Garston News Views and Discussion

[Kev]

RE: Garston Under The Bridge

Where the hell has it all gone? The area 'village' side of Window Lane has been flattened, the area is huge!! Everything has gone. I was trying to get pictures but the scale is immense!! Even the shops oposite the Church have finally been demolished!!

[Max]

It needed it.

[Norm NZ]

I agree with Max! time for a change I guess,, Appreciate the Photo's Kev, Regards to all you Camera Buff's! "Keep-em-coming".

[jimmy]

Thanks for the photographs Kev, lived across the road from the Garston hotel in McBride Street. Had two Aunties who lived down the Dock Road. O' happy days.

[jimmy]

To Kev any chance please of some photographs of the Garston docks,and any ships therein,Thank you.

[Kev]

To Kev any chance please of some photographs of the Garston docks,and any ships therein,Thank you.

I'll try - maybe other members have some?

[Kev]

Work is well and truely underway in this area of

Garston Under The Bridge. These pictures demonstrate the enormous task ahead for developers.

The post-war

economic and industrial decline that afflicted all of Liverpool's docklands throughout the 1950s and 1960s had a

particularly catastrophic effect on the people of Garston

The houses that have been demolished were originally built to

house local dock and manufacturing workers at the end of the 1800s.

Video of the Window Lane

area:



Click the image or

click here.

In complete contrast to Under The Bridge, the other side of Garston

including the Village contains some of Garston's most historic and notable buildings, most in original condition. The other

pictures of the Garston area can be found in this set: Click

here....

Window

Lane:







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Banks

Road:



The first

glimps of Under The Bridge (Opposite St. Michael's Church). One of Garston's oldest areas gone

forever.



King

Street:



Lucania

Street

Area:





Away from Under The Bridge, Garston Village

Area:



Cressington

Heath, Garston:

[Kev]

To Kev

any chance please of some photographs of the Garston docks,and any ships therein,Thank

you.

Jimmy:







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Gas

Works:





In complete contrast to Under The Bridge, the other

side of Garston including the Village contains some of Garston's most historic and notable buildings, most in original

condition.







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The other Garston pictures can be found in this set: Click

here....The Garston Developments and Regeneration thread can be found

here.

[Howie]

I painted that gas holder many years ago - three coats of Micaceous Iron Oxide (MIO) paint if I remember

rightly.

[Kev]

I

painted that gas holder many years ago - three coats of Micaceous Iron Oxide (MIO) paint if I remember rightly.

Bloody 'ell Howie, you better

get round and touch it up mate! How long did that take you?!

[Howie]

Bloody 'ell Howie, you better get round and touch it up mate! How long did that take you?!

Used to

work as an industrial painter/shotblaster for a firm called Hayes & Barnard in Hawthorne Rd., Bootle. They had the contract for North West Gas. The gas

holders used to take 2-3 months to prepare and paint. Besides Garston I painted others in Bootle, Chester, Wavertree, Ellesmere Port, Prescot, and

Warrington.

[Kev]

Video of the Window Lane

area:



Click the image or

click here. It's not a showcase, it's a journey down Window Lane in its present state, the

boards surrounding the flattened areas seem to go on forever......

[john]

Really interesting to see

the developments, my grandfather lived over the road from the gasworks on Banks Road, we lived in Canterbury Street over the shop and then Kings

Street.
Looks like the last thing standing is the Woodies.

[Norm NZ]

"WOW" Thanks for the picture's Kev!

It's hard for me to believe that all that area has gone forever! even the Pawnshop demolished!! poor old Frank Kett will be turning in his grave!. I

hope I'm still around when the area re-development is completed. Question that comes to mind, "Where have all the People gone"?

[Kev]

Here's the plan:

The Garston under the

bridge development is a partnership of South Liverpool Housing, Liverpool City Council, Liverpool Housing Trust and Lovell Partnerships.

The aim of the

partnership is to create an environment in which residents and business can thrive with local people enjoying a good quality of life in a sustainable

neighbourhood.

The project will deliver 307, 21st century homes, of which 120 will be for social rent

and 187 for sale. It will replace the current 500+ properties, which currently occupy the site, demolishing the empty Victorian terraces (already

happened) and 1970’s Radburn homes and provide a modern dynamic development that will offer excellent quality housing with a wide choice of tenure type for

local residents.

Work has also started on essential utility diversions and full-scale construction work is envisaged to complete some

time in 2013.



The scheme itself will represent a private/public investment in the region of £40 million.