Liverpool Savings Bank, Park Road L8

[MissInformed]

Does anyone know if there are any plans for this stretch of road?
Esp the Savings Bank

[PhilipG]

Does anyone know if there are any plans for this stretch of road?
Esp the Savings Bank

I doubt it very much.
The policy with the old buildings on Park Road seems to be to wait till they start falling down, then demolish just those.
Eventually, they will all be demolished (but it could take a few more years).
Like the gap between the Savings Bank and the pub.
I know the date the bank closed because I'd just moved to the Dingle in Feb 1991 and opened an account there.
They didn't tell me they were going to close in a couple of weeks!
I'll sort out a couple of photos I took of that stretch in about 1992.

[MissInformed]

thanks phil!

I remember a jewellers on park road at that end when I was little, and a few other shops there.
Would love to see a pic.

[marky]

I can remember a launderette and a hairdressers around that area.
Although the stone-work states 'Liverpool Savings Bank' it was the TSB when I remember it. I'm sure there are still other buildings of the 'Liverpool Savings Bank' surviving today...Scotland road I think was the Northern Branch. I'm sure there is another branch...Smithdown road or Garston. Of the old Liverpool Savings Bank buildings the Southern branch (Park rd) looks the worst. Another part of Liverpools' history left to rot.
I was around the back of these buildings (Malta st) last week, and they look even worse from there. Most of the 60's flats around there will be demolished aswell, eventually.

[PhilipG]

1993 & 1995.
Good architecture.

[MissInformed]

Thanks for that Philip.
The first pic makes me quite sad...sad that it could have been saved at that time..

[sweetpatooti]

thanks phil!

I remember a jewellers on park road at that end when I was little, and a few other shops there.
Would love to see a pic.

Do you mean Stanley's opposite the Farmers?

[MissInformed]

i have no idea what it was called.
I must have been under five when I went.

[lindylou]

Wonder if anyone recalls a wool shop - more or less opposite St Patricks church? I knew the people who ran the shop and I had a Saturday job there.
I'd love to see a picture of it to refresh my memory.
Not sure if that block of shops has gone now. It's a long time since I went past that way.
There were steps going up to the wool shop. I can't remember what other shops were on either side.

[MissInformed]

hi lindy
those shops are not there. I am prob too young to remember them though.
I will ask my mum about it, cos she was brought up around st patrick's.
If it is where I think you mean, there are new apartments there now.
Do you mean by the priests house?

[Kev]

1993 & 1995.
Good architecture.

What a state this gem is in. I wonder what the building was used for when I come out of Park Rd Sports Center, its a lovely building.

[lindylou]

hi lindy
those shops are not there. I am prob too young to remember them though.
I will ask my mum about it, cos she was brought up around st patrick's.
If it is where I think you mean, there are new apartments there now.
Do you mean by the priests house?

It could have been. I'm not sure as I'm talking about donkeys' years ago, ha,ha.

Ask your mum does she remember a wool shop.

[MissInformed]

will do lindy! and ill let you know

[PhilipG]

What a state this gem is in. I wonder what the building was used for when I come out of Park Rd Sports Center, its a lovely building.

Not sure which one you mean, Kev.
Is it on one of the 2 photos?

BTW, the one with the tall chimneys is the Liverpool Savings Bank/TSB.

[Kev]

Not sure which one you mean, Kev.
Is it on one of the 2 photos?

BTW, the one with the tall chimneys is the Liverpool Savings Bank/TSB.

The old bank, its in both pics isnt it or am I getting confused with something else?