Have u got any pics? Now there's a challenge!
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Faulkner Street Liverpool
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Have u got any pics? Now there's a challenge!
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3359/...a9d282ff_o.jpg
Faulkner Street Liverpool
Nice pic, handy having your camera to hand when bending down to pick pennies up :PDT_Piratz_26:
A small section of cobbles in Franklin Place, L6
cobbled Hygeia st, L6. (second pic)
There are very few traces of 'cobbled' streets around, but there are several with old 'setts'.
There's an old cobbled track in Otterspool, on the right as you head for the Cafe building. There was a previous thread which mentioned a few others.
if u could find the thread, i'll merge them together into one :)
Hygeia st looks like it had a cheap layer of tar and it wore off - and the old sets are still there and will be for around 100 years. Made of granite.Quote:
Originally Posted by lindylou
Otterspool cobbled track from a few weeks ago. The leaf litter may be gone now, giving a clearer view.
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Cobbles have been mentioned before from time to time, but I don't think there has been a definitive list of the streets. I know loads of setts streets, but have never really bothered photographing them, yet. There are some genuine cobbled streets off Wavertree High Street (the unadopted streets)
Sets were very dangerous. In the wet they were like ice. I recall at the bottom of Beresford Rd/Grafton St I turned a car 180 degrees around on them. Luckily no other car was around. And I was not going too fast either. Cross-ply tyres didn't help either.
There are quite a few setts around Duke St
Loads of streets were 'setted' in Kirkdale in my time, Rumney Road for
example. How else could we have played 'carry the can' if we hadn't been
able to make the lines across the road?
Stan H.
Or was this taken after a particularly heavy night out? :unibrow:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kev
lolQuote:
Originally Posted by wsteve55
Cobbled roads make some places look nice an ol fashioned but sometimes i wish they'd pave over them when i'm cycling.
You can see my old house in that pic :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Kev
Where have he tram lines gone? Kev did you notice them.
You would fall over the workmen if they paved over them while you where cycling :unibrow:Quote:
Originally Posted by Max
No tram lines, although you can see a dark line running along both sides of the road, down the middle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spike
I was having a look around the Pier Head area this week and walked along Princes Parade. This photo shows a small section of the old cobbled setts roadway with its railway lines still intact. These lines carried the trains from the Waterloo Tunnel to the now demolished Riverside Station and also the now derelict wooden stage at the far north end of the parade.
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Here's a bit by Brunswick Dock area.
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Sweeting Street, Off Castle Street.
I love those pics with the tracks :PDT11
Falkner Street had the Tram lines running through it, they where in great condition. The dark lines do look like where they where. Why oh why did i not photo them back then ?
down to Edge Hill station
Ambrose Grove, L6.
thanks all :)
Hi Lindy, didn't you have a few more pic's of Ambrose grove on,the other night?Quote:
Originally Posted by lindylou
I put some in the Anfield district thread:Quote:
Originally Posted by wsteve55
http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/sho...340#post177340
Interesting survival. The buildings on the far right are St Margaret of Antioch's Primary school, Prince's Park; the derelict one on the near right was the old St Margaret's Institute. On the left hand side are some new developments.
Sadly St Margaret's school is threatened with closure. The whole St Margaret's complex is a fascinating survival of 19th C efforts to use a church as a centre for social improvement, all funded by the congregation.
Oldham st, L1.
Cobbled road surfaces enabled the horse's shoes to grip on the road surface, perhaps more important on gradients. Cobbles are robust and react well to movement within the road surface. Smooth flagged crossings were provided for pedestrians, as shown below, at crossing points. And smooth paving flags are used for the gutters, to aid the run off water to the drains.
Photo of the Royal Amphitheatre [which was the predecessor of the Royal Court - same site] looking down Gt Charlotte St. from Roe Street, with old St John's market [by John Foster Junior] on the right.
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Photo courtesy of the LRO.
Used to drink there when it was the "Roscoe Arms"! Not much of a pub,but had a good jukebox!Quote:
Originally Posted by lindylou
chipping st at the top of hodges mount was cobbled .................happy days......collecting tar on lolly ice sticks.the clip clop of the horse of the rag and bone man ..........................oh to be ........................