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09-21-2010
Ged

Baden Road again...........

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liver...name_page.html

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09-21-2010
hmtmaj

Its rough around there :ninja:
09-27-2010
bluesareus

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Originally Posted by hmtmaj

Its rough around there :ninja:

Never used to be
09-28-2010
hmtmaj

I know and I live in Old Swan !
09-28-2010
Ged

They've arrested a fella for this. Not sure if it's that nutter out of Baden House from the earlier report?

Mart. How come I can't get hold of you, is your moby off - do the police have it???

Mart.........

Mart........
09-28-2010
hmtmaj

What ?
09-28-2010
Ged

Oh. They've let you go then? :)
09-28-2010
hmtmaj

Yes, I gave your name in, they will meet you on Thursday night at the film show, thats because they don't venture out to woolyback land !
10-10-2010
Spike

Taken from the top of St Paul's church today.

Mart Ive got more for you.
10-10-2010
burkhilly

Great Pictures Spike - I can just about see my roof in picture three!
10-10-2010
Spike

Cheers. I spotted your roof Ha Ha.

I have more. Mart will put them on his site in Time.
10-10-2010
hmtmaj

Superb pics Spike, on such a bright day too. :handclap:
10-10-2010
Norm NZ

Thanks for the pics, Spike, I particularly like the last two as they really show the 'changing' face of the residentional aspect of the city. Ta!
10-11-2010
Spike

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Originally Posted by Norm NZ

Thanks for the pics, Spike, I particularly like the last two as they really show the 'changing' face of the residentional aspect of the city. Ta!

Cheers Norm.

It does show a lot of changes. Though I must say that area has kept hold of the past well. Some great buildings there. It shows the new and the old can be mixed together.

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Originally Posted by hmtmaj

Superb pics Spike, on such a bright day too. :handclap:

Too bright Mart. The sun was so strong I could not see what I was taking.

Its feckin scary on that roof. You dont realise how high up it is. You have to walk in the gutter and it has a 2 foot wall around it. Bloomin fantastic though.
10-16-2010
andysuth

Is anyone else here horrified by the planning permission to build a 33m tall cinema on Rathbone Park?
They want to brick up halfway along Binns Road and get rid of the lower half of the road (where the Meccano Factory used to be)

Plans are here:
http://northgate.liverpool.gov.uk/Do...APP&key=764692

Note Particularly "Landscape MASTERPLAN - AERIAL.pdf"
and:
"M3458_P3 P105 Edge Lane Colour Elevation.jpg"
and:
"M3458_P3-202A Leisure Elevations.pdf"

People don't realise how bad this will be for the area and for residents surrounding the Park.

This Cinema will overlook houses on Edge Lane and Rathbone Road, who knows what they'll look like when Derwent Holdings let them get run down like they've done with the other properties they own on Edge Lane.

Anyone else seen these plans and had any thoughts about them (for or against)?

-Andy,
Binns Road.
10-17-2010
JMLE

Hi Andy, if you live in Rathbone Road, Oceanic Road or Runic Road and your rear or forward view is of Rathbone Park, I can understand your concern. As regards part of Binns Road disappearing, well, as it's not a through road from Gamel Street and hasn't been for many years, it shouldn't make any difference. I've worked on Binns Road for nigh on 30 years and personally, I hope that the sooner it's done the better as it's in a sorry state right now.
10-17-2010
anonymouse

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Originally Posted by M1796_01F Landscape MASTERPLAN

"There is the opportunity to integrate this feature as a theme with with public artwork around the wider Edge Lane development."

Public artwork? Do they mean GRAFFITI? More work for Banksy?
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12-19-2010
ThePenkethPedant

My family used to have a printer`s shop in Prescot Road, Old Swan, close to the P.O., the premises are now a pet shop. I wonder if there are any photos around showing the building as the printers, it used to have a canvas awning bearing the name `John Donald`. The printing business finished around 1947, I think, although the shop awning was still in use in the 1950s. The founders lived off St Oswald Street in a street that is no longer there, near where the health centre is today. Later they moved to Guernsey Road, off Green Lane. The great uncle who took over the business lived in West Oakfield Park.
12-19-2010
hmtmaj

Which Street of St Oswalds St did they live ?

Mart
12-22-2010
ThePenkethPedant

Mart, I`m blowed if I can find my note of the street concerned - I believe it was almost opposite Macqueen Street. They lived also at 72 St Oswald Street at one time, I think that was the address at the 1891 Census.
12-22-2010
JMLE

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Originally Posted by ThePenkethPedant

I believe it was almost opposite Macqueen Street.

It was Gascoyne Street which was in later years changed to Hubert Street for some reason.
12-24-2010
ThePenkethPedant

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Originally Posted by JMLE

It was Gascoyne Street which was in later years changed to Hubert Street for some reason.

Thanks for that, although the names don`t ring any bells: I think maybe I was trying to work out where 72 St Oswald Street would be if the properties were still standing. No idea how I came to place that number to somwhere opposite Macqueen Street though.
12-25-2010
JMLE

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Originally Posted by ThePenkethPedant

Thanks for that, although the names don`t ring any bells: I think maybe I was trying to work out where 72 St Oswald Street would be if the properties were still standing. No idea how I came to place that number to somwhere opposite Macqueen Street though.

If you put 72 St Oswalds Street into Google maps, it says it was where the new'ish medical centre is.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=72+st+oswalds+street&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnea r=72+St+Oswald's+St,+Liverpool+L13+2,+United+Kingd om&gl=uk&z=16
12-29-2010
ThePenkethPedant

Thanks for that, thought it was around that area - wonder if any photos exist showing that old area of St Os Street, also when the houses that were there were demolished.
12-29-2010
hmtmaj

I have seen pics of Rock St and Rock Court, which were a bit lower down St Oswalds st.
Before the flats were built, where Tesco is now.

Mart
12-29-2010
ChrisGeorge

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Originally Posted by ThePenkethPedant

My family used to have a printer`s shop in Prescot Road, Old Swan, close to the P.O., the premises are now a pet shop. I wonder if there are any photos around showing the building as the printers, it used to have a canvas awning bearing the name `John Donald`. The printing business finished around 1947, I think, although the shop awning was still in use in the 1950s. The founders lived off St Oswald Street in a street that is no longer there, near where the health centre is today. Later they moved to Guernsey Road, off Green Lane. The great uncle who took over the business lived in West Oakfield Park.

Not a picture of the printer's shop but there is this Google Books result that shows a book printed by "John Donald, Printer, 556 Prescot Road, Old Swan." The publication is the Journal of the Liverpool Geological Association, Volume 6, 1886.

Cheers

Chris http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3553/...f7f5973d_o.gif
12-30-2010
wsteve55

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Originally Posted by ThePenkethPedant

Thanks for that, thought it was around that area - wonder if any photos exist showing that old area of St Os Street, also when the houses that were there were demolished.

Not quite as far along St.Oswald st.as you want,but here's acouple of pic's which you might like,anyway!

Photo's courtesy of Ann,and L.R.O.?
12-30-2010
Ged

The houses in that area were demolished in the early 1930s when there was a whole programme of variouis slum clearances including that of Hoults corner on St. Oswalds street. It was then widened and the tenements builts as the new way forward housing with indoor bathrooms, hot and cold running water, electricity power supply and points, balaconies with window boxes and central squares containing playground aparatus for the residents children safebeing.
02-19-2011
glyn.boyd@hotmail.com

Glyn Boyd.Australia

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Originally Posted by carole1000

What a small world, my grandad lived in No. 43 his surname was wynn, he died in 1977 but my brother bought his house with his then wife and they had a son Gareth, they are divorced now but my ex sister-in-law still lives there. which number were you?

Hey carole,Was your grandad ritchie wynn??? if so he was a mate of mine that moved to wavertree and we had a drink in the pub called the thatched house on the corner of wavetree rd and the road that led down to smithdown rd .his wife was maureen.i used to live in 81 orleans rd.
02-19-2011
hmtmaj

Hi Glynn,

Glimpse of Orleans Rd in 1976, 55 seconds in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MODcrT8pud8

Mart
02-19-2011
Spike

Quote:

Originally Posted by hmtmaj

Hi Glynn,

Glimpse of Orleans Rd in 1976, 55 seconds in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MODcrT8pud8

Mart

Just after you see mart walking through the Swan in his new fashion gear.
02-19-2011
Ged

Which he still has on today. :PDT_Piratz_26:
02-19-2011
hmtmaj

Wayo there lads, that's my best suit :PDT_Xtremez_12:
03-03-2011
glyn.boyd@hotmail.com

glyn

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spike

Just after you see mart walking through the Swan in his new fashion gear.

mary thanks for the trip down orleans rd

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Spike

Just after you see mart walking through the Swan in his new fashion gear.

Hey Mart,I used to play the organ in the coffee house pub by the clock tower wavertree,back in the '60's.Glyn.
03-03-2011
Ged

Mart plays the organ now.
03-03-2011
hmtmaj

He's having you on Glynn :PDT_Xtremez_12:

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