Liverpool Tower Blocks

I enjoyed looking at your pics Ged:PDT_Piratz_26:
do you have any more of Seacome Tower , my grandma moved in there on the day I was born:)
Mandy

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I've taken ones of those Knowsley Heights too Tony, still gotta upload them yet, not as good as yours though - hint - hint....

Still gotta do the two sets of three in Dave's old haunt - Canny Farm.

My Huyton ones are from a short distance - there were some kids knocking about with batons of wood - better safe than sorry.

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If you want to use them Ged feel free. :PDT11

Thanks Tony.

Mandy, I think they're the only ones I've got of Seacombe Tower but i'll have another look tonight.

Thanks Ged:PDT11

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I've taken ones of those Knowsley Heights too Tony, still gotta upload them yet, not as good as yours though - hint - hint....

Still gotta do the two sets of three in Dave's old haunt - Canny Farm.

My Huyton ones are from a short distance - there were some kids knocking about with batons of wood - better safe than sorry.

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Ged, the Canny ones you see from the M57 are close to my old local, The Tithebarn. Jeez! There was some barnies in there mate!

BTW, as a kid, we used to play on top of the lifts in the flats on the precinct. We pressed the lift to go down a floor and open up the door just as it was descending. We'd jump on top of the lift and switch it to manual. Had no idea what a stupid dangerous game we were playing until a lad got killed:PDT_Xtremez_12:

Whooosh that was dangerous and as you say, a lad paid with his life.

I have relatives in Boode Croft (originally from Conway st and then St. George's Heights) and have had a few scoops in the Tithebarn with them and another, it is the thatcher or something?

The six blocks are, as you'll know, Mosscraig, Firscraig, Whincraig and Tarncliffe, Merecliff, Denecliff.

Ged, we lived in Barons Hey, so geographically, the Black Angus was my local. Used to have a few bevvies in the Thatcher as well. I think it got burnt down a few years back. Thanks for naming the flats, I'd forgotten all of them.

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Ged, the Canny ones you see from the M57 are close to my old local, The Tithebarn. Jeez! There was some barnies in there mate!

BTW, as a kid, we used to play on top of the lifts in the flats on the precinct. We pressed the lift to go down a floor and open up the door just as it was descending. We'd jump on top of the lift and switch it to manual. Had no idea what a stupid dangerous game we were playing until a lad got killed:PDT_Xtremez_12:

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The Lad died in the Netherley flats, he went to our school. nice lad very sad.

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BTW, as a kid, we used to play on top of the lifts in the flats on the precinct. We pressed the lift to go down a floor and open up the door just as it was descending. We'd jump on top of the lift and switch it to manual. Had no idea what a stupid dangerous game we were playing until a lad got killed:PDT_Xtremez_12:

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The things u do as kids eh? We used to play on the rails of The Northern Line by Garston Station and would often cross the line. We would also place coins on the rails and retreat to the top of the embankment watching the trains flatten the coins. Walking a distance along side the tracks was always exciting when u knew the train times....

Of course that all stopped when a mate was killed when he touched the third rail.

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The things u do as kids eh? We used to play on the rails of The Northern Line by Garston Station and would often cross the line. We would also place coins on the rails and retreat to the top of the embankment watching the trains flatten the coins. Walking a distance along side the tracks was always exciting when u knew the train times....

Of course that all stopped when a mate was killed when he touched the third rail.

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Kev, when we lived in Halewood for a couple of years, we used to do the same thing with coins on the railway line that separated our estate from Ford's factory:PDT_Xtremez_42:

Hi you guys, who,s following who round Liverpool. I used to live in Desmond Street, the corner of Breck Rd and Heyworth St. then I moved to St Georges Heights for seven years, great time there. Then to Cannibal Farm where I lived in Denecliffe for awhile. I enjoyed my time there too, drank in the Black Angus once I think, but if you didn,t have a broken nose you weren,t welcome so I never went again. I used to love my high rise flats. 19 floor in St georges. We could see the cars at night travelling along the roads in Wales, and the lightship at the bar. My neighbour used our balcony to get into his house when he forgot his key once. God I was scared as he put his leg over the balcony.:shock:

Chippie mate, 19th floor in St George's! I envy you. I can just imagine the views!
They were a tightly knit bunch in the Black Angus.

By the way, on match days at Anfield, the back room of the Sandon is taken over by the Canny Farm lads.

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Bootle or Benidorm ?

Tricky Dickie or Sticky Vicky ?


The Bootle blocks all have these zany markings to break up the monotony of the bland concrete. Personally, these ones remind me of the run down hi-rise in Los Cristianos, Tenerife - where the locals live.

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Ged, just searching for something on my HD and found one of my Bootle pics from August 2003.

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/bootle.jpg

That's a beast Dave. I know you've taken some from St. Mary's church tower, Walton on t'hill but is this one of them?

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That's a beast Dave. I know you've taken some from St. Mary's church tower, Walton on t'hill but is this one of them?

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Thanks Ged. Yep it's from St Mary's. Found this one too. It's the last remaining flats on Sheil Road. The upper right is Runcorn Bridge.

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/sheilflats.jpg

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/9...9817683ke7.jpg

Found another of the Piggeries on the English Herritage site. Not sure what year it is, and I don't recognise that long road. I can't see William Henry Street either. I assume the buildings on the right of the pic lead up to Shaw Street and were demolished.

Hello Terry Lad..the long Road is Haigh St,
The photo would have been taken near/opposite the entrance to SFX Church on Langsdale St.

Thanks Terry and yeah, Spot on Gerard. Put 6 of your fantastic Wavertree Gardens on my site kidda - great views, I even like the ones of the stairwell and bin chute - it's like it was yesterday i'd be slinging the ashes down there, wrapped up in last nights echo.

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Thanks Terry and yeah, Spot on Gerard. Put 6 of your fantastic Wavertree Gardens on my site kidda - great views, I even like the ones of the stairwell and bin chute - it's like it was yesterday i'd be slinging the ashes down there, wrapped up in last nights echo.

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Your more than welcome matey..The Ashes down the bin in the Echo Eh..
Was the Lard out the Chip pan dripping everywhere !!

Ha ha, now you ask - yeah it was.

Then came the 1977 re-furb and Old swan's Robinson Willey's finest hour - the good old gas fire.

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Ha ha, now you ask - yeah it was.

Then came the 1977 re-furb and Old swan's Robinson Willey's finest hour - the good old gas fire.

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Singed me Eyebrows a few Times stickin' a lit Echo in the Gas Fire.. :eek:

Alright lads.

Yeah I can picture it now. WHS is further up on the left. Not certain what year, though, think it could be mid 80's.

Another thing I remember Scouserdave at St Georges was standing on the balcony watching the orange lodge dismissing from the June walk one sunday, when from above me someone threw a chest of drawers over their balcony, I shouted timber and they all scattered.:shock:

Then there was my workmate on the top floor looking south and west who had a birthday party once and a relative of his walked the length of the rail on the balcony while drunk.:shock:

Must've been the only Catholic East of Greaty that man Chippie. Terry, what is the website address you got that English Heritge phto off please - I suspect it is earlier than the 1980s?

And here,s me thinking that someone was just providing the chest of drawers for the lads to put their uniforms in:)

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Thanks Ged. Yep it's from St Mary's. Found this one too. It's the last remaining flats on Sheil Road. The upper right is Runcorn Bridge.

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/sheilflats.jpg

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To the left the white tower in the distance is the Daresbury Lab just up from Runcorn Bridge (where Creamfields is held)

The hill behind the Runcorn Bridge is Runcorn Castle

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Thanks Terry and yeah, Spot on Gerard. Put 6 of your fantastic Wavertree Gardens on my site kidda - great views, I even like the ones of the stairwell and bin chute - it's like it was yesterday i'd be slinging the ashes down there, wrapped up in last nights echo.

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I remember in the mid 70's when the bin men were on strike, the bin chutes became increaingly full. We lived on the second landing and had to go up to the third, fourth landing to dispose of our rubbish until the whole chute was full :shock:
I heard a story of one lad who, when the bin had been emptied, used to get in the chute at the top landing and slide all the way down to the bottom, who needs health & safety :ninja:

http://viewfinder.english-heritage.o...imageUID=15995

Here you go Ged.

Says it was taken in 1998, which can't be right.

Thanks Terry.

The first picture was taken from Everton Park (June 2004...the tower blocks were being refurbished)
The second picture shows Mill View, taken from Yates Street (March 2004...new houses were being built in Yates Street.)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/250/4...bee76fd3fb.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/172/4...3605673b38.jpg

Thanks Marky, nice, clear pics those. Have you seen the tower blocks on my website. Could I possibly add these please. I've recently linked a few webbies showing explosive demolitions.

I'll post the larger files to your High-Rise site address in a minute, so you can re-size them.

Thanks for that Marky, ive put them on already.

:shock: Anyone remember the three tower blocks together on Netherfield Road? Ellison Towers, Secombe Towers, but I cant remember what the third one was
called. I lived in Ellison Towers when i first go married in 1986, we lived on the 14th floor and the views across the Mersey was great. Not so good in a thunder storm though, i remember one bad one and the noise was horrible and the lightning was fork and it bounced from one block to the other. Very scary:shock: :shock: :eek:

Jackie, the other one was Edinburgh Tower. Here they are, if you click on my website at the bottom here, you'll see lots more.

Fantastic pics chaps! Really enjoy this thread:handclap:

How come some of your pics have disappeared Dave, have you taken them off?

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How come some of your pics have disappeared Dave, have you taken them off?

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Thanks Ged:PDT11
Friggin' site's gone down!:PDT_Xtremez_12: I'm off to sort it out mate.

Should be back online now Ged. I owe you a bevvy mate:PDT_Aliboronz_24:
Sorry about that.

Alright Dave.

I think the Daily Post and Echo must sneak a look at this site.

This is from the Post this morning.