Here's a few pictures of Webster Rd
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94...76/webster.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94...websterrd2.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94...websterrd3.jpg
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Here's a few pictures of Webster Rd
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94...76/webster.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94...websterrd2.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94...websterrd3.jpg
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Cracking photos,are the old rag shop in spekeland road tony isaccas where we used to weigth the old clothes for a few bob 1/6d.
the only thing that probably hasn't changed in english society since thos days shown in thos great pictures is the school sign.
Webster Rd taken around 1970 (roughly where the icecream van is in the first photo)
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94...ckinghorse.jpg
Webster Rd taken last year
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94...coopers001.jpg
http://www.toxteth.net/places/liverp.../spofforth.jpg
In the black and white piccie the tower on the Spofforth pub can be seen. Behind it is the Microwave tower of the Gas Board offices. I worked there at that time. Many an afternoon had been spent in the Spofforth.
The houses were glazed yellow brick. most are still around today. The Gas Board offices are no more. Still there but unused.
the row nearest the ice cream van was demolished around 1973/74 as part of slum clearance
The Grosvenor is up the other end of Lawrence Road, near Gainsborough Road.
That modern picture is actually Lawrence Road too isn't it? Where the new NHS Surgery is?
One other thing isn't Webster road the first road udner the CPO's? Aren't they meant to be razed in 2008?
the Grosvernor is on Grosvernor rd. at the junctions of Grosvenor, Bishopgate and Bagot Streets.
http://www.merseypub.com/pictures/pu2414.jpg
from Merseypub website
love the old ice cream van, wonder if it's a Critchley's one?
great pix
took this tuesday. from Earle Rd looking towards Smithdown.
Webster running to left, Garrick St to the right
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2...icture1498.jpg
What a wonderful picture, I can remember walking to Webster Rd school (infants and juniors) My mum worked at the school as a diner lady. I can also remember a dairy, just around the corner, we would go and see the horses, chickens and cows.
I used to walk down Webster Road every day coming home from school.
I'd leave St Hugh's and go to Parkers (the shop) for sweets, pop or a joke (eg plastic fried egg etc) and then the lollypop lady (who was always smiling) would help us cross the road.
Me and my mates would play by the old cinema - not knowing that someone had been murdered there many years earlier.
A fascinating thread, everyone! Well done! :handclap:
Chris