Crosby

[PhilipG]

Great photos, Ged.
I was there last week, and was fascinated by a building behind the Ismay House.
Turns out it was the Ismay's Coach House.

There's a set of mine on flickr:
"A Walk from Waterloo to Great Crosby".
Warning: There's over 100 photos.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/4443567...7604601038430/

[Ged]

I'll look forward to taking that walk on your flickr site Philip knowing how good your photos are.

Shoequeen, the area is actually called Brighton le sands but i'd say its on the Crosby side of Mariners Road rather than the Blundellsands/burbo bank side.

All those areas look so close in my A-Z.

[gregs dad]

Good pics Ged, I hope you emptied the sand out of your shoes before you went home. I spend a lot of time with my sidekick in the area,we get the train
to Hall Rd then walk along the beach or promenade ,depending on the tide,to Waterloo. I call those houses Merseyside`s Balamory.

[Ged]

I like it along there GD - as grand as anything Cressington or Grassendale has to offer with a far better view imho.

There's a great row of houses along burbo bank road too, a pyramid shaped house of glass with a steep underground drive to a basement garage. Sometimes go down to the coastguards to sit off in the summer.

I noticed one of the houses near Ismay's up for sale - or so I thought. Took a peep on the estate agents website but it's only a flat.


New Instruction


Beach Lawn, Flat F
Waterloo
2 Bedroom Flat/Apartment
£154,950


Full details
Local map
Edwards & Brazier are delighted to offer 'For Sale' this second floor apartment situated at the rear of a prestigious Grade II Listed Regency Style Victorian Terrace within the Waterloo Conservation Area. The front approach to the property has panoramic views over Marine Gardens, Liverpool Estuary and The Welsh Hills. The accommodation briefly comprises of communal vestibule, communal hallway, private entrance door, hallway, lounge, fully fitted kitchen, two bedrooms, luxury bathroom, outside to the rear, communal rear garden, designated parking. To the front communal garden and entrance.
(reference: ELB1001070)

Pics here:


http://housescape.org.uk/cgi-bin/sea...fof=ikeyword&5


2nd from bottom.....

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[shoequeen13]

Good point but isn't Crosby in Sefton. Should we also discuss Southport, St Helens etc on this list

well crosby is actually in liverpool (though it comes under sefton council) southport & st.helens are in merseyside but not liverpool. my youngest son goes to school in southport and my mums family are from st.helens so i know both places quite well. but as neither is in liverpool they shouldn't be on this list specifically. they are both distinct areas and don't need to be included on a discussion site for liverpool and & i'm sure the people from there would agree!

i live in crosby now (its only L23 after all. even formby is in liverpool. i think its L36?) its funny though before i moved here the only thing i knew about crosby was the swimming baths & it was quiet! i had friends from crosby who i used to tease about being from the sticks (joking!) but now i'm here i really really love it. i can walk to the beach in 20 mins & when i go to sainsburys its in the 'village' (which i love to say as it sounds so quaint). now one of my very close friends who was born in crosby lives in waterloo (she owns/runs a hotel there) so now i can still tease her that i now live in the 'posher' part!

but then every area has its charm. i lived in kirkdale for 7 yrs and i loved it. i lived in a victorian terrace house that was well over a 100 yrs old and it has stayed my favourite home. (barring my future lotto win & a large 7 bed in blundellsands of course!) back then i could be in town in 20 mins... a taxi there costs me a lot more now more now i can tell you! i am still very close friends with my old neighbour from kirkdale. she moved to waterloo before i moved to crosby i had just spent 7 yrs in yorkshire so it was quite a coincidence. she lives in a high rise by the marina & has a fabulous view!!

[shoequeen13]

oh i know where brighton le sands is. its what i call the 'inbetween bit' between crosby baths and the marina entrance. i usually see those houses from the promenade as i walk up from the marina to crosby baths way. i'll have to take a different route next time i'm down there & walk by them.

[shoequeen13]

i really like it by burbo too its a lot quieter than the beach at the marina. plus you have the grass too for flying kites on. but i have noticed that though there are lots of benches about on burbo bank there are hardly any at the marina end of the prom. i think there is only one right by the radar tower. though they have put two nice wooden stages with benches on across the larger of the two lakes at the marina. (or may be they have been there for a while for all i know as i have been living away from the city for a few years. so i'm just playing catch up...don't even get me started on the city centre i feel like a tourist when i go there & get lost. everything has changed!)

[julieoapw]

There's a couple of pages on Crosby and Waterloo in the latest edition of the free magazine "liverpool.com".

For those not living in the city, you can view the magazine on-line at:
www.liverpool.com

Julie

[shoequeen13]

theres a lovely little park in waterloo thats easy to miss. its just as you turn left to go down to the car park (by the radar tower end) at the marina, down cambridge road off crosby road south. i read the plaque there for it the other week and it made for interesting reading. the old buildings are the gatehouse (i think) of what would have been a house that a merchant who lived in everton (village...C19th) had started to build but he died before its completion. he had wanted to build a house there as when he looked across from everton brow - down by the sea in seaforth looked look such a pretty spot (imagine that! i assume that was back when it was still farm land.)

http://www.liverpool2007.org.uk/pott...ottersbarn.htm

[knowhowe]

There's a set of mine on flickr:
"A Walk from Waterloo to Great Crosby".
http://www.flickr.com/photos/4443567...7604601038430/

Thanks very much for these Philip. I had a fine old time following your route and remembering many of these places as they were when I grew up round there.
The Carnegie Library- where I fell in love with reading and was a regular throughout my childhood. I remember the smell of the place- not unpleasant but uniquely its own- very clearly.
Alexandria Park too- but we were always getting ear ache from the parkie there and preferred nearby Coronation Park and its boating lake.
Interesting to see that Central Buildings is for the chop. Myerscough's model shop was there, where I used to buy my Airfix kits and Britain's models. Is Crown Buildings also going or will it stay as it is? I hope so. Very handsome. I notice that the old George is shown as a Yates'. Is that still the case? They're closing 90 of their branches, including our local one here in Chester. Yates' were once an honourable institution that performed the well-intentioned function of serving inexpensive, but decent quality wine to those who would otherwise have fetched up drinking unspeakable rotgut, it ended up going full circle serving cheap rotgut to an unspeakable clientele.
Moor Lane looks much as it did. Did I hear that Central Buildings' developer, Maghull, have got their hands on it too? it would be sad indeed to see the end of those distinctive 1930s white-tiled shop fronts.
Much of 'The Village' has changed radically; gone is the old street plan, the police station and thatched cottages, obliterated by Sainsbury's.
I feel inspired to copy your Waterloo to Crosby photographic walk one of these days, but taking a different route...

[PhilipG]

Thanks very much for these Philip. I had a fine old time following your route and remembering many of these places as they were when I grew up round there.
The Carnegie Library- where I fell in love with reading and was a regular throughout my childhood. I remember the smell of the place- not unpleasant but uniquely its own- very clearly.
Alexandria Park too- but we were always getting ear ache from the parkie there and preferred nearby Coronation Park and its boating lake.
Interesting to see that Central Buildings is for the chop. Myerscough's model shop was there, where I used to buy my Airfix kits and Britain's models. Is Crown Buildings also going or will it stay as it is? I hope so. Very handsome. I notice that the old George is shown as a Yates'. Is that still the case? They're closing 90 of their branches, including our local one here in Chester. Yates' were once an honourable institution that performed the well-intentioned function of serving inexpensive, but decent quality wine to those who would otherwise have fetched up drinking unspeakable rotgut, it ended up going full circle serving cheap rotgut to an unspeakable clientele.
Moor Lane looks much as it did. Did I hear that Central Buildings' developer, Maghull, have got their hands on it too? it would be sad indeed to see the end of those distinctive 1930s white-tiled shop fronts.
Much of 'The Village' has changed radically; gone is the old street plan, the police station and thatched cottages, obliterated by Sainsbury's.
I feel inspired to copy your Waterloo to Crosby photographic walk one of these days, but taking a different route...

Thank you.
To be honest, I did have a "Guide" with me.
A local person.
After Waterloo it was all a little unfamiliar to me.
Crown Buildings will remain.
When you approach Great Crosby from Coronation Road, it's rather depressing to see the "wilderness" to the left.
I find open car parks so depressing.
I don't know if anything's going to happen to Yates's (the George), or Moor Lane.
Nearly all the shops in Moor Lane are still trading.

[Ged]

theres a lovely little park in waterloo thats easy to miss. its just as you turn left to go down to the car park (by the radar tower end) at the marina, down cambridge road off crosby road south. i read the plaque there for it the other week and it made for interesting reading. the old buildings are the gatehouse (i think) of what would have been a house that a merchant who lived in everton (village...C19th) had started to build but he died before its completion. he had wanted to build a house there as when he looked across from everton brow - down by the sea in seaforth looked look such a pretty spot (imagine that! i assume that was back when it was still farm land.)

http://www.liverpool2007.org.uk/pott...ottersbarn.htm

Hello Shoequeen. See my pics last week on the picture of the day thread for up to date ones of this.

[gregs dad]

Here is Coronation Gardens in 1960 taken from one of my old colour slides.
Thats the missus on the extreme left.

[Ged]

Nice photie GD.

[shoequeen13]

[QUOTE=Ged;126060]No.13 Beach Lawn and the one time home of White Star shipping line founder - Thomas Henry Ismay.

i finally got around to going to see the house earlier in the week. what do you think the curved part of the building is? an atrium?

i hadn't been in the parks by the marina for yrs & yrs. but i spent a lovely hour or so there. i was so pleased to find them so well cared for (i didn't go in the first one. i can't remember what its called. marine gardens maybe?) my favourite i think is the last one in front of ismay's house with the pond & bulrushes. though adelaide with its benches in a circle & flowers comes a close 2nd.