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    Here's a few pictures of Webster Rd









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    Cracking photos,are the old rag shop in spekeland road tony isaccas where we used to weigth the old clothes for a few bob 1/6d.

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    the only thing that probably hasn't changed in english society since thos days shown in thos great pictures is the school sign.

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    Webster Rd taken around 1970 (roughly where the icecream van is in the first photo)


    Webster Rd taken last year

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    Quote Originally Posted by shoney View Post
    the only thing that probably hasn't changed in english society since thos days shown in thos great pictures is the school sign.
    The house behind the lamp standard is subsiding and being propped up with wood.

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    Quote Originally Posted by robbo176 View Post
    Here's a few pictures of Webster Rd




    In the black and white piccie the tower on the Spofforth pub can be seen. Behind it is the Microwave tower of the Gas Board offices. I worked there at that time. Many an afternoon had been spent in the Spofforth.

    The houses were glazed yellow brick. most are still around today. The Gas Board offices are no more. Still there but unused.
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    the row nearest the ice cream van was demolished around 1973/74 as part of slum clearance
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    Quote Originally Posted by robbo176 View Post
    the row nearest the ice cream van was demolished around 1973/74 as part of slum clearance

    I'm sure I recognise it round there. Is the Grosvenor pub near there ?

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    The Grosvenor is up the other end of Lawrence Road, near Gainsborough Road.

    That modern picture is actually Lawrence Road too isn't it? Where the new NHS Surgery is?

    One other thing isn't Webster road the first road udner the CPO's? Aren't they meant to be razed in 2008?

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    Quote Originally Posted by bertles86 View Post
    The Grosvenor is up the other end of Lawrence Road, near Gainsborough Road.

    That modern picture is actually Lawrence Road too isn't it? Where the new NHS Surgery is?

    One other thing isn't Webster road the first road udner the CPO's? Aren't they meant to be razed in 2008?

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    the modern photo was taken outside where my house once stood in Webster Rd aprox where the photo of me as a baby was taken
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    the Grosvernor is on Grosvernor rd. at the junctions of Grosvenor, Bishopgate and Bagot Streets.

    from Merseypub website

    love the old ice cream van, wonder if it's a Critchley's one?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Waterways View Post


    In the black and white piccie the tower on the Spofforth pub can be seen. Behind it is the Microwave tower of the Gas Board offices. I worked there at that time. Many an afternoon had been spent in the Spofforth.

    The houses were glazed yellow brick. most are still around today. The Gas Board offices are no more. Still there but unused.
    hi Waterways,
    When did you work in the Gas Board Office? as my brother and his ex wife worked there, my brother did his apprentiship there when he left school,(he is 50 now) and his ex wife worked in the offices. My brother`s name is Alan Wynn and his wife was Pam Taggart, he worked there for years until they closed it down and he took redundancy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by carole1000 View Post
    hi Waterways,
    When did you work in the Gas Board Office? as my brother and his ex wife worked there, my brother did his apprentiship there when he left school,(he is 50 now) and his ex wife worked in the offices. My brother`s name is Alan Wynn and his wife was Pam Taggart, he worked there for years until they closed it down and he took redundancy.

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    I was there in the 1970s. The name is not familiar, however I have forgot so many names.

    When was it closed down? They must still run the Gas Service operation. Where is that done now?
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    I used to cut through the back entry in Annerley Street after dinner to go back to Webster Rd School.
    The dairy was Thwaites and we would watch the cows being brought in to the buildings, this was 1959/63.
    Nearly always late back to school after watching this little event.
    Any pics of the school would be nice.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Waterways View Post
    I was there in the 1970s. The name is not familiar, however I have forgot so many names.

    When was it closed down? They must still run the Gas Service operation. Where is that done now?
    Yes He will have been there in the 1970s although only as a young 17 yr old doing his apprentiship probably around 1975 onwards until he took redundancy in the mid 90s, he went to a different company but I think they were all offered jobs in the new base in Manchester, dont know whether it is still in Manchester today or not. His exwife Pam worked in the offices around the same time but left to have there son in about 1980!

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