wow..holy memories batman
just found this forum by total accident. reading through this thread brought back an unbelievable flood of memories! i was born and raised in garston - left in my late teens. i lived "under the bridge" mainly around window lane area - canterbury street etc. went to school at holy trinity rc on banks road. was extremely sad to read about all the closures etc - especially of places like banks house which kept us off the streets for many a game of footy and the like. here are some of my other favorites:
garston adventure playground (aka "the venny")
the parks - "top park", "bottom park" (king st.)
the gasworks (never forget the day one was "demolished")
garston allotments (the ones down by blackburn st - used to sit and watch my dad for hours)
the shore "walk" (first field/second field/third field....)
the old airport - epsecially when concord visited - or the day the pope came
the bryant/may matchworks fields - was our own little version of wembley stadium
the tennaments! ("tennies")
i can honestly say altho we didnt have literally 2 pennies to rub together my childhood couldnt have been happier. ive certainly been around a bit in my life since then - and now live across the ocean in the usa..anyway im pretty sure my mum still has a box of great old garston pictures.. i will be sure to try and get a copy next time i'm home and scan and share them. if anyone has any older garston pics please let me know.
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Proposed Waste Recycling Plant in Garston
Some may be aware that there are proposals to build a waste recycling plant on spare ground on the Garston Docks site. The initial plans created much oppostion with 5500 signatures petition being raised. These plans have now been withdrawn and new ones submitted. These are for a plant half the size and without the huge anaerobic digester tanks.
The plant is sited close to two new large property devlopments and will no doubt blight any further sales and development. A new petition against the new plans is now required. So please sign the on line version if you feel this project will affect you:
http://www.notothelorries.com/
Attached are a few photos of the exhibition at the Garston Reading Rooms
Proposed Garston waste recycling plan
Interestingly, it seems that Jack Allen Holdings do not have a contract with Mersey Waste Disposal Authority to process Liverpool's rubbish. Whose rubbish will they then process at the Garston Plant?
See
http://paulakeaveney.blogspot.com/20...s-garston.html