Old Liverpool Streets

**ChrisGeorge** · 09-21-2011

Originally Posted by az_gila

I stand corrected.....

I bet the number of qualified sett layers is getting smaller and smaller each year...

A large number of the old sett layers will be set in the ground already.

Cheers

Chris

**lindylou** · 09-21-2011

I always forget cobbles are different to setts.

**grekko** · 09-21-2011

Originally Posted by lindylou

I always forget cobbles are different to setts.

have you become sett in your ways, or is it just cobble(r)s?

**collegepudding** · 09-21-2011

Your going to pave your way into trouble with remarks like that grekko

collegepudding

**grekko** · 09-22-2011

CP,didn't you notice the thread was beginning to flag?

**lindylou** · 09-22-2011

Ha,ha, very good everyone

**wsteve55** · 09-22-2011

Originally Posted by Bernie

They are not cobbles, they are setts.

That's true,(just using common vernacular!

) but I don't think you use cement/mortar to set them? The skilled setter's have probably already gone,as it was some time ago,when they did this,and even to my untrained eye,they didn't look right then!

**lindylou** · 09-22-2011

How's this for laying cobbles

Portugal. All done by hand.

**collegepudding** · 09-22-2011

true craftsmanship at work there by the looks of it Lindy.....nice pics !

collegepudding

---------- Post added at 07:10 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:04 PM ----------

Originally Posted by grekko

CP,didn't you notice the thread was beginning to flag?

grekko that remark was based on very little foundation .... don't start getting me into trouble again i am trying to re-cement my friendship with Kev

collegepudding

**wsteve55** · 09-23-2011

Originally Posted by lindylou

How's this for laying cobbles

Portugal. All done by hand.

Get them down.....to William Brown!!

**ChrisGeorge** · 09-23-2011

Good pics, Lindy. Thanks for sharing them with us. Not cobbles of course but mosaic, carrying on the tradition of mosaic floors found in ancient times, in Roman villas in England, and by Italian immigrant craftsmen in Liverpool shops and other establishments.

All the best

Chris

**ItsaZappathing** · 09-23-2011

Originally Posted by lindylou

How's this for laying cobbles

Portugal. All done by hand.

Very good that. However, when you think of how the Italians used to do the mosiacs..now that was skill.
Nice one LL.

**gregs dad** · 10-06-2011

Liverpool Community college in Roscoe Lane

Roscoe Lane with it`s old and new sidewalks

Bold Place

old liverpool street by exacta2a, on Flickr

Autumn on Pilgrim Street

**ellergreen** · 10-06-2011

Originally Posted by wsteve55

That's true,(just using common vernacular!

) but I don't think you use cement/mortar to set them? The skilled setter's have probably already gone,as it was some time ago,when they did this,and even to my untrained eye,they didn't look right then!

That reminds me, 'sett' streets that were thorough fares, e.g. burlington street had flage stones laid like tram lines so as the wheels of horse drawn wagons would be less liable to damage. And easier to haul I assume.

**gregs dad** · 10-09-2011

old Liverpool street by exacta2a, on Flickr

Greek Street,the new build on the corner is called Windsor Court,I presume after the pub which stood
there.