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    Cartwright Gardens, 1975

    Prince Albert Gardens, St James Street, 1974

    Kent Gardens, 1970

    St Oswald’s Gardens (on left) 1979
    My last post on Liverpool’s inter-War tenements created a lot of interest, so here are a few more photographs of now-demolished blocks. The only one I am struggling to name is the block on the right in St Oswald Street, Old Swan. The tenements on the left are St Oswald’s Gardens, which were demolished to make way for a Tesco superstore in 2000.
    I have been referencing an interesting book Housing: A European Survey published in 1936, which included local authority housing in Paris, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Stockholm and Barcelona as well as Liverpool, London, Leeds and Birmingham. The survey was of progressive schemes to improve the housing conditions of the working class and it heralds the unprecedented efforts made since the War ended in 1918 to tackle the slum housing and overcrowding prevalent in all of the cities covered.
    Sir Lancelot Keay provided the information for Liverpool and it was under his guidance that the city pioneered both the tenements and what he named cottages (the council houses still standing along Queen’s Drive, in Dovecot, Speke and elsewhere), His plans were for 5,000 cottages and 16,000 flats.
    The cottages were preferred by the younger generation whilst the older generation were happier being rehoused in the city centre neighbourhoods they were familiar with. The need for city centre tenements was primarily to provide proximity to the docks for workers.
    It would be hard to underestimate what moving into a new flat must have been like for the fortunate tenants. For the first time, most would have running (and hot) water, an indoor toilet and bathroom, dry and spacious living areas and a kitchen fitted with a gas cooker. By the time the photographs were taken in the 1970s, they were no longer modern and needed considerable renovation to bring them up to standard. As we know, the agreed solution was to demolish them – so we are only left with a photographic record of a major housing initiative.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colin Wilkinson View Post

    Cartwright Gardens, 1975


    Colin...


    It was Cartwright House, not Gardens..
    and each of them blocks had a different name..
    they were not all Cartwright House..
    that block is also Lionel House...Thurlow House.. and Downe House..

    The shop in the photo was Jim Morans..




    Edited.. and deleted..

    Too much info that nobody will have a clue what I'm on about
    relating to the area in the photo....or will be bothered about knowing...





    I hope some of that helps Colin...





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    Wow ! thats some in depth detail from Gerard,

    isnt the block on the right in the St Oswald street shot Hurst Gardens ?

    collegepudding

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    Quote Originally Posted by collegepudding View Post
    Wow ! thats some in depth detail from Gerard,

    isnt the block on the right in the St Oswald street shot Hurst Gardens ?

    collegepudding




    Edited.. and deleted..


    Too much personal family info again relating to the Cartwright House photo.






    I wouldn't know about Old Swan cp... sorry mate.



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    Good God Gerard , I know I have said it before but you are a walking encyclopaedia of Liverpool and its Characters and especially the little italy area...you're a very valuable contributor to this forum mate! thanks for the in depth post

    collegepudding

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    And the 'Best of All'! Speke Road Gardens!!!!!!!
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    Not my pic, saw this on 'YO' some time ago! so Thanks to the photographer responsible.

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    Quote Originally Posted by collegepudding View Post
    Good God Gerard , I know I have said it before but you are a walking encyclopaedia of Liverpool and its Characters and especially the little italy area...you're a very valuable contributor to this forum mate! thanks for the in depth post

    collegepudding





    Edited... and deleted..
    Too much personal info....



    My mate Franny Carlyle is spot on though... down to earth, a good lad.


    Thanks cp..


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    Da mn I missed some
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    Interesting points Gerard, and you,re spot on about Frank Carlyle {only his bessie mates can call him Franny cant they mate }. Only last week i was in Radio Merseyside shop buying his latest DVD , he puts all the High Brow Chappies into the shade with his talent for engaging an audience and putting over his subject in an easy to understand way, and most impotant of all, its always fun too .

    Collegepudding

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    Quote Originally Posted by collegepudding View Post
    Interesting points Gerard, and you,re spot on about Frank Carlisle {only his bessie mates can call him Franny cant they mate }. Only last week i was in Radio Merseyside shop buying his latest DVD , he puts all the High Brow Chappies into the shade with his talent for engaging an audience and putting over his subject in an easy to understand way, and most impotant of all, its always fun too .

    Collegepudding


    You call him Franny next time cp... tell him I said so..


    speak soon mate...


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    Quote Originally Posted by collegepudding View Post
    Good God Gerard , I know I have said it before but you are a walking encyclopaedia of Liverpool and its Characters and especially the little italy area...you're a very valuable contributor to this forum mate! thanks for the in depth post

    collegepudding


    Sorry cp mate for deleting what I'd earlier put..
    I think some of that was a little too personal...
    nobody would have a clue or relate to any of my personal/family
    experiences involving the Cartwright House photo..


    Sorry mate..



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    Quote Originally Posted by collegepudding View Post
    isnt the block on the right in the St Oswald street shot Hurst Gardens ?

    collegepudding
    Yes CP, it was Hurst Gardens

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    Quote Originally Posted by hmtmaj View Post
    Yes CP, it was Hurst Gardens

    Mart

    Thanks for confirming that Mart .


    collegepudding

    ---------- Post added at 08:55 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:42 AM ----------

    Quote Originally Posted by Gerard Fleming View Post
    Sorry cp mate for deleting what I'd earlier put..
    I think some of that was a little too personal...
    nobody would have a clue or relate to any of my personal/family
    experiences involving the Cartwright House photo..


    Sorry mate..



    Gerard.

    Thats perfectly understandable Gerard, I agree with your decision to Edit & Delete.The World Wide web may sometimes be ok for private thoughts but some Private family details etc are usually best not submitted.
    Thanks all the same for your original comments and i understood & appreciated your reasons for posting them. .


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    The first photo is a beauty as far as i'm concerned as we lived in the top block before moving into the Gardens. Although it might look like one long block, the four were each staggered as they came down the hill.

    The curved end of the elevated walkway can be seen on the left, we used to ride our bikes down these to a back wheel turn skid at the bottom. It would always bode well to make sure some woman wasn't about to make her way up with a pram before starting.

    The shop done very well out of the residents, my mam being one who frequented it often.
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