Unseen Liverpool

Booking Hall, Liverpool Central, July 1971
My car, Bedford Road, Walton, August 1971
English Electric, Netherton, works shunter, July 1976
Another view of Exchange Station, 9 April 1977
Boundary Street, Kirkdale, 1983

Those 3 pictures of Exchange Station a page back. In the one with the Class 08 shunter, is the building in the background the David Lewis Hospital?

I think that it is the David Lewis Hospital, I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong!

Down on the docks; a Mr. R. C. Riley, who normally photographed BR, strayed on 11 April 1959 and took these super pics!

Fireless No 43 at the oil dock
Avonside No 26 at Princes Dock
Avonside No 7 and Hunslet No 31 at Huskisson Dock (2)
In Canada Dock goods yard, 51537, the last L&Y 0-6-0T was extant

Some more;

Birkenhead Woodside, March 1967
Liverpool Exchange with 45312, 1966 (J. Corkill)
Edge Hill Shed with 45156 groomed for a railtour, 20 April 1968 (J. Corkhill)
-And four months later on the scrap line at Lostock Hall
Lime Street Station, 45110 starts the last BR steam train, 11 August 1968

Sirob
Can I come and live with you and drool over all these old photographic gems? The wife and 4 kids will have to stay here in Denmark.!
Please tell us you have thousands more to come because you are making a lot of people very happy with the effort you are putting in, 15000 views now!
please please keep up the great work
Tony

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Originally Posted by Waterways

In the 1960s no one thought of using a station as a basketball or concert arena. The best location was Central Station, with its own underground station beneath. Imagine that as a concert arena. The city has done some really stupid things.

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Agreed. Didn't they do similar in Manchester, converting their Central Station into an exhibtion hall.

A few shots of steam at Port Sunlight, at the vintage rail and public transport weekend. this was held from April 30 to May 2nd 1988

Tony, your kind words are much appreciated. What started as a month long mission to share and thus preserve a few pics has turned into an nightly ritual! Yes, there are a lot more to come, but there may be gaps between postings as I don't always have time to scan and restore what are often badly damaged negs or prints. You would become a hermit if you lived with us, drooling over my archives!!!

Class 2 Bedford Road Primary School, 1961
Arnot Street School, Walton, 1924
Coopers, Church Street, Trex promotion, 1932 (J & J Bibby)
Lybro factory, Mount Vernon, 1982
Bibbys, Dundee Street, 1932 (J & J Bibby)

Knotty Ash Station in 1961
And again in 1981 (both N. Daley)
Chatsworth Street Cutting, Moorish Arch foundations dig, 1978 (Merseyside County Museums)
Lime Street Station, 44933 on empty stock, 5 August 1967 (M. Yardley)

Huskisson Goods Yard, 47487 with LUPTS Special 13 June 1964 (I. G. Holt)
Princes Dock Bridge, with train for Riverside Station, 1950
Runcorn-Widnes rail bridge with Deltic, Transporter in background, no date
Liverpool Central Station in 1953
Mersey Docks & Harbour Board No 11, Demolition contractors loco on Overhead in the background, 1957 (D. Trevor Rowe)

Wonderful pics once again Sirob:handclap:

Great photos.

I was wondering if you have any of the interior of Lime St dating from the 60/70/80's ?

Lime Street Station, AL6 3171 at the buffers, June 1966
Gwladys Street, Walton, towards the "Tin School" 1957
" New Liverpool Housing" location unknown, 1956 brick promotion leaflet
Southport loco shed "Steamport" 1970's

:handclap:Brilliant pics once again.Ahh the memories of a three wheeler:PDT11

Hiya Keith. The new Liverpool housing pic is of Queen Anne Street and part of the 4 squares tenement development off Soho Street.

Great pics once again. :handclap:

Thanks, Ged, for identifying the picture.
And for the 5th Beatle, 4 of Lime Street Station, when the Queen came to open the second Mersey Tunnel on 24 July !971
Cenral Wagon at Ince, Wigan, used to break up railway carriages by setting them on fire!!!!! Here is 2 on a Sunday in 1970 (the firm did not like photographers on the premises)

great pics as usual . those Lime St ones are wonderful, very atmospheric. :handclap:

Elliot Street in 1970 (from a framed picture, shot through glass)
Haigh Heights, Everton, 1966
Swedish Church, Park Road, Toxteth, 1989
Flats at Olive Mount being built, 1963 (cutting from unknown magazine)
Westminster Bank, Walton, moving advert, 1966

more wonderful memories. those Olive Mount flats towered over one of my former schools and one of my class mates lived in those houses being built there

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Originally Posted by quincyg

more wonderful memories. those Olive Mount flats towered over one of my former schools and one of my class mates lived in those houses being built there

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Was that holt Comprehensive school, if so I went there as well, I started in there in 1975, we used to play riding up and down in the lifts at Olive Mount flats,

Carole

Some more rail shots
A busy Pier head overhead rly station. photo ''G E Baddeley''
Canning station overhead rly
Fazakerly sidings 1957 .photo ''J Peden''
Soutport central station (west lancs rly) 1977 photo ''J Sommerfield''
Crossens sta (west lancs rly) 1964

Pamela Anderton, of The Black And White Minstrels Show, playing at the Empire, demonstrates her mini-muff (knee warmers) in St. Johns Gardens, 1966 (Moss Empires)
Kingsway Tunnel rush hour, February 1963
Scotland Road/Mile End showing new tunnel construction.
As above showing Lawrence Gardens isolated. 1970
New dock at Seaforth, 1970
(last 4, clippings from unknown civil engineering magazines)

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Originally Posted by carole1000

Hi

Was that holt Comprehensive school, if so I went there as well, I started in there in 1975, we used to play riding up and down in the lifts at Olive Mount flats,

Carole

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yes it was. I was at the OM wing from 78-80 then moved up to the 'big building' on the drive. :PDT11

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Huskisson Goods Yard, 47487 with LUPTS Special 13 June 1964 (I. G. Holt)
Princes Dock Bridge, with train for Riverside Station, 1950
Runcorn-Widnes rail bridge with Deltic, Transporter in background, no date
Liverpool Central Station in 1953
Mersey Docks & Harbour Board No 11, Demolition contractors loco on Overhead in the background, 1957 (D. Trevor Rowe)

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:handclap:The pic ofthe train crossing Princes Dk Bridge, I stood exactly where the photogragher stood as a 14yr old in 1946 , as the trains full of U.S. troops going home came across going to the Landing Stage . They were issued with a box each on boarding those trains ,containing a days rations with all sorts of goodies & I would hang on the side & ask them for any leftovers , they soon got the message & I was overwhelmed by a cascade of half empty cartons . What Joy ! I was office-boy at the Waterloo Dock-masters Office . & used to sneak into the warehouse in the back-ground which contained stocks of peanuts for Bibby's ( Now luxury flats ! ) Ron Hamilton N.Z.

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yes it was. I was at the OM wing from 78-80 then moved up to the 'big building' on the drive. :PDT11

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I was at om wing from 75 then actually left the big building in 1980 so probably wouldnt have known each other. My friends brother was a few years younger than us, his name was Ian Wood, do you remember him?

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Originally Posted by carole1000

I was at om wing from 75 then actually left the big building in 1980 so probably wouldnt have known each other. My friends brother was a few years younger than us, his name was Ian Wood, do you remember him?

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name doesn't ring a bell off hand

Not sure if this is the right thread but it has been 'unseen' for ??? years.
A Victorian culvet that went under the end of the Leeds/L,pool at Leeds St.It was a coal depot now it's the YMCA.

Why not, Gnasher. If it's unseen then it belongs here. Good pics:handclap:

There was a Jubilee review on the river on 21 June 1977;
Fire tug
Merchant fleet
Royal Iris, HMS Dee
Upriver view
Douglas Station, IOM, with a Liverpool Atlantean in the background, July 1989

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Originally Posted by Sirob

Why not, Gnasher. If it's unseen then it belongs here. Good pics:handclap:

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That goes for you too Sirob:handclap:Nice one Gnasher:PDT_Piratz_26:

Here are three more.It was a 10 meter:034:,360 cubic meters of muck

Well captured Gnasher.

Good stuff, Gnasher, unseen since it was built!

Royal Iris, Jubilee Review, 21 June 1977
Royal Yacht, HMS Tartar, as above
Bold Power Station, preparations for Raihill 150, 1980
Lion on train, as above
Advert for New Brighton, June 1959, what does it mean!!!!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by GNASHER

Not sure if this is the right thread but it has been 'unseen' for ??? years.
A Victorian culvet that went under the end of the Leeds/L,pool at Leeds St.It was a coal depot now it's the YMCA.

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that's probably around where the canal used to finish.

it ran under the bridge on Chisenhale St (bellow) then finished at Leeds St (hence the name). my grandad used to work for the corpy at Pall Mall (water dept). sadly he got rid of all his old maps showing where the canal ended as well as all the streams and rivers that ran under the city and the burbs. he also was a superintendent out near Rivington
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2...icture1348.jpg

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Originally Posted by Sirob

Advert for New Brighton, June 1959, what does it mean!!!!!!!!!

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Good one Sirob. You may remember good old Fred Flintstone having a "gay old time" in the early 1960s stone age cartoons. In those days, people hadn't thought of Gay Street, New York in its later context, so it was quite alright for Fred and visitors to New Brighton to have a "gay" time. Would we were not so politically correct these days and were not afraid to use the term "gay" in its original true sense of meaning.

The Liverpool (North)map of 1906 shows this area and has alot of detail.
The old Ordnance Survey map is published by Alan Godfrey Maps.
www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk

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Originally Posted by taffy

Good one Sirob. You may remember good old Fred Flintstone having a "gay old time" in the early 1960s stone age cartoons. In those days, people hadn't thought of Gay Street, New York in its later context, so it was quite alright for Fred and visitors to New Brighton to have a "gay" time. Would we were not so politically correct these days and were not afraid to use the term "gay" in its original true sense of meaning.

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And we had our very own Gay street off Scotland Road of course.

A year after the National Garden Festival was held in 1984, some views in the Exhibition Hall;

Some more of the International Garden Festival site in 1985

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Originally Posted by taffy

Good one Sirob. You may remember good old Fred Flintstone having a "gay old time" in the early 1960s stone age cartoons. In those days, people hadn't thought of Gay Street, New York in its later context, so it was quite alright for Fred and visitors to New Brighton to have a "gay" time. Would we were not so politically correct these days and were not afraid to use the term "gay" in its original true sense of meaning.

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There's lots of alternatives to use if you're feeling happy and cheerful.
Language is changing all the time.
How about "Wicked".
That's a complete reversal.
My Gran (born 1880) once told me that "Sophisticated" meant "Sarcastic".
I'd love to find a Victorian dictionary so I could check.

Wonderful photos, as usual, Sirob.

Aye and of course to mug someone is now a complete reversal too.