We've found that they were not houses or cottages but offices for coal merchants.
The railway property is right at the back of the terrace, with not even back yards to them which proves they were not built for residential purposes.
If that picture is original, it will be one of the 1911 Police Strike postcards.
Apart from Titanic cards, they must be about the most expensive Liverpool related postcards.
Here's the link:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Liverpool-Stri...QQcmdZViewItem
Jona, it has been a long time but I will tell you what I remember. I think this is the building that used to be a welding shop. The guy that owned it lived above it. He fought the council to stop it being demolished in the '70s and won. He demanded freehold property the same size in exchange instead of the paltry sum they offered him. All I remember about him is that he was fair haired and not very big in stature, his name was Jimmy. I knew him from him hanging out at the Blue Star garage in Smithdown Rd where the taxi drivers used to have a card school. He was an interesting person, he used to make metal puzzles which I never saw anyone solve, he could take them apart and put them back together and you hardly saw his hands move. He also used to carve wooden chains and give them away.
Last edited by shytalk; 05-05-2007 at 05:04 PM.
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I saw someone vaguely matching that description going in there a few months ago-not that you'd think the place was actually lived in,given its appearance.
Dave.
Thanks, MarkA. Great to see.
I have copied your post to the Boundary Markers thread as well.
Chris
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Mark isn't that the Anderson Tartan in the background.
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