I have put up a number of photos on photobucket. I'm afraid my memory is not what it was, so I'm a bit hazy about some of the locations, so if anyone can help I'd be grateful:
http://s24.photobucket.com/albums/c4...sis/liverpool/
John
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I have put up a number of photos on photobucket. I'm afraid my memory is not what it was, so I'm a bit hazy about some of the locations, so if anyone can help I'd be grateful:
http://s24.photobucket.com/albums/c4...sis/liverpool/
John
Fantastic pics John. The only one I can name out of the un-named ones is the Harland and Wolfe works of which there is one on Strand Road and another on Regent Road. I have seen your Albert Dock ones on another site and took a couple of now shots on another thread here.
Great pics and grateful to individuals who have scanned their own photos to make up a historic record. The old warehouse looked things of beauty - and the city was packed with them. Yet at the time we did not look at them that way, even the old Georgian houses. We looked at them as scruffy old buildings that should be demolished and icons of a dim dark past. We wanted new modern buildings. We saw pictures of New York, Hong Kong, etc and wanted that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ged
Only when I got involved in renovating the old buildings that in the early 70s were listed, did I really start to appreciate what Liverpool had and it was disappearing fast around us.
Yes, just look at Seymour st in the 1980s and then now to see what we must strive to keep.
What fantastic pictures!Quote:
Originally Posted by danensis
The Windsor Street one especially!!
I grew up around there.
I can't quite place where that is though....
At first I thought that one might be Myrtle Street, and I'm still not sure!Quote:
Originally Posted by DaisyChains
John
Its not Windsor Street it might be Myrtle Street but you are certainly looking at Grovelands on Grove Street with Entwistle Heights and Milner House in the far background. Groveland are the small flats in the picture.
Then again it doesnt look like Myrtle Street as you cant see Myrtle Gardens so it could a street that was demolished somewhere around Vine Street
Yes, I thought that looked like Entwhistle Heights, but you wouldn't see that along Myrtle Street, which is what made me think it might be Windsor Street.Quote:
Originally Posted by The coolbury boy
John
I didn't think Entwistle could be seen from Myrtle, is it not Mulgrave st?
Just in case anyone is wondering, this is the picture we are discussing:
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c4...itled-3015.jpg
Looking at it again I don't think that tower block is Entwhistle Heights, wasn't that more of a slab block.
Being forensic about it, the shadows of the woman and child are quite short, which suggests its near noon, in which case south is to our right, and the street is running from south west to north east.
"hey la, what's this street called?"
John
Is it not Grove Street? Not sure myself but I thought I recognised the Sheltered Scheme that stands on that road. But then again.....
Great pics Danesis. Thanks
and the one going across is chatham st and sandon street.
Have a look at the link and it shows two sides to Entwistle Heights. The side on show on this topic is facing towards Grove Street
http://inacityliving.piczo.com/?g=33776503&cr=7
Yes, its me, I'm thinking of Toxteth Heights rather than Entwhistle Heights.
So, back to my original thought that its Myrtle Street, looking East towards Grove Street.
John
if its the picture above it is falkner street looking towards grove street.
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These Boundary Street ones look like Great Mersey Street to me, where the Rotunda is now? I can't remember if Boundary street doors were at ground level or up steps like these though.
http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/4...undary1ng2.jpg
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/5...undary2gj9.jpg
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My pic of Great Mersey street. Look at the building at the extreme left and compare the row.
http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/6...5974557yf3.jpg
http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/6...2fdf37c104.jpg
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I'd say 'ourblock' and 'ged' are right with their guesses...
Falkner Street, looking towards Chatham Street/Sandon Street (with Grove Street in the distance)
Great Mersey Street. This is the part that has the Rotunda College/Nursery, near to Stanley Road end. Just look at the window sill line on the building on the left. It is higher than the other buildings. They're the same in Geds picture also. I've got a picture of this row from a couple of months ago, and it looks the same to me.
Of course it is, and that's the nursery on the right. I said my memory isn't what it was!Quote:
Originally Posted by ourblock
John
Yep, happy to go with the consensus on that one as well. I took these photographs when the row was threatened with demolition in the 1970s!Quote:
Originally Posted by marky
John
Yes definitely Great Mersey,I Thought at first one could be Boundary but after
comparing the windows and curtains they are both the same.
The end house was St Alphonsus mens club and next door was the priest`s house
There was also a dentist there called Purcell. Danesis does have a pic on his photbucket labelled as Boundary street but with no steps up to it, is that Boundary street then?
Ged as you can see I`ve amended my last post, the waste ground threw me.
When I lived in Kirkdale, Great Mersey had mansions both sides of the street
the majority used as flatlets.
Boundry St mostly doctors and a few dentists,but was only one sided.
Yep agree with that. Boundary street is the row with no steps up to the houses. The priests house you mention which is where we met at the Rotunda last year was Fr. Lawns wasn't it. What a quirky house that is with all those different levels/mezzanine floors/staircases.
A photo of Gt Mersey Street 1976 borrowed from My Liverpool-the photographs of Frank Lenhan
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94...gtmerseyst.jpg
i used to go to the docs on boundry st (dr kinsella) allways had a fag hanging out of his gob,i'm sure it had steps ,in fact i'd bet on it.Quote:
Originally Posted by gregs dad
Yes, there would have been half a dozen or so but nothing like Gt Mersey St. Take a look at Boundary street's doctors and dentists row on this page
http://inacityliving.piczo.com/?g=44843738&cr=7 near the bottom for some memories.
let me think,boundry st,i think chemist ,dentist dr ryan & kinsella then acouple of houses and then some sort of temple place,not sure what it was but that oller has been there from when i was a kid,40+yrs ago
Makes me quite sad !, these houses must have been really beautiful at one time !
Yeah, I was brought up around this area. A bit of a no-mans-land as far as pictures go.
The view was indeed looking east up Falkner Street up past Grove Street and towards the Falkner Estate (now the site of the Womens Ozzy) up on towards Windsor Gardens, the factory that made biscuit dough, and Crown Street Coal yard. At the top of Falkner Street was a Marble Works (can't quite remember the name) but it was there for years - might have been called Wilsons). It was at the bottom of Overbury Street.
There was an Adventure Playground, which was basically a pile of rubble enclosed by a concrete wall and this had pictures of Super Heroes painted on the walls. This is now the site of the Abercromby Health centre.
Further up on the left was Myrtle House, Crown Street (with the old water fountain prominent on the road island) and St Saviours School.
Oh, the memories. Thanks for posting, its great la!
Hey goldenface
You say you were brought up in this area-what period would that be-60's , seventies??? Have you any old pics i can view-i am trying to get pics of egerton street area for my friend who used to live on there in the 60's.
brilliant pics danesis-could look at them all day-did not realise so much had been demolished too.
Hi DaisyChains,
I have followed the link for photobucket that danensis kindly put on the site. However, I cant see any of Windsor St. is it me or am I looking in the wrong place?
There are some good pics of the Liverpool 8 area on facebook just type in Dingle Liverpool 8, there are some I have put of Windsor Street and the surrounding area, as I too used to live in the area too (Hodges Mount). Where about are you from?
Christine
Lived in L8 when I was a kid (60s), moved out in 70s and didn't really go back. Four years ago I got a job in a school in L8. It was like coming home. I love L8 and the community. There is so much history in this area.
Hi Shirley,Quote:
Originally Posted by shirleya
yeah I lived on the Falkner Estate from 1974 up until 1988 after which it was demolished.
Not many pics about I'm afraid although I have seen some good ones of Egerton Street. I'll try and see if I can find them again for you.
Sorry, the confusion over Windsor Street was my fault - I thought the view up Falkner Street might have been a view down Windsor Street towards Entwhistle Heights.
I take it you've seen my pictures of Egerton street on the jubilee thread?
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c4...egertonst1.jpg
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c4...egertonst2.jpg
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c4...egertonst3.jpg
John
Fantastic pics, thanks for posting. They took me right back with a jolt. That inflatable bouncy snake thing looks really familiar. :)
I remember when I first started helping out at the Blackie they were still trying to produce inflatables using plastic welders and all sorts of ingeneous ideas. Its amazing how things like adhesives have developed over the last thirty years or so.Quote:
Originally Posted by goldenface
John
The amount of times I've bounced off one of those inflatable and nearly killed my self doesn't even bear thinking about ha ha ha. Any idea what year those pictures were taken John?