Ha ha, i've been called worse. :thumbsup:
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Ha ha, i've been called worse. :thumbsup:
:PDT_Aliboronz_24:not by me Gedrick, but I,m working on it....lol:PDT_Aliboronz_24:
http://www.urbanpictorial.co.uk/imag...atermarked.jpg
I picked this up on ebay, it's a pencil drawing / watercolour, dated 1937. The man in the picture framing shop asked if it was Paris, and with sadness I had to say no, it is what Liverpool used to look like.
A fine view, well worth purchasing, Liverpolitan, so congratulations on snapping it up. Might I ask what the inscription at lower right says? It's a bit too small for me to read.
Chris
It looks like "The Quadrant Lime St."
This must have been a very popular place for artists and photographers, we have had some great old photo's of the same place on here.
Thanks Chris, I was worried the condition might not be so good (there is one small visible dark spot in the sky) but overall it's good.
Shytalk your eyesight is good - it says The Quadrant, Lime Street, 37. I cannot make out the signature though. I've googled on various things it might say (Thiery Lemaire? Lemaine?) and Liverpool and artists etc. but drawn a blank.
http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/3...mestsigrj6.jpg
1950s photos show those buildings covered in lights. I can't imagine that was done in the late 40s, with the austerity, so I wonder if that was a modern thing in the 1950s?
Another thing, Lewis's is only sketchy, I wonder if the new building was still be constructed at that time? It seems strange that other buildings are drawn in detail, but Lewis's only in outline.
Here is a close up of the main buildings
http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/8...eupwateps2.jpg
Liverpolitan, Lewis's was rebuilt post war, because of the bomb damage.
It's not Lewis's, it's the Forum (later ABC) cinema.
Of course it is, how daft I am, shoulda known better.:PDT_Piratz_26:Quote:
Originally Posted by PhilipG
LOL. it was my fault for leading you astray with Lewis's in the first place.Quote:
Originally Posted by shytalk
Oh Yes. That was daft of me. Thanks Philip.Quote:
Originally Posted by PhilipG
Another thing on that picture, some of the vehicles are empty open topped vans. I wonder if they parked there before collecting stuff to take away from the markets? On later (presumably 50s) photos of that scene, there are no lorries that I can remember seeing, but the only ones I have seen are taken at night, so maybe it was a practice that did continue. Presumably the horse and barrow would take things to the market also.
I came across these in the early 1980s. Only 8 or so have captions but i'll leave it to you all to treat them as one big guess the location and put names to the streets for me.
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