Garston News Views and Discussion

[taffy]

After the parade was over, the embassy settled down to every day activities.

[gliss]

I think that shop used to be Gillespies when I was a kid, on Banks Rd at the top of Winfield Rd.

Yes it was Gilllespies, Ronnie & Freda. Bumped into one of the sons last week. Freda Gillespie died recently. Lovely couple. Freda took no messin, insisted on please and thank you or you didn't get served.Lovely memories

[fiftyfive]

their son Stuart is always in Garston...his 2 sons are decent footballers,and the Gillespies are still very much part of Garston...nice to know...allan

[fiftyfive]

Hi All

What a great site, I've just spent the last 4 hours taking a trip down memory lane, the photos are fab!!

The band was the Pandamonium Band and my dad (Jimmy Skidmore) was a member back in the 70s & early 80s. What a time they all had - all in the name of charity of course!!

I too remember the dolphins in Garston Baths - I thought I'd dreamt it as everyone I mentioned it to thought I was mad! I think it must have been later than 1970 though.

My Gt Auntie Sophie, used to own the chippy in James Street and her sister Doris used to own the dairy in the same steet - back in the 50s & 60s. Their father was William Jackson.

I remember the Parades that used to end up on the Park where there would be a fairgound. The 1977 Silver Jubilee is the one that stands out in my mind - probably because of the big street party we had after it.

I used to love walking through the tree lined park with my Grandma, in the days before dutch elm disease.

Regards
Helen

helen....I was in the pandemonium with your dad for 11 years.....tell him Allan Oakes said hello......allan

[fiftyfive]

A number of the derelict buildings seem to be being renovated and a new build structure is going up at 65 St Mary's Rd. Looks like its flats. Interestingly there's also a planning application for a wine bar. A first for St Mary's Rd. There's life coming back to the old street.

Hi Taffy....I sold 61-63 St Marys road in february this year ....its to be a Bistro-not a wine bar....and next door 65-67 is to be 45 flats...3 storey building with 15 flats on each level...by the way,for anyone interested in the new Bistro...up until 1922 it was the Grapes Inn owned by Greenhall Whitley...we found this out from the deeds when we purchased the property...and 47 St Marys Rd (the furniture shop) was The Nelson Arms...the original WC door is still on at the back of the shop.....allan

[fiftyfive]

Here you go Kev, photo taken on the day ( Jan 15th, 1984) you walked the length of the bypass prior to its official opening. Photo courtesy of the Garston Historical Society

the Pandemonium band led the parade...and it was snowing...i remember it well....allan

[taffy]

Hi Taffy....I sold 61-63 St Marys road in february this year ....its to be a Bistro-not a wine bar....and next door 65-67 is to be 45 flats...3 storey building with 15 flats on each level...by the way,for anyone interested in the new Bistro...up until 1922 it was the Grapes Inn owned by Greenhall Whitley...we found this out from the deeds when we purchased the property...and 47 St Marys Rd (the furniture shop) was The Nelson Arms...the original WC door is still on at the back of the shop.....allan

Thanks for the extra info Allan. I'll see if I can find some old photos of the Grapes and The Nelson Arms.

[taffy]

This school in Earp St, Garston has now sadly closed. It's important that the old methodist chapel, which was incorporated into the school, is preserved. It's the oldest public building left standing in Garston

[jimmy]

A century of history captured in new Hovis TV ad
Jul 30 2008 By Laura Sharpe, Liverpool Daily Post


Filming for new Hovis advert in Hardy Street, Garston _320

ANYONE near Garston Docks yesterday might have been forgiven for thinking they had stumbled upon a miners’ strike.

But the large numbers of mounted police and miners were in the city to take part in an update of one of television’s oldest TV adverts.

Actors and film crews are using various scenes across the city to film a Hovis commercial using over 650 extras.

The storyline includes mom- ents of British history from the past 100 years, charting bakers in the 1890s, the 1984 miners’ strike and the 1953 Coronation.

Filming over the next few days will create a two-minute advert due to be shown in the commercial break of Coronation Street in September.

Filming yesterday saw 150 extras crowd down Kings Street and Blackburn Street in a recreation of the miners’ strike.

Some local businesses closed for the day or worked around the crews, and partial road closures were in operation.

Over in Garston, Hardy Street was transformed into a street party celebrating the Queen’s Coronation.

Producers decorated terraced houses and put on fake door covers to make the scene as authentic as possible to 1953.

The road was closed in the afternoon, as the main charac- ter ran down the street, but residents couldn’t really party as no alcohol or music was provided.

Today the crew will be recreating a Suff- ragettes’ march using 150 extras in Percy Street and Little Catherine Street.

Filming is also to take place in Falkner Street, Toxteth, where soldiers will be filmed leaving for the battlefields of Flanders.

Kevin Bell, locations co- ordinator at Liverpool Film Office, said: "This is by far the biggest commercial to be shot in Liverpool and it’s a tremendous coup for the city. It demon- strates the breadth and diver- sity of the locations Liverpool can offer that we are able to facilitate a shoot on this scale.

"The city has a real can-do attitude when it comes to accommodating major productions, and I know the team were impressed by the assistance and support we’ve offered them.

"We’re having a bumper year for filming as a result of the Digital Departures initiative run by North West Vision and the incredible worldwide interest in the city during its year as Capital of Culture."

Council leader Warren Bradley said: "Liverpool has a tremendous reputation as a location to shoot major productions."

laurasharpe@dailypost.co.uk

[ChrisGeorge]

Quoting from an earlier post of mine in this thread where the discussion was about St. Michael's churchyard:

I remember there were various bits of sandstone lying around the churchyard when I took my pic of what I thought was a "vinegar stone" and had it published in a church magazine on that basis. I think in retrospect it was probably a capital for a column such as you describe for the prior church that stood on the spot.

As you see, I have now managed to scan my photograph taken with my old Kodak Brownie in the early Sixties.

Any thoughts would be appreciated. Don't though comment on the quality of the print which I know is a very bad exposure, taken as I recall on a rainy day in Garston.

I actually did try to improve the contrast in the shot using "picnik" on my Flickr site but doing that resulted only in a pixilated mess, so I think we had better stick with this scan of the original snap, bad as it is.

Hopefully some of you will be interested to see this bit of old Garston, considering so many remnants of old Garston village tragically are literally being swept away as we speak.

Chris

[wsteve55]

Though of course, I'm no expert, the simple designs on the stone,seem to indicate great age,medieval maybe?

[ChrisGeorge]

Though of course, I'm no expert, the simple designs on the stone,seem to indicate great age,medieval maybe?

Thanks, Steve, for your opinion. Of course I am always a bit leery of apparently medieval-looking buildings. The buildings in St. Michael's-in-The Hamlet as well as Childwall Abbey (apparently) are good local examples of Victorian buildings made to look older than they are. On the other hand since this was by contrast just a block of sandstone that apparently came from the earlier church I'm prepared to believe it may actually have been medieval.

Chris

[edwardo]

I actually did try to improve the contrast in the shot using "picnik" on my Flickr site.

ChrisGeorge try fxfoto its a free download and not a bad one ether.

[ChrisGeorge]

I actually did try to improve the contrast in the shot using "picnik" on my Flickr site.

ChrisGeorge try fxfoto its a free download and not a bad one ether.

Thank you for the tip, Edwardo.

Chris

[BillS]

Have you enquired with anyone from the Church with regards to the origin of the sandstone block?