Images of Liverpool Past

[ayjaykay]

Here's a few more of the 'gyratory'

[5th beatle]

superb photos. more would be most welcome

[Waterways]

Here's a few more of the 'gyratory'

Those bus piccies clearly indicate of how to screw up a city centre.

[5th beatle]

one of the gyratory photos shows the remnants of the buildings around queens square. correct me if i'm wrong but wasn't the open eye gallery located down towards the start of the bus stops? (on the 4th photo i think)

[ayjaykay]

one of the gyratory photos shows the remnants of the buildings around queens square. correct me if i'm wrong but wasn't the open eye gallery located down towards the start of the bus stops? (on the 4th photo i think)

Yes, you're right. The Open Eye was there before it moved to Wood Street. I've got another photo that clearly shows the old Open Eye. I'll try to find it.

EDIT: found it...

[ayjaykay]

And here are a few more. The black and white one is from September 1985. The 4th one shows the Open Eye again, after the building next door had been demolished.

[ChrisGeorge]

Hi all

I love the pic of all the green doubledeckers all lined up. Brings back a lot of memories.

http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/att...9&d=1165570299

Let me clarify, though, do you still have green buses in Liverpool, or are they now all different colors, as I thought I saw on one of my recent trips?

Chris

[ayjaykay]

Hi all

I love the pic of all the green doubledeckers all lined up. Brings back a lot of memories.

http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/att...9&d=1165570299

Let me clarify, though, do you still have green buses in Liverpool, or are they now all different colors, as I thought I saw on one of my recent trips?

Chris

There are now 2 main companies running buses in Liverpool: Arriva and Stagecoach. The Arriva buses are a turquoise and cream colour, but not the same as the MPTE/Merseybus colours.

[5th beatle]

Those bus piccies clearly indicate of how to screw up a city centre.

True.
Unfortunately, just one of many eg: Clayton Square, Mount Pleasent, Canning Place.
There was no need for the whole of Queens Square to be consigned to wasteland. It was just a road widening scheme which I accept but they could have kept and spruced up many of the buildings instead of knocking them down and having the area lying idle for nearly 20 years. Imagine it today full of bars and restaurants (which it is now but hardly quaint)

[PhilipG]

A good aerial view of post-war Liverpool.
I've dated this as about 1949.

[ChrisGeorge]

Hi Philip

A great post-World War II aerial view, Philip. Your dating to circa 1949 appears about right to me. Possibly Waterways or someone could confirm that the date of around 1949 seems right. You can certainly see the bombed-out areas, including the Customs House and the area around the Victoria Monument and the look of the landing stage also appears as it would have, I think, in the decade after the war.

Chris

[PhilipG]

A good aerial view of post-war Liverpool.
I've dated this as about 1949.

The Customs House was demolished in 1948, but the photo still shows the cellars.

[ChrisGeorge]

The Customs House was demolished in 1948, but the photo still shows the cellars.

Yes, understood, that's how I remember the Customs House from my childhood; I was born in 1948.

Chris

[theninesisters]

It is just me or whenever I get a bus now and I see a double decker, I'm like a kid going straight to the top deck to get the best view over all the high rise walls that you don't normally see over in a car!

[ChrisGeorge]

It is just me or whenever I get a bus now and I see a double decker, I'm like a kid going straight to the top deck to get the best view over all the high rise walls that you don't normally see over in a car!

Hi Jona76

As a little lad, I used to love to be on the top deck in the front seat. I would get endless enjoyment looking at everything from that vantage point. That is, until in later years I'd ride up there with my Grandad and he'd talk about all the people around us -- I trait that my 86-year-old mother is also developing! I used to feel like crawling under the seat listening to my Grandad's observations and hoping the people in question wouldn't hear!

Chris