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    Ribble Bus Station.
    Skelhorne Street, Liverpool.
    Next to Lime Street Station.
    It opened in 1960 and closed 11 Sept 1989.
    These photos were taken on 9 Sept 1989.
    The office block and cafe shown on the first photo were demolished and the rest of the building became a night club called Buzz.















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    Brilliant pics. Thanks
    Memories of My Mum and Dad waving me off to London as a lad from there.

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    fantastic as always philip!

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    I don't remember it being such a tight turn in for the buses, although I was too busy losing my pocket money in the Las Vegas facing!

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    Quote Originally Posted by scouserdave View Post
    Brilliant pics. Thanks
    Memories of My Mum and Dad waving me off to London as a lad from there.
    ...and that smell SD that you always get around bus stations, its like a mixture of rubber, engines etc...takes me back too.
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    Thanks for posting these Philip, brings back a few memories! For the amount of time I spent here waiting for the bus to Waterloo (where my boyfriend lived), I'm surprised I never took a photo. It looks pretty much exactly like I remember it, too. I also used to go to the chippy across the street quite often.

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    Thanks Folks.
    It holds a special place for me because I was a bus conductor there.
    Starting at Southport, I transferred to Skelhorne Street when I moved to Liverpool in 1968.

    The Local services were on the lower level, and the coaches left from the upper level.
    Sounds strange to visitors, but Copperas Hill was so steep.

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    Once again Philip, great photos.

    I'm very interested in the history of that area - Skelhorne Street and Bolton Street.

    I'd be very pleased if anyone has any photographs of the old taxi facilities that used to be on this site at the Adelphi side.

    The old taxi showroom used to be here - Taxifix - The company is now at Gt. Howard St.

    Any info. or photos appreciated.



    - You can see the old Taxifix in this photo (one of Philip's)
    I think if you look in the red circle you can just about make out the taxi on the roof. You'd have to know what you were looking for.

    In all honesty, this is the one part of Lpl that I wish I had managed to photograph before all the changes.

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    Oh yes, I do remember that tight turn, the bus very nearly even used to topple over just turning into Skelhorne st from Lime st, never mind trying to turn into Bolton st from Skelhorne st and you can see what I mean in the book Liverpool Memories. I remember getting on the open back Ribbles here too in the late 60s it may have been. Although the bus stop was right outside our tennies at Gerard Gardens, my dad always used to walk me to the Ribble depot to either get the L3 to Crosby or the 59 to Old Road so we could fish using nets at the canal behind the old Vernons pools which became the Paradox.

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    Superb pictures.

    I am hoping someone can post something similair for Queens Square & South Castle Street prior to them being re-developed in the 70's / 80's.

    I think Chavasse Park was built over South Castle Street around 1976 and the Law Courts came in the early 80's.

    As for Queens Square, I would appreciate any photos of it following its clearance in the 70's after which it became a wasteland / car park prior to the new development.

    Thanks

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    I think there's a pic of it as a car park, next to St. John's House (where I worked in 1979) on another thread in the Liverpool past pics, the one with all the buses by the bubble bus stops in Roe Street.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 5th beatle View Post
    As for Queens Square, I would appreciate any photos of it following its clearance in the 70's after which it became a wasteland / car park prior to the new development.

    Thanks
    I posted some here a while ago.

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    Brilliant Philip

    I remember it well but those pics bring it all back again.

    really great pics.

    Tony

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    you have left us thirsty for more pics now Philip!

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