A few interesting clippings from the Liverpool Mercury.
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A few interesting clippings from the Liverpool Mercury.
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Excellent pictures Georgie, many thanks. Vipond Street ran between Kilshaw Street and Boundary Lane.
I can remember a car showroom next to what used to be the clinic Norm, maybe mid 60s. On Colin Wilkinson's Streets Of Liverpool site he's added a picture of a horsedrawn omnibus taken in the Lane in...
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Lark Lane businesses from the 1900 Liverpool directory. Some of those shown were still trading under the same name in the 50s and 60s.
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The name Ronald Brittain probably won't mean anything to the current generation, or even to their fathers. But in his day, Aigburth's Regimental Sergeant Major Brittain of the Coldstream...
There you go Scouse, managed to find one of the aviary.
1 Sefton Park 1895. 2. Sefton Park Cafe. 3. Florence Maybrick, the American lady convicted of poisoning her husband in Aigburth, after her release from prison.
1. 1920s Aigburth Road 2. Aigburth Dr around 1905. 3. Sefton Park bandstand about 1895.
Closed it's doors for the last time today. All the buildings on the site are being demolished and a new health centre is to be built there over the next eighteen months, which will incorporate a...
I enjoyed a few pints there in the 60s. Can't remember what the shop in the background sold though.
Will do.
Thanks Ed. I wonder if you remember any teachers names from your time there. I've scoured the internet and have found only this link to it, (scroll right down).
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Wonder if anyone out there has any information on or a picture of St James the Less School, or "Little Jimmys", which I think stood in Athol St until the 1960s.
Thanks for the link Ross. I worked for a shop in Lord St in the 1960s called FW Allen, installing TVs and washing machines and I think I must have been in every one of those on the list at some...
Two nice pictures, thanks Darren. I remember Forge Cottages well and they appear on early maps of Lark Lane, well before the other streets. On the map where the word "Cottages" appears were small...
Fantastic pictures and wonderful to see the ship at the Pier Head. I didn't realise Cunard passenger operations were shifted to Southampton in the 1930s. I wonder why that was?
I've travelled to...
Some years ago, I read something about a Liverpool church which was the scene of a double murder early in the 20th century and though I was interested to learn more about it, I could never turn...
Quick question Ged. Was the Army&Navy on that block in the photo. I used to get the number 20 bus home to Dingle from there. I remember the little street running up the side of that shop, the cobbles...
Sorry to hear that news but I guess it had to happen. At least there's a good few more years for her as a floating hotel. Sad to see the end of a beautiful ship:
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I went to the concerts regularly as a kid. The performers would be judged as a bit past their sell-by date nowadays but to us, it was magical. I remember one of the acts was a magician with a lady...
I seem to remember reading somewhere that Parry lived with his parents in Derwent Road. His father was pretty well placed in the Corporation Treasury and that led to some speculation that Masonic...