Those photos take me back to the Lane of my childhood,(1942/1963) Thanks Ged for the happy memories you have sent in . I hope you have more in your collection, Just sorry that I didnt take any pics when I lived there.
Cheers Keith Draper.
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Those photos take me back to the Lane of my childhood,(1942/1963) Thanks Ged for the happy memories you have sent in . I hope you have more in your collection, Just sorry that I didnt take any pics when I lived there.
Cheers Keith Draper.
Great Picture Ged brought back a lot of happy memories of my youth.I can remember a large house before you got to Lark Lane-I think it was on the corner of Parkfield Road-It had something to do with Spiritualism and used to have seance times posted on a board.I always felt it looked a little spooky.
When I started drinking I used to frequent the Albert pub on Lark Lane.It had a snooker room upstairs with a dumb waiter set in the wall-handy to have your drinks sent up on-saved carrying them up the stairs and spilling them on the way.
Mike
My friend & her husband used to be the caretakers of the spiritulist church in Parkfield rd , they were given free rent & in turn they looked after the spitulist's that came to do whatever it is they do , lol readings & healings ( i think )
i was glad when she'd saved enough money & moved house .
It's still the same today , doesn't look any different .
Luv Karen
Some pictures here of Aigburth Road/Lark Lane in the early 60s. There's also a couple of Grassendale showing the Aigburth Hotel and Garston Old Road.
http://www.liverpoolcapitalofculture...oric-liverpool
I'm getting this warning; 'Reported Attack Site!'Quote:
Originally Posted by birdseye
I think the attack warning is an advertisement.
Fantastic pictures birdseye :handclap:
Thanks for those photos Davtec and birdseye, but when I click on the small photos to enlarge them , I am only getting half a photo !! Is it something I am doing wrong?I cant seem to scroll them up either. cheers Keith.
I don't seem to have anything attached to the link, it just opens normally. KD, I've just got an email from a friend in Australia and they've opened okay for him.
I wonder does anyone remember the blocked up gateway on the corner of Aigburth Road and Parkfield Road where a local photographer used to put up big pictures of babies as an advertisment?
I've viewed them ok. :PDT11
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Forge Cottages c.1960s - photo courtesy of LRO
Forge Cottages were accessed from Lark Lane. The yard doors [centre image] were once the entrance to the old Smithy [Blacksmith], which the cottages took the name from. The cottages themselves are shown with the end gable bordering the yard. The houses in the distance are the backs of Prince's View, which was accessed from Hesketh Street. The side of the old Masonic pub [now Negresco] can be seen on the right.
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Forge Cottages today, 2007 - My photo.
The street still exists, including the kerbs and side pavement, but now forms the car park to the old Masonic Pub. The new housing development is built over what was originally Prince's View. Think of the Blacksmith's hammer clanging, next time you walk past.
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Prince's View, c.1960's photo courtesy of LRO
One of the earliest laid out streets in Lark Lane. The backs of Bickerton Street houses can be seen over the wall.
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1905 OS map extract.
Great pictures Darren.
I'll second that:PDT11:handclap:Quote:
Originally Posted by pablo42
Two nice pictures, thanks Darren. I remember Forge Cottages well and they appear on early maps of Lark Lane, well before the other streets. On the map where the word "Cottages" appears were small patches of garden which the tennants could use to grow a few vegetables and keep a few hens.
Princes View achieved some notoriety in the late 1920s in a very sad affair when a Mrs Stewart murdered her two young sons there with a razor after becoming involved with another man. He was found to have had no part in the murder and discharged whilst she was later found guilty but insane. The razor had been borrowed from Mr Williams the barber in the Lane, who was still cutting hair there in the 1960s.
Very interesting information, Paddy6. Thanks for the fine photographs, Darren. :handclap:
Chris :PDT_Aliboronz_24:
Hi everyone, thanks for your comments earlier. :PDT_Aliboronz_24:
Also, great article find Paddy, thanks for posting that.
What a tragedy though. My grandparents were living in Prince's View in 1901, but had moved on to Bickerton Street by 1911. They must have known about it though.
I've attached the 1930's Kelly's Directory for Lark Lane.
This LRO pic states only Lark Lane for this, but I've got a feeling this is a shot of Nos. 2 & 4 Bickerton Street.
http://archive.liverpool.gov.uk/dser...ge=1285_75.jpg
Great pic' Dave! I've never seen those type of bin's in action,as it were! There were plenty of them about,at one time,but usually,people used traditional bins,for some reason?Quote:
Originally Posted by Davec
These old bins were the type that fitted into a 'hole in the wall' usually in the back 'jigger' (entry) on all of the old 'terraced type houses'.
Yeh,that's right,but they looked like a good idea that had been forgotten,as I never knew of anyone actually using them,or seeing them emptied!Quote:
Originally Posted by Norm NZ
They were used in Garston 'when I was a lad'!!! but what a job it was for the binmen!!! sometimes the bins would still have hot ashes in them after people cleared out their fireplaces!!!!
I can remember them because they still used them until 1960's.Quote:
Originally Posted by wsteve55
Those bins are my earliest memories , of the bin men down Bickerton Street, although ours was different , as we lived at the very bottom house number 55, and our back door was in Bickerton Street, so they had to go down the back entry as we called them then to bring out the other peoples full bins, they must have weighed a ton , but our bin was emptied from Bickerton ST as our back door was in Bickerton Street., also the bin cart was horse pulled and emptied in the corporation yard on the corner of Little Parkfield road and Lark Lane. I lived in Bickerton Street from 1942 until 1953, I have such great happy memories from then, I have mixed feelings at the way Lark Lane has developped, it has gone up market, I think I liked it the way it was in those days, very village like , everyone knew each other without being in each persons face. Cheers Keith.
Hi Keith,Quote:
Originally Posted by kdraper42
Do you remember the Wareing family who lived at No. 24 Bickerton Street?
Daz
Hello Dazza, yes I know their name , but cant put a face to it, I do remember the name, their house was two up from the entry, My older brother would have know them , but sadly he died last year.
Hi Keith,Quote:
Originally Posted by kdraper42
Sorry to hear about your brother. The Wareing's were my gt. grandparents.
Daz
I have posted these photos here, they may interest someone who lives or lived in the area. I believe it is somewhere by Lark Lane.
A friend of mine from school days bought the premises for working on cars. about the mid sixties!
This was the state of the place before he started there.
Those bins yer on about....
Courtesy of the LRO and Geds rummaging.
A visit to http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk reveals some info about the cars in the photo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Samp
HFM 277:
the FM series was allocated to the Chester (B) area.
HFM was used twice: MAR 1947 and JUN 1958
GFR 486:
FR was Blackpool (B).
GFR was used twice: FEB 1953 and DEC 1963
I think GFR 486 is a Standard Vanguard Phase 1. Have a look at the second to last photo here http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/vanguard.htm
The other one is more of a challenge :)
This page lists some ways of tracking down old cars
and this is where you can look up the pre 1973 numbers
Great fun.
When I'm up in June I'm staying at the Alicia hotel. Very convenient for Lark Lane and a touch of deja vu.
I think the church in the background on the 'cars' photo is Christ Church.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&so...=12,74.03,,0,5
HI KEITH ,I lived above the glass shop no 29 ( now the rhubarb pub) next door to Martins shop, the years i lived in the lane war time up to 1951,like u now in oz joe
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Yes birdeye i remember them now that you have mentioned them thats going back a long time must have been just after the war,and the copper directing trafic at the bottom of the lane standing in what looked like a big bin ,do you remember the bus shelter corner of livingston drive & lark lane lots of the old folk used to have a natter in it also quite warm as the sun used to shine in it winter time,my other memory was the big tree bottom left of the lane painted white during the war ,so you wouldn't bang into it,iworked as the order boy pulling the handcart from the coop on aigburth road also had a carrier byke they put a sack of spuds on the front carrier going to the ivanhoe hotel the spuds were heavyer than me it tipped up right at the bottom of parkfield rd and the copper p-----d himself laughing ,i have a picture of all the lads who used togo to christ church boys club corner of hesketh and the lane,so many memorys of the good old days of the lane ,next door to me was the Murrys family ,cheers joe in oz
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yes i seem to remember drapers did you live down bickerton st ??? joe
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Lark Lane businesses from the 1900 Liverpool directory. Some of those shown were still trading under the same name in the 50s and 60s.
Thank's Paddy6, Interesting to read. I lived in 7 Hadassah Grove in 1962-63, and drove taxi's out of Logans Garage (opp Hadassah Grove) can't remember what number it was though! left there in Sept 63 to come to NZ.
I can remember a car showroom next to what used to be the clinic Norm, maybe mid 60s. On Colin Wilkinson's Streets Of Liverpool site he's added a picture of a horsedrawn omnibus taken in the Lane in the 1890s. Would that be the same place shown behind the bus?
I think that would be right Paddy, I believe 'Marantz restaurant occupies the building now. Tha name 'Logans' was a name from years back!! but it was printed on the doors, chap who ran the garage when I was there was a Ken Mount'
Just had a look at Colin Wilkinson's pic, and Yes! the double wooden doors at the right of photo, (and rear of horse drawn bus) is the garage in question, very narrow! but went back quite a way! and still has rings and chains on the walls, which I believe was for horses stabled there in the past.
KEITH are you any relation to Arthur Draper he used to go to THE CHRIST CHURCH CLUB ROOM with me and my brother Tom corner of Hesketh and the lane long time ago, Isent a photo of all the lads in the club to one of those sights in the lane and it was put on the web page now ive lost my copy im trying to get a copy ?our plce was facing down bickerton st no29 l lane,,me 83 the other side of oz HAVE now found foto Arthur right in the middle front row this was taken about 1945/6 he would be about 10/12 ish
A few interesting clippings from the Liverpool Mercury.
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Keith i have picture with what i think maybe your Arthur taken with all the lads from christ church boys club corner of Hesketh st would be about 1944,45 hes about 9/10 yrs old ,I am also on it being in the group,send me a email address ,via this one jomo_loco@hotmail.com,me i'm over on the sunny side of oz w/a joe
RE the old bns if you look at the picture you will see they have alug on either side when the bin was empty it was lifted into a frame in the wall which had two slots were the lugs went in the bin was pushed forward it then dropped down and rested on its base with a tin lid in a permanent position ,in order to empty the bin the bin man had a lifting bdevice consisting of a metal tube,one inch approx diameter ,it had a piece of plate steel fitted to each end with a hook like shape which was pushed through a gap locating the lug on either side the bin was snatched, upward and forward in one movement then ending up sitting on its base sticking out of the frame next job was to lift it down ,mind you it could be heavy at times in my day i only saw them emtying the rubbish into baskets putting it on the shoulder and taking it out to the horse and bin cart (mind you the poor buggers didnt have much rubbish if it could be burnt they used it for heating)if i may digress we used to go around peoples bins with long wire hooks trying to find any rags so that we could get a penny of the rag man or a gold fish, the other thing we did was have a spoon flattend tied to a stick about 4 foot long and go around the shops ect that had a big grid covering under the windows for ventilation for the basemet we got many a penny or two lifting them up with our flattend spoons ) happy days before the war in the dingle ,dont think the north end kids had the nouse like us dingle kids HO HO JOE / SEE DAVEC PICTURE ON ITEM 138 OF BINS o
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