Thank you Lindy.
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Thank you Lindy.
I'm new to this forum and I was wondering if anyone had any photos of what I believe was called Sirdar Street (located, as far as I remember, between Overbury Street and Tunnel Road, and there is a modern cul-de-sac in the area called Sirdar Close) I think the street was demolished in the 60's and was replaced with flats. The reason I ask is because I was near enough brought up in one of those flats called Birchover Walk which was on Smithdown Road, in between the school and Entwistle Heights. It belonged to my Nan, who is still with us at the grand old age of 90 and living on the Wirral. She used to mind me in the early 70's while my Mum trained at the David Lewis Northern Hospital and Dad was a fireman at Durning Road. I have many fond memories of that place and would love it someone had some pictures
Great forum, by the way
sidar street was off spekelandstreet by where waterworths CWS,and the police used to have a big garage there were they kept all the mini pandas and the maroon
police bikes,someone on the forum might just have a photo,say hi to your nan
from me from the old neighbourhood.
Very nice site Ged, I was on there for ages.:PDT_Piratz_26:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ged
Thanks Gnomie. Hoping to add stuff as and when I can too.
Take a look at these by Dave Sinclair.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dave_si...erpool_photos/
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Just been on that site Ged.Bloody amazing.Did he ever put his camera down?
Brilliant:handclap:
I've been looking at those pics for the last couple of days, and came on yo to see if anyone had posted a link yet. Those pics are fantastic, he says he's writing a book but I think they're so good they merit a permanent exhibition somewhere. They're up there with the best in 20th century documentary photography, and make a fantastic record of life in Liverpool in the 80s and 90s.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ged
Ged, your website http://inacityliving.piczo.com/?g=27070738&cr=7 is amazing. Wish I could shake your hand for a job well done.
Just brilliant!
Thank you Rone, it's a sort of work in progress that will no doubt be added to, what good are pictures if not for sharing eh.
Appreciating not everyone has the luxury of choosing from the great range of books in the local history section of our few remaining books shops, and I think these snippets serve as some free advertising too - as there's hundreds of pics. These are from a selection of books titled along the lines of mersey memories.
Dale Street in 1960. The Art Deco Mitre is now the Ship and Mitre,Robinson and Neal decorators shop have moved out, the King and Queen statues behind the Mersey tunnel entrance have gone as have the flowers but apart from that it's still the same :)
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Church Street January sales 1965. The Tatler cartoon picture house is in view too.
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The Customs House in 1936. A few years later it would be gutted - though not unsaveable :disgust:
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The Abbey Cinema, Wavertree 1939.
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London Road showing the legs of man undergoing renovation with workmen on the roof, also a preclad Odeon.
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Inside the original St. John's market in 1951
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Clean up time inside the old St. John's in 1963.
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The Palais De Luxe, Lime st which was practically facing the Futurist.
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Once again-Brilliant Ged.
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Whitney's car dealership in Scotland Road. This was originally a United Methodist free church before becoming the Derby picturehouse for nearly 50 years in 1912. For the past 3 decades it has been a Coyne's funeral parlour.
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St. George's Place 1960 before that lack lustre parade of shops and Concourse House. A ribble is negotiating the curved incline towards its terminus.
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The site of what was St. Domingo Pit, a lake which when covered in ice, provided a rink for local skaters. It is the junction of Mere Lane with Breckfield Road North and Robson St. Seen here in 1937, the picture house is still in existence.
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Thanks Zaps. :PDT11
Thank you.:PDT11 Yeah that bus was doing some "handbrake turn" there:handclap:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ged
Another 80 odd pics added to my site over the last couple of days courtesy of and with the full co-operation of the LRO.
Mainly concentrating on Everton, Toxteth and Garston this time including this one below of St. Mary's Road.
This is the page though there's some on the slums/courts page too.
http://inacityliving.piczo.com/?g=44843738&cr=7
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Those Crosfield Rd ones are great! it looks totally different now,sadly,as you can see.
Dave.
Another two dozen or so added to the bottom of this page http://inacityliving.piczo.com/?g=44843738&cr=7
this week including this one. Pics courtesy of the LRO.
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Hi everyone
do any of you guy's have photos that contain ice cream parlours, ice cream vans from around Liverpool any date will do. you know the ones a photo taken of your Gran at New Brighton asleep in a deck chair and a Chiappes van in the background:handclap:
thanks Debz x
These photos are brilliant...I like the Crosfield road ones..I was brought up around there and remember going into that shop.
Thanks to everyone who posted:handclap:
omg Ged just seen the picture you put on of the Abbey Cinema in Wavertree:handclap: it brought back great memories, Saturday mornings, a gang of us would scrat around for enough money for one of us to pay to get in, normally from collecting empty pop bottles and taking them back to the shop for the money, then when that person had gone in they would go and open fire escape door and let us all in, it was great and before the days of alarms going off at the mere touch of a fire escape:unibrow: watched some great films and cartoons plus had a good time winding up the ice cream woman, we must have been nightmare kids in there:rolleyes: but fun anyway:unibrow: funny how although we were right scallies in them days it was all harmless fun, like sitting in the laundrette on freezing cold evenings getting a warm until we got too loud and the attendant chasing us out with her sweeping brush!!:PDT_Aliboronz_24:
blimey! the road sweepers certainly done their job way back then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ged
y first Cinema encounter was that one on Mere Lane...Flash Gordon and Zorro's adventures,....wonder if the Fire escape exit door is still there lol well it was the only way in for us when we did'nt have a tanner.
glad we werent the only scallies!!!!!!:PDT_Aliboronz_24:Quote:
Originally Posted by George
GED, your pics are amazing, thanks for sharing. :handclap: I was taken right back into nostalgia-land with them, and was suddenly surprised to see one of Towson Street.......I was born there in 1939 :shock::) Are any of those photos available for sale anywhere? I'll spend many happy hours browsing your photos now - thank you :)
Ged I have to say your photo's are amazing and have brought back some very very happy memories for me......you mentioned the Probe record shop....and looking at the photo has taken me right back in time.....that I can almost see myself in there.....there used to be a fabulous clothes shop near it....although it may have been part of it......they sold loon pants..any one remember them...flared they were with a type of stitched chevron at the knee....in the most flamboyant colours..I remember having a red pair with blue stars on....
The photo's of the Royal Liverpool Infirmary.. well what can I say......I did some of my training there..and one of your photo's shows one of the the round wards..they were called the Florence Nightingale wards and were quite unique.
One thing that has intrigued me is the David Lewis Theatre....I did not know of its existence I am shamed to say....or maybe I just forgot...but it is an exact duplicate of the David Lewis Northern Hospital.....my main training hospital......just seeing the photo and the likeness has brought a lump to my throat..... so many happy memories once again....
So my thanks to you for yet another glorious trip down memory lane:hug:
Hahahahaha hahahahaha hahahaha hahahaha oh lord i remeber that shop indeedy twas where a mate bought his coat of many colours and I a shirt that was loud and snazzy until I looked in the mirror with it on lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Maggie May
Those were the days we all looked a prat. pmsl
Scallies these days don't know nuffin,we used to clamber over the pub back walls,grab a few empty crates with bottles and take em back to the same pub for the deposit money. lolQuote:
Originally Posted by carole1000
You too. I used to do that with the Lemo bottles at the back of the offy :PDT11Quote:
Originally Posted by George
Great photos.. I was thinking exactly the same thing.. HOW clean the area was ... Bravo to the Road Sweepers of that era..!!!:handclap:Quote:
Originally Posted by George
We used to do the same in the back of Minsters in Wellington Rd, Wavertree!!! do you still get harmless scallies now!!!! you can bet your life they would not do that for the few coppers we used to get!! god I sound like my dad now and I am only 44 years young:PDT_Xtremez_42:Quote:
Originally Posted by George
Hi Guys
does anyone have any pic's of Kirkby Street or any idea of where it was, my theory would place it around William Henry Street please help if you can:PDT11
Debz
spot on Debz.....it was between William Henry St & Langsdale StQuote:
Originally Posted by mrs zappa
source: Edwardian A-Z & Directory of Liverpool & Bootle pt 2 Paul Bolger
thanks Robo i didn't look at the map it was just by what i've heard. that just leaves the photo:PDT_Piratz_26:
Debz x
I think it could have been in Camden St off London RdQuote:
Originally Posted by George
It's the Trocadero, which became the Gaumont, Camden Street, off London Road. Closed 4 May 1974
Yep you're right Greg,its just that I couldn't place the dark building at the side of it which put me off thinking it was london road area.Quote:
Originally Posted by gregs dad
Lidl and carpark is now standing on that ground.
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I always went to The Gaumont in the late 60s early 70s. It would screen the films after they had finished their run on The Odeon, and was half the price as a result. Following closure of the cinema it reopened as a snooker hall, I remember ending up in there on stag night, you could get a drink throughout the night (a rare thing in those days), and it was daylight when we emerged.
A picture from the late 60s is attached.
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Our kid cleaning the keel of his fishing nobby,The Comrade on Burbobank sandbank opposite New Brighton in 1962. scanned from an old slide starting to deteriate.