Does anyone know if there are any plans for this stretch of road?
Esp the Savings Bank
Liverpool Savings Bank, Park Road L8
Does anyone know if there are any plans for this stretch of road?
Esp the Savings Bank
I doubt it very much.Originally Posted by MissInformed
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.
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.
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.
1993 & 1995.
Good architecture.
Thanks for that Philip.
The first pic makes me quite sad...sad that it could have been saved at that time..
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.
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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?
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The bank is just visible on the far right of the close-up.
And it's the stone building with the tall chimneys on the other.
When you mentioned coming out of the sports centre, for some reason I thought of the original baths building in Steble Street.
so there are no plans for this stretch of road?
what a shame...
It seems that the whole of the Park rd area to the south is being redeveloped and is looking better than previous. Not sure about town end though. The buildings should be put into use.
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Admittedly, a lot has changed in the 15 years I've lived there, and much new stuff built, but it doesn't alter my point about some parts which are just left derelict for years, even decades.
The Southern part of Park rd. just doesn't seem the same without the old buildings e.g. the dark terraced housing that used to be here:
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne...6001898&size=l
A couple of listed buildings (over the road from the grassed area) have been lost in the last few years, to be replaced with empty space/modern housing.
Did you ever take photos of that terrace, Marky?The Southern part of Park rd. just doesn't seem the same without the old buildings e.g. the dark terraced housing that used to be here:
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne...6001898&size=l
A couple of listed buildings (over the road from the grassed area) have been lost in the last few years, to be replaced with empty space/modern housing.
I didn't, but I took a few of the other side.
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