Images of Liverpool Past

[PhilipG]

Just discovered this thread.
I love old views of Liverpool.
Is there a thread for old postcards, as I've quite a collection of Liverpool?

I think that's Dingle Point.
If so, it's still there.
The Festival Hall is on the site of Knotts Hole.

[ChrisGeorge]

Just discovered this thread.
I love old views of Liverpool.
Is there a thread for old postcards, as I've quite a collection of Liverpool?

I think that's Dingle Point.
If so, it's still there.
The Festival Hall is on the site of Knotts Hole.

Thanks for your answer, Philip, confirming what Kev and I thought. Another interesting way to compare it would be to compare a couple of old topographic maps maybe with an overlay. A project for someone handy with maps and computers. Do I hear any volunteers?

Incidentally, I am also a collector of old postcards and have a number of the Liverpool area. I love the ones from 1900-1910 with the old stamps and handwritten greetings on them. I suppose to most collectors they probably value the unsent ones which are probably more valuable but I get a better sense of the era from the ones that were actually used. So in other words I would be interested to see such a thread started as well.

Chris

[MissInformed]

Incidentally, I am also a collector of old postcards and have a number of the Liverpool area. I love the ones from 1900-1910 with the old stamps and handwritten greetings on them. I suppose to most collectors they probably value the unsent ones which are probably more valuable but I get a better sense of the era from the ones that were actually used. So in other words I would be interested to see such a thread started as well.

Chris[/QUOTE]


me too!!!

[PhilipG]

Thanks for your answer, Philip, confirming what Kev and I thought. Another interesting way to compare it would be to compare a couple of old topographic maps maybe with an overlay. A project for someone handy with maps and computers. Do I hear any volunteers?

Incidentally, I am also a collector of old postcards and have a number of the Liverpool area. I love the ones from 1900-1910 with the old stamps and handwritten greetings on them. I suppose to most collectors they probably value the unsent ones which are probably more valuable but I get a better sense of the era from the ones that were actually used. So in other words I would be interested to see such a thread started as well.

Chris

Chris.

Comparing maps, etc., has been done, and there's no doubt that the Festival Hall is on the site of Knott's Hole, and that Dingle Point is on the other side of the new road, about half-way towards the Brittania Inn.
What has got to be established is whether the photo on this thread is Knott's Hole or Dingle Point.
I think it's Dingle Point, but I'm not 100% sure.
Going back to the top of the thread, it does say Knot Hole, so whoever named it wasn't familiar with the spelling (but could be right about the site?).
I've got old pics somewhere, which should clear it up.
What's left of Dingle Point today has been cut away somewhat, and it's rather overgrown, so it's not going to look like old pictures.

40 minutes later.
I haven't got one photo of Knott's Hole.
All I've got is the drawing from Griifiths which shows it from the land.
When you realise there were outcrops & cliffs all the way from the Herculaneum to Otterspool, it's a long stretch.
On reflection, though, if the original caption was Knot Hole (or whatever) we might as well leave it at that.

[Brenda]

This is a print of where I was brought up, (may I add it was way after 1927 when I lived there).
The very top of the steps is Everton Terrace, now Everton Park.

[victorialush]

I love this picture and used to have it hanging in one of my old flats

[PhilipG]

I love this picture and used to have it hanging in one of my old flats

I've still got it hanging in my place!
It's one of my all-time favourite pictures of Liverpool.

Brenda.
Have you heard of the Popular Cinema in Netherfield Road North?
That was tall at the front, and very low at the back, because of the slope.

[Brenda]

I've been there many a time when I was a kid, I remember it having wooden benches and used to show all the cowboy films where the goodies wore the white hats and the baddies worn the black hats, that was the Saturday mattinee, there used to be about 8 kids in our little gang who went.
I'd forgotten all about that until you just mentioned it.

[theninesisters]

The Mounting steps in Wavertree, I had an argument with someone ages ago (A polite one of course haha) about the fact that I thought that it was steps to a style. They appear to be too warn down both sides for a few people to clamber on their horses each sunday morning?

[ChrisGeorge]

The Mounting steps in Wavertree, I had an argument with someone ages ago (A polite one of course haha) about the fact that I thought that it was steps to a style. They appear to be too warn down both sides for a few people to clamber on their horses each sunday morning?

Interesting theory, Jona76. You might be right. However, the "Mounting steps" were presumably named that when there were still horses, so one would think that it was used to mount horses then. Just a thought.

Chris

[Sloyne]

This is a print of where I was brought up, (may I add it was way after 1927 when I lived there).
The very top of the steps is Everton Terrace, now Everton Park.

I believe the tenements (pictured) was known as the 'Victoria Settlements'. I sailed with a guy, Arthur Bell by name, who was born and raised in one of them. Lit by gas, they had a communal toilet and wash-house at the end of each landing and only one fireplace in the "living" room. I also dated a girl, Gwen Taig, who lived in them, until her family found out that I was from Scotland Road and was Catholic. Gwen was a "King Billy" for her parents lodge (Ivy Lodge I think) one twelfth of July.

[Brenda]

I believe the tenements (pictured) was known as the 'Victoria Settlements'. I sailed with a guy, Arthur Bell by name, who was born and raised in one of them. Lit by gas, they had a communal toilet and wash-house at the end of each landing and only one fireplace in the "living" room. I also dated a girl, Gwen Taig, who lived in them, until her family found out that I was from Scotland Road and was Catholic. Gwen was a "King Billy" for her parents lodge (Ivy Lodge I think) one twelfth of July.

Hahaha, I remember all the rivally, I should have been King Billy one year but the wellies didnt fit.

[liverbirdnk]

This is a print of where I was brought up, (may I add it was way after 1927 when I lived there).
The very top of the steps is Everton Terrace, now Everton Park.

I was brought up in Netherfield Road,My auntie Annie lived in these flats.My mother in law and a few of the in laws still live there.

[Gnomie]

Nice pic of the Legs of Man Ged, i remember it well

I love that pic of the flats on Netherfield road