Eldon Grove...What A Waste

[Spike]

They should have a big party.

If Ron was still working Eh Ged.

[Ged]

That's true Spike, just look at the fantastic organising skills of commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the Blackstock St bombing - not.....

Still, it shouldn't take a person removed from the localised area to start the ball rolling should it?

Perhaps they've something lined up in the Silvestrian or Eldonian clubs - or a summer street party ala Silver Jubilee style in 77.

[John Doh]

It's hard to believe but Eldon Grove isn't Listed.
One of the lamp-posts is.

Albert Dock.
Joseph Sharples says on p104 in his book 'Liverpool':
"Demolition was a threat from 1960 as a myriad of development proposals came and went."

I thought I remembered seeing the Eldon Grove Labourers' Dwellings on some official list of Grade II-listed buildings... I don't think it was just lamp-posts that were being referred to! I've only just realised that's the full name of the housing scheme we're talking about on this Thread... But I suppose I must be mistaken, if there's talk of demolishing them?

On the other hand, it could well explain all those fires... accidental on purpose, I'm thinking? (Wouldn't be a first!)

[Spike]

That's true Spike, just look at the fantastic organising skills of commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the Blackstock St bombing - not.....

Still, it shouldn't take a person removed from the localised area to start the ball rolling should it?

Perhaps they've something lined up in the Silvestrian or Eldonian clubs - or a summer street party ala Silver Jubilee style in 77.

Would be good that Ged. I love street parties.

Ged its Summer Seat.

[Ged]

Yes, I meant a summer (ie June/July) street party - but I get your play on words - possibly a Summer Seat Summer Street party.

[Spike]

Summer Seat in the Heat.

Or not if June in Liverpool is anything to go by.

[gregs dad]

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You would have to make sure you didn`t end up in Bootle,because they have a Summer Seat off Strand Rd

[Spike]

Imagine turning up their in Bootle in 1912 clothes.

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Wonder where the name SUMMER SEAT comes from?

[Ged]

Imagine turning up their in Bootle in 1912 clothes. [COLOR="Silver"]

Have you never seen what Scouse Smurf wears?

[lindylou]

if there's talk of demolishing them?

On the other hand, it could well explain all those fires... accidental on purpose, I'm thinking? (Wouldn't be a first!)

isn't that what happened with Thingwall house ? It was 'purposely' left to rot at the mercy of vandalism and arson.

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Imagine turning up their in Bootle in 1912 clothes.

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Wonder where the name SUMMER SEAT comes from?

It's a name that fascinates me because Summer Seat makes you think of some rural idyllic setting surrounded by flowering shrubs and singing birds ! ha!

When you come to think about it, there are probably lot's of names around like that - names of places that look nothing like how they sound

[Spike]

Im sure the area was some posh garden where the snobs went way back when. Long before the houses came.

[gregs dad]

Do you think the name comes from Springfield ?

[lindylou]

Im sure the area was some posh garden where the snobs went way back when. Long before the houses came.

It's true. I've read that the steep hill of Everton and down into Kirkdale, and heading across towards Bootle was a place where the upper classes would walk to take in the fresh sea air and admire the views over the river. The area was a kind of rural retreat in days gone by.

[hmtmaj]

Some pics when the gates were open and nobody around.

The panoramic one went a bit squewiff ! !

Mart

[John Doh]

isn't that what happened with Thingwall house ? It was 'purposely' left to rot at the mercy of vandalism and arson"

Spot on Lindy! Ken Dodd even predicted it would be burnt down - because he knew that property developers were interested... And so it came to pass... And there are so many other examples...

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It's true. I've read that the steep hill of Everton and down into Kirkdale, and heading across towards Bootle was a place where the upper classes would walk to take in the fresh sea air and admire the views over the river. The area was a kind of rural retreat in days gone by.

So, who reclaimed it for the 'labouring classes'? It does look a bit like the Port Sunlight housing erected by Lord Leverhulme for his soap workers. But who would be the enlightened philanthropist in this instance? -- I see there was a bottle factory nearby (Shades of Beryl Bainbridge?) ... but would that have been important enough to have had the funding for such a venture?... Anyone know?