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    Quote Originally Posted by PhilipG View Post
    Ribble Bus Station.
    Skelhorne Street, Liverpool.
    Next to Lime Street Station.
    It opened in 1960 and closed 11 Sept 1989.
    These photos were taken on 9 Sept 1989.
    The office block and cafe shown on the first photo were demolished and the rest of the building became a night club called Buzz.
    Interesting to see, Philip. Thank you very much. I travelled to and from that bus station on quite a number of occasions on my way to points north.

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    Quote Ross,

    The old taxi showroom used to be here - Taxifix - The company is now at Gt. Howard St.

    Any info. or photos appreciated.



    What do you want to know about Taxifix, I was in the taxi trade before I emmigrated in 1982 and knew the owners. It was commonly called "The Hill" in the trade, there was a hole in the wall cafe there run by the Sharpe family where the drivers hung out.
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    Cracking pics Philip! I remember going there many a time to catch a coach up to see family in Newcastle. From what I remember, to get from the coach station to the basement area, there used to be a massive spiral stone staircase at one end - and the whole place smelt like a swimming baths!

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    Default Thanks again, everybody.

    I'm really quite overwhelmed!
    Is it because it's the Ribble Bus Station, or because they're from the past?

    I've got more photos from the 1980s & 1990s taken with my untrustworthy old Zenith camera.
    All slightly out-of-focus but showing a Liverpool that isn't there anymore.

    Apart from pubs, cinemas, schools, I'm not sure exactly where to post them on this forum, unless I start a Liverpool 1980s/1990s thread?

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    Quote Originally Posted by PhilipG View Post
    I'm really quite overwhelmed!
    Is it because it's the Ribble Bus Station, or because they're from the past?

    I've got more photos from the 1980s & 1990s taken with my untrustworthy old Zenith camera.
    All slightly out-of-focus but showing a Liverpool that isn't there anymore.

    Apart from pubs, cinemas, schools, I'm not sure exactly where to post them on this forum, unless I start a Liverpool 1980s/1990s thread?
    Hi Philip

    I think it is because the bus station was part of our daily lives and that at the time we took it for granted. Now it's gone, it's a case of missing it and looking back on it nostalgically.

    By the way my first "good" camera was a Russian Zenith camera as well, after the Kodak Brownie I started out with. More recently I have had a couple of Pentaxes, the first of which was bought second hand from a shop besides the Kingsway Tunnel.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PhilipG View Post
    unless I start a Liverpool 1980s/1990s thread?
    Yes, please do. I'm sure a lot of people would appreciate it.

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    Phillip, yes, please share them. It's great that people had the presence of mind to capture these images and i'm sure your work will be appreciated, look at Nancyo's - brilliant, even if of delapidated but now gone past Liverpool. Btw, please post those tenement ones on the Early Liverpool housing thread if you can, thanks.

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    I remember there being a postcard thread but I can't seem to find it, so I'll stick this one here. St. Johns Precinct, so shiny and new...I'm not sure how much of the shopping center still exists in this form, maybe someone can set me straight on this.


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    Quote Originally Posted by nancy o. View Post
    I remember there being a postcard thread but I can't seem to find it, so I'll stick this one here. St. Johns Precinct, so shiny and new...I'm not sure how much of the shopping center still exists in this form, maybe someone can set me straight on this.

    St John's Centre was practically destroyed in a fire, so was rebuilt, and it was refaced a few years ago.
    The postcard thread was successful, but it ran off on interesting tangents and was moved somewhere, where unfortunately it died.
    Thanks for reminding me of this thread, Nancy.
    It's the right one for Concourse House.
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    Kind of sad that Concourse House is ending its life as a giant billboard. What about all that ugly business in front of the train station? I think I read somewhere it was going to be removed and the entrance to the station restored?

    I have a postcard (c. 1994, at least that's the postmark) with about the same view as your photo, kind of a nice night shot.
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    Quote Originally Posted by nancy o. View Post
    I remember there being a postcard thread but I can't seem to find it, so I'll stick this one here. St. Johns Precinct, so shiny and new...I'm not sure how much of the shopping center still exists in this form, maybe someone can set me straight on this.


    Bloomin' eck thats a snapshot in time.. The buses have changed their livery colours from green and biege these days..

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    Does anyone know the name of the very small bar that was in the bus station?

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    Quote Originally Posted by PhilipG View Post
    Ribble Bus Station.
    Skelhorne Street, Liverpool.
    Next to Lime Street Station.
    It opened in 1960 and closed 11 Sept 1989.
    These photos were taken on 9 Sept 1989.
    The office block and cafe shown on the first photo were demolished and the rest of the building became a night club called Buzz.
















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    Default skelhorne street bus station

    what was the name of the bar / cafe in the bus station ?

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    Was the bar called "The Ribble Bar " ???.......

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