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    Quote Originally Posted by Ross08 View Post
    Pablo - I'm from your neck of the woods, I grew up in Liscard and I now live in Moreton.
    Yesterday was the first time I'd been to 'Canny Farm', I knew of the flats though because I see them when I come into Liverpool from Chester on the M62 most nights.

    A great place for anybody like myself who is interested in social housing and large estates.
    Not a place I know too well meself. Been to a few pubs over there with mates when we were on leave. They weren't owt special, just rough estate pubs.

    Fancy admitting you were from Moreton. Had a few sessions down there in the Big House, The Farmers and The Plough. For some reason they were always a bit rough.

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    Great pics Ross.

    Some Canny farm blocks can be found on youtube when people were moving into them.

    There's this thread too. It's always worth doing a search first as it can resurrect some long lost buried old threads for some of the newbies.



    http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/sho...t=tower+blocks


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    Quote Originally Posted by Ged View Post
    Great pics Ross.

    Some Canny farm blocks can be found on youtube when people were moving into them.

    There's this thread too. It's always worth doing a search first as it can resurrect some long lost buried old threads for some of the newbies.



    http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/sho...t=tower+blocks


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    Ged - I had looked for the thread, but I couldn't find it... I knew we'd had a thread on high-rise tower blocks before.

    Thanks for putting that link up
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    No probs Ross, I suddenly remembered it had the word tower in it so searched for that
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    Anybody who'se interested in this thread or Liverpool's tower blocks must see this link:


    I'd been on this website a long time ago, and have been looking for the link for a couple of weeks now...
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    Thanks for the link Ross. I worked for a shop in Lord St in the 1960s called FW Allen, installing TVs and washing machines and I think I must have been in every one of those on the list at some stage, plus those weird ones in Netherley, Pavely Bank. Brings back a lot of memories. I remember one of the Sheil Park towers had a shop on the ground floor. Hard to imagine that now. It was a pain if you got all the way to the top with a fridge on the truck and then remembered you'd left your screwdriver in the van, because you waited ages for the lift. The milkmen must have been glad to see the back of them.
    I always fancied a top floor flat in the ones on Menlove Avenue but I think you needed a letter from God to get one.

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    Thanks for the link Ross, however I clicked on Hetherlow Towers then on Rock View but no pics?

    However, if you do want pics, try the high rise page of my site
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ged View Post
    Thanks for the link Ross, however I clicked on Hetherlow Towers then on Rock View but no pics?

    However, if you do want pics, try the high rise page of my site
    Very interesting Ged... Great website.
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    Thanks Ross.
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    Some more photos of the high-rise blocks, from December 2009.



    Starting off with Marwood Tower, Boundary Street East...


    The twin towers of View 146, Conway Street...


    Over the water... Liscard House, Wallasey...

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    Nice one Ross. Liscard House is just for older folk. They have a great social set up there and do lots together. Bingo nights, trips, its a nice end to their days.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pablo42 View Post
    Nice one Ross. Liscard House is just for older folk. They have a great social set up there and do lots together. Bingo nights, trips, its a nice end to their days.
    Pablo - Sounds like you're trying to sell the place Seriously though, it is a decent block. Well looked after and, as you say, just houses the older people.

    It goes to show (along with Sunningdale in Moreton) that with the right people living there and some maintenance, high-rise needn't be a problem.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ross08 View Post
    Pablo - Sounds like you're trying to sell the place Seriously though, it is a decent block. Well looked after and, as you say, just houses the older people.

    It goes to show (along with Sunningdale in Moreton) that with the right people living there and some maintenance, high-rise needn't be a problem.
    You're right Ross. I used to live in Ford Towers when I left the Army. When I moved in they were a smashing place to live. Thye put problem families in there though and they wrecked the place.

    Them towers in New Brighton are very successful. Lovely inside.

    Yes, I am trying to sell Liscard Towers. No publicity, just send the bag of cash.

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    Heysmoor Heights, December 2009:

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