Liverpool.. the way I see it.. the photographs of Gerard Fleming.

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Originally Posted by gregs dad

Hi Gerrard
Your picture of the Waterloo dock gates remind me of a day not long after 9/11 when security got tighter down on the docks. My brother and I used to fish off that wall into the Mersey.I would arrive by bike from Kirkby and he would meet me there by car.
One night he left a bit early and by the time I left they had closed the dock gate so I was locked in.
The only way out was to carry my bike and with one hand swing around the railings to the half tide Princes dock,as the tide was out there was a 40 foot drop if I had fallen.

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dock gates by exacta2a, on Flickr

This was taken a few years after

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Hiya Joe mate..

Good pic that Joe, thanks for adding it with your story about being locked in..
I've seen that drop you are on about, with a bike as well ?... nutter...lol


I've a pic somewhere of the lads fishing over the wall, I'll add it when I find it..

Thanks again mate, keep up the great work Joe.. :PDT11


Gerard..

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For posterity.....


The last ever Stanley Dock Sunday Heritage Market on closing day..



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Good pics as usual Gerard.:handclap:
Nice pic too GD. :PDT11

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Originally Posted by ItsaZappathing

Good pics as usual Gerard.:handclap:
Nice pic too GD. :PDT11

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Thanks John mate... :PDT11


Gerard..


The Everyman... then and now.

More like this to be produced with my 'then and now' photos.. plenty more..


For Posterity...






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Liverpool Days.. exhibition for 'my own' Scottie Rd people..

My last exhibition was a great success, it was the most popular apparently of all the exhibitions held at Studio 2 on Parr Street...
now I've had the offer to put on an exhibition in a venue over the road
from where I live, my mam would be one proud woman if she saw the way things are going for me lately...
I'm having to give this one some thought though as displaying up to 40 images is one thing..
where do they go after the exhibition has finished.. ?.... we'll see...!


'The kids on the bridge....One hot summer'..
the best photograph I will ever take.. My... 'Decisive Moment'





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Tomorrow's LRO photos....today ?.... yeahhhh, I'd say so...
for posterity, like..!



A view across what was the Clarence Dock power station..

I imagine the Legoland fans are rather chuffed with themselves today..
soon that area in the photo will be full of nice big shiny dull skyscrapers...
My god, the thought of the nice but dim more money than sense brigade that know nothing and couldn't care less about this areas history taking this area over makes me sick...it really does, I'm all for change...but do these fresh faced pimply straight out of uni architect dick heads all use the same manual..?.....does it have to be big, black, shiny and horrible....just a thought..!








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Did I hear 'Mooooooooooreeeeee....' ?? lol







Liverpools Dockland March 2012.
Staging at Princes Half Tide Dock..

I have an original unseen photo of the landing stage in this photo being constructed, complete with workmen on it posing for the photo...
I've dated the photo to around 1910 as the Liver Building can be seen in the background nearing completion with scaffolding around it and the top not yet built....I came across a lot of old unseen Liverpool photos while on one of my mooches around the old warehouses, I've looked everywhere and can not find these photos, some show some sort of Royal visit to Liverpool..I think it was to open the Georges Dock....I'll be showing these photos on my website when I've done a little more research into them and know excatly what they show... some are obvious, fantastic photos I've never seen before on top of the OH Railway...





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You bet you heard "Mooooooooreeee".

Belter pics as usual Gerard.
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Originally Posted by ItsaZappathing

You bet you heard "Mooooooooreeee".

Belter pics as usual Gerard.
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Thanks John lad... thats nice of you to say mate, and much appreciated..:PDT11



Tonight John I'm out with my mate, the one and only Dr Frank Carlyle.
at a function to raise money for cancer awareness..
I'll add a pic or two tomorrow..


Thanks again mate..

Gerard...

Well, I'm off to meet the Dr....

I think a few buckets in the Mathew St region are well deserved and in order..

Cavern mates ??.... get the ale in, the big fella is on his way....





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Originally Posted by Gerard Fleming

Thanks John lad... thats nice of you to say mate, and much appreciated..:PDT11



Tonight John I'm out with my mate, the one and only Dr Frank Carlyle.
at a function to raise money for cancer awareness..
I'll add a pic or two tomorrow..


Thanks again mate..

Gerard...

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Give our Frankie boy our regards.Well looking forward to the pics.
Nice one matey.:handclap:

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Originally Posted by ItsaZappathing

Give our Frankie boy our regards.Well looking forward to the pics.
Nice one matey.:handclap:

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I missed your post John mate so I'll tell Franny next time I see him.... :PDT11




Frank Carlyle...
An evening in aid of autistic children..

I've said it before, and I'll say it again...The Daddy, what a night...Franny at his best..
Everything Liverpool covered, to a packed out Town Hall...
More pics on 'Gerard Fleming's photos' Facebook page later today...




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June and Vicky..
From Night Vision Investigations...lovely girls..

It was great to meet you both girls, small world eh ? :rolleyes:.... (I enjoyed the gab..)
stay in touch, I'd be made up to help you if I can... anytime..


Gerard.. xx



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Wey heyyyyyyyy.... Its Friday, its the long photo editing night...
and tonight.... its Liverpool's Dockland.. and there's lots like the photo below to come...

I seem to remember a lot of excitement and talk of 'More Visits Lined up.'....
not so popular this area all of a sudden then ?.... lol

Security clampdown I believe... good job some of us, me... can come and go as we please...
Wait till yer see the vids I've made.... for posterity like... yer know.. lol...



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My prob is yer see I cant be everywhere at once...

I mean, try it.. ?..... (Particularly those with a lot to say that dont take their own..)
in demand all over place to take pics... people wanting this that and the other...
making a right little name f'meself.... and its great I must say...
getting praise for your own work and something you did.. you cant beat that..believe me.


Then we have the old pics....
I'm pleased to say I have hundreds and hundreds to add to my website... when I sit still like long enough..

I've just scanned about 45 photos belonging to Gary Shaw for a gallery on my site of his photos..
hundreds and hundreds more to come....
gimmeeeeee a chance though eh, eh... know warra mean like... :rolleyes:


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What do photos taken in The Everyman before closure... 700 photos, kitchens, staff..people, over the closing month..
Lewis's before closure.. hundreds and hundreds over the closing month..
Liverpools dockland unusual videos and photos...
Brian Epsteins office he sacked Pete Best in at NEMS Whitechapel...
now being demolished at this minute...
(Inc videos all over what was NEMS....offices, shop floor... basement booths areas..
have in common ?....apart from me taking the pics.. and making the vids...)


Shall I tell you what they have in common.. ?
They are all as valuable to Liverpools/Beatles heritage as any taken 50 years ago..
Why...?... because they cant be taken again... thats why..
Now dont all go overboard eh and maybe pass a little congratulations where its due..
It is Yoliverpool after all...

The NEMS Epstein office vids and photos...
Lets start the bidding at....

I'll throw in as well Vids I've made in Lennons Quarry Bank Classrooms.
and vids I made on Quarry Bank hall stage the Quarry Men played on..
what about a vid I made in the tiny bathroom Lennon, McCartney
and The Quarry Men all crammed into in John's Mums house..
(The only vid in existence in that bathroom.... thats right, I made it...dont all clap at once...)
Also a vid I made in his Art College studios.... I'll lob the lot in..


Have a nice evening, I intend to...


Gerard...

More contacts made... more people, charities....
I hope to be involved with taking photos for them....


The years of walking the streets of Scottie, Granby, Kensington at all hours...
getting stuck right in the middle of riots..getting told to f'o** by pimps and their girls at midnight on Netherfield Rd...
all in the cause of trying to learn my art and be a little different in my approach to Liverpool street photography...
has all been worth it.... every rainy, foggy and snowy mile...


When this kind of appreciation is shown....

Comment left by Dr Frank Carlyle, Liverpool Historian extraordinaire....



The 'Big Night' was a huge success at our wonderful 'Town Hall'. The evening raised over £2000 for 'Autism' and that is the most important thing about the night! There are so many people to thank on here, but I must single out Gerard Fleming for giving up his time to take so many photos of the night. Also, John Lea for providing his wonderful 'Maggie May's' famous 'Scouse'. Thanks lads! And a big special Thank You to all the people who made the effort to turn out! xxxx




Comment left by George Roberts.. ex Granby St area resident...




You are fast becoming Liverpool's, most comprehensive, photo journalist.
Keep up the very, very good work and best wishes G

An unusual view from 2008... makes it debut, I dont think I've shown this before..



Showing the red brick rear of William Brown Street Library..
And Concourse House on Lime Street before both were demolished..



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Excellent and well done Gerard on the charity night.:handclap:

Belter pic as per usual:handclap:

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Originally Posted by ItsaZappathing

Excellent and well done Gerard on the charity night.:handclap:

Belter pic as per usual:handclap:

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Thank you very much John... thats very nice of you mate to say, as always.. :PDT11


Liverpool.. the way I see it..




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bump..

Big Bump lol

Good pics Gerard once again.
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Originally Posted by ItsaZappathing

Big Bump lol

Good pics Gerard once again.
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Bigger Bump... ha haaaa... you onto it mate..?


For what its worth...


I was contacted by young Tom who did the 'The Way We Lived' supplement for The Echo..
Ken Rogers the editor in chief at The Echo advised the young chap to get in touch with me..
Tom wanted me to do an in depth interview about growing up in the tennies and the rivalry amongst local tenements on bommie night etc...
I could have filled The Echo but I declined the offer, I never say never
but at this moment I'm only interested in taking photographs...
(I also declined the offer a few years back to get involved/interviewed on that programme a while back about tenement life.... not for me all that lark at the mo... but, yer never know... do yer, eh.. :noid: ?..)



Meanwhile.....

I'll stick to me piccies....



Wykeham Way... L4.





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And on the subject of not wanting all that attention/limelight lark...



That fella that took the pics all them years ago of Liverpool kids... ?
will I get involved and let his people use my photo as a poster.. ?....Not on your Nellie..


My David Moyes photo on the touchline at last seasons Chelsea game.. ?
will I let the company that make DVD's for Premier League teams use my photo on the next Everton Dvd cover.. Not on your Nellie...


A grammy award winning pop star.. ?....
can we use your photo Ged for a new tour poster... ?.... Not on your Nellie yer wont...!


None of that lark for me.... I just take pics.. and thats all I want to do... for now..!


(I do occasionally feel in a good mood to help people out....I'm letting a lady use a few of my images on her Kindle Ebook thingy....and I get a free copy, arrrrrrrrr, is'nt that nice eh.... just need a Kindle now for £90.... Not on your Nellie.. !..)

Sorry to say I only visit two or three threads on this forum these days. This thread being one of them.

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Originally Posted by A.D.W

Sorry to say I only visit two or three threads on this forum these days. This thread being one of them.

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Dave mate, sorry to say mate, keep on commenting on my photos..
and you'll have to keep these infrequent visits up..
I cant let you and John Zaps down now, can I eh....:PDT11
..... or, those that click the 'Thanks' button thingy...(Thanks all..)

Thank you Dave mate..

Gerard..


Here's a few cant be taken again on the Lambeth Road 'oller...
A housing estate is half up on this site now.... these views are now gone..


I'll add similar views down Granby Street way soon... now gone with new housing estates..
Granby Street area ?...
the far side of The Anglican Cathedral...yeahhh.. ?... and keep going a little bit...





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Hey Gerard.....when you're out and about around town.....have you see the 'sand men'?

They are usually around Church st / Williamson square...........I see them starting their 'sand sculptures' but I've never seen a completed one!!!

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Originally Posted by Lizzie1

Hey Gerard.....when you're out and about around town.....have you see the 'sand men'? ..

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Lizzie, I cant say I've seen them... sorry Liz

Gerard..

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Me, and what is all about as far as I'm concerned.
appreciation from total strangers.. it just blows me away the lovely things some people say about my photography and my own work...




Me... On Facebook











Shadowlands.. Liverpool at night, the streets of my town..



A rainy night in Liverpool, Stanley St..


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Originally Posted by A.D.W

Sorry to say I only visit two or three threads on this forum these days. This thread being one of them.

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Am the same too. It baffles me when I see that people have posted on stupid stuff (A-Z,Games thread) yet can't even say "Well done" or "nice pic" or even a thanks. :PDT_Xtremez_42:

As usual..Cracker pics Gerard. :handclap: Well in and keep em' coming. There's many of us who do appreciate you posting them. :PDT_Piratz_26:

Deja Vu ?? I'm sure these words about people in games threads were posted back in January ?

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Originally Posted by ItsaZappathing

Am the same too. It baffles me when I see that people have posted on stupid stuff (A-Z,Games thread) yet can't even say "Well done" or "nice pic" or even a thanks. :PDT_Xtremez_42:

As usual..Cracker pics Gerard. :handclap: Well in and keep em' coming. There's many of us who do appreciate you posting them. :PDT_Piratz_26:

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Small fish in small ponds springs to mind John....


Compilments on my photos..?...on here..?
Seems you have to be good at not taking photographs to get praised on here...

Dont worry mate, I've no intention of dropping my standards...



Just had an interesting gab on the phone with Pete Best's brother Roag 15 minutes ago....
regarding a few unusual pics I've just taken Beatles related..
I'm on the guest list and taking pics at a do coming up soon at The Casbah...
also just been invited to Allan Williams' birthday bash to take pics this evening..


There is room out there see John mate for real photographers....


Thanks John lad..... for all the encouragement and kind words... :PDT11
and as I say.... I'll never drop my standards, I'm not exactly where I want to get, yet...!



Gerard....

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Originally Posted by lindylou

Deja Vu ?? I'm sure these words about people in games threads were posted back in January ?

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If you don't mind Linda... not on my thread...please.
If you want to kick up something intended to get out of hand Lind, please do it elsewhere..


(I've reported your post Linda and want it removing...
I'd appreciate it stopping on my thread... now...if thats not too much to ask..)


Thanks...

Gerard.