i lived in priory road off heyworth street i remember amos street it was up by were mary hardmans pub was i think it ran down into everton terrace ?Quote:
Originally Posted by George
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i lived in priory road off heyworth street i remember amos street it was up by were mary hardmans pub was i think it ran down into everton terrace ?Quote:
Originally Posted by George
Amos Street was a couple of streets down from Priory rd.
You had Priory, Samuel, Minerva and then Amos, though its top end was not on Heyworth Street it was off Minerva St, the bottom being on St Georges Hill.
Mary Hardmans (The Thistle, I think) was on the corner of Waterhouse St.
I remember, when the flats were being built on Everton Terrace, seeing workmen with sparklers.
In the evening me and my mates used to play on the site and we found a few of these sparklers where the men had been working and took them home and hid them. At the weekend when my Mam and Dad went out my mates came round and we tried lighting these sparklers on the gas ring. They got so hot we couldn't hold them and they still would not light. Some years later I realised they were welding rods.:o
The way the streets were built around here was amazing, being on different levels.
Off Everton Terrace between Waterhouse St. and Sampson St. there was a place we knew as "The Grove", (on researching Kellys Gores I think it may be called Blundell Terrace) It was on a higher level than the rest of the houses on Everton Terrace, and had a flight of steps going to it. There was a row of maybe 10 houses on one side, railings overlooking Everton Terrace, and a high wall round the other two sides. Opposite the houses there was what could have been a bit of garden area, and a great big sandstone "cliff" in the corner which we used to climb on.
It was the likes of all this that gave the area its character.
How I wish I could go back.
Ha,Ha,:unibrow:Quote:
Originally Posted by Stanier