Printable View
This is how the photo appeared in "A Miller'sTale: a history of J. Bibby and Sons Ltd., Liverpool" by J B & C L Bibby (1978).
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2302/...dda1e6b4_o.jpg
Bibby's H/O in King Edward Street was designed by W Aubrey Thomas.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/44435674@N00/467398524/
here are some pics of the art deco post i found wouldn't it be great if it was returned to where it once stood
Where do the batteries go?
I don't want to think what you use your batteries for, young (?) Ged, but I recharge mine. :PDT_Piratz_26:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ged
My Mothers neighbour had this pic on his wall. Here is a phot of it through the glass. It puts the art-deco column in more perspective.
Also;
The Stork Hotel, Queens Square, being demolished in 1976
Great Charlotte Street in 1970
Anyone remember the name of the pub on the left in picture 3? Spanish House or something like that? There were always crates and sacks of vegetables stacked up under the windows.
its a dynamo ged duhh :unibrow:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ged
thats great sirob looks even better in the drawingQuote:
Originally Posted by Sirob
debz:PDT_Piratz_26:
The pub in Great Charlotte Street was called The Spanish House Hotel, if you could see it through the piles of veg crates!
Walton Hall Park boating lake and me in pram! 1952
Walton Park Gardens, from swingpark, 1962
Back of Mariners Road, Blundellsands, 1950
Ann Fowlers, Netherfield Road South, Cresswell Mount flats behind, 1983
Bibbys Oil Mill, Great Howard street, 1920 (photo Bibbys)
That could be me a year later. Babies don't come that shape any more- 'National Dried Milk kids' my mam used to call us.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sirob
Why would anyone with half a brain pull this down? What a beauty.
http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/att...7&d=1209934889
Inspired by the Chicago School of Architecture and designed by W Aubrey Thomas who was responsible for only about a dozen buildings.Quote:
Originally Posted by Waterways
(Luckily, about two-thirds survive.)
It was completed in 1917, so was probably considered as important as the Cunard Building.
IMHO the Bibby warehouse was much better looking than the old-fashioned looking Cunard, which was another rare example of a building being allowed to be completed during the "Great War".
Other buildings like churches and cinemas had work suspended until after the war was over.
Alright, I admit to being a National Dried Milk baby and I still have a tin to prove it!!!!!!
Ex Mersey Docks No 26 in a Skelmersdale playground, 1973
Ex Pilkingtons loco also in a Skem playground, 1973
Widnes Docks, Avonside "Lucy" May 1970
And working a Birkenhead Docks railtour(flares are in!!!) July 1978
Train from Paddington, Birkenhead Woodside June 1966
I,ve had a bit of a hint from one of the staff in Mersey House Drury Lane, that the firm are relocating to one of the refurbished offices behind the town hall.
If that is so I wonder if Mersey House will end up being new apartments like the one beside it revamped by Mr Beetham or will another large congloberate mover in there as offices.:ninja:
with all this architecture etc going on, i'm surprised he had time to write thomas the tank engineQuote:
Originally Posted by PhilipG
ignore me , its late
The Cunard Building was Italianesque in design. The Bibby warehouse would have made 100s of flats, and superb soundproofing too. I met someone who lived in the Waterloo Dock Warehouse and said he never once heard the neighbours.Quote:
Originally Posted by PhilipG
no disrespect but there are a few people in austria who made that claim last week, accoustics are a science that needs to be enginnered properly, i've walked into new and old buildings with terrible accoustics, anyway the building would need 100's of carparks built in the basement for it to appeal to modern tenants as most people have 1-2 vehicles these days and secure parking is a must when living in a built up urban enviromentQuote:
Originally Posted by Waterways
Grand Designs Live, ch 4 tonight, is featuring new sound insulation materials. Worth watching. I doubt any sound would penetrate those floors and walls. They were super solid and sound insulation depends on mass. Car parking could have been an adjacent building, or just lots of space around the warehouse - there was lots of space.Quote:
Originally Posted by shoney
can't get channel 4 where i live, sure there are some good products,Quote:
Originally Posted by Waterways
Quote:
Originally Posted by mrs zappa
I hope what you are saying is true about it being at a council depot because I heard 2 different stories which are both related to each other. One being a slight misunderstanding of the truth. They are : 1. the column was broken up for hardcore when the road/entrance was remodelled and 2.that the column is buried under the road outside the entrance (this is a slight misunderstanding I think of the story that it is now broken up and buried under tha road as hardcore etc)
I pray that it is Walton but dont understand why it would still remain there.
Waterways, what about the fuel poverty - no cavity wall insulation - like the tennies and Canning :rolleyes:
my cousin is frank carlyle ( local historian) and he usually gets things spot on, it was he who told me where it was now, whether its in bits or not i don't know. its still a shame it's not outside the tunnel wouldn't you agree.Quote:
Originally Posted by christy
debz
Do you mean the Bibbys warehouse? No. 1 it is a world away from the tennies in architecture. The inside of the outer walls can have a layer of high performing foam insulation against the bricks and plastered over. Then high performing windows. The people who buy the apartments in Bibbys would not be in the fuel poverty bracket.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ged
Here is the official photo of No. 26, from Port Of Liverpool News, 12/1969
Bootle Oriel Road Station in 1952
Birkenhead Woodside station(look at the size of it!) 1952
Ex L&Y 2-4-2 tank engine at Liverpool Exchange (J. Peden)
Ex L&Y Aspinall 0-6-0 tank at Sandhills(Real Photo Co. Ltd)
loving the ones of woodside and any of birkenhead town or monks ferry by the way
Some Street scenes taken a few days ago.
The third picture shows a hidden Liverpool gem, its a coffee wholsalers who will blend you a 1lb of coffee from different bags. The smell of the place is worth a visit.
Good, unusal pics, Samp. Certainly unseen, but part of Liverpool.
Bidston Ore Terminal, Summers Shotton train in 1966
Speke Junction Shed, 50+ locos dumped! 7 January 1968
Crawfords Biscuits, Binns Road, fireless loco, 24 November 1965
Lime Street Station, Lancastrian railtour, 6 April 1968
As above, BR's last steam hauled train, 11 August 1968
Yes; It would have been great had the station remained; Birkenhead could have had a conference facility along the lines of the GMex. What with it's location next to the river, this would have been Birkenhead's greatest selling point in some respects!Quote:
Originally Posted by Lukeo25
Why were people so quick in demolishing these great buildings?Quote:
Originally Posted by wallasey
In the 1960s no one thought of using a station as a basketball or concert arena. Woodside is also easy to get to from all over the region too, so an ideal site. The best location was Central Station, with its own underground station beneath. Imagine that as a concert arena. The city has done some really stupid things.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouseinmanc
Woodside was busy. Lime St was to take all the main line traffic, so Woodside had to go, along with Central and Exchange stations.
Hello SIROB the pictures of mine were taken just off Hope St!Quote:
Originally Posted by Sirob
I'm still waiting for more of your glass slides?
Sorry, Samp, There are no more glass slides relating to Liverpool.
Have some oddities;
The Anglican Cathederal from Great George Street, 1955
What was before the Liver Buildings, (no date or credit)
Baxendales, Pembroke Place, 1963 (Baxendales)
Backyard, Bellamy road, Walton (tin bath, mangle, hen run and cat!) 1943
Joey from "Bread" (BBC Publicity)
Hi,BrianD here,My daughter Jo',the one who is responsible for starting out on my story,would like me to bring her ,her son, and husband too, for a day out in Liverpool next Saturday. Now I have'nt the foggiest of where best to take them to what the City of Culture is doing. Are any special events on next Saturday, the 17th of May. If anyone has an idea of where best to go ,please,please ,let me know,I'd be ever so grateful,
BrianD
You can't go wrong with the usual suspects Brian - ie. The Albert dock, both cathedrals (incl the top of the Anglican), The Walker Art Gallery, Museum, The Georges hall is open to the public now topped off with a ferry ride. There's still that Stewart Bale old liverpool photographs exhibition on at the conservation centre Whitechapel too.
fancy Ged leaving out Mathew st. Tutt tutt
Brian, if you go to the Albert Dock take your folks up to the 4th floor and have lunch there, and on your way in and out of the cafe, look out of the windows facing the pier head. It never fails to stun me to see that view, and it will bring back maritime memories for you too especially. You can view the work that is going on at the pier head and marvell at it too.
Enjoy yourselves and welcome to Liverpool Capital Of Culture, mate.
Cheers. Kvn:hug:
If you're taking a trip on the ferry on a Saturday Brian, I think you'll have to get an River Explorer ticket, which will cost you over a fiver for an adult. If you do though, it's worth getting off at Woodside and visiting Birkenhead Priory, which is only about ten minutes walk from the terminal and well worth seeing. Google it for a full description. Next door is the tower of St. Mary's church, which you can go up and get a fantastic view of the river and Liverpool's waterfront. Great backdrop for photos. All free.
Ormskirk station on 2 June 1967
Southport St. Lukes Station on 25 June 1967
Preston train passing Southport shed, 24 June 1964
Crossens station, with Sothport train, 1 September 1964
Southport station pilot, August 1958
Two views of Brooks grocers in West Derby Village, June 1976
Three views of Liverpool Exchange Station on 9 April 1977
Note; Interesting backgrounds to the latter pics.
:handclap:Excellent Sirob:handclap: