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from this in 1961
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from this in 1961
gregs dad
Thanks, greg's dad. A wonderful view of a scene long gone! This photograph, I believe, has been posted at Yo Liverpool before. Is it your photograph?
Chris
Thanks Chris, yes it is mine. It is scanned from a colour slide I took in 1961.
I still have the original slide.It was mentioned by PhilipG on this forum
where he gave out the details where it could be found on the Old Liverpool
site.
There is a very similar photo on the Liverpool Pictorial site by the late
Brian Granville.
gregs dad
:handclap: a fantastic pic, cheers :handclap:
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Originally Posted by gregs dad
That's right, I do recall PhilipG posted the colour photograph and that the similar view by Mr Granville was posted. Excellent work, gregs dad. :handclap:
Chris
It's one of my favourite Liverpool photos of all time, and I include all the famous photographers. :PDT_Aliboronz_11:
Yeah good one...Quote:
Originally Posted by Kev
now get some more on here (if you will please).:PDT11
The lines of the red car tail lights was a trendy thing then in photos. The national Geographical had lots of photos like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by gregs dad
What camera and filmstock?Quote:
Originally Posted by gregs dad
Excellent and scanned from a slide. Nice one:PDT11:handclap:
Exacta 2a slr camera and Kodachrome colour slide film.Quote:
Originally Posted by Waterways
The camera which I still have in working order but not used in these digital
times,has 24 speeds 1000th of a second to 12 seconds.It also has a built in
guillotine with which you could cut your film before you had used the full roll
and develop the piece of film if you wanted your pics in a hurry. You had to
open the camera in your darkroom of course. All my old colour pics were on
Kodachrome and they still as good after 40 years or so.I have used other brands but they have deteriorated.
gregs dad
[IMG]http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/e...x/CNV00012.jpg[/IMG]st.georges place in 1965. the occasion Liverpool`s homecoming after winning the FA cup for the first time. This is one of a set of 39 pics on my Flickr siteQuote:
Originally Posted by John(Zappa)
www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/ all taken from the police traffic control
box which stood outside Lime St. station. When I arrived there the policeman
was still in it but he vacated it soon after and 3 of us squeezed in it. We had
a better spot than all the press photographers. I was contacted by the late Bill Shankly`s granddaughter who was publishing a book called The Real Bill
Shankly and she used 8 of the pics in the book stating that I had captured the day perfectly.
gregs dad
Great photo.
The curved building is Hellewell's, mentioned in a recent thread.
I have never heard of Exacta. SLRs were not common then. I have a mint condition Olympus OM2 - now 30 years old. A professional camera. Takes pristine piccies as the lens is superb. A very small camera too with superb exposure electronics. The most advanced camera in the world when it came out. I'll never sell it.Quote:
Originally Posted by gregs dad
Hi WaterwaysQuote:
Originally Posted by Waterways
the exacta was one of the first Single lens reflex 35mm ever to be made .
Made in Dresden Germany of all metal construction. Before they invented
the fibre optics that they use today for internal views of the body they used
this camera in medicine
It had well over 100 attachments you could you use with it. The viewfinder
was interchangable with a waist level viewer. The pentaprism alone had 24
screens you could interchange. I bought mine for £36 and £33 secondhand
46 years ago they are still working.
gregs dad
Well done for getting your pics in the book and she's right, you did capture the day perfectly. :handclap:
BOSS:PDT11
Trying to work out when St George's place was altered. Can anyone remember what year the new St John's market was built?
Between 66 and 71. The first 2 years largely being demolition though. The Beacon opened April fools day 71. However, that triangle of land and facing was still being used by the Codman's Punch and Judy puppet show after that.
strange, but I can't recall it happening at all. I don't remember St George's place I was only young then so maybe didn't go into town too often. I can't recollect the scene of any demolition at all.
I can only remember the hype for the new revolving tower restaurant in the beacon.
Don't give us that ! :rolleyes:
Proof I was a bit youngish back then. See the cranes in the background.
http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/2...gardensue8.jpg
ha,ha. :D
I must have been walking around in a dream then - - probably dreaming of Davy Jones and the Monkees !! Ha! :)
thanks for the pic Ged. Still doesn't jog my memory.
My missus absolutely hates Micky Dolenz - 'Why? What's he done to you' I say.
Mickey Dolenz was my least favourite Monkee ! :D
I only liked Davy Jones. All the girls loved little Davy Jones.
hey, we are hi-jacking this thread. :PDT_Xtremez_42:
But you have to say that Mickey was the one that most resembled a monkey :)
And just to keep it on thread, I wonder if any of the Monkees have actually visited St. John's precinct and in particular, that piece of triangular land....or seen a Punch & Judy show? Or bought something from Patches fire/closing down sale nearby?
In the hoardings they put a viewing point so you could see the construction going on. I worked on the tower as a teenager. That shopping precinct was an unmitigated disaster. They should have kept it all as it was and renovated the lot.Quote:
Originally Posted by lindylou
I took this late 1965 and the cranes are in place. There are a few more picsQuote:
Originally Posted by lindylou
on my flickr site and the Old Liverpool site of the whole construction site
gregs dad
my flickr site ;www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/ [IMG]http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/e...image001-4.jpg[/IMG]
Just remembered this one from my set of Liverpool`s homecoming in 1965
after winning the FA cup for the first time which stopped the Evertonians
asking when are to going to win the cup.
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gregs dad
I like the 'Saint'.
St John's Precinct was opened on 6 April 1970, so the tower must have been complete then, because it was the chimney for the original heating system
The official opening of the Tower in June 1971 by the Queen was because she opened the Wallasey Tunnel at the same time.
In 1967 I lived in Southport and got the train to Exchange, and there was enough of the tower to guide me to the pubs I liked in and around Queen Square and Lime Street, before I got my bearings.
It was designed to be a tower. They used it as a chimney. I worked on it.Quote:
Originally Posted by PhilipG
We've been through this before.Quote:
Originally Posted by Waterways
If it was used as a chimney, it means a chimney was needed.
Ergo, it was designed as a chimney, with a revolving restaurant.
ADW, I know you worked on it, but if Joseph Sharples said it's primary function was a chimney, I'll take his work for it.
Quentin Hughes, another local architectural expert, said in 1969 that it was a chimney.
The chimney (flue is more the word as it was gas) was conveniently put inside. Not the other way around. Gas flues even in the 1960s could be any shape and type and did not have to tower into the sky.Quote:
Originally Posted by PhilipG