Thanks Ged. Nice pics. :PDT11
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Thanks Ged. Nice pics. :PDT11
Hear hear. Very evocative for me as I used to knock around there a lot as a kid. The houses look to be in better nick now than they were back then.
I knew about Capt Smith living along there but Ismay was a new one on me. Fascinating.
I found this interesting website, full of Crosby memories-
http://crosbymemories.merseyblogs.co.uk/
those houses are lovely with the sun shining on them aren't they? I was that way meself today and took a similar one of the radar station and windmill. took it before it disappears.
boss photos young man :PDT_Piratz_26:
Good photos. Apparently Cunard ships used to either sound their horns or dip their flags (can't remember which) when they passed the boss' house.
great photies! there is a lovely little yellow cottage close by the entrance to the marina i think its in bath street. i love the pastel shades of those houses i could just eat them! how lucky those ppl are to live there.what a view... btw whereabout is the ismay house waterloo or blundellsands?
Great photos, Ged.
I was there last week, and was fascinated by a building behind the Ismay House.
Turns out it was the Ismay's Coach House.
There's a set of mine on flickr:
"A Walk from Waterloo to Great Crosby".
Warning: There's over 100 photos.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/4443567...7604601038430/
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2130/...9abea370_o.jpg
I'll look forward to taking that walk on your flickr site Philip knowing how good your photos are.
Shoequeen, the area is actually called Brighton le sands but i'd say its on the Crosby side of Mariners Road rather than the Blundellsands/burbo bank side.
All those areas look so close in my A-Z.
Good pics Ged, I hope you emptied the sand out of your shoes before you went home. I spend a lot of time with my sidekick in the area,we get the train
to Hall Rd then walk along the beach or promenade ,depending on the tide,to Waterloo. I call those houses Merseyside`s Balamory.
I like it along there GD - as grand as anything Cressington or Grassendale has to offer with a far better view imho.
There's a great row of houses along burbo bank road too, a pyramid shaped house of glass with a steep underground drive to a basement garage. Sometimes go down to the coastguards to sit off in the summer.
I noticed one of the houses near Ismay's up for sale - or so I thought. Took a peep on the estate agents website but it's only a flat.
New Instruction
Beach Lawn, Flat F
Waterloo
2 Bedroom Flat/Apartment
£154,950
Full details
Local map
Edwards & Brazier are delighted to offer 'For Sale' this second floor apartment situated at the rear of a prestigious Grade II Listed Regency Style Victorian Terrace within the Waterloo Conservation Area. The front approach to the property has panoramic views over Marine Gardens, Liverpool Estuary and The Welsh Hills. The accommodation briefly comprises of communal vestibule, communal hallway, private entrance door, hallway, lounge, fully fitted kitchen, two bedrooms, luxury bathroom, outside to the rear, communal rear garden, designated parking. To the front communal garden and entrance.
(reference: ELB1001070)
Pics here:
http://housescape.org.uk/cgi-bin/sea...fof=ikeyword&5
2nd from bottom.....
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well crosby is actually in liverpool (though it comes under sefton council) southport & st.helens are in merseyside but not liverpool. my youngest son goes to school in southport and my mums family are from st.helens so i know both places quite well. but as neither is in liverpool they shouldn't be on this list specifically. they are both distinct areas and don't need to be included on a discussion site for liverpool and & i'm sure the people from there would agree!Quote:
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i live in crosby now (its only L23 after all. even formby is in liverpool. i think its L36?) its funny though before i moved here the only thing i knew about crosby was the swimming baths & it was quiet! i had friends from crosby who i used to tease about being from the sticks (joking!) but now i'm here i really really love it. i can walk to the beach in 20 mins & when i go to sainsburys its in the 'village' (which i love to say as it sounds so quaint). now one of my very close friends who was born in crosby lives in waterloo (she owns/runs a hotel there) so now i can still tease her that i now live in the 'posher' part!
but then every area has its charm. i lived in kirkdale for 7 yrs and i loved it. i lived in a victorian terrace house that was well over a 100 yrs old and it has stayed my favourite home. (barring my future lotto win & a large 7 bed in blundellsands of course!) back then i could be in town in 20 mins... a taxi there costs me a lot more now more now i can tell you! i am still very close friends with my old neighbour from kirkdale. she moved to waterloo before i moved to crosby i had just spent 7 yrs in yorkshire so it was quite a coincidence. she lives in a high rise by the marina & has a fabulous view!!
oh i know where brighton le sands is. its what i call the 'inbetween bit' between crosby baths and the marina entrance. i usually see those houses from the promenade as i walk up from the marina to crosby baths way. i'll have to take a different route next time i'm down there & walk by them.
i really like it by burbo too its a lot quieter than the beach at the marina. plus you have the grass too for flying kites on. but i have noticed that though there are lots of benches about on burbo bank there are hardly any at the marina end of the prom. i think there is only one right by the radar tower. though they have put two nice wooden stages with benches on across the larger of the two lakes at the marina. (or may be they have been there for a while for all i know as i have been living away from the city for a few years. so i'm just playing catch up...don't even get me started on the city centre i feel like a tourist when i go there & get lost. everything has changed!)
There's a couple of pages on Crosby and Waterloo in the latest edition of the free magazine "liverpool.com".
For those not living in the city, you can view the magazine on-line at:
www.liverpool.com
Julie
theres a lovely little park in waterloo thats easy to miss. its just as you turn left to go down to the car park (by the radar tower end) at the marina, down cambridge road off crosby road south. i read the plaque there for it the other week and it made for interesting reading. the old buildings are the gatehouse (i think) of what would have been a house that a merchant who lived in everton (village...C19th) had started to build but he died before its completion. he had wanted to build a house there as when he looked across from everton brow - down by the sea in seaforth looked look such a pretty spot (imagine that! i assume that was back when it was still farm land.)
http://www.liverpool2007.org.uk/pott...ottersbarn.htm
Thanks very much for these Philip. I had a fine old time following your route and remembering many of these places as they were when I grew up round there.Quote:
Originally Posted by PhilipG
The Carnegie Library- where I fell in love with reading and was a regular throughout my childhood. I remember the smell of the place- not unpleasant but uniquely its own- very clearly.
Alexandria Park too- but we were always getting ear ache from the parkie there and preferred nearby Coronation Park and its boating lake.
Interesting to see that Central Buildings is for the chop. Myerscough's model shop was there, where I used to buy my Airfix kits and Britain's models. Is Crown Buildings also going or will it stay as it is? I hope so. Very handsome. I notice that the old George is shown as a Yates'. Is that still the case? They're closing 90 of their branches, including our local one here in Chester. Yates' were once an honourable institution that performed the well-intentioned function of serving inexpensive, but decent quality wine to those who would otherwise have fetched up drinking unspeakable rotgut, it ended up going full circle serving cheap rotgut to an unspeakable clientele.
Moor Lane looks much as it did. Did I hear that Central Buildings' developer, Maghull, have got their hands on it too? it would be sad indeed to see the end of those distinctive 1930s white-tiled shop fronts.
Much of 'The Village' has changed radically; gone is the old street plan, the police station and thatched cottages, obliterated by Sainsbury's.
I feel inspired to copy your Waterloo to Crosby photographic walk one of these days, but taking a different route...
Thank you.Quote:
Originally Posted by knowhowe
To be honest, I did have a "Guide" with me.
A local person.
After Waterloo it was all a little unfamiliar to me.
Crown Buildings will remain.
When you approach Great Crosby from Coronation Road, it's rather depressing to see the "wilderness" to the left.
I find open car parks so depressing.
I don't know if anything's going to happen to Yates's (the George), or Moor Lane.
Nearly all the shops in Moor Lane are still trading.
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Hello Shoequeen. See my pics last week on the picture of the day thread for up to date ones of this.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/170/4...76dec266_o.jpg
Here is Coronation Gardens in 1960 taken from one of my old colour slides.
Thats the missus on the extreme left.
Nice photie GD.
[QUOTE=Ged;126060]No.13 Beach Lawn and the one time home of White Star shipping line founder - Thomas Henry Ismay.
i finally got around to going to see the house earlier in the week. what do you think the curved part of the building is? an atrium?
i hadn't been in the parks by the marina for yrs & yrs. but i spent a lovely hour or so there. i was so pleased to find them so well cared for (i didn't go in the first one. i can't remember what its called. marine gardens maybe?) my favourite i think is the last one in front of ismay's house with the pond & bulrushes. though adelaide with its benches in a circle & flowers comes a close 2nd.
Lovely isn't it and at least matches anything the south of the city has to offer.
a few weeks ago i took finn my youngest to the beach at crosby leisure centre & while we were climbing up & down the sandhills i noticed ppl just standing & staring across to the water. i turned & saw the most gorgous sunset ever i swear!! it was so beautiful & still like a renaissance painting all blues & oranges swirled around the setting sun. everyone there stood & looked at it. i remember thinking this is as serene a sight right here right now as anywhere else in the world. then it suddenly went quite dark & we all turned away awed. its stored in my minds eye but i wish i could have had taken a photo of it to share. but when i'm out with finn i need to keep all hands spare & stay on my toes as he runs away a lot & fast!! if you ever go to the beach there or at burbo & see a woman frantically trying to keep up with a little tyke... that'll be me! finn has autism which means he has no fear & is often in his own little world. he'll either send me to an early grave with worry or keep me fit...not sure which...Quote:
Originally Posted by Ged
at the weekend planning to take him for a walk in the woods near to little crosby & to the hall (though not sure if you can visit it. i think the family still live there) anyway i've already told fraser my 20 yr old that he better keep his mobile on incase i have to phone him to rescue us. as often when i go out with finn he won't turn back around & wants to keep on & on.... it once took me 2 hrs to get him out of squirrel woods & back to the road... by then of course everyone else had gone so it felt quite eerie!
I know the Hall, (on Virgin lane I think it is) is open to schools as my daughters have stayed there. I've often parked up at Burbo just to look out at the estuary.
yes i thought it was on virgins lane but i picked up a leaflet about walks in sefton & on the map enclosed with it, it says that building on vigins lane is a farm & that crosby hall itself is set back nearer to little crosby in woods. (i think the stone lions are part of the entrance & wall that surrounds the hall) i can tell i am going to get sooooo lost!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ged
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3147/...110b4540_o.jpg
I see they have had the decorators in
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3273/...3012ec35_o.jpg
Taken from Crosby beach using my Lumix at full zoom(6x) and the head of Mr
Gormley`s iron man in the previous pic as a tripod.
Just wandering around this site and read that Crosby/ Waterloo never gets a mention.
Visited Stuart Rd Barbers in Waterloo today and got a fab haircut and a cut throat Shave.
Well worth a visit.
The last time I went there he asked me if I wanted it cutting round the back when there was well enough room in the shop.
Oh lovely a Crosby thread.....me being a Crosby girl.....I went to St Peter and Pauls Primary school in Liverpool Road followed by Seafield Grammar School as it was then....Oh and I remember the woods that were mentioned ......:rolleyes:
The little old abandoned cottage that was posted is still there..it is along the little alley at the back of the cinema.....well what was the cinema..cant for the life of me remember the name of it...used to walk down that way from school every day and through Coronation Park as we lived close by.......always have a joll along Crosby beach when we go 'home' for Christmas as my mad Jack Russell likes nothing better than chasing her frisbee along the sand.......have some lovely pics of one of the iron men in a santa outfit.....
get your pics posted on here Maggie ! :) :)
we have a dog thread too - you can tell us about your Jack Russell. :)
It was the Regent, Maggie May. Until it became a bingo hall of course. We used to go there a lot as a family and the kids on a Saturday morning of course.Quote:
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I remember my dad taking me to see the epic 'Lawrence of Arabia' there and my mates and I queued up (!!) to see Cliff in 'Summer Holiday'...
Ah the Regent..thats the one..my mom was an usherette there and my dad a projectionist in their younger days........
I have happy memories of going there to see Elvis films......then running home though the park totally in love with him and so wishing I was all grown up....
Oh and the Saturday morning club
There was the Corona, opposite Alexandra Park, and Coronation Road from which it probably got its name.
Where you at st. Peter and Paul's when the dreaded miss Moylan was there? (I quite liked her really!):)Quote:
Originally Posted by Maggie May
Yes I was.......what did she teach I cant remember....but just seeing the name some how sent a shiver down my spine.....:shock:
Was she the one who had a sister who also taught there.....
I saw on my last trip up that the school is still there....my mom used to pick me up and we would walk home down a road opposite ..the name of which escapes me yet again....but it led straight to Corrie Park....there was a little sweetie shop on the corner ......
Yes, she's the one! I think they're both still around. I went to a st.Bedes re-union not long ago, and even though the ex-pupils were a couple of years above me,and not really recognisable , the teachers were, and one of them was miss Moylans sister,(who'd moved to St. Bedes)and told me her sister was unable to make it,which was a pity,as me and another boy,Steve Goodwin, used to go out of our way to make her laugh, with our ridiculous essays!(sorry,I'm noodling a bit 'ere) A couple of names you might remember, Mr Kellet, headmaster, Mr. Kelly,(who made us jump off a chair,while holding onto our sideboards!) John Crowley,Peter Kerrigan,Susan Lysaght,Geraldine Casey.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maggie May