As a kid, in between moving from L6 to Canny, we lived in 60A Torrington Drive, Halewood for a couple of years and my only Speke memories apart from the Swimming Baths were the airplanes flying over our masionette so low. You could actually see the passengers faces and quite often they'd wave back to us! Not quite Hong Kong's old Kai Tek airport where we'd actually fly lower than the housing blocks that had their washing hanging out, but low enough!

Anyway, Speke Baths. We used to get there by walking across a field and then over a railway bridge that seperated our estate from Fords Factory. We used to navigate a housing estate before reaching the Baths. This filled us with terror, because there was a lad who lived there who suffered from terrible burns, at least to his face. He was a couple of years older than us and took great delight in running out into the street and sreaming and shouting as us! We used to shiite ourselves and run like fluck until we arrived at the Baths. My other memory was forgetting my swimming cozzy in the Baths. In the old days(!), we were awarded various patches to stitch on to our trunks to show our swimming achievements. Even to this day, I'm gutted about my loss.



Memories! Hope you're still awake!