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    Great pictures Joe.

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    St Marys prish rooms,Grassendale,built 1888

    Colourful hedge on the Cressington esplanade

    Cressington and Grassendale esplanades "All alone am I"

    Hazy sun over the Mersey at Grassendale"beach"
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    Great stuff Joe.

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    Fabulous Joe [and your pics too ].

    I've posted this somewhere b4 but when we were kids, we would often pile on down to the big houses with buckets of soapy water, offering to wash the posher people's cars. Sometimes we would get chased as we entered the gates, other times we would get a few nice people who would let us wash their motor, a pound per car.

    We didn't make much .

    The speed bumps must have been Liverpool's first as they were down decades before the speed bumps we know and love today. They were great ramps on our BMX bikes!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kev View Post
    Fabulous Joe [and your pics too ].

    I've posted this somewhere b4 but when we were kids, we would often pile on down to the big houses with buckets of soapy water, offering to wash the posher people's cars. Sometimes we would get chased as we entered the gates, other times we would get a few nice people who would let us wash their motor, a pound per car.

    We didn't make much .

    The speed bumps must have been Liverpool's first as they were down decades before the speed bumps we know and love today. They were great ramps on our BMX bikes!
    I'll bet the speed bumps in Rock Ferry have been there longer. Think They're in Rock Park.

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    Hi all

    Just a quick note in terms of cross-referencing and spreading the wealth as it were. I have put a note on JtR Forums pointing to this thread with the above excellent photographs by Joe and Kev.

    I noted:

    "Before James and Florence Maybrick moved in spring 1888 to Battlecrease House at 7 Riversdale Road opposite the Liverpool Cricket Ground, they lived at Beechville, 7 South Road, Grassendale Park, southeast of the cricket ground.

    "Grassendale Park along with its twin community, Cressington Park, is one of the Victorian gems of Liverpool and I thought you might like a glimpse of it."

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    Hi again all

    Beechville, Grassendale Park, in Christopher Jones, The Maybrick A to Z (Countyvise Press Ltd, 2008), p. 84, available at Google Books.

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    Hi, great shots brought back some memories for me.

    I lived on North Rd mid eighties, first rented flat away from home. It was probably the shabbiest house on the road and it was a bit damp and leaky and I was in the top floor flat in the attic. I could just about see over the roofs of the other houses ships heading for the Garston Dock. I've some snaps I took of the house, but sadly didn't take any of the area at the time.

    I just recalled a bit more, about me being out of work for periods of time - well wasn't most people then and me signing on at the DHSS office on the main road near by. I think it was called supplementary benefit - it paid for me bills as well as the rent and rates, and I remember getting money to get the place carpeted. I think its much harder being on the dole now for people.

    But a great place to live. Doubt I could afford it now!

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    [IMG]Liverpool esplanade by exacta2a, on Flickr[/IMG]
    Grassendale Esplanade. Top pic taken in 1906 bottom 103 years later
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    ..and a follow up picture taken about 6 weeks ago from the other direction...

    This was taken from the end of Otterspool Prom - showing that the Grassendale Park portion does not connect through.

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    I remember the area very well! friend lived in Salisbury Rd and I recal a couple of the house names! ie; Salisbury House (opp the station) and 'Gatesheath' one of the houses leading down to the promenade! Probably still there!!!


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