Toxteth District

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Originally Posted by marky

I heard recently that Steble Street Baths (now part of Park Road Sports Centre), is to close. I haven't seen any official notice of this yet, though.

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What a shame.
I used to go there with school

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Originally Posted by marky

I heard recently that Steble Street Baths (now part of Park Road Sports Centre), is to close. I haven't seen any official notice of this yet, though.

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I hope not, Liverpool schools use this year round.

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Originally Posted by DaisyChains

What a shame.
I used to go there with school

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So did I.

That's where my children learned to swim. They're like fish in water now.

Any updates on Steble Street?

The schools will not be using the baths any more , but it's still open to the public ,

Just found some long lost pics, This one is outside my shop in Granby St. Taken in 1961-2. My shop was the one on the left. Waterways, do you remember when Granby was paved with sets?. That was one of my favourite cars I ever owned.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c8...anbyst1961.jpg

This one is me in the shop. Who recognises the old sweet brands?.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c8...bystshop62.jpg

Great pics Shytalk :handclap:

What smashing pics. I love to see old photos like that. :)

Love Hearts are still made in the same wrapping too - my little girl loves them. Se read the words on them. So are Polo mints. Not sure if the Polo Fruits are still made. I "think" Black Jacks are still made.

Did your shop have the Corgi toy cars in the window?

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Originally Posted by Waterways

Love Hearts are still made in the same wrapping too - my little girl loves them. Se read the words on them. So are Polo mints. Not sure if the Polo Fruits are still made. I "think" Black Jacks are still made.

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I saw Polo fruits the other day. They went missing for a long time but I think they reintroduced them.

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Originally Posted by Waterways

Did your shop have the Corgi toy cars in the window?

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No, half the window was used to store bread, we did a huge bread trade, the other half was canned goods etc.

In those days Love Hearts were 2d, Swizzles 1d. Black Jacks or Walkers were 4 a penny.

That area was very highly populated, most houses having at least 4 families, that shop was a goldmine but I was too young to appreciate it and sold it in 1964.
Granby St. was numbered in a strange manner, I was the sixth shop from Parly and my address was 6A Granby St.
Some other prices I remember. Premium tea like PG or Typhoo was 1/9 a quarter. The cheapest Gold Stream was 9d a quarter and you could even get 2oz packets for 6d.

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Originally Posted by shytalk

No, half the window was used to store bread, we did a huge bread trade, the other half was canned goods etc.

In those days Love Hearts were 2d, Swizzles 1d. Black Jacks or Walkers were 4 a penny.

That area was very highly populated, most houses having at least 4 families, that shop was a goldmine but I was too young to appreciate it and sold it in 1964.

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Swizzles are still made. That's right four Walkers for a penny. I remember they made it 3 four Walkers for a penny. I was shocked.

Just as well you got rid in 1964 as demolition devastated the area not long after that. I knew some people who had a shop in Granby St. Going towards Upper Parli, the last general newsagent/sweet shop on the left. They were not short of money.

When I lived there the newsagents was owned by a Mrs. Hughes. Her husband owned the two secondhand shops next door to it. When Mrs. Hughes retired she sold it to the Greeves family who lived over a store further up the street.