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    Thumbs up Old Swan and surrounding area's

    Hi all, does anyone have any "OLD" Old Swan photo's / Video footage from bygone days. I have some video from the 50's from a Tram Video, which by the way shows other areas too, Broadway, Dovecote, Page Moss, Everton etc ... I have the link for a part of the video on Youtube, which goes from Fairfield to Dovecote ( Prescot Road )...
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    Hey i like those

    Amazing how much still looks the same

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    Thanks for that trip back in time.I often went on the No 10 tram,I left the Swan in 1961 when we had the Regent and the Curzon to go to,passing through now it just seems smaller than I remember it.
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    I liked watching that, anyone remember the old tram shed that stood on the site of the Netto at the corner of Green Lane and Prescot Roads. There was an old tram in there till the mid to late 80s that could be seen from the top deck of a bus.

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    You get a brief glimpse of it on the left hand side of the road, 8 seconds into the video. Martin

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    Here's an old pic of Old Swan taxi's

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    Great pic John, where is it in Old Swan, I'm intrigued

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    Mart. Don't know if you've ever tried this LRO on line catalogue facility but if you click on next record, more come up and so on. Type whatever you're looking for into the search box, if it's not there, try a new search etc...

    http://archive.liverpool.gov.uk/dser...39;)&dsqPos=26



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    Quote Originally Posted by hmtmaj View Post
    Great pic John, where is it in Old Swan, I'm intrigued
    Cheers Mart
    The address does not appear in directories until 1909 & then as Lewis & Co "drysalters"
    It is first shown as a garage as a garage in 1912
    The address is 389 Prescot.
    It was listed as the "Premier Garage"

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    Quote Originally Posted by hmtmaj View Post
    Great pic John, where is it in Old Swan, I'm intrigued
    If you came out of Green Lane and turned right towards town, Premier Garage was on the first block on the right, just before the cinema. When I was a kid in Tuebrook, my Aunt had no electricity, she took her radio accumulator (battery) there to be charged every week.
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    The premier cinema becoming the premier pub in the 80s/90s. Lots of premiers about on that block
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    Two from Liverpool Record Office? site.

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    Hoult's Corner, Old Swan.


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    Prescot Road, towards Knotty Ash.

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    I have a book by Colin Gould called 'A Pictorial History Of Old Swan and Tuebrook',published by Orge Books 120 Picton Rd.Don't know if you can still buy it but it's very good.

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    Cadfael, great pic, thanks.
    The other pics are very interesting too,
    Martin

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