Picture Of The Day Feb 08

[Ged]

Another very interesting perspective

[Gerry]

Excellent picture and just proves the fantastic vision you have to see this beauty in that unusual way. Keep up the great work.

[Atany]

Atany, these houses are very old, known as 2 up, 2 down, as in the number of rooms. When built in fact, families were much larger so it would be more common for 6 or more people to be housed in them. Elswick Street was the 'Bread' Street (sitcom), my father-in-law was born in Grafton st then moved to one of these streets, Netherby but has been in the Flower Streets, Kirkdale now for 40 odd years.

Atany, not many miles South of here, some of the houses are as big or bigger then 3 or 4 of these put together.

Thanx for the explanation!
In my town there live the people also alone in a flats now, which were once built for a big family. But these houses are really very small. I hope there don't need to live families with many kids. But apart from that, these houses are very nice, very British. Also the street lamp. Maybe a tree wouldn't be bad. Are there gardens at the rear?

[naked lilac]

which street is this malwood, elswick ? I used to work on many of those houses in those streets, and along grafton street which runs across the bottom, bread was filmed in these streets, I actually worked for the creator of bread and the liver birds ( carla Lane ) on her house in London, love this pic, brings back memories of walking up to mill street to get chips or bacon butties for our dinner

That street is Sanbeck Street, looking down to the Mersey.. Grafton Street at the end ....so I remember...by Cockburn Road.

[taffy]

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Anglican Cathedral Reflection

Nice photo but Feb 7th date already posted. Perhaps change to Feb 8th

[chippie]

No Atany, there are no gardens at the rear but small yards.

I grew up in a house no bigger than that and my grandparents had eight children in them and me also in the end.

It wasn,t even cosy as the cold got in through the door gaps and window gaps. No central heating and no hot water in those days.

[shoney]

That street is Sanbeck Street, looking down to the Mersey.. Grafton Street at the end ....so I remember...by Cockburn Road.

yeah there is about 7 streets heading down to grafton street, if my memory is right we renovated the very bottom house on the right hand side of the street where it meets grafton street

[Gerry]

Those little palaces of the working class who built Liverpool have a yard so tiny the outside toilet could be reached by a big step on a cold winters night if the need arose and you didn't want to poison the others crammed into each tiny bedroom.

I was born into a house this size and lived there with my Grandmother, Mum and Dad, one older brother and four older sisters. All in two tiny bedrooms.

My cot was the bottom drawer of the dressing table as there wasn't floor space to sit a cot down.

My good wife often remarks "I wish they had shut that drawer when you were in it" at times when I'm getting on her nerves.

[ChrisGeorge]

Nice photo but Feb 7th date already posted. Perhaps change to Feb 8th

Done! Changed to Feb 8th. Thanks, Taffy.

Chris

[Atany]

Gerry,

what a sad story! I hope you have a better house now!

That's not very kind of your wife.

[Gerry]

We have a grand house now and we even have a toilet inside.

When we get is connected to the electricity I'll be able to do away with this old turf powered laptop.

[taffy]

HMS Bulwark, assault ship at Pierhead Liverpool

[Kev]

excellent

[PhilipG]

St Luke's.
Chinese New Year.

[Atany]

We have a grand house now and we even have a toilet inside.

When we get is connected to the electricity I'll be able to do away with this old turf powered laptop.

what a great life!