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    Quote Originally Posted by Norm NZ View Post
    "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"?
    hmmm now then ... that's interesting .... a



    Frank Kett ..... my husband's great uncle (in other words his nan's brother) was a Bob Kett and the family used to talk of him having a Pawn shop. My

    husband doesn't know the names of his nan's other brothers & sisters, and we are wondering if there is a connection. Wonder if Frank kett was a brother

    to Bob?

    The family used to say that Bob Kett's pawn shop was around the Breck rd area (probably around the 1930s) .. we've asked some older

    residents in the district but we can't find out. There was a pawn shop but not of that name.
    Kett is not a common name.

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    My husband's family have Garston connections ;

    His

    grandparents both worked at the South L'pool football club.

    My mother-in-law went to Gilmore (spelling?) school (Whitehedge rd) and she worked at the

    peanut butter factory in later years.
    My father-in-law worked in a few places including 'Premier Foam' (Blackburn rd), Caulfields Atlas Express, and

    later as a bus driver based at Garston depot.

    The family were from the Mather ave side.
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    lindylou I think my mum said Frank Kett was Jewish. Does that help narrow things

    down?

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    We don't think there is a Jewish connection in the family

    - well not that close as regards the family tree .... maybe there could have been in days of yore!

    It's just intriguing that both Frank and Bob

    Kett had pawn shops.

    Kett doesn't sound like a Jewish name does it ??

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    no idea if it sounds jewish. I just thought she said he was jewish. i could be wrong .

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    Hi Lindylou
    I have a 1938 Directory

    Kett Frank

    -pawnbroker 3 & 5 King St,Garston 1257 Res. 20 Newlands St Anfield 1370 (the numbers are phone numbers)

    Kett Robert -pawnbrokers manager 59 Bidston

    Rd

    there are a few other Ketts listed if you would like them too

    hope that helps
    Mandy

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    wow thats brilliant hey? the wonders

    of the internet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by merseymay View Post
    Its a dilemma, waterways, I'd like you to have the last word but dont want to be rude by not replying.

    So I'll just say

    thanks for the debate, we aren't going to see eye to eye this lifetime.
    You are dead right. We will not.
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    Merseymay - you write with great passion - a passion that is still alive and well in Garston - as the

    Council will tell you when they tried to close down Garston Church of England School. We had a hall full of 300 people and we gave them a run for their

    money - they thought they had us beat but they thought again. Our community will rise again - the local council have had a hold up in regenerating the area

    because Garstonians wouldn't move out!! Even now they chomp at the bit to get back home. Of course there are other parts of Liverpool that are just as

    community minded - good luck to them. Oh, and I never go to town much either - guess that makes me backward - oh well, God gave me broad shoulders!!!

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    In Garston most of the pubs were Greenall's pubs. Few Greenalls were in other parts of the city. Why was Garston in the hands of

    mainly one brewer?
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    I've enjoyed reading all comments re Garston, and I must admit that I can see both (or

    all) sides of the discussion! As a Senior Citizen, (mid 70's) I probably look more fondly on Garston now that I don't live there, than when I did! and

    I must also admit, that as a youngster growing up there we always considered that we were somewhat 'apart' from Liverpool as the 'city'! ("if you know

    what I mean") perhaps the reason for that is buried in the past! As a child though, Garston was a great place to grow-up, and the boundries were far

    reaching, Woolton, Hunts Cross, Hale, Halewood, all within reach of Garston Village, and more interesting place's to visit than 'the City' environs. I

    played football on the fields known as 'The Willows' alongside Horrocks Avenue, 'walked' through 'The Avenue' to Hunts Cross, and Speke, and strolled

    through all the parks to Woolton, all without using public transport, or even having money in ones pocket, and I must add! all done safely!! Can we say the

    same now?

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    Quote Originally Posted by lindylou View Post
    We don't think there is a Jewish connection in the family - well not that close as regards the family tree .... maybe there could

    have been in days of yore!

    It's just intriguing that both Frank and Bob Kett had pawn shops.

    Kett doesn't sound like a Jewish name does

    it ??
    Hi! Sorry I mentioned the name! but I do remember Frank Ketts shop! and I don't think he was Jewish! but then I was only a child

    then!!

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    Hi

    sweetpatooti it was nice to hear there is still a strong community full of fight!
    Seeing those pictures was not nice. And trying to

    imagine the place formerly full of life when it looks like an abandoned - I dont know what! was difficult.
    Yea the spirit of garston was echo's through

    other parts of the city, I wasn't saying it wasn't LOL, but I was just trying to say why garstonians weren't backward villiage people when they felt

    miffed at development encroaching on their area and why I couldn't understand what NOT going to liverpool centre proved. If someones going to make

    judgements, let them be for decent reasons, not because people didn't feel the need to go out of their home area and fancied protecting their turf, if you

    know what I mean.

    Good Luck for the future. x

    Norm I think my dad agrees with you that the fondness came later, having had to leave, at the

    time it just was what it was.
    Nice to read your memories
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    Quote Originally Posted by robbo176 View Post
    Hi Lindylou
    I have a 1938

    Directory

    Kett Frank -pawnbroker 3 & 5 King St,Garston 1257 Res. 20 Newlands St Anfield 1370 (the numbers are phone numbers)

    Kett Robert

    -pawnbrokers manager 59 Bidston Rd

    there are a few other Ketts listed if you would like them too

    hope that helps
    Mandy
    Mandy,

    thanks so much for that.

    Bob Kett 59 Bidston rd .... that's got me thinking .... there is a Bidston rd off Utting Ave - not far from

    where we live in Anfield.

    Newlands st (no longer there) ... I seem to remember that it was up the top of Breck rd - so the family story of Bob Kett

    having a pawn shop up there must have got a bit confused with the residential address of Frank.

    It looks as though Frank and Bob must have been

    related. Brothers maybe.
    Will have to try and do a bit of research.

    Thanks once again.
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    ps,

    Thanks to NormNZ for mentioning Frank Kett ... or I wouldn't have

    found this out.

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