And sticking to the forum! - Postcards of Childwall.
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And sticking to the forum! - Postcards of Childwall.
Sod it, I'll just take over this forum :celb (23):
Very rare postcard of Sandfield Tower, West Derby (Sits on the front page of my www.gwalia.moonfruit.com website!
And Mason Street - Edge Hill - Joseph Williamson's house is above/right of the bloke's head on the horse - 2 stories of it are still standing to this day! (attached picture of same location)
Great, Jona76.
They are rare ones.
Here's 2 of Princes Avenue.
Mainly to show how they ruined good photos by colouring them.
Ancestry has a collection of old postcards but I think you need a subcription to see them
heres a few I've saved
I'll post a few more later
Mandy
I love the message on the last one.Quote:
Originally Posted by robbo176
"I've put it in a frame, and it's on the piano."
makes you wonder how these postcards end up in our hands!
Built 1774-5.
It's one of the oldest churches in Liverpool although it has been closed for many years.
It was also one of the first buildings in the world to utilise cast iron.
The building on the far right is still standing.
This was a privately produced postcard and this one was posted in 1914.
That's an underground Gents' toilet in the bottom right corner.
Fantastic pic Philip!
Many thanks!
The Mounting steps in Wavertree, I had an argument with someone ages ago (A polite one of course haha) about the fact that I thought that it was steps to a style. They appear to be too warn down both sides for a few people to clamber on their horses each sunday morning?
Interesting theory, Jona76. You might be right. However, the "Mounting steps" were presumably named that when there were still horses, so one would think that it was used to mount horses then. Just a thought.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jona76
Chris
I believe the tenements (pictured) was known as the 'Victoria Settlements'. I sailed with a guy, Arthur Bell by name, who was born and raised in one of them. Lit by gas, they had a communal toilet and wash-house at the end of each landing and only one fireplace in the "living" room. I also dated a girl, Gwen Taig, who lived in them, until her family found out that I was from Scotland Road and was Catholic. Gwen was a "King Billy" for her parents lodge (Ivy Lodge I think) one twelfth of July.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brenda
Hahaha, I remember all the rivally, I should have been King Billy one year but the wellies didnt fit. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Sloyne
St Michael's Huyton - 6 bells - The heaviest being 400 years old!
Hi all
Just purchased by me on ebay, a postcard of the Sailors' Orphanage, Newsham Park, Liverpool, from the first decade of the twentieth century, postmark dated 1904. Any information gratefully received. Is this the same complex of buildings that became Newsham Hospital or was it a separate entity? As some of you may have seen, I posted recently that my father worked as a physiotherapist at Newsham Hospital in the early 1950's. Thanks in advance for any information on the orphanage vis a vis the hospital. Another reason that I am interested is that my maternal grandmother and one of her sisters were placed by my great grandmother in a sailors' orphanage after her husband (my great grandfather) was killed falling down the stairs aboard ship off South Africa, and it could well have been this same institution. Any information therefore on whether there was only one seamans' orphanage in Liverpool or several would be useful. Thanks.
All my best
Chris