Images of Liverpool Past

[PhilipG]

Just discovered this thread.
I love old views of Liverpool.
Is there a thread for old postcards, as I've quite a collection of Liverpool?

I think that's Dingle Point.
If so, it's still there.
The Festival Hall is on the site of Knotts Hole.

[PhilipG]

Huskisson St, 1960s?
Taken last week. The tax disc and parking permit is a giveaway

Beautiful.
I loved the design of Lancias.
It's actually glowing.

[lindylou]

That picture is class.

[ChrisGeorge]

Just discovered this thread.
I love old views of Liverpool.
Is there a thread for old postcards, as I've quite a collection of Liverpool?

I think that's Dingle Point.
If so, it's still there.
The Festival Hall is on the site of Knotts Hole.

Thanks for your answer, Philip, confirming what Kev and I thought. Another interesting way to compare it would be to compare a couple of old topographic maps maybe with an overlay. A project for someone handy with maps and computers. Do I hear any volunteers?

Incidentally, I am also a collector of old postcards and have a number of the Liverpool area. I love the ones from 1900-1910 with the old stamps and handwritten greetings on them. I suppose to most collectors they probably value the unsent ones which are probably more valuable but I get a better sense of the era from the ones that were actually used. So in other words I would be interested to see such a thread started as well.

Chris

[MissInformed]

Incidentally, I am also a collector of old postcards and have a number of the Liverpool area. I love the ones from 1900-1910 with the old stamps and handwritten greetings on them. I suppose to most collectors they probably value the unsent ones which are probably more valuable but I get a better sense of the era from the ones that were actually used. So in other words I would be interested to see such a thread started as well.

Chris[/QUOTE]


me too!!!

[PhilipG]

Thanks for your answer, Philip, confirming what Kev and I thought. Another interesting way to compare it would be to compare a couple of old topographic maps maybe with an overlay. A project for someone handy with maps and computers. Do I hear any volunteers?

Incidentally, I am also a collector of old postcards and have a number of the Liverpool area. I love the ones from 1900-1910 with the old stamps and handwritten greetings on them. I suppose to most collectors they probably value the unsent ones which are probably more valuable but I get a better sense of the era from the ones that were actually used. So in other words I would be interested to see such a thread started as well.

Chris

Chris.

Comparing maps, etc., has been done, and there's no doubt that the Festival Hall is on the site of Knott's Hole, and that Dingle Point is on the other side of the new road, about half-way towards the Brittania Inn.
What has got to be established is whether the photo on this thread is Knott's Hole or Dingle Point.
I think it's Dingle Point, but I'm not 100% sure.
Going back to the top of the thread, it does say Knot Hole, so whoever named it wasn't familiar with the spelling (but could be right about the site?).
I've got old pics somewhere, which should clear it up.
What's left of Dingle Point today has been cut away somewhat, and it's rather overgrown, so it's not going to look like old pictures.

40 minutes later.
I haven't got one photo of Knott's Hole.
All I've got is the drawing from Griifiths which shows it from the land.
When you realise there were outcrops & cliffs all the way from the Herculaneum to Otterspool, it's a long stretch.
On reflection, though, if the original caption was Knot Hole (or whatever) we might as well leave it at that.

[Brenda]

This is a print of where I was brought up, (may I add it was way after 1927 when I lived there).
The very top of the steps is Everton Terrace, now Everton Park.

[PhilipG]

Let's start with the Royal Liver Building.
Built 1908-11.
Architect: Walter Aubrey Thomas.
It was the tallest office building in Europe until after WW2.

The first card is - for its age - a rare real night shot.
Most night shots at the time were day-time views faked to look dark.
This card was issued by the Royal Liver Insurance Company who made sure all the lights in the building were turned on.
The rear of this card is shown.

The second card shows a view that is impossible to get today because the Cunard Building is in the way.

[victorialush]

I love this picture and used to have it hanging in one of my old flats

[Brenda]

really great pics Phil, that first one is a rarety having all the lights switched on, I dont think you'd get one like it today.

[PhilipG]

I love this picture and used to have it hanging in one of my old flats

I've still got it hanging in my place!
It's one of my all-time favourite pictures of Liverpool.

Brenda.
Have you heard of the Popular Cinema in Netherfield Road North?
That was tall at the front, and very low at the back, because of the slope.

[Brenda]

I've been there many a time when I was a kid, I remember it having wooden benches and used to show all the cowboy films where the goodies wore the white hats and the baddies worn the black hats, that was the Saturday mattinee, there used to be about 8 kids in our little gang who went.
I'd forgotten all about that until you just mentioned it.

[ChrisGeorge]

Hi Philip

Excellent place to start, Philip, with the Royal Liver Buildings.

Good to see these postcard views. I wanted to note here also how startling it was for me to see the Liver Buildings cleaned up and white in the Seventies after growing up in the Fifties and Sixties and being used to seeing them black!!!!

Chris

[MissInformed]

great pics phil!
Bring on some more!!!

[theninesisters]

This is my only picture of the Royal Liver Building - taken on the top deck of the Super Seacat coming back from the Isle of Man.