Excellent pic, Marky! Many thanks.
Chris
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Yer the only premises on Sm Rd with a horses head on it is a small DIY shop
It's actually being repainted at this moment if where talking about the same location
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It occurs to me that you may not be aware of the excellent pictures of the horses' head DIY shop and former Sefton cinema that are being posted in the Some Liverpool Cinemas thread by Philip G. and Marky.
Chris
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Pardon, Dave?
Do you mean this?
"Philip, do you have any pics of the Paladium, Hippodrome and Majestic? They were my local cinemas as a kid living in Hughes St, L6."
It must have been my twin who posted pictures of those 3 cinemas.
If you're taliking about the Curzon post, I responded to that.
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Last edited by PhilipG; 11-30-2006 at 04:13 PM.
I'll have to wait for brighter weather to capture a straight-on view. Something I noticed when blowing a pic up is the word 'valentine' inscribed on the wall to one side of the horses' head.
A great picture, Marky.
Could Valentine be the horse's name?
I've just done a Google
http://www.mischiefblue.co.uk/grandnational.html
and found this:
Fences: 9 & 25 VALENTINE'S BROOK
Height: 5ft
There's nothing romantic about Valentine's. The fence precedes a traversing road and is a slightly smaller version Becher's, offering a drop on the landing side. The fence was named after Irish jockey Alan Power's steed Valentine in 1840, who pulled up at the fence before spectacularly clearing it from a stationary position.
Last edited by PhilipG; 12-14-2006 at 01:06 AM.
I thought the name might be the horse or even the sculptor. The name 'valentine' has probably remained hidden under the plaster/paint for many years. A bust of a Grand National horse would be quite a find, and of interest to the races' historians. I couldn't even guess why it it would be there so long after the famous Grand National incident, unless of course the original owner of the building just happened to have a horse called valentine. It'd be great to find out the facts.
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