Good pic of Broadway Ged. Nice one.:PDT_Piratz_26:
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Good pic of Broadway Ged. Nice one.:PDT_Piratz_26:
Great pics Ged :PDT_Piratz_26:
Mart
Hockenhall Alley: http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11450
Ain't it time it was demolished? its so 1970's and is a total eyesore as its always been with these concrete boxesQuote:
Originally Posted by Ged
Hey Ged would yer consider a new home page if I knocked one up for yer?
It'll not be yer average looking page somewhere between semi-pro and proffesional jobby.
I'm getting to grips with this site builder program and I can come up with some decent layouts.
If yer interested just holler and I'll give it to yer for nowt.
I just think yer site is awsome for the bygone age buffs but it opening page needs some dazzle :unibrow:
Ged stop Spamming :unibrow:
Only kidding, great pics, great site :PDT11
I suppose the homepage is a bit outdated now but remember, I only started it as a tribute to our old tenement block and it's sort of grown from there. Thanks for the comments everyone. There's more pics of the precinct on the buildings page, more of Broadway/Broad Lane on the post war page as well as Upper Stanhope st and a few others and a few more on the pre war slums.
Hey Ged,,,,,,,It must have been great then,,try and get a parking spec in broadway now,,,,
Bill,,,,,,,,,,,
I like the homepage, its a top photo :PDT_Piratz_26:
Excellent pics, Ged.
Just coz I'm crap at getting my bearings, in the St johns pic what would I be looking at if it was taken now ?
Thanks Scouse.
Most of the pics I show are thanks to others including those ones.
Most of the malls are still the same in the precinct but the top floor market was done away with as were those escalators in that form, now being sited diagonally in the centre of the building.
You have a great site there Ged. Amazed at how much I'd forgotten about Liverpool. You really do take it all for granted until it's gone.
Ged.great photos of broadway shops(we expect nothing less from you.lick lick)pity it was not on the other side ie left of you pic.would like to see the cafe' just past the alley.thanks for that tho.:unibrow:
Thanks pablo and edwardo.
I remember when you could walk up to the top of those stairs,to the roof! It wasn't locked up at night,so we would hang out in there,as it was heated,after a night in town,till the buses started running!:wasted:
Yeah the little Hitlers with their yellow tickets are everywhere around Broadway.:PDT10Quote:
Originally Posted by Billy D
Just spent an hour ( in work :ninja: ) going through your site Ged...
especially the Now and Then page..... superb as expected. :handclap:
Here's to the best Historical Liverpool Website :PDT_Aliboronz_24:
Hip Hip .....
Sure is a cracking site :PDT11
er....Quote:
Originally Posted by Spike
Hip Hip .....
Who's Ray :PDT_Aliboronz_24:Quote:
Originally Posted by hmtmaj
That's another thread, Quinn is the surname.
I'm talking about the Hippy Ray :rolleyes:
Thanks lads. I love unearthing those LRO files even if they are making it a bit more difficult to do these days :o(
I added some more pics around 1am during the week - the homepage will tell you where to find them, some good ones on the pre war and post war page.
I've kept the then and now page to colour, i'd be there all year photographing the pre and post war b&w pics as they look now but i'd love to some time.
A sure sign of laziness methinks :PDT_Xtremez_42:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ged
Yer should put the "last updated",entry at the top of the page Ged. :rolleyes:
Now that's a sure sign of laziness ;)
Ged,you've probably seen this in the"Echo" already,different view of life in the gardens,which is fair enough,I suppose,but if he thinks you might be wearing rose-tinted spec's,he can't be wearing any,as your names now Ged Regan!! :unibrow:
Cheeky Basket ...
Don't invite him to the reunion :PDT10
Heh! heh,the guy lives in Huyton...hasn't improved much has he. :o)Quote:
Originally Posted by hmtmaj
The place were 2 in ten mothers are single and the majority claiming benefits.
They looked very unfriendly near the end. I've seen them done up in London and Glasgow and they look fantastic. Pity they couldn't have done that before they knocked them down.
I was alerted to this yesterday after a great 2 page spread in the echo last saturday. The article on saturday actually belonged to Bobby Parry and Christine Hanratty who are the organisers of the Gerard Gardens reunion, the echo obviously just dug out and rehashed some old pics of Paul Sudbury and myself even though we're just turning up as ex residents and the band though everything they said in that article is reflective of my own views. Christine set up a facebook group for Gerard Gardens and a month later is has over 380 members posting some great old pictures that otherwise would have lay hidden - none of whom obviously feel like this guy.
Obviously he is entitled to his opinion but I can't go along with it that there were burglaries, each family not really being any or much better off than the next. To say it's imaginary that there was a community spirit is just plain wrong. Doors back then were left open but that was probably just the way anyway back then. I remember many charra trips, play groups etc apart from the spontaneous 15 a side footy matches in the square - many families had relatives in and around the other blocks and sure there were the odd skirmishes in the square, well there was around 100 kids knocking about.
Amazingly not one person i've spoken to since his letter remembers him living in the Gardens in the 1970s and believe me everyone knew everyone, some even suspect it's a wind up. Funnily enough those slums he talks of had lecky and an inside bathroom when many at the time didn't -some even having an outside privvy into the 70s when he claimed to have lived there.
There was a reason for that though. The council policy at the end was not to maintain them and instead let them become run down with no repairs taking place. It did leave them in a sorry state not deserving of them after only a 50 year life span. We've seen on here how the Bullring, St. Andrews gardens have been done up as well as Wavertree Gardens (now Abbeygate apartments), Sussex Gardens (now Acorn apartments), Gt Richmond St dwellings (now St. Annes apartments) as well as even earlier pre WWI Eldon Grove being tackled. There are also still Nelson St tennies in china town and blocks in Old Swan and Tuebrook.Quote:
Originally Posted by pablo42
The writer of that letter's biggest crime is not omitting the article wasn't even by me, nor tgetting my name wrong - it's calling me middle aged - cheeky b'stard - i'm only 25.
Phew! Is that in dog years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ged
Seen the Bullring a bit back and it looks great. Is that a student dwelling or has it gone private.
Student. Another student one I missed out was Minster Court which was part of Myrtle Gardens. The rest I mentioned are gated and private. Shows what could have been done but for road taking over especially since city centre living and high rise is now back in vogue. What price living next to William Brown st these days.
Based on that letter I assumed that fella had something against u personally.
Certainly sounds like it. Poor attempt though. Don't really say too much.Quote:
Originally Posted by scouse smurf
Nah, he's got something against Ged Regan I reckon :)
Whereas I'm saying he's entitled to his opinion, he clearly thinks his is final.
I seen the same thing in Salford. Council flats that they couldn't give away. Then they were privatised and you can't get one now for anything. Wonder why they don't do them up for the council tenants.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ged
Milburn and Brynford Heights on Conway St, Liverpool 5 were run down, the council put Kosovans in them, there was trouble locally, it was seedy, prostitutes hung around there. The council sold them off for just ?1 - a few years later they're private with a gymnasium and called view 146 and going for a lot of money with the views being a selling point.
The Housing Action Trust (HAT) had previously demolished a load of those high rise along Netherfield Road.