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You know your old when some kid ask ya whats a Steery.:smirk:
Its a plank of wood with two struts sticking out at each end of the plank,the back one was nailed to the plank and the front one was affixed to the front of the plank by a big nut&bolt,the axles were nailed to the struts and the wheels were obtained from housies prams which were robbed outside the washouses....lookout havelock street here I come. :shock: :)
It was short for a steering cart.Quote:
Originally Posted by George
Our Da made us boss steeries :PDT11
Don't forget the rope attached to the front struts for steering and also used for pulling.:handclap:Quote:
Originally Posted by George
Does anyone remember what a candle waxed board was used for? :unibrow:
Was for sliding down the steep decliningt streets around nethy area.
Is a steery the same as a goey?
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Originally Posted by chrismarsden
Dunno? different districts had different names for things like a Jigger was the name for an entry where I was born and elsewhere it was called an enog.
My wife says enog now :)Quote:
Originally Posted by George
You wern't from Lodgy were you?Quote:
Originally Posted by George
We always said enog for entry.
"Oller" for waste ground or as they say here in Garston a "Bank".
Don't forget your steery had to have big wheels at the back and small ones at the front to make it go faster ???:eek:
The basic requirements for steery was an old pram, plus 3 pieces of wood.
plenty of nails which had to be at least 3 inches long and 1 bolt.
The tool required were a hammer and a poker as we never owned drills when I was young.
The pram supplied the wheels and the axles,the wood was a piece for the chassis and 2 pieces for attaching the axles to.
You attached the axles to the wood with a line of nails each side driven into the wood leaving enough nail showing to be bent over the axle.
The back axle was then nailed onto the chassis
The poker was heated up till red hot then a hole burnt into the chassis and the front axle bearing wood then the bolt was dropped in.
Various refinements were added later on like a rear brake,a seat made out of an orange box
This is where the famous Soap Box Derby which was held annually originated from.
We used to ride ours down Sandhills Lane as it is a good incline
Yeah a goey..Go Kart . Same thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by chrismarsden
Great fun. You never see kids making them anymore.
No good for handling though, especially trying to turn a little at high speed.Quote:
Originally Posted by disco
Never had a hammer, half a house brick.Quote:
Originally Posted by gregs dad
We were bi-lingual, although I preferred enog, jigger sounded very common.....I was from Princes Park don't you know.Quote:
Originally Posted by chrismarsden
Thanks for the Memories everyone
Back jiggers....i remember belly floppin across to each backyard wall right up our street to the oller...
The last steery i made was for my son and his mates about 10 years ago,,,
They were made up,,,,lol
Bill..
Nah! mate,I was from the St Domingo Rd area.Quote:
Originally Posted by chrismarsden
How about the word "Bombdies" would ya know what that was? :)
St Domingo road up on Everton ridge with the likes of Havelock st, Mitford st and Hobart st (which is still like Everest) must've been a joy to steery down.
Bombdies around Islington and Norton Street supplied our bommie wood for years on end during the 70s.
The play areas the Luftwaffe kindly created for us?Quote:
Originally Posted by George
They're the ones Ged,it was easier to cart a greased/waxed board up,Ged than the Steery after sliding down from the top...talk about madness alls ya had to grip was the front of the board bent and someone gave you a hefty push.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ged
Hey Ged,I'm suprised you're not out photographing the long roads off Breck Road as they have started pulling them down.
Yeah whats the hollow biz George?
Do you mean Walton Breck rd ??Quote:
Originally Posted by George
There was no demolition going on up Breck rd when I was there yesterday !:PDT_Aliboronz_11:
All the streets off Breck rd are in good shape - refurbished terraced houses - and further up heading towards Everton rd the houses are all 'new property'
I think you may mean the streets along by LFC ?? - Walton Breck rd, many which are tinned up awaiting demolition and some already gone.
My apologies,I meant off Breckfield Rd North ie Mere Lane area across th road.Quote:
Originally Posted by lindylou
:) ..... there are so many Brecks to get mixed up with .. Breck rd, Walton Breck, Lower Breck, Breckfield rd South, Breckfield rd North :)
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Originally Posted by George
Been there and many others, check my streets ahead page under Demolition and desolation (or something like that) :)
Or Something Like That?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ged
What kind of self advert is that, Put some effort in :)
:)
I remember making our own bikes, that was fun.
Then I got a chopper :) ( bike Ged )
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Originally Posted by Ged
No fly's on you is there Ged,last week when I went to the LRO there was this little dsk in the corner with a reservation sign on it marked "Ged" :)
I try to get one right by the counter, those poor sods do so much walking for me :unibrow::ninja:
stands for GERIATRIC EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
:lol: When the guy brought me some photies he threw a pair of gloves on the table,thought he was being funny :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ged
Two things on goeys'. (Whats the plural? lol)
They'd always tip over if you tried to get around a corner too quickly.
You'd always get about 4 kids on one, until one poor kid would join in and the rear wheels would buckle, obviously, the buckling would be that last kid's fault!
I wonder if the reason you never see them anymore is because theres just not as many Blue Cross style prams about?
Plastic wheels mate,plastic wheels...they just don't look right on a bygone invention. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kolchak
Then again we could always call it customized ie "Buggy wheels" for low rider steery lol
As long as they weren't boxing gloves eh? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by George
Don't forget the hole , where the nut and bolt went, for steering.
That hole had to be made with a RED HOT POKER.It took a while.Me dad said it made the wood hard and so it didn't turn into a great big hole. Oh, and drills were too dangerous for us kids. Errrr...
Good road test, either Beacon lane , or the new tarmac car park in stanley park. It was smooth , then.... late sixties i think.
Got up some mad speed in the car park, so much that we had to jump off the steerie before it smashed to bits in the railings on Priory road....scabby knees again!
Pffft" ya wimp,this was the territory for steeries....Havelock StreetQuote:
Originally Posted by Pauly
I lived in Toxteth until I was 10, Mozart Street at the bottom of Lodge Lane, back entries were called Jiggers in the 40's, and we had steery races, the Birrell brothers from Holdens shop on Lodge Lane were ace steery makers. I moved to Garston in 1952, we did'nt have any jiggers in the Tennies, it back alleys or enogs, and being a tenement kid we very rarely got to going in back alleys ,they were all in "enemy" territory . But what about your tyres, did'nt any have an old car tyre that they used to punt with a short stick ? You'd see kids in the street showing their wheels off to other kids, some poor sods only had old bike wheel, no tyres, no spokes ,just a rim really. And then there were the bike frames,no pedals,no brakes, no seat ,no tyres, ,we used to use them like skooters, one foot on the part where there should have been a pedal and the other foot used to propel yourself along. Those streets in Everton were ideal for freewheeling down. A guy I sailed with in the 60's told me he had a bike like I've just described, he got on it in a street by St Georges church and freewheeled downhill toward Great Homer Street. As he gathered speed he put both feet on the frame and shot downhill; it was as he approached the bottom that he realised he had no way of stopping, he crossed Great Homer street to the sound of screams and motor horns. When he came to a halt on the other side of Great Homer Street he dropped the frame and fled. Teddy Woods was his name,he'd be about 70 now,a great character.
BrianD
I think you mean Netherfield road ,Brian? simple reason is to get to Great homer Street you had to crossover Nethy(Busy road) and then go down a street across nethy which brought you out onto Graty, So I suspect it was Nethy were he came to a halt as the streets on the other side of Nethy were zigzagged.