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    Quote Originally Posted by pablo42 View Post
    I remeber doing some work on a chemist down Great Homer Street. It was all beautiful wood columns and etched glass. It was tore down. Tragic.
    Have to watch out for you, Pabs. First you go to work on a chemist and then on another thread, you are having a go at Jack Daniels.

    Seriously, though, I don't understand why the good old buildings have to be swept away. Look at what they've done to Garston, swept it all away. It's appalling.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ChrisGeorge View Post
    Have to watch out for you, Pabs. First you go to work on a chemist and then on another thread, you are having a go at Jack Daniels.

    Seriously, though, I don't understand why the good old buildings have to be swept away. Look at what they've done to Garston, swept it all away. It's appalling.

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    I've not spent a great deal of time the Chris, just passed through. I never knew what it was like. Love the Matchworks though and the Old Fire station.

    I used to be a plumber in a previous life, so done lots of work in all types of buildings.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pablo42 View Post
    yeah, there were some great pubs that were disposed of too. Some of the interiors were outstanding. Don't remember the names though. They were on Greaty were the Northern Fruit maket was. Wallasey approach there now.
    I know , all the cosyness and charachet has gone now , Greaty is desolate and very depressing indeed .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Debra View Post
    I know , all the cosyness and charachet has gone now , Greaty is desolate and very depressing indeed .
    It wasn't that good then neither. It's getting better though. It's not somewhere to live anymore though.

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    One of my former girlfriends lived off Edge Lane and she and her family were moved in the Sixties out to Cantrill Farm. . . They moved a lot of families out to such soulless estates. Ugh.
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    Default Removal of buildings

    I havent been to Everton for 35 yrs, my wife used to live in Eastbourne street, all down now I think, and at the top of their street was the Everton monument. I hope thats still there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kdraper42 View Post
    I havent been to Everton for 35 yrs, my wife used to live in Eastbourne street, all down now I think, and at the top of their street was the Everton monument. I hope thats still there.
    You probably mean the lockup don't you, that's on Everton's badge. Yes it's still there. Nice of them to leave something. . . .

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    Quote Originally Posted by pablo42 View Post
    It wasn't that good then neither. It's getting better though. It's not somewhere to live anymore though.
    No it is'nt , i would hate to live there , i even hate driving along there to get home ...

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    Red face Buildings

    Yes thats the one Chris, we used to dink in a pub I think was called The Prince Rupert, or was it William ?I forget It was that long ago.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Debra View Post
    No it is'nt , i would hate to live there , i even hate driving along there to get home ...
    Yeah, its a bit grim

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    Quote Originally Posted by pablo42 View Post
    Yeah, its a bit grim
    It makes me appreciate trees .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Debra View Post
    It makes me appreciate trees .
    Gone a lot greener up that way now. Do you remember those brown stone buildings on Boundary Street. They pulled them down. Criminal.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pablo42 View Post
    Gone a lot greener up that way now. Do you remember those brown stone buildings on Boundary Street. They pulled them down. Criminal.
    Yes the houses with the steps leading up to them ? My doctors was there on that row , beautiful houses , imagine having one of them now ..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Debra View Post
    Yes the houses with the steps leading up to them ? My doctors was there on that row , beautiful houses , imagine having one of them now ..
    I always thought they'd be saved.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kdraper42 View Post
    Yes thats the one Chris, we used to dink in a pub I think was called The Prince Rupert, or was it William ?I forget It was that long ago.
    It would have been the Prince Rupert. The history is that Prince Rupert, a German cousin of King Charles I, led the Royal army that beseiged Liverpool during the English Civil War in the 1640's and there was a building in Everton known as "Prince Rupert's Cottage" -- it is in one of Herdman's paintings. I don't know whether the pub was in the same cottage.

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