Images of Liverpool Past

[scouserdave]

If anybody has access to the Liver Building, a shot taken today would be fantastic.
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~dstewart/tower.htm

Cracking postcard Phil.
As requested

[theninesisters]

Cracking picture!

Wasn't this the site of the Large Objects Museum at one point? I remember going as a kid in the 80's and LOVED it.

Anyone else remember it too? any pics???

[lindylou]

Yes, I remember the large objects museum being there. Only now that you reminded me tho'

[lindylou]

Hi all

Just purchased by me on ebay, a postcard of the Sailors' Orphanage, Newsham Park, Liverpool, from the first decade of the twentieth century, postmark dated 1904. Any information gratefully received. Is this the same complex of buildings that became Newsham Hospital or was it a separate entity? As some of you may have seen, I posted recently that my father worked as a physiotherapist at Newsham Hospital in the early 1950's. Thanks in advance for any information on the orphanage vis a vis the hospital. Another reason that I am interested is that my maternal grandmother and one of her sisters were placed by my great grandmother in a sailors' orphanage after her husband (my great grandfather) was killed falling down the stairs aboard ship off South Africa, and it could well have been this same institution. Any information therefore on whether there was only one seamans' orphanage in Liverpool or several would be useful. Thanks.

All my best

Chris

It was always a bit confusing ... Newsham General being on Belmont rd but having the same name as the actual park !

The place alongside of the park was called 'Park Hospital' I think .. if I'm not mistaken. In latter years it has been some kind of clinic.

[5th beatle]

With regards to Princess Dock / Pier Head area: Here's a couple of 80's photos from my collection

[scouserdave]

With regards to Princess Dock / Pier Head area: Here's a couple of 80's photos from my collection

More please!
Thanks

[PhilipG]

Wonderful photo, dave.
Thank you.

Great to see the other photos.

Lindylou.
I've checked old maps and the Customs Depot, Receiving House and the Marine Surveyor's Office were all in that area.

[PhilipG]

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Great pictures

"Real photographic" are always better than the printed colour ones.

[scouserdave]

Lindylou.
I've checked old maps and the Customs Depot, Receiving House and the Marine Surveyor's Office were all in that area.

Just noticed the dry dock in the same area.

[Waterways]

Princes Dock in the 80s taken By Nancy O

[ChrisGeorge]

Great to be able to compare the two pics of the northern docks. Thanks, Guys!!

[5th beatle]

here's the last of them. I'm sure there's more though on flickr & fotopic. Also try mersey-gateway.org

Whilst I'm here. I'm looking for any old photos of Queens Square, preferably just after the Roe Street expansion when they put in the 'bubble' bus stops. I have some from 1976 but would appreciate it if any of the readers had more

cheers

[Kev]

Some excellent images posted here,

[MissInformed]

brilliant photos!

[PhilipG]

here's the last of them. I'm sure there's more though on flickr & fotopic. Also try mersey-gateway.org

Whilst I'm here. I'm looking for any old photos of Queens Square, preferably just after the Roe Street expansion when they put in the 'bubble' bus stops. I have some from 1976 but would appreciate it if any of the readers had more

cheers

Here's 2 snaps from 1982 and 1983.
It was said to be "The Longest Bus Shelter in the World".