Ha ha, i've been called worse.
Ha ha, i've been called worse.
I picked this up on ebay, it's a pencil drawing / watercolour, dated 1937. The man in the picture framing shop asked if it was Paris, and with sadness I had to say no, it is what Liverpool used to look like.
Last edited by Liverpolitan; 06-16-2007 at 07:40 PM.
A fine view, well worth purchasing, Liverpolitan, so congratulations on snapping it up. Might I ask what the inscription at lower right says? It's a bit too small for me to read.
Chris
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It looks like "The Quadrant Lime St."
This must have been a very popular place for artists and photographers, we have had some great old photo's of the same place on here.
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
Winston Churchill
Thanks Chris, I was worried the condition might not be so good (there is one small visible dark spot in the sky) but overall it's good.
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Shytalk your eyesight is good - it says The Quadrant, Lime Street, 37. I cannot make out the signature though. I've googled on various things it might say (Thiery Lemaire? Lemaine?) and Liverpool and artists etc. but drawn a blank.
1950s photos show those buildings covered in lights. I can't imagine that was done in the late 40s, with the austerity, so I wonder if that was a modern thing in the 1950s?
Another thing, Lewis's is only sketchy, I wonder if the new building was still be constructed at that time? It seems strange that other buildings are drawn in detail, but Lewis's only in outline.
Last edited by Liverpolitan; 06-16-2007 at 10:38 PM.
Liverpolitan, Lewis's was rebuilt post war, because of the bomb damage.
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
Winston Churchill
Oh Yes. That was daft of me. Thanks Philip.
Another thing on that picture, some of the vehicles are empty open topped vans. I wonder if they parked there before collecting stuff to take away from the markets? On later (presumably 50s) photos of that scene, there are no lorries that I can remember seeing, but the only ones I have seen are taken at night, so maybe it was a practice that did continue. Presumably the horse and barrow would take things to the market also.
I came across these in the early 1980s. Only 8 or so have captions but i'll leave it to you all to treat them as one big guess the location and put names to the streets for me.
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