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    I was born in 1931 in Stalisfield Ave, Norris green/West derby , & what a wonderful concept it was , where are the town planners now that could put a plan like that into operation . Dovecot /Huyton was a duplicate estate it lifted the living standards of the working class away from the slum-like conditions most were living in previously . Thank you for bringing back a lot of good memories ,we didn't have much money but we had a lot of fun . Ron

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    Lancelot Keay was responsible for those self contained estates, with a library, shops, wash house, baths etc - Speke won an award. How sad it is that they've been allowed to rot like this now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by lindac8941 View Post
    Thanks for putting up the pics, but I didnt mean that hut, although I did go to that one, I meant the other one (and depending on your age, you might not even remember it) it was right next door to the Broadway Pub, right at the side of the bridge (not the big bridge, as in your pic) and up a bit of an incline, think it is derelict land there now. If you dont remember it and your ever goin that way, you will see where I mean. .

    Yeah that one is still there and there's now a barbers shop next to it.


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    The shop i think you mean up the wooden stair to the station was called Pedeltons.or pendos we called it.they also made ice cream.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ged View Post
    Lancelot Keay was responsible for those self contained estates, with a library, shops, wash house, baths etc - Speke won an award. How sad it is that they've been allowed to rot like this now.
    It's very sad indeed... these towns / estates are now, in many cases, the exact opposite of what they were intended to be. I can see instances where some of these estates began do see their downfall even before they were completed.

    The story is much the same for the 'New Towns'... Skelmersdale included.
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    Norris Green shops were once somewhere where people travelled to shop. In the late 50s and the 60s my Mother regularly took the bus from Fazakerley (the Kirkby end of it) to "Broadgreen shops" as she called it. It seemed massive and, astonishingly, quite exotic to us Fazakerley plebs, who did not have a Woolies or a purpose built baths or, for that matter, a dedicated shopping arcade of a similar size. My Mum was a particular fan of the fruit shops; there seemed to be hundreds of them. My friend longed to live over the shops in the arcade. Those flats were, in those days, highly desirable. My, how things have changed.

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    Try as I may I can't access the Norris Green site, as I was brought up there I'd love to see all my old haunts.
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    The Norris Green site closed down some time ago.Don't know why.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wendyanne View Post
    Try as I may I can't access the Norris Green site, as I was brought up there I'd love to see all my old haunts.
    Have a look at Ged's site,he's just put some Norris Green pic's on! www.inacityliving.piczo.com/

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    Cheers Steve.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wendyanne View Post
    Try as I may I can't access the Norris Green site, as I was brought up there I'd love to see all my old haunts.
    And where was your old haunts. ?

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    Hello Linda.the hut up the pathway next to the broadway pub was called pendaltons the made great ice cream and had an add on TV that sain "ther's nothing nicer than a pendltons twiser"Ooooo nice.

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