Pre-Slum Clearances Housing Images

[scouse smurf]

I've got no chance of "getting back to my roots !" my old house in Greta Street fell down !! a couple of years before the whole area was pulled down !,the hospital I was born Sefton General gone but not forgotten !, the church where I was christened St Cleopas was knocked down ,my old School St Silas is still there but not the old buildings I knew !, my old "big" school Liverpool Girls College was knocked down.... I'm getting a bit of a complex !.

Remind me never to buy a property u've owned !!!

[squiggs]

Squiggs,its not about the buildings still standing when going back to our roots,its about living near the area we were born after being/living away from it for so many years.

Albion street which is were my youth and growing up was,is now an area of two storey maisonettes and is bismall depressing eyesore to what was once a community spirit of terraced houses..

These eyesores are still standing.

I dont think I will ever again live near where I was born or brought up !, I have some lovely fond memories of "The Dingle" but sadly it is not the place I rememeber, during my childhood it felt safe, friendly, and homely I never knew a front door to be closed during the day and everyone knew evreyone else, it was wierd I lived "in a slum" but couldnt haver been happier if I had lived in a castle !.

[wsteve55]

I dont think I will ever again live near where I was born or brought up !, I have some lovely fond memories of "The Dingle" but sadly it is not the place I rememeber, during my childhood it felt safe, friendly, and homely I never knew a front door to be closed during the day and everyone knew evreyone else, it was wierd I lived "in a slum" but couldnt haver been happier if I had lived in a castle !.

Hi Sqiggs,
not an usual view,I think, but was it really so different, or as kid's,are we just unaware!?

[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!

[Lelly]

I just love seeing all these pics- amazing to see how people lived back then and not really that long ago either