Unseen Liverpool

[merseywail]

Some shots of exchange sta. these any good scouseinmanc ?

[Sirob]

Thanks, Scouseinmanc. I was brought up in Bedford Road, by the Stuart Hotel.
Great pics, Merseywail, Exchange just as I remember it! Somehow, B&W does it justice.

Fernhill Road/Derby Park, Bootle,
Breeze Hill/Southport Road junction, Both August 1970
Poplar Street(off Breck Road), March 1973. This was a typical scene; the pub has gone, houses boarded up, gap on RH side from the blitz and the bulldozers soon to do what Hitler forgot!!!!
Truncated Landing Stage, Pier Head, March 1977
Waterfront from a ferry, March 1977

[lindylou]

Thanks for sharing these pics Sirob.
That school at the end of Poplar st has now been demolished.

[merseywail]

I used to play in Derby park years ago, to young to remember the lake though. I and a large number of people stood at the breeze hill / southport rd junc to watch st Johns house ,( the old tax office) being blown up. still think they should have got Ken Dodd to to press the button!!! Keep em coming sirob .

[Sirob]

Thanks, lindylou. Only found out it was Poplar Street last night. Just had it down as "slums Everton" so had to get the old maps out!

Snow scenes from 8 th February 1968;
Liverpool Institute, Mount Street
Lesters Tuck Shop, Pilgrim Street

Edge Hill Loco May 1968, some of its last residents await their final journey.
The David Lewis theatre, Gt. George Place, June 1977

[John(Zappa)]

Fine photographs here, sirob and merseywail! Many thanks for sharing them with us!

Chris

Need I say more

[Scouseinmanc]

Some shots of exchange sta. these any good scouseinmanc ?

Absolutley Sirob - thanks!
You really should think about starting your own website you know.
You have so many great pics & it's great that you've shared them with us all.
Kind regards, SiM.

[sheilsy]

Just echoing everyone else's views that your pictures are great and a truly nostalgic journey for me, as it was this era that I grew up, and seeing these pics truly takes me back. Thanks for giving me your permission to share your fine pics on my site, I am sure they are going to evoke a lot of memories for lots of people.

Many thanks for sharing....

[merseywail]

A few more from me. the first two show trams passing under walton sta bridge in april 1955 . Next a ribble bus on a very quiet linacre rd, you can just see the corner of the richmond sausage factory, used to have a big sign with a pig holding a sausage on a fork. last a view looking to william brown st from the old tunnel . I will be walking this again 15 june.

[Waterways]

Ribble had some ugly looking buses. They did north Liverpool and Crossville the south, while the Corpy did all of Liverpool and even into Prescot. Did the Corpy go into Crosby? I think Ribble did that.

St Helens busses strangely has a bus that went from Speke, through Netherly, Huyton and St. Helens, and the odd route to Liverpool centre.

[Sirob]

Thanks for all your kind comments, I'm just glad to share - they could so easily been binned and thus unseen forever!
It was amazing what you could do pre HSE days, hence some unique situations - and sometimes I had a camera!

On the Bidston to Wrexham line;
Heswall Hills, Neston North and Hawarden Bridge stations, April 1970
North Mersey yard, Loco water column, Februry 1971
A fine pair of L&Y water columns, Wigan Wallgate, October 1970
Who bothered to record mundane items like the above, when there were trains to "cop". But its all gone now!

[merseywail]

Ribble had some ugly looking buses. They did north Liverpool and Crossville the south, while the Corpy did all of Liverpool and even into Prescot. Did the Corpy go into Crosby? I think Ribble did that.

St Helens busses strangely has a bus that went from Speke, through Netherly, Huyton and St. Helens, and the odd route to Liverpool centre.

Never mind ugly ,what about that vicious sliding door! used to close shut with an almighty thud. Dont think the corpy went to crosby. They did have service's to seaforth sands, & ran joint service's with ribble to netherton.

[Sirob]

Some more of the last steam on the docks, the privately owned tank engine at Waterloo goods and crossing the Dock Road, July 1971
There are some interesting backgrounds.

[quincyg]

A few more from me. the first two show trams passing under walton sta bridge in april 1955 . Next a ribble bus on a very quiet linacre rd, you can just see the corner of the richmond sausage factory, used to have a big sign with a pig holding a sausage on a fork. last a view looking to william brown st from the old tunnel . I will be walking this again 15 june.

I'm not far from the old saus works. will see if I can get a pic from roughly the same place to see how much it's changed

Some more of the last steam on the docks, the privately owned tank engine at Waterloo goods and crossing the Dock Road, July 1971
There are some interesting backgrounds.

thanks for those of Waterloo Goods. I'm still hopeful of seeing earlier pics of the place, but the ones you've put up have been great to see.

[John(Zappa)]

Sirob,Quincy,Knowhowe & Merseywail- You all should get together and put a few books together.
Your pics are rare,unseen or just plain brilliant.
And if ya do and make a few quid,don't forget me
Thanx again for sharing them.