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The Scottish church is interesting and should be preserved, I'm not sure but I think it was bought by an out of town doctor who was hoping it would rot and fall down so he could develope the site.
The pyramid shaped tomb has a gambler buried in it sitting at a card table, or that's how the story goes.
The place is a gem, the collums at the entrance are fab and the sooner the place is restored the better!!Quote:
Originally Posted by shytalk
Scotsman Will MacKenzie was buried at the Scottish Presbyterian church in Rodney Street. But he is said to haunt the 19th century place of worship after earlier gambling his soul in a game of poker. :shock:
It gets a mention here
Does This Train Stop on Merseyside?
Amsterdam
McKenzie's soul lies above the ground in that
pyramid near Maryland (Street)
Easyjet is hanging in the air
takin' everyone to everywhere
See the slave ships sailing into port
the blood of Africa is on every wall
Now there's a ley line runs down Mathew Street
it's giving energy to all it meets
Hey does this train stop
does this train stop on Merseyside?
Alan Williams in the Marlboro' Arms
giving his story out to everyone
Famine boats are anchored in the bay
bringing in the poor and desperate
Hey does this train stop
does this train stop on Merseyside?
Boston babies bouncing on the ground
The Riggers beamin' out to every town
Can't conceive what those children done
guess there's a meanness in the soul of man
Yorkshire policemen chat with folded arms
while people try and save their fellow fans
Why don't you remember?
Robin Hoods Stone (Booker Avenue) - 8ft tall. Some say it was used to sharpen arrows, it could also be one of The Calder Stones. The grooves face the sun, we can assume that the Arches did their sharpening with their backs to the sun!!
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Before its present
siting in August 1928, the stone stood in a nearby field known as Stone Hey. The stone was moved when the site was to be built over. A plaque on the base of
the stone records the bearing from its present position to its former site; 198 feet at a bearing of 7 degrees east of true north.
Thanks Kev I find
little things like this facinating.:)
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Here's one I found earlier,it's of
the synagogue in Princes Road Toxteth it's beautiful isn't it.:D
Looks great for sharpening Shurikens.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kev
yes, it's beautiful. It was open to the public just recently I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul
D;21721
I have been on a visit to thatQuote:
Originally Posted by lindylou
synagogue - it really is beautiful. The chap who showed us around was called Dr Mosse and what he did not know wasn't worth knowing. He was really
entertaining and knowledgeable. He told us the whole history of the synagogue and the community who built it - H Samuels and David Lewis all contributed -
lots of prominent families gave money for it to the built. Interestingly, the architects who desgined it were the same who designed the church further down
Princes Road - I think it's the welsh one they used to call "Toxteth Cathedral". It is gorgeous inside - like a little oasis of calm in the middle of the
busy city.
If anyone gets a chance to visit I would recommend it highly.
That architect wasQuote:
Originally Posted by sweetpatooti
George Ashdown Audsley Him and his brother were also the architects of the Liverpool
Art Club Picture Gallery at 98 Upper
Parly
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Went walking round Walton and Bootle
yesterday...
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County Road/ Kirkdale Vale This small row has
a variety of buildings which all date from different eras. The building which is set back from the road is likely to be the oldest, closely followed by the
"Halfway House". By my reckoning, we are probably half way to Walton or Spellow (a small hamlet which even boasted a windmill. The site is now long gone and
the area is only marked by Spellow Lane) from the City Centre here which is why there is a pub marking the distance.
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County Road, Walton Just some detailing on a row of victorian shops on County
Road.
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Barlow Lane, Kirkdale The Georgian properties are
the earliest buildings around that indicate that this area is much older than it seems. This terrace will have been in open fields at one time. However, the
developing city of Liverpool soon put a end to that with the area developing at an alarming rate. The old villages of Walton, Kirkdale (Chirkdale) and
Spellow became engulfed in the expanding city of Liverpool.
Before we move on, How on earth has one of those properties been allowed to become
dilapidated? It's just making everything look so scruffy. I wouldn't mind living there ( If I could afford
it!)
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Carisbrooke Road, Walton I was left speechless when I
stumbled upon these houses. Such great detailing as been added to these homes as standard. These weren't the olny ones either! There must have been a row of
6 or so.
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Carisbrooke Road, Walton Someone must have felt
in a good mood when these houses were built. Why spend money on such extravagent detailing? After all, it's not as if they are large houses or home to rich
merchants or anything like that.
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Merton Road/Breeze Hill,
Bootle These really were a surprise! I would never have thought that such early examples of housing in Bootle would have survived. The building on the
left is now under ownership by the NHS and so I would imagine that most of the original fittings have long since gone. However, the building on the left is
still a domestic residence and is actually up for sale too!
Hope you liked this selection of images; Still trying to get my Flikr Account sorted out.
Shouldn't be long though!
There
are a group of houses very similar to the Barlow Lane houses in the centre of Crewe called Gaffers Row, it where the managers of the railway works lived.
May have been built by Jerry Brothers a Liverpool builders. Jerry Brothers were famous for havingQuote:
Originally Posted by wallasey
houses that looked grand from the front yet cheap at the rear - all show. Sometines it was shoddy at the rear. The term "Jerry Built", used all over the
UK, meant grand at the front cheap at the rear, which eventually became meaning shoddily built.
Many houses in Liverpool and London, only had the
ornamented front walls built and nothing behind. A show house would be finished to view. When a firm order came in the house behind was built. In many
cases this resulted in the front wall of the house not keyed into the rest of the house and ocassionally the wall would move forwards. There are a few of
these houses still around, especially in London. Whe a renovation takes place the Building inspectors insist that heavy angle plates are installed between
the front wall and the abutting walls to keep the house together and prevent a collapse. In the 1800s house collapses were common - no building
regs.
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Just catching up on some old posts.Quote:
Originally Posted by wallasey
This shop was a
Co-op.
They sold Wheatsheaf bread, hence the carving.
Also Crumpsall Cream Crackers (made in Crumpsall, Manchester).
99 Tea.
Do you remember your
Divi number?
I worked for them in the early 1960s.
This is the same building in 1987.
The carving says: "Established 1891. Peace and Plenty".
Hi PhilipQuote:
Originally Posted by PhilipG
You say, "They
sold Wheatsheaf bread, hence the carving." But isn't it the other way around -- that the wheatsheaf was the symbol of the Co-operative Wholesale Society
(CWS)? Yes CWS made Wheatsheaf Bread and it had the CWS on it which was the wheatsheaf. The symbol appeared on banners and on other artifacts of the
Co-operative movement.
Chris
The Old Toffee Shop, EvertonQuote:
Originally Posted by victorialush
Hello Chris.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChrisGeorge
I don't know why I missed your reply.
Yes, I did know about the Wheatsheaf being the symbol of the Co-op, but I was just giving out a little check-list of the Co-op in case people remembered various things, and not a history, so perhaps that bit came out wrong.
So sorry.
I'll try to make sure that you don't need to correct my posts in future. :)
Philip.
Interesting 19th C attempt at the improvement of the lot of the Liverpool Poor.
Interesting terracotta tile work typical of Coop buildings of the period around the turn of the 20th C
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This was taken from waterloo warehouse a few years ago looking across the city centre at sunrise.
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Again this was taken a few years ago on the mersey. Its the middle part of a ship that was being built being pulled along by tugs. The mersey is great for seeing unusal things sailing in it.
Paul, just looking at your superb pics and for some reason portions of the clouds look like certain people.....or is just the side effects of my medication?:shock:Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul D
Gerry Adams
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Little Richard
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They are greeeet! lol
prescot road old swan
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derby lane old swan
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Ennismore road old swan
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West Derby
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I remember my dad telling me he and his cousin threw a sickie at Laird's one sunny morning and went rowing on the lake all day, even fell asleep in the sun and his eyelids near stuck. Next morning there were sombre looks from all the management as they tried to explain their fantastic sun tans away.
Not hidden but not seen much
LFC grass treatment.
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:)
wow! a true gem :lfc:Quote:
Originally Posted by Gnomie
Ta Kev:)
How about these two lazy hidden gems:celb (23):
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^^Oink Oink^^ :unibrow:
Great pictures boys :handclap: Dave I definitely see Gerry Adams as well.:ninja:
aahh, they are lovely Gnomie :) :)
Smashing pictures. :handclap:
I love those old shop adverts, Gnomie.
Does anyone know where this is?
It was posted by 4737carlin on flickr, and he can't remember, but thinks it's Newsham Park/Green Lane area.
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I think it may be on the side of Atkinson's Bakery which is on the corner of Green Lane/Russian Drive. Business is still listed as being Atkinson's Homestead Bakery.
Thanks MarkA.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkA
The 1936 directory doesn't list Homestead, but Atkinson's Bakery is listed on that corner, so I'll check it out.
I like to take a photo of the whole building as well.
Thats the one Mark:)Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkA
Whilst you're there, try the BBQ beef on a crusty barm. Given the choice of a McDonalds or a BBQ beef from Atkinson's, my 2 kids choose Atkinson's every time.Quote:
Originally Posted by PhilipG
For The Reds
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For The Blues http://s23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...a_/Everton-FC/
Click on pictures to enlarge.
:)
Fantastic photographs in this thread! Enjoyed them all! :celb (23):
Chris
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Originally Posted by PhilipG
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Gnomie, did you see the small courtyard behind the building? Its entrance is on Russian Drive at the end of those cottages that are in your picture. Looked to me like there used to be stables there at some time.
Is this another wheatsheaf?
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