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.
Last edited by Kev; 04-04-2009 at 04:15 PM.
Sweeting Street, Off Castle Street.
BE NICE......................OR ELSE
I love those pics with the tracks
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 ?
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I put some in the Anfield district thread:
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.
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.
Photo courtesy of the LRO.
chipping st at the top of hodges mount was cobbled .................happy days......collecting tar on ly ice sticks.the clip clop of the horse of the rag and bone man ..........................oh to be ........................
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