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    Quote Originally Posted by marky View Post
    Re: Cuffs, Wavertree: I only took that pic this week. It was painted cream before that (and natural stone before that).

    Re: Aigburth Vale: Nowadays there is a small half-building inbetween the two buildings under consideration as the Police Station. This small building appears to fill a gap shown on the 1908 map. The map writes Police Station across the two properties. Garstonians may be interested in this one, as it is right on the Toxteth Park/Garston Township boundary.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris48 View Post
    It was closed very recently. I was working there in 2002 and it was still going late 2005.
    That would be the Hope Street building?
    The former School for the Blind had been the Merseyside Trade Centre and Unemployed Centre (or some such similar name) since the 1980s.


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    Quote Originally Posted by PhilipG View Post
    That would be the Hope Street building?
    The former School for the Blind had been the Merseyside Trade Centre and Unemployed Centre (or some such similar name) since the 1980s.
    Yes the Hope st building. The rest closed in late 1981 when they moved to Canning place.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PhilipG View Post
    That would be the Hope Street building?
    The former School for the Blind had been the Merseyside Trade Centre and Unemployed Centre (or some such similar name) since the 1980s.
    Does anyone know what is happening to this building?
    I walk past it everyday and it makes me so sad to see it in such disrepair.

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    just been scouring on of my old street maps from the late 1960's and it says Pol Sta at Duke St/Nelson St/Berry St.

    must admit I walked past there today and don't recall seeing anything , can anyone shed any light please?
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    There was a police station in Duke St. the front door was up a few steps, I remember seeing a cop propelling someone up them with his feet hardly touching. Where have the real cops gone?
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    Quote Originally Posted by shytalk View Post
    There was a police station in Duke St. the front door was up a few steps, I remember seeing a cop propelling someone up them with his feet hardly touching. Where have the real cops gone?
    ah thank you. will have to take another look next time I'm that way. perhaps the building has gone
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    Quincy, It was on the south side of Duke St, top half. Can't remember exactly where Chris48 might know or Phillip.
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    Quote Originally Posted by shytalk View Post
    Quincy, It was on the south side of Duke St, top half. Can't remember exactly where Chris48 might know or Phillip.
    You're not thinking of the Bridewell in Campbell Street, just off Duke Street?
    I'm sure you know that that closed comparitively early.
    I'm not an expert on police stations, but do have a good collection of old maps, and I can't see one in Duke Street, but I've no maps of that area from the 1950s or 1960s.
    There was a fire station right next to the last surviving back-to-back houses in Duke Street, and the Duke Street/Berry Street area was a cooperage for yonks.

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    I remember it from the 70's Phillip.
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    the map is around 1967/68

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    Re Cuffs: I've just checked a pic from Jan 2007, and some of the brickwork was painted red. So in one year it's been painted twice. I guess the cream colour wasn't popular.

    http://www.narpo-merseyside.org.uk/framephotos.htm
    I had a little look at the NARPO website and found under Miscellaneous Photographs, a small pic of the one in Aigburth Vale. It is the building to the right of the small building that is there today. Here's an excerpt:
    Aigburth Vale Police Station. Described in the 1905 Chief Constables Annual report as:
    'A make-shift station for part of Garston sub-district.

    Duke Street: This Police Station also gets a mention on the NARPO website.

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    Quote Originally Posted by marky View Post

    Duke Street: This Police Station also gets a mention on the NARPO website.
    cheers Marky. I remember these ruins

    had no idea what they were.
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    Those two doors are still there today. The NARPO website describes them: This is all that is left of the old Seel Street Transport Section garage.

    The website also mentions another Duke Street building which was between Cornwallis Street/Kent Street. There is a Sapporo restaurant there today (or it's where the flats are today, just before). I'll check as thinking about it, the restaurant is around where the old corporation yard, used for storing old street-lamps, used to be.
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