Date Stones and signs around Liverpool

[ChrisGeorge]

Chris, what did I originally put? . Sometimes I'm so keen to get my pics up

Hi Kev

You had Bryan and May . . . maybe you were thinking of the lead singer of the Pretty Things, Brian May.

Chris

[Kev]

Hi Kev

You had Bryan and May . . . maybe you were thinking of the lead singer of the Pretty Things, Brian May.

Chris

, Bryan and May

[Max]

Lark Lane.

No Larks around there though.

[bunf]

Hi folks
Had a little wander around Mount Pleasant and Rodney street today...

[PhilipG]

Hi folks
Had a little wander around Mount Pleasant and Rodney street today...

What does the word say above "97", please?

[bunf]

ive no idea at all im afraid

its now a student housing shop

facing pumpernickles on the corner of clarence st

[PhilipG]

ive no idea at all im afraid

its now a student housing shop

facing pumpernickles on the corner of clarence st

I wasn't expecting the 1936 street directory to still list the firm that did that mosaic.... but it does!
97 Mount Pleasant: Harriman, Edwin & Hubert Edgar, M.P.S. chemists.

Until a few years ago it sold stained glass, and it's good to see that the stained glass windows are still there.

[bunf]

wow!!

thats a great bit of hunting!!

will have to get some of them directories

[Norm NZ]

Here's 4 nice examples found on the old Bryant and May houses in Garston::

"Hey Kev"! I remember those houses! is the old 'Cinder Path' down to Banks Rd still there?

[ChrisGeorge]

I wasn't expecting the 1936 street directory to still list the firm that did that mosaic.... but it does!
97 Mount Pleasant: Harriman, Edwin & Hubert Edgar, M.P.S. chemists.

Until a few years ago it sold stained glass, and it's good to see that the stained glass windows are still there.

Maybe get us a pic of the whole building, bunf or Philip. Thanks in advance if you can!

Another thought is that when the mosaic was done possibly the firm was just Edwin Harriman and that Harriman later on took Hubert Edgar (or is that Edgar Hubert?) as his partner, so that by 1936 it was both names. The mosaic's design looks art nouveau which would date it to 1890's to 1910 or so.

All my best

Chris

[MissInformed]

i thought yesterday, when me and bunf saw that mosaic, it might be a new thread?

I have seen quite a few around the city lately.

[Kev]

"Hey Kev"! I remember those houses! is the old 'Cinder Path' down to Banks Rd still there?

Yes its still there and used many times as it has always been. I used it as a kid as a cut through.

[taffy]

This school was opened in 1897 by the Wesleyan Methodist Church. It remained as a school until the early 1920s when the school moved to the local council Gilmour School. The building was then used as a Methodist church hall and community centre. With the merger of the adjacent Island Rd Methodist Church with the Garston United Reform Church onto one site, the future of the old school building is under discussion and is uncertain at the moment. The church needs to raise about £1 million GBP to refurbish the church hall and main church building. Offers of donations should be addressed to the Garston Park Church treasurer.

[marky]

SCFL,
159, Regent Road

A plain looking building but one of the inscribed stones mentions the Blitz, the second states the architect/builder:

THIS BUILDING WAS ERECTED
TO REPLACE ONE DESTROYED
BY ENEMY ACTION IN MAY 1941
AND WAS OPENED BY
BRIG. GEN. W.N.BICKET O.B.E.
CHAIRMAN & MANAGING DIRECTOR
ON 5th MARCH 1953.

MONTAGU EVANS & SON
ARCHITECTS
2 BRUNSWICK SQ. LONDON
1952
RICHARD COSTAIN & SONS
(LIVERPOOL) LTD.
CONTRACTORS

[taffy]

Interesting terracotta tile work typical of Coop buildings of the period around the turn of the 20th C