Gardens, Tenements and Courts

[MissInformed]

that's brilliant!

thanks very much.
would love to see the film at the showing, keep us informed!

[scouserdave]

Cracking vid. I've got the whole one on the Liverpool Record Office Project P.O.O.L CD that came out about 5 years ago. Been very tempted to post it in the past (excuse the pun), but was wary of copyright issues.

[MissInformed]

what is on the video dave?

[scouserdave]

what is on the video dave?

Past Liverpool, Soft Girl

[A.D.W]

Past Liverpool, Soft Girl

No way to speak to a lady, Dave.

[Kev]

Past Liverpool, Soft Girl

Eh Dave - u and Waterways the same person? Softlad

[A.D.W]

They are all my creations, Kev. Or are they?

[Kev]

They are all my creations, Kev. Or are they?

I can merge all your posts into one user if u want?

[scouserdave]

Eh Dave - u and Waterways the same person? Softlad

LOL!

[A.D.W]

I can merge all your posts into one user if u want?

Well done Kev you have left me speechless for once!

[victorialush]

Eh Dave - u and Waterways the same person? Softlad

Makes you think eh

[scouserdave]

Makes you think eh

You again!

[Ged]

Thank you to 'The Gardens' for resurrecting this thread and adding his input into what it was like living in these environments into the 1980s which still doesn't seem that long ago to me because they are remembered fondly.

It was indeed an environment too, a community and not just a faceless flat. If someone hadn't seen say an elderly neighbour for a couple of days or something they would confide in the next neighbour about their wellbeing and maybe knock, i've known this happen time and again and we all know the old joke about the net twitching but it wasn't being nosey, it was being neighbourly - would it happen now - nobody see's any 'wrongdoings' - fear of recriminations. The older brothers, cousins and mates living in these areas would keep the younger one in check, a clip round the ear if necessary and you wouldn't dare answer back. With the demise of the communities in the likes of the Four Squares in Soho Street, Gerard Gardens and Fontenoy Gardens, dwindling church congregations partly resulting in Pastoral reorganising also meant the closing of the likes of St. Mary of the Angels (The Friary), St. Joseph's and Holy Cross churches, two of these sadly demolished.

I know also that one of my uncles couldn't even manage the garden of the bungalow he was given and two other families he was friendly with were put out in Kirkby and Nossis Green respectively and hardly saw each other again. It was even hard for them getting to know bus routes and times they hadn't previously needed to be concerned about, being on the city centre doorstep which I now realise many took for granted, how much would City centre living in these arty farty 'apartments' - mainly for students, cost you now?

[Ged]

Like myself, throughout the 1980s, my old neighbour in Grosvenor street, Joe Devine went around photographing some structures that were about to be demolished.I think Freddy O'Connor may have been an influence with 'it all came tumbling down'

Here you can see various shots of Fontenoy Gardens. This is where the first 'British Restaurant' opened during wartime to ease energy supplies in the home and offer affordable meals, it was called the Byrom Restaurant.

It can be seen in the film Violent Playground and has been pictured in the background many a time when both EFC and LFC have come down Scotland Road with their spoils on the open top bus. Lawrence Pecichino's sweet shop, Harpers fruit and Veg shop which many years later became a chippy and Scott's store served the local community for many a year.

[Max]

Those pics remind of the old Ugly block of flats they had In Old Swan which Is now Tesco.