There is also Daisy Street and Daisy street school had an underground baths. Woodbine street is where they smoke untipped ciggies ;) Snowdrop is another and the early Mersey ferries had some of these names too.

oh yes, the ferries have flower names too.

I have heard of Daisy st baths but I didn't know it was underground.

Ged
12-30-2007, 08:50 PM
Another oddity of Daisy Street school (I don't know if this went on elsewhere) the protestants and the catholics were kept seperated at play time and had different dinner times and going home times yet a lot of the children were mates outside of school time so another instance where religion seperated people who would otherwise get on.

Ged
12-30-2007, 09:38 PM
Looking down Harebell Street towards Tillotsons carton factory when McMackins furniture shop was on the top corner at Stanley Road (now disused)

Pic from Kirkdale online site.

lindylou
12-31-2007, 12:01 AM
Thanks for the pic Ged, it all adds interest to the thread :PDT11

PhilipG
12-31-2007, 12:36 AM
Thanks for the pic, Ged.
Let's keep more coming, and make the threads something more than a list of names.
Remember, Kev says: "Pics, Pics Pics!!!" :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

kevin
12-31-2007, 12:37 PM
Who can name the flower streets?

I'll start off with Pansy :)

When I was in the Merchant Navy I knew a gay steward called Jimmy Sanderson - though he was known to one and all as Gloria.
He used to claim that he was born in Pansy Street but never knew if he was just winding us up. Quite a character.

Ged
12-31-2007, 02:36 PM
The Prince of Wales pub at the top of Pansy Street is known locally as 'The Pansy'. Some great detailing in the brickwork and around the windows.

Ged
12-31-2007, 02:42 PM
The 6 flower streets previously mentioned are all off the West side of Stanley road, however, there is just one on the East side called Primrose.

gregs dad
12-31-2007, 03:25 PM
Another oddity of Daisy Street school (I don't know if this went on elsewhere) the protestants and the catholics were kept seperated at play time and had different dinner times and going home times yet a lot of the children were mates outside of school time so another instance where religion seperated people who would otherwise get on.

Hi Ged, I went to Daisy St school every day but not as a pupil, but to play
football in the playground between 4pm and 6pm It was supervised by teachers, Lads played football and the girls took dancing classes. I think they
call it extra curriculum now. Anybody from any school could join in. This was in the 1940`s.

Gnomie
12-31-2007, 04:00 PM
Pics, pics, pics!!!!

Does Kev mean we should pic flowers ?:PDT_Aliboronz_11:

lindylou
12-31-2007, 04:08 PM
ha,ha, what a lovely idea.

Browniescorner
01-29-2008, 02:22 AM
Looking down Harebell Street towards Tillotsons carton factory when McMackins furniture shop was on the top corner at Stanley Road (now disused)

Pic from Kirkdale online site.

Hi Ged,
My husband's Auntie lives in Harebell st & we visited a few years ago, my first time to England.
Your pic is great but I thought Harebell wasn't as level as it appears to be in the pic.

Cheers
Browniescorner

Ged
01-29-2008, 11:32 AM
Hiya Browniescorner.

They are all quite steep as you'll know, leading down towards Commercial Road.