Lark Lane Area

**kdraper42** · 05-17-2009

Those photos take me back to the Lane of my childhood,(1942/1963) Thanks Ged for the happy memories you have sent in . I hope you have more in your collection, Just sorry that I didnt take any pics when I lived there.
Cheers Keith Draper.

**Mikerux** · 05-21-2009

Great Picture Ged brought back a lot of happy memories of my youth.I can remember a large house before you got to Lark Lane-I think it was on the corner of Parkfield Road-It had something to do with Spiritualism and used to have seance times posted on a board.I always felt it looked a little spooky.
When I started drinking I used to frequent the Albert pub on Lark Lane.It had a snooker room upstairs with a dumb waiter set in the wall-handy to have your drinks sent up on-saved carrying them up the stairs and spilling them on the way.

**gorgeous** · 05-21-2009

Mike
My friend & her husband used to be the caretakers of the spiritulist church in Parkfield rd , they were given free rent & in turn they looked after the spitulist's that came to do whatever it is they do ,

readings & healings ( i think )
i was glad when she'd saved enough money & moved house .
It's still the same today , doesn't look any different .

Luv Karen

**birdseye** · 05-22-2009

Some pictures here of Aigburth Road/Lark Lane in the early 60s. There's also a couple of Grassendale showing the Aigburth Hotel and Garston Old Road.

http://www.liverpoolcapitalofculture...oric-liverpool

**Davec** · 05-23-2009

Originally Posted by birdseye

Some pictures here of Aigburth Road/Lark Lane in the early 60s. There's also a couple of Grassendale showing the Aigburth Hotel and Garston Old Road.

http://www.liverpoolcapitalofculture...oric-liverpool

I'm getting this warning; 'Reported Attack Site!'

**Kev** · 05-23-2009

I think the attack warning is an advertisement.

**Paddy** · 05-23-2009

Fantastic pictures birdseye

**kdraper42** · 05-23-2009

Thanks for those photos Davtec and birdseye, but when I click on the small photos to enlarge them , I am only getting half a photo !! Is it something I am doing wrong?I cant seem to scroll them up either. cheers Keith.

**birdseye** · 05-23-2009

I don't seem to have anything attached to the link, it just opens normally. KD, I've just got an email from a friend in Australia and they've opened okay for him.
I wonder does anyone remember the blocked up gateway on the corner of Aigburth Road and Parkfield Road where a local photographer used to put up big pictures of babies as an advertisment?

**lindylou** · 05-23-2009

I've viewed them ok.

**dazza** · 11-17-2009

Forge Cottages c.1960s - photo courtesy of LRO
Forge Cottages were accessed from Lark Lane. The yard doors [centre image] were once the entrance to the old Smithy [Blacksmith], which the cottages took the name from. The cottages themselves are shown with the end gable bordering the yard. The houses in the distance are the backs of Prince's View, which was accessed from Hesketh Street. The side of the old Masonic pub [now Negresco] can be seen on the right.

Forge Cottages today, 2007 - My photo.
The street still exists, including the kerbs and side pavement, but now forms the car park to the old Masonic Pub. The new housing development is built over what was originally Prince's View. Think of the Blacksmith's hammer clanging, next time you walk past.

Prince's View, c.1960's photo courtesy of LRO
One of the earliest laid out streets in Lark Lane. The backs of Bickerton Street houses can be seen over the wall.

1905 OS map extract.

**pablo42** · 11-17-2009

Great pictures Darren.

**ItsaZappathing** · 11-17-2009

Originally Posted by pablo42

Great pictures Darren.

I'll second that

**Paddy6** · 11-17-2009

Two nice pictures, thanks Darren. I remember Forge Cottages well and they appear on early maps of Lark Lane, well before the other streets. On the map where the word "Cottages" appears were small patches of garden which the tennants could use to grow a few vegetables and keep a few hens.

Princes View achieved some notoriety in the late 1920s in a very sad affair when a Mrs Stewart murdered her two young sons there with a razor after becoming involved with another man. He was found to have had no part in the murder and discharged whilst she was later found guilty but insane. The razor had been borrowed from Mr Williams the barber in the Lane, who was still cutting hair there in the 1960s.