Originally Posted by
Ged
Thanks chaps. Russ, that is a fantastic site, I have looked in before but so much more has been added. I think it's brilliant that just ordinary streetscapes are captured - Colour versions of those great images captured by Harry A. and as important as they are right now, one day yours and others like them will be looked at in the same vein when they are no longer there. Great pics of the flats in Gateacre and Lee Park.
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I remember the zebra bus in the 1970s or was it like an Everton mint. It was always the 79 to Lee Park or Netherley and it always seemed to pass me when I was up at Hatton's model railway shop on Smithdown road, his original little shop. The nos 4 and 5 to Woolton always seemed to be single deckers and I remember I used to wonder where Lee Park was and other exotic far away places on the front of Ribbles like Lydiate, Thornton and Ormskirk.
Hardly anyone in our square was driving back then, it would seem a mission to get to these places that were just names on a bus. Nowadays it's half an hour tops.
Thanks Gerrard! It's amazing what does change in such a short amount of time...quite worrying in a way!
Buses back in the day did have that exotic feeling about them...when Glenvale was bought out by Stagecoach, the city lost a bit of it's identity in a way. Anywhere can have buses operated by Arriva or Stagecoach!
Great archive image of Rose Place, I will have to go and have a look at the page in full!
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