2nd South Liverpool seems to be Upper Stanhope Street near to Berkley Street facing Princes Avenue.The 3rd one seems to be same spot but facing towards Windsor Street
2nd South Liverpool seems to be Upper Stanhope Street near to Berkley Street facing Princes Avenue.The 3rd one seems to be same spot but facing towards Windsor Street
Post 490, 1st South Liverpool pic:
Above the Tesco name, I can just see the letters ...WINS?. Now, Tesco took over IrWINS in the 1960s? This may narrow down the location.
Fantastic thread!
Sirob: Alot of these pics you're putting up are film stills. Have you got alot of footage that you're using, and can you make any available?
Thanks!
Irwins were quite a large chain of grocers, and Tesco only managed to move to this part of the country by taking them over (in 1960 or 1961).Originally Posted by marky
The 1968 Kelly's directory lists over 50 Tesco Self Service shops in Liverpool alone, and nearly all of them would have been Irwins, apart from the Tesco in Aigburth Road (which survives) which was perhaps their first new-build in Liverpool.
The name comes from TESsie COhen, wife of the founder.
My evening job at School was for Irwins, and I also remember it being said that TESCO also stood for Thames Embankment Shipping Company.
I'm just going to Google that, and see if I can confirm if that was true.
Edit.
No luck with Google.
I'll have to see if I can find the early history of Tesco which was called: "Pile it High. Sell it Cheap."
Last edited by PhilipG; 07-20-2008 at 09:30 PM.
I have about 70 Irwins stores on my list and have 2 in Aigburth Rd. I've seen a similar photo with the street lamp in the middle of the road before. I'm just trying to remember where.
Proud Scouser, with a dabbling of Welsh and Irish.
bore yourself silly at my Flickr page...anorak central!
I said IN LIVERPOOL in 1968.
Are you including the ones in the Wirral?
They perhaps did have more than 50 in Liverpool between 1961 and 1968, but they progressively closed down the unprofitable ones.
I never dreamt I'd start arguing about the number of Irwins/Tescos.
Unseen Liverpool
The black & white images were part of a quantity of pictures that were given to me 10 years ago, by a widow who said that her husband "liked messing with pictures". I gathered that they were film stills, but the locations are mostly unseen, as who would waste film on nondescript streets? I think that they had a lucky escape from landfill and deserve to be shared.
Two views of Riverside Station on 4 June 1971
Princes Dock railway "main Line" on 29 May 1971
Railtour of northern docks, 11 August 1973
You take them for granted - until one day they're gone!
I was only saying I had 2 Irwins listed for Aigburth Rd.
numbers 170 and 670. if you want to check your Kellys and see if the neighbouring shop to TESCO looks like Cohen?
all I said was how many I had on my Irwins store list, I never mentioned any years or Tesco.
Proud Scouser, with a dabbling of Welsh and Irish.
bore yourself silly at my Flickr page...anorak central!
I think the 'Alex' was on Upper Hill St.You sat on barrels in the Spanish House.
(Or the tables were barrels).
The last one is the Alexandra in North Hill Street.
Here's how it was in April.
Yes, you're right.
It's still there.
How right you are Quincy.
Unseen Liverpool
The way we were, some reminders of mid 1960'5 life;
Handcart selling fruit(x2)
Window cleaner Bevington Bush?
Rag and bone man in Chinatown
Back yards and lavvies, Everton
You take them for granted - until one day they're gone!
Unseen Liverpool
Unseen by many, the ornate entrance to Anfield Cemetery in Cherry Lane
This is a railway bridge, under the Bootle branch from Edge Hill.
Perhaps it might at least get weeded!!
You take them for granted - until one day they're gone!
Blimy! How nice is that? Why doesn't LCC promote gems like this?
Anfield Cemetery.
Sirob, did you walk through the 'tunnel' to the other side?
Did you snap the Victoria cinema as well?
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