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It sounds like the Jordan Street police station would have been short lived, and didn't last long enough to be on the 1905 map.Quote:
Originally Posted by marky
Probably in an existing building anyway.
They were all over the docks.
Presumably the Dock Police were MD&HB employees.
had a shufty on the web and found thisQuote:
Originally Posted by PhilipG
Britannia Recruitment & Training
20 Jordan Street, Liverpool, L1 0BP
only a visit would determine the age of the building
On Mill Lane
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Here's a pic of the Old Swan station on derby Lane, its current use is a probation office
Durning Rd, Edge Hill as promised
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2...icture1451.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2...icture1452.jpg
Former Police HQ, Hope Street.
May 2007
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2092/...0565ca40df.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/2563250...0721/?edited=1
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The work that's gone into that building.And the crap that's built today!!Quote:
Originally Posted by quincyg
Why can't these be saved? Am sure they could be.:PDT_Xtremez_42:
True Zaps!!!
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Hope St/Hardman St: I don't know when this closed, but it still gets marked as a Police Station on my mid-90s A-Z.
The 'School for the Blind' part is safe enough, but that office-block needed to go.
As far as I know, there is still an ex-Police Station in Aigburth Vale. I'll have to check though, as the buildings here were rennovated/painted white last year. I think it's the first tall, white, building as you come down from the corner with Elmswood Road.
It's identified on the 1908 OS map.Quote:
Originally Posted by marky
There's a Methodist Chapel on the corner, then a semi-detached building, and the police station is either the second half of that, or a little building to the right.
ie The third or fourth address on that side of Aigburth Vale.
The 1924 OS map identifies the chapel, but not the police station and by the time of the 1936 Kelly's directory, neither the chapel nor the police station is listed.
Has anyone posted a pic of 'Cuffs' in Wavertree yet (in its new colour)?
I went past that on Tuesday but didn't do a photo as there was already one posted up. I'm hoping to get to Wavertree Park today to look for summat so if I get a different bus from here I can do Cuffs on the way. :PDT11Quote:
Originally Posted by Kev
Cuffs, Wavertree. Up until a year or two ago, this was still unpainted natural stone. Then the owners ruined it.
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...pool/Cuffs.jpg
the red looks awful doesn't it. :PDT_Xtremez_42:Quote:
Originally Posted by marky
thanks for posting that up, saves me a detour :PDT11
will try and get a pc this weekend!:)Quote:
Originally Posted by quincyg
Hasn't it had another colour on the brickwork since that pic?Quote:
Originally Posted by quincyg
Allerton Road police station 1930 - LRO
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/5...stn1930mv3.jpg
Tuebrook police station being demolished in 1967 for dual carriageway. The new station was built to the rear of this on Orphan Drive. Pic by Harry Ainscough - LRO
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/486...demol67sh9.jpg
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Re: Cuffs, Wavertree: I only took that pic this week. It was painted cream before that (and natural stone before that).
Re: Aigburth Vale: Nowadays there is a small half-building inbetween the two buildings under consideration as the Police Station. This small building appears to fill a gap shown on the 1908 map. The map writes Police Station across the two properties. Garstonians may be interested in this one, as it is right on the Toxteth Park/Garston Township boundary.
yes the crappy 'some kind of red' is somehow worse looking in bright sunlight. only decent red bits are the dragons!Quote:
Originally Posted by marky
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That would be the Hope Street building?Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris48
The former School for the Blind had been the Merseyside Trade Centre and Unemployed Centre (or some such similar name) since the 1980s.
Yes the Hope st building. The rest closed in late 1981 when they moved to Canning place.Quote:
Originally Posted by PhilipG
Does anyone know what is happening to this building?Quote:
Originally Posted by PhilipG
I walk past it everyday and it makes me so sad to see it in such disrepair.
just been scouring on of my old street maps from the late 1960's and it says Pol Sta at Duke St/Nelson St/Berry St.
must admit I walked past there today and don't recall seeing anything , can anyone shed any light please?
There was a police station in Duke St. the front door was up a few steps, I remember seeing a cop propelling someone up them with his feet hardly touching. Where have the real cops gone?
ah thank you. will have to take another look next time I'm that way. perhaps the building has goneQuote:
Originally Posted by shytalk
Quincy, It was on the south side of Duke St, top half. Can't remember exactly where Chris48 might know or Phillip.
You're not thinking of the Bridewell in Campbell Street, just off Duke Street?Quote:
Originally Posted by shytalk
I'm sure you know that that closed comparitively early.
I'm not an expert on police stations, but do have a good collection of old maps, and I can't see one in Duke Street, but I've no maps of that area from the 1950s or 1960s.
There was a fire station right next to the last surviving back-to-back houses in Duke Street, and the Duke Street/Berry Street area was a cooperage for yonks.
I remember it from the 70's Phillip.
the map is around 1967/68
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2...cyg/polmap.jpg
Re Cuffs: I've just checked a pic from Jan 2007, and some of the brickwork was painted red. So in one year it's been painted twice. I guess the cream colour wasn't popular.
http://www.narpo-merseyside.org.uk/framephotos.htm
I had a little look at the NARPO website and found under Miscellaneous Photographs, a small pic of the one in Aigburth Vale. It is the building to the right of the small building that is there today. Here's an excerpt:
Aigburth Vale Police Station. Described in the 1905 Chief Constables Annual report as:
'A make-shift station for part of Garston sub-district.
Duke Street: This Police Station also gets a mention on the NARPO website.
cheers Marky. I remember these ruins http://www.narpo-merseyside.org.uk/images/Seelsm.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by marky
had no idea what they were.
Those two doors are still there today. The NARPO website describes them: This is all that is left of the old Seel Street Transport Section garage.
The website also mentions another Duke Street building which was between Cornwallis Street/Kent Street. There is a Sapporo restaurant there today (or it's where the flats are today, just before). I'll check as thinking about it, the restaurant is around where the old corporation yard, used for storing old street-lamps, used to be.
Anfield rd, L4.
Click onto the 3rd pic and see the carved face (above the sign).
They were a few doors away from the White House.Quote:
Originally Posted by quincyg
The fire station I mentioned earlier was behind these houses at the left, and Dukes Terrace (back-to-backs) were (and are) behind at the right.
Just off the photo to the right was the concealed entrance to Dukes Terrace.
I've found I do have a 1950s map which identifies the fire station as a Police Garage, which it still was in the 1968 Kelly's directory (which doesn't mention a police station).
This is also the same area as identified on the above map.
Opposite was the Corporation Yard Marky describes.
It had earlier been the H/Q of the Liverpool Gas Company.
I remember going down that concealed entrance to take a pic of Dukes Terrace. Hubby wondered what on earth I was doing ,as did 2 Chinese blokes who were stood at the back of a shop having a ciggie.Quote:
Originally Posted by PhilipG
Had to clamber over rubbish and rubble to get to it at the time.
I took lots of photos of Duke Street and through that entry, and the backs of the houses, in the 1980s.Quote:
Originally Posted by quincyg
Unfortunately, I had a flood and 2 plastic boxes of photos got soaked.
They're all stuck together, including the negatives.
I've tried soaking them apart, but nothing works.
how awful. I'm going to try and get as many photos as I can onto discs in case my external hard drive ever goes t's up.Quote:
Originally Posted by PhilipG
I did post these in another thread, but in case you didn't see them there
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