Just checked my 1950s dictionary and your granny was right .Quote:
Originally Posted by PhilipG
And of course "nice" once meant "hard to please" !!
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Just checked my 1950s dictionary and your granny was right .Quote:
Originally Posted by PhilipG
And of course "nice" once meant "hard to please" !!
Thanks, Taffy.Quote:
Originally Posted by taffy
As she died in 1962, and even then I knew "Sophisticated" by its current interpretation, I'd say your dictionary is wonderfully old-fashioned.
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Originally Posted by Sirob
Good pictures Sirob!
I will have to dig mine out one day. I managed to visit all the garden festival sites, Liverpool was the best by far.
Here are some early eighties pics of the Everton area. Although the quality could be better, they certainly deserve to be seen;
Everton Brow
Netherfield Road flats, smoke is the demolition of the John Bagot Hospital
Back of St. Georges Heights
Top of Village Street
From Gt. Homer Street
Cracking pics Sirob. I've got a whole array of these heights on my website. The lock up is looking a bit better than that these days and nice to see the old church on Everton Road from this angle. :handclap:
Not seen this thread before, just spen the lst hour o so looking at all 21 pages.
Many thanks.
Brill isn't it Jon, the best site there is for old pics.
Some More Everton;
The Radcliffe Estate, off Everton Road
Shaw Street
Terrace street off Breck Road
Back yards
Typical outside lavvy
Hey, just wondering if anyone has pictures of Tenterdon (poss. Tenterden) Street (I think) off Scottie Road.
My mother was born there and i'd quite like to see what it looked like.
Brilliant once again Sirob:PDT11
Yet more Everton;
Breckfield Road North/Robson Street, site of Liver pub on left
Detail of lamp, two bulbs, the small one was on all night
Gardens, Netherfield Road South
Aubrey Street water tower
Heyworth Street, looking South
Toffee Lady at Everton F.C.
Coalman in Shaw Street
Rag and bone man off Heyworth Street
Bee Hive at Everton Brow
St. Georges Heights, Netherfield Road
All early 1980's
Some crackin' real life ones there sirob. :handclap:
Hi Sir Rob, like the third one showing the site of the forty steps in Netherfield Rd and the fifth one showing Heyworth St. Brings back fond memories, cheers
The Toffee lady brought back some great times at "The Park end".
Great pics once again Sirob:handclap::handclap:
Great feedback, now for something different;
Interior shots of the Liverpool Institute High School, after closure and before rebuilding into LIPA.
Some Birkenhead ''blue'' buses at Woodside terminal, Woodside station is in the background of pic no 4. Looked a lot different there on sunday after the tunnel walk. Only bits of the station wall left standing now. All pics by Arnold Richardson, (photobus).
Sirob & Merseywail - You've both deffo got the knack of "how to photograph".
Great pics once again:handclap:
Understatement of the year Ged.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ged
Saw some old pics of Moorfields a few months back somewhere. Was still a young lad late seventies when Exchange shut (moved south just after) and i couldn't remember any of the building on the right of Moorfields looking towards the station, so was nice to see things i would have seen every week.
Great photos.
Somebody on "Old Liverpool" has identified this one as Wentworth Street from Heyworth Street.
The shop is Costigan at 30 Heyworth Street.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2116/...65b82500_o.jpg
good solid front door at the bacon shop, seems they were doing the same thing years ago
Good pictures Sirob!Quote:
Originally Posted by Sirob
:handclap: as always, fantastic pics.
Great memories of Woodside, Merseywail:handclap:
Some 1983 views of derelict Albert Dock, the last pic shows the Holiday Inn.
Why were the modern buildings in Canning Place demolished? They were quite nice, well made buildings.
http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/att...7&d=1213736419
A few more local rail:
Fazakerly sidings west 1957, :J Peden
Overhead train near James st, :I R Davidson
Liverpool exchange, :Brian Taylor
Alexandra dock, :J Gahan
Chambers street off Mere Lane at the turn of the Century.
Two demolished Walton cinemas, as in 1995;
The Bedford, former front stalls exit, Liston Street
Newly repainted facade to Bedford Road
Plasterwork at top of screen
The Astoria, Walton road, as a Bingo club
Name and window details
Great pics again Sirob, I bet PhilipG will appreciate those. Never knew the Astoria was a drumming venue though ;)
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Originally Posted by Waterways
ayjaykay the little icons are great ar'nt they.and say so much.what larks.
I worked in Foster House for all of a week. As kids hanging around down by the muddied Albert Dock in the 1970s, we sometimes go over to the back of Steers House and climb the big black fire escape to the top. The Dolphin pub was there too. I can sort of see what WW means though in that the proposed black blocks of steel and glass and some of what's being built are not that far removed in design from what these were.
Wonderful. :PDT_Aliboronz_11:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sirob
Especially the interior of the Bedford.
Thanks, Ged! rectified!:unibrow:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ged
:PDT11:PDT_Piratz_26::)
Some more 1995 views of former cinemas. The facades may have been photographed, but what about the detailing?????
The Granada, Dovecot
Close up of detail
Surreal pic of the Grosvenor, Stanley Road, Kirkdale
the Futurist, Lime Street, like a ghost town scene?
Close up of detail
Duplicated post.
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Originally Posted by Sirob
Great, as usual.
The last one is the Trocadero/Gaumont in Camden Street.
PhilipG.
Philip in case you do not already know, the Liverpool Echo during the 40's and 50's listed on the front page, all Liverpool cinemas and what was showing at the time.
They will be archived in Central Library.
Ah, the Dolphin pub. My girlfriend and I used to go there on a sunday night for the folk club - at one stage she was singing in a group there. Then at the crack of dawn on Monday morning I'd set off back to Northampton, where I was working at the time. We were together for 35 years - she died three years ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ged