Wonderful pictures ! :handclap:, Liverpool have some lovely buildings which we should be very proud of !
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Wonderful pictures ! :handclap:, Liverpool have some lovely buildings which we should be very proud of !
Couldn't say GD. Maybe one of our buildings experts might know. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by gregs dad
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Dwellings in Percy Street,datestones read 1835
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Blackburne House on Hope St and Blackburne Place
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Thanks Joe,one of my favourite streets!
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Warehouse in Atlantic Street,Bootle,with nice looking balconies, notice the handshake sculpture in the right corner.
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Zoomed in on the handshake,it looks like it was added in later times
It sort of looks like the handshake was removed from another building (a demolished one?) and transplanted to this building.Quote:
Originally Posted by gregs dad
The bricks are a different size and the workmanship isn't the finest on the addition...
Is there any special significance to the handshake "logo"?
Is it something to do with the Co-op. I passed a building on Eaton Road yesterday that had the same handshake on it.
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I remembered this on the side too, so it must be a co-operative.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&...,0.037808&z=15
another photo from flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24187030@N03/2631873007/
Ah... I remember my mum and "the divi" from the 60's...:)Quote:
Originally Posted by JMLE
But the local Booker Av. Co-Op is now the Post Office - if my 40 year memory is correct...
I was surprised last year that the Somerfield (sp?) Supermarket sold Co-Op brand stuff.... I guess they got bought out...
Mark. What was your mum doing with ScouseMouse.Quote:
Originally Posted by az_gila
It's ok - he doesn't look in here :)
Hello AZQuote:
Originally Posted by az_gila
It sounds like we are from the same part of Liverpool. Do you remember Cyril at the Co-op butchers, Pye's newsagents at the corner of Booker Avenue and N. Mossley Hill Road, Bousfield's greengrocers, Cousins bakery with the lady with the purple hair, and Mr Hull the chemists, plus Mr MacDougall, the chandler, a former LFC fulback, whom I reference in this poem,"The Bombers of Mossley Hill"?
All the best
Chris
Yep...some of them vaguely... but we lived half way between the Booker Ave. shops and the Garston Old Rd. shops. I remember usually going to Garston Old Rd. unless the Post Office was needed...:)Quote:
Originally Posted by ChrisGeorge
The Chemist is the only one still there that you mention, I think.
I believe our street was the dividing line between Booker Av. primary school and Duncombe Rd. - our street kids seemed divided between the two schools.
My sister still lives on one of the roads behind the Booker Av. Post Office, and mum is still in the same house (since 1950!!)
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The old engine works on Regent Rd and Brunswick Place
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The old Harland and Wolfe engineering works on Regent Rd and some boxes that changed the world
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The old Harland and Wolfe foundry in Strand Rd,now a storage depot
Good pic's Joe! When I took some,of this, last year,I was told that the warehouse is used to store architectural remnants,salvaged from various buildings! The hands logo was taken from a co-op in Dingle,I think,but I'm not sure about those balconies!! The building is supposedly up for demolition,along with others in the area?!Quote:
Originally Posted by gregs dad
I love this building the way it curves.
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