Great pics all. Keep em coming ;)
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Sent from the back of Michael Caine's Mini Cooper S, holding on for dear life.....
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Great pics all. Keep em coming ;)
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Sent from the back of Michael Caine's Mini Cooper S, holding on for dear life.....
Sorry peeps, but I have just had a family bereavement, so I won't be on this forum for a while. Keep up the good work.
So sorry to hear that. Take care.
I am sorry to hear of your troubles Sirob !
Sorry to hear that Sirob, keep in touch.
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Condolences to you
The next batch with lots still to come.
Fraser Street in 1990. This was off Islington and just one part of our locality that was raided year on year for bonfire wood come the end of October.
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Greek St off London Road including the Windsor Pub aka the Greek. New apartments are already inhabited on this site.
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Hanover Street showing the row of shops and multi storey car park that has since been demolished.
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Harcourt Street on the Easby Estate, Kirkdale where some of my drinking buddies once lived.
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Herschell Street, Anfield. A street once noted for having name plates at each end of the street with different spellings.
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Islington in 1990, just around the corner from the Fraser Street pic above.
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Jamaica House not long before its demolition on the corner of Dale st and Vernon st. Its last use was as a B&B.
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Ged you have pics of Springfield on your site......showing 'Blundells Buildings'. I see the building is still there, well just about! what a shame it couldn't have been incorporated into the new Fire Station.
Hiya Lizzie, yes, you'll mean Bushell's buildings, the old Cork Merchants and now a storage facility for E.A. Clares.
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Thanks Ged, :handclap: yea I got the name wrong!! It looks empty and sorry for itself!
Great pics Gedwood :handclap:
Cheers, i've just been given the nod as to 3 places that will soon have the boards up around them so must get a few pics tomorrow.
Great thread this and a great idea to get out there snapping before they are gone.
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I agree .....well done Geddrington
Excellent pics and info once again Ged. Nice one fella. :handclap:
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Nice one Ged, cracking photos. Keep them coming.
Cheers folks. It's a pleasure. :PDT11:PDT_Piratz_26:
Brilliant pictures Ged bringing back memories.
Early 80's Coopers was the first stop for us thirsty sailors after we'd been to the "Pool" on Mann Island to collect our "Pool Money". Well it was a long walk to our next stop The Mona so we needed a break on the way.
The Coronation played a big part in the grieving rites of our family over the years as we always ended up there following funerals, plus my Mum worked behind the bar there at some stage in the distant past.
Thanks Gary. I'm glad i've managed to include a few places that were dear to you too.
More memories.........
Further landmarks that have bitten the dust and lost forever.
From the inside looking out. Colliers on London Road an institution for the locals of L3 and further afield in the 60s and 70. It had one of those pipe systems for sending your payment upstairs to the offices in a container that went via a system of tubes - and you had to wait likewise for your change back. Polished cabinets with drawers for socks and underware, a bit like Grace Brothers on Are you being served.
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And how it looked in 1956 from the entrance on London Road.
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The boarding houses on Springfield off St Anne Street just prior to demolition. Manny Charles betting office was just here to the right of them where my cousins was race up from Gerard Gardens to put their bets on, on a saturday afternoon. This was taken around the time I first took notice of what we were about to lose as this area was once prosperous with Georgian Merchant mansion houses and the Judges lodgings just further along used to have bowling greens to the rear. Queen Victoria and Albert had even stayed at one just around the corner and their heads are carved on the door posts detailing to commemorate the occasion.
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Marmaduke street is just one of a swathe of streets demolished from Edge Lane to Wavertree Road, seen here in its last throes.
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Apart from Aspinalls shown earlier, the next row of premises along Moss Street are also no more including Hartleys Auctioneers.
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The old with the new springing up from Hertford Road in Bootle where a mass dereliction then new build programme is taking place.
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Park Road collapsed building which was demolished due to safety issues a little later.
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Commutation Row. Build and named at the time of the Commutation Tax regarding daylight (bricked up windows scenarios etc) this row of premises included 4 pubs at one time, The County (aka Peppers), The Hare & Hounds, The Court House and Phase 2 in the old Burtons building on the corner of London Road. These were well frequented by the nearby tenement dwellers so had a captive audience for a lot of the time. Commutation Plaza which now exists here was built in design and colour with some sympathy to its illustrious neighbours and contains modern apartments with a cracking view.
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The Granton on Robson street. Again, part of another mass clearance programme including another couple of pubs that will feature later on as there are many more Lost Forever pics still to come.
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Yes. Originally called the County Hotel, it was always nicknamed/known as Peppers and then they put an actual sign up Peppers. I've got a few pics of inside there as it's one of the pubs on the local walkabout where my family, relatives and friends drank.
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Peppers in the 80s. Photo by Joe Devine.
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Mark, sorry, don't know where your post went when I was trying to include a pic of Peppers there for you, but there it is above. Cheers,
Ged.
Excellent photos Ged :handclap:
So I assume it was called the County with reference to the County Sessions House opposite?
Yes, that's it Mark. Is that how you remember it looking? :PDT_Piratz_26:
Yes Ged, exactly! I get nostalgic seeing these photos. I don't know how others feel but as a decade I quite liked the 80's. Thanks Ged :PDT11
I did too Mark :PDT11
Get yer camera working around Moss St and down to Stafford St,Gedro as in a few years new buildings are on the horizon its gonna change good style around there,possibly 5 or 6 years away?
Cheers George. I was put onto a site dedicated to the Town and Country planning and a chap there is letting me know which planning applications are put in and accepted, it also details what is about to be demolished so I have been busy the last couple of weekends believe me as the pics don't look the same with the boards around them. Luckily, I already had a number of pics relating to what is about to be no more but thanks for the heads up.
'Memories',your right there Ged.
Post 1,pic 3/4,West Derby Tech.My elder brothers went there,I wus two thick.
Pic 11,The Bay Horse.My ma in law's parents and brother were regulars.
Post 48,pic 10,Edge La.The first house on the left was owned by a company I worked for in the '90s.Have done loads of bits in there.The last 1 1/2 houses on the right,I worked on them,flat conversion,in '82/3.
Post 70,pic 2,Green La job center.Done the maintenance here in the late 90's.
Part of the job I had with the Post Office in New Zealand,you would have loved this,was taking pictures of PO property.Post Offices,exchanges,offices,depots,houses,radio stations for the coast guard and NZBC and empty lots on new estates.Every PO had at least 1 house,some had three.The lots where for future development.
Wow Gnash, well fancy all those pics meaning something to you, that's what it's all about mate. Not bad considering we're only part way through, i'm sure there will be some more memories to unlock, knowing you, it'll concern a few pubs or music venues. :PDT_Aliboronz_24::PDT_Aliboronz_24:
Cracker posts Ged. Very good. :handclap:
Thanks John.
Ged, hope you don't mind me posting the following here...
Just got a load of interesting pics off my dad of some relatives . One of the relatives owned a shop here (see pic).
You would be the person to have a pic of this place ?
Cheers mate
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33 Kensington, does that say £80 for buying the business. Do you know the year and business name? Listed in 1908 as E. Lace tobacconist.
The flats running down from the Coach & Horses are there now, No. 33 would have been the last one on the block just beforeThe seven day Adventist Church [The Church Still stands].. Never seen a pic down that side of Kenny prior to The flats though.
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Got the numbers almost either side of those premises John.
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You must have missed the pics i've posted up of Autolux taxis then CP. They ran down that side just past Low Hill.
I do remember something about the Autolux, Ged. it was advertised next to the Coach & Horses but was in fact further down towards the Church wasnt it.
..musn't have saved it mate !:sad:
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oh ! found it Ged . or at least one one with the 10 B. tram on it .is that it ?
collegepudding
Yes, the advertising hoarding for Autolux was on the premises of 2-4 Low Hill (building long gone leaving the Coach and horses building all alone), however, the actual premises were a little along Kenny itself, I'll dig them out.
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3-15 Kensington in June 1955
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great that one Ged.. Ta very much. the one i have which you probably also posted was this....
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In 1958 Directory the Autolux was given as No. 11 Kensington then it jumps straight to to 33 Kensington, the one Zapps mentioned ,and on that date it was down as Mrs. Sarah Marion Collier-, -Licensed Broker.
collegepudding
Thanks for that info guys. Very interesting.
Armstrong is the name that pops up here.
Another address I have say's 33 Voughams or Voughhand Building. I've never heard of the place. ?