Pre-Slum Clearances Housing Images

[Kev]

Please see attached images courtesy of Liverpool City Library and the Records Office:

[A.D.W]

Spartan conditions, Kev!

[Kev]

A few more:

[Kev]

and a few more.....check out the medical officer taking measurements:

[A.D.W]

and a few more.....check out the medical officer taking measurements:

I am not sure if I could walk through that alleyway! Would be a tight fit, like.

[Kev]

These were before the 'clearances' that took place.

[mickeydoolan]

I am not sure if I could walk through that alleyway! Would be a tight fit, like.

Maybe you wouldn't have been so big!

[Barry Clarkson]

and a few more.....check out the medical officer taking measurements:

and no litter or graffiti. Proud people. It leaves a lump in your throat.

[Waterways]

and no litter or graffiti. Proud people. It leaves a lump in your throat.

I remember the tail end of them. They were not nice. They were supposed to be demolished in the early 1900s, however two world wars got in the way.

[Ged]

Dozens here including some uploaded today.

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[Barry Clarkson]

Dozens here including some uploaded today.

http://inacityliving.piczo.com/?g=44922707&cr=7



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a truly fantastic collection brings memories back of when I delivered lino and oilcloth all round these areas. Often offered a tip. On one snowy winters day I was once offered a whisky. I would have been about eighteen at the time. These folk were the salt of the earth.

[shytalk]

a truly fantastic collection brings memories back of when I delivered lino and oilcloth all round these areas. Often offered a tip. On one snowy winters day I was once offered a whisky. I would have been about eighteen at the time. These folk were the salt of the earth.

Very true Barry, I enjoyed my time working for your family business before you. Did they still have the big Bedford with the crash gearbox when you drove for the store?

[Barry Clarkson]

Very true Barry, I enjoyed my time working for your family business before you. Did they still have the big Bedford with the crash gearbox when you drove for the store?

They did but I never drove it. The old Bedford must have been replaced soon after you left with a smaller bedford at the start of the 60s
The furniture became smaller and our department less busy. The credit stores and TJs Provident cheques made for sharp competition as we were a cash trader.

[pablo42]

Some great pictures. Amazing that people lived like that. I wonder if future generations will look back at us and be equally horrified. You wonder what gave them the strength to go on. No wonder the pubs were doing good business, the pubs must have been seen as palaces.

[Ged]

A lot of us on here seemed to have lived in the tennies. I never thought of them as drab or run down when living in them as you knew no better but some people obviously do looking back and in comparison to what there is now although there were always nice garden houses from way back. Look at Wavertree Garden suburb.