Unseen Liverpool

**Sirob** · 03-02-2008

Certain parts of the city appear to have suffered from a famine of photographers. Mundane streets were taken for granted, until they were gone! I tried to preserve on film everyday and unusual aspects of the way we were, keeping one jump ahead of the bulldozers!
My collection has remained unseen, until now, so enjoy.

The pics;
Sunset, from Sheil Park flats, 25 December 1971.
Consort Street, Edge Hill, August 1971 (typical 2 up, 2 down terraces c/w shop)
Everton Heights, August 1970.
Off St. Domingo Road, Everton, August 1970

DaisyChains · 03-02-2008

Originally Posted by Sirob

Certain parts of the city appear to have suffered from a famine of photographers. Mundane streets were taken for granted, until they were gone! I tried to preserve on film everyday and unusual aspects of the way we were, keeping one jump ahead of the bulldozers!
My collection has remained unseen, until now, so enjoy.

The pics;
Sunset, from Sheil Park flats, 25 December 1971.
Consort Street, Edge Hill, August 1971 (typical 2 up, 2 down terraces c/w shop)
Everton Heights, August 1970.
Off St. Domingo Road, Everton, August 1970

Brilliant!
You should create a Flickr album and then you can have all these great photos in one place!
I quite agree about the mundane places thing, I am starting to think more and more like that....

**disco** · 03-02-2008

Fantastic pictures sirob..

is that the royal being built in the first photo ?

John(Zappa) · 03-02-2008

Brilliant.
More please

PhilipG · 03-02-2008

Beautiful.

Carless streets - great, and the busiest it gets is one man and his dog.
More please!

When I collected postcards, there was an Edwardian photographer who specialised in taking photos of side streets in Liverpool.
They are very rare, and therefore very expensive.
(All I've got are a few photocopies.)

**johnmed** · 03-02-2008

Thanks for sharing

**Cadfael** · 03-02-2008

The pics;
Sunset, from Sheil Park flats, 25 December 1971.
Consort Street, Edge Hill, August 1971 (typical 2 up, 2 down terraces c/w shop)
Everton Heights, August 1970.
Off St. Domingo Road, Everton, August 1970[/QUOTE]

Amazing pictures! Just to correct you on one - it's Congress Street not Corsort Street. This was just off Smithdown Lane, Edge Hill.

chippie · 03-03-2008

bravo sirob, more please if you have any. I,ve managed to get permission for this photo to be put on here. It,s a pawn shop in county road I,m lead to believe.

chippie · 03-03-2008

Two more, one is a shop in gt charlotte street, and the other is inside Scott,s from the north of liverpool somewhere

**Ged** · 03-03-2008

Brilliant Sirob. I too prefer older pics and if colour all the better. Harry Ainscough was fantastic for capturing the 'mundane' nondescript side streets, alleys and otherwise overlooked by the many. The LRO is full of them and with their permission i've crated a new page on my website which will be given over to them.

Chippie, I thought porn shops were more your kind of thing?

**Sirob** · 03-03-2008

Thanks for the pos feedback, have some more;

Off St. Domingo Road, Everton, August 1970
North from flats, Everton Valley, " "
Mason Street, Edge Hill, " "
Milligans govt. surplus shop, Mount Pleasant, Sept 1970