Great picture Paul..Happy days Eh Lad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul D
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Great picture Paul..Happy days Eh Lad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul D
They certainly were.:pQuote:
Originally Posted by Gerard
Nice pic, Paul. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Chris
Yes Chris, the old green goddess god bless lol.
Jericho, it's the Dingle as far my pa in law says and he was born off Cockburn street and has drank the area dry but is now a north ender. I know that LCC change sign locations as frequently as the weather (or when snobs complain it shouldn't be L8 etc) - but what would you class that area as then, perhaps Toxteth?
I know lower down on Park Lane, the tenements there were in L1.
I live in the Dingle, near the Ancient Chapel, but I must admit that I don't know where the boundaries are.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ged
I get the impression it's just a feeling (and a certain amount of pride, perhaps) that people further north say they live in the Dingle.
Wellington Road, for instance, is always claimed to be the Dingle.
Gerard. I remember you saying on the pubs thread that your dad was Born in Arley Street, just by the trees facing the Non Pareil. This picture shows those very houses just before the first world war which were built in 1897 to replace slum property. The scene is looking up from Vauxhall Road towards Summerseat. They were known as 'Scotch Houses' and the front doors were in groups, two leading straight into the ground floor house and the other two leading straight upstairs to seperate houses. They were cleared in the 1960s.
Source: Freddy O'Connor's - A pub on every corner Vol 3.
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Originally Posted by Ged
Ta Ged..Me Uncle John who was also born there will be made up with this when I tell him..I might have that book somewhere or will get it for him.
Gerard. I think Vol 3 is out of print but is available in libraries and probably on ebay or wherever but if you're only interested in that picture itself, you can always get a glossy laser copy from the records office, assuming it's one of theirs (I think it is) but you'll have to join the search room with two forms of I.D.
Cheers Ged,I'll give that a bashQuote:
Originally Posted by Ged
Anyone got any picture's please of Torr Street which ran from Netherfield Road to St Domingo Rd...I'll give that a bash as well Eh in the Library if nobody has any..Cheers. G.
There is a good article in tonight's (Saturday) Echo on life in the Gerard Gardens area.
Hi GerardQuote:
Originally Posted by Gerard
did you live in Torr St? I lived there until about 1986 with my Dad & sister, but my uncles Sammy & John also lived there
Mandy
Got my old scanner working at last, so can scan some of my postcards. I find this one particularly weird looking, it is so completely different from what is there now.
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/9...gesdockmv4.jpg
Edit: chipped the corner putting it back in the album after scanning:disgust:
This is a grubby old card, but looks like the picture was taken around the same time (I assume they hand-coloured the picture before printing them?). Can anyone date it? Late 1890s maybe?
http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/5...erhead1fr0.jpg
A soon to be lost view
http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/9...ertdockjq3.jpg
Maybe this size is better...
http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/8...erhead1iu0.jpg
Well scanned, Poli.
:handclap:
Very good views.Quote:
Originally Posted by Liverpolitan
Most early postcards date from 1902 when it became possible to write the message on the same side as the address.
So, if there is writing on the picture side of the card, and just the address on the other side it will be older.
Queen Victoria died in 1901, and cards with her postage stamps on them are very rare.
Liverpolitan, would you like to join "Old Liverpool" (see below) and post your cards there, as well?
Thank you.
Hi Gerard
I only lived in Torr St for a couple of years in the 80's after we were burnt out of the Radcliffe estate
there was an Ellis Family who lived in Clare Terrace
Mandy
Hi Liverpolitan
Great postcards. Thanks for posting them here. I encourage you to join the "Old Liverpool" group on Flickr as well. Hope to see you there.
Chris
A couple of pics from a new book, Yesterday's Liverpool by Ian Boumphrey.
The first one from 1874 shows St. John's church to the West of St. George's Hall. The second is a 1955 shot of London Road and Jeromes where all the staged family shots from the area were taken.
That's the Queensway tunnel arch just been put in in 1931. From the book Yesterday's Liverpool by Ian Boumphry.
I must get this book!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ged
Ian Boumphrey has done many books - mainly Yesterday's Wirral.
They're always well researched, with great photos - usually from postcards.
I think this may be his first about Liverpool.
Yes, he lists all his books inside - Yesterday's Wirral 1 - 9 plus a couple of others.
A nice pic of Jerome's, Ged. I believe my Mom and I had our passport photo taken there. . . I was only age six in 1954 when it would have been done and we were both on the same passport.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ged
Chris
I wonder when it opened Chris because I have photos of my dad taken in 1926 in Jeromes.
Hello GedQuote:
Originally Posted by Ged
I came across the following sites which indicate that Jeromes was a nationwide chain with a head office, at least in the 1960's, in Wolverhampton:
http://website.lineone.net/~mauricef...20Studios.html
http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/PP_I/pp_jerome_0.htm
I am assuming the chain was established some time in the early decades of the twentieth century. Perhaps either from these sites or from elsewhere we can tie down the date the London Road branch of Jeromes began.
Chris
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Originally Posted by Ged
Did you get the Book in Town Ged..Where about mate.
Waterstones in Bold street have it Gerard. They keep moving the local history section, now on the left wall as you go in.
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Originally Posted by PhilipG
Thanks for the info - I have a few that are written on at the front ,which
did look older, so that 1902 date makes a lot of sense. I'll find out how to join your group, that looks great - I've got quite a few old cards now, some I
am really fond of.
Good Lad..Quote:
Originally Posted by Ged
A picture of the heavily bombed St Nicholas' Church, Pier Head.
(Source unknown)
Thanks, Jona. So sad to see. I was though mightily pleased to see the recently posted pics of the interior of St. Nicholas's either by yourself or Gerard perhaps (please correct me if you would) esp. since I have never been in the church.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jona76
Chris
Click on the link to Old Liverpool below.Quote:
Originally Posted by Liverpolitan
You should see the option to "Join this Group".
Looking forward to having you join us.
pm me if you have any problems.
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Originally Posted by ChrisGeorge
Hi Chris, nope they weren't taken by me. Can't put my name to those!
It's quite strange to think that the church/tower there is fairly 'new' i.e. they replaced the church (or at least most of it) after the war and before that in 1810, the old tower came down and had to be totally rebuilt.
Something that you may not know is that after this incident, all church towers were checked in Liverpool for structural problems and it was found that Childwall was in a poor state as well. This is why they built a new tower at All Saints Childwall around the same time as the one at St Nicks!
Thanks, Jona. No I didn't know that about Childwall Church -- could explain why the "gargoyles" that you showed us recently look a bit "fake"-- eh?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jona76
Chris
'Fake' The cheek of it! LOL - They're original from 1810 and are made of stone. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by ChrisGeorge
Weren't taken that long ago, but they certainly qualify for Liverpool Past:)
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/past001.jpg
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/past002.jpg
D'yer Like them Phil !!
Certainly do, Gerard. :handclap:Quote:
Originally Posted by Gerard
Let me know exactly how you want me to credit your photos.