Unseen Liverpool

[Ged]

Well captured Gnasher.

[Sirob]

Good stuff, Gnasher, unseen since it was built!

Royal Iris, Jubilee Review, 21 June 1977
Royal Yacht, HMS Tartar, as above
Bold Power Station, preparations for Raihill 150, 1980
Lion on train, as above
Advert for New Brighton, June 1959, what does it mean!!!!!!!!!

[quincyg]

Not sure if this is the right thread but it has been 'unseen' for ??? years.
A Victorian culvet that went under the end of the Leeds/L,pool at Leeds St.It was a coal depot now it's the YMCA.

that's probably around where the canal used to finish.

it ran under the bridge on Chisenhale St (bellow) then finished at Leeds St (hence the name). my grandad used to work for the corpy at Pall Mall (water dept). sadly he got rid of all his old maps showing where the canal ended as well as all the streams and rivers that ran under the city and the burbs. he also was a superintendent out near Rivington

[taffy]

Advert for New Brighton, June 1959, what does it mean!!!!!!!!!

Good one Sirob. You may remember good old Fred Flintstone having a "gay old time" in the early 1960s stone age cartoons. In those days, people hadn't thought of Gay Street, New York in its later context, so it was quite alright for Fred and visitors to New Brighton to have a "gay" time. Would we were not so politically correct these days and were not afraid to use the term "gay" in its original true sense of meaning.

[GNASHER]

The Liverpool (North)map of 1906 shows this area and has alot of detail.
The old Ordnance Survey map is published by Alan Godfrey Maps.
www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk

[Ged]

Good one Sirob. You may remember good old Fred Flintstone having a "gay old time" in the early 1960s stone age cartoons. In those days, people hadn't thought of Gay Street, New York in its later context, so it was quite alright for Fred and visitors to New Brighton to have a "gay" time. Would we were not so politically correct these days and were not afraid to use the term "gay" in its original true sense of meaning.

And we had our very own Gay street off Scotland Road of course.

[Sirob]

A year after the National Garden Festival was held in 1984, some views in the Exhibition Hall;

[Sirob]

Some more of the International Garden Festival site in 1985

[PhilipG]

Good one Sirob. You may remember good old Fred Flintstone having a "gay old time" in the early 1960s stone age cartoons. In those days, people hadn't thought of Gay Street, New York in its later context, so it was quite alright for Fred and visitors to New Brighton to have a "gay" time. Would we were not so politically correct these days and were not afraid to use the term "gay" in its original true sense of meaning.

There's lots of alternatives to use if you're feeling happy and cheerful.
Language is changing all the time.
How about "Wicked".
That's a complete reversal.
My Gran (born 1880) once told me that "Sophisticated" meant "Sarcastic".
I'd love to find a Victorian dictionary so I could check.

Wonderful photos, as usual, Sirob.

[Ged]

Aye and of course to mug someone is now a complete reversal too.

[taffy]

There's lots of alternatives to use if you're feeling happy and cheerful.
Language is changing all the time.
How about "Wicked".
That's a complete reversal.
My Gran (born 1880) once told me that "Sophisticated" meant "Sarcastic".
I'd love to find a Victorian dictionary so I could check.

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Just checked my 1950s dictionary and your granny was right .

And of course "nice" once meant "hard to please" !!

[PhilipG]

Just checked my 1950s dictionary and your granny was right .

And of course "nice" once meant "hard to please" !!

Thanks, Taffy.
As she died in 1962, and even then I knew "Sophisticated" by its current interpretation, I'd say your dictionary is wonderfully old-fashioned.

[Samp]

Some more of the International Garden Festival site in 1985

Good pictures Sirob!

I will have to dig mine out one day. I managed to visit all the garden festival sites, Liverpool was the best by far.

[Sirob]

Here are some early eighties pics of the Everton area. Although the quality could be better, they certainly deserve to be seen;

Everton Brow
Netherfield Road flats, smoke is the demolition of the John Bagot Hospital
Back of St. Georges Heights
Top of Village Street
From Gt. Homer Street

[Ged]

Cracking pics Sirob. I've got a whole array of these heights on my website. The lock up is looking a bit better than that these days and nice to see the old church on Everton Road from this angle.