Wavertree - Edge Hill Areas

[Chris48]

The Lord Mayors cars used to be kept at the stables too. I remember seeing them in and out regularly when I worked across the road in the mid 70s.

[Ged]

What amazed me Cad, on one of those pics on your site, is the number of chimney pots on that block of tennies. A similiar block I lived in with 6 flats per landing only had a chimney for each flat even though there was a fire in the living room and one in the largest bedroom - so 12 fires sharing 6 chimneys. It looks like they've got a chimney per fire there though - posh or what

[pasha]

fantastic pictures

[Ged]

Casterton Street footy match 1978 - Edge Hill.









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[pasha]

that's how i remember edge hill, wavertree road etc when i was younger everywhere was derelict. you did'nt have a pot to piss in but you where happy
great picture ged

[pasha]

just showed my daughter who is 15 the picture/ and told her this is what we grew up around, she just said omg it's minging

[Ged]

I have a 15 year old daughter and a couple who are a little older. I rib them now about how spoilt they are, lifts everywhere, central heating set for 6am, pc games etc etc - they tell me 'We don't live in the olden days anymore dad'.

[quincyg]

There's a church in Ashfield, Wavertree - I don't know the name of it but it's being demolished right now. It was a large church - do you know it Cadfael?

People have been going along there to salvage bits and pieces for momentos of the church.

oh how sad, I remember it well. I lived in the next street, Ash Grove for a couple of years and long before that I often played around there when part of the Grove and Wavertree Vale was a bomb site. There used to be a stone gateway at the Grosvenor Rd end of Ashfield for years and around there loads of very old stone walls. I think the whole wall was demolished in the 80's/90's.
I even remember the last old house on the Vale burning down in the 70's.

[quincyg]

this is Plumer St where I spent the first 21 years of my life. I still wander down that way every now and again, it's embedded into my heart.

from the Picton Rd end. the first house used to be a laundrette.

from the Grosvenor Rd end

my old house


happy days

[pasha]

ged we did live in the olden days
my kids asked me once (mum did you write on slate )

quincy i lived in ashfied when when i was a baby
my parents moved to grovenor road in the early 80's
they did,nt tell me they had moved i was working in the i.o.m/ i got a bloody shock when me dad met me off the boat and said (oh because your mother hated runcorn i have got her this little house)
and little it was 2 bedrooms upstairs no bathroom and a tiny kitchen
i never lived there long i think all 6 of us would have killed each other

[quincyg]

ged we did live in the olden days
my kids asked me once (mum did you write on slate )

quincy i lived in ashfied when when i was a baby
my parents moved to grovenor road in the early 80's
they did,nt tell me they had moved i was working in the i.o.m/ i got a bloody shock when me dad met me off the boat and said (oh because your mother hated runcorn i have got her this little house)
and little it was 2 bedrooms upstairs no bathroom and a tiny kitchen
i never lived there long i think all 6 of us would have killed each other

we had no bathroom in Plumer St either. or a proper kitchen it was a lean to on the back with a corrugated plastic roof! Plus an outside loo. my mums boss built a wooden roof when the plastic one finally gave way after a heavy snowfall.
they were small houses, but then I didn't know any different.

my great grandma lived here in Grosvenor Rd in the late 40's early 50's



last time I was down that way i got a couple of pics of the old fountain on Picton Rd. Does anyone remember the fire hydrant that used to be on Picton Rd between MacDonald St and Bishopgate or the Lock Shop that was on the corner of Wavertree Vale. Had a giant key above the door and was run by 2 old sisters. Right antwacky place that was.

[Ged]

Paul (the Gardens) and I were up at Olive Mount Community centre again last night for a screening of his film and a display of my model.

After I'd set up I was shown around Monkswell Place flats. Built in a very arty style, I was told that a lot of the aesthetic steelwork was implemented because Cosmopolitan ran out of money and it should have been glass. Apparently it rattles in the winter, wind sweeps through there and during the last heavy snowfall, the water dripped though as it melted. Apart from that they look sw-anky. (don't dare tell the residents though that some may think it looks like a 21st century prison )















Some of the art work on the walls and around the lifts.







There were also a couple of pics on the wall of the community centre of Olive Mount Heights which i've added to the high rise page of my website below.
Housing Action Trust (HAT) bought these along with the rest of the citys high rise, new apartments now stand off Mill Lane in their place.

[quincyg]

these were taken by a friend of my late dads, but sadly he didn't give him one of the front.





here's the only pic I can find of the front. Disgraceful how it was demolished. 'accidentally on purpose' I heard. the Iceland and other units were supposed to build behind it.

[SteH]

Has anyone got any idea what this is, situated between Helena St and Woodside Street. An old lock up perhaps?

[quincyg]

I think it may be an old ventilation shaft from one of the railway tunnels that ran underneath to/from Edge Hill Station & Lime St.

I know there were some around there. they were capped off to stop people climbing and falling down them