Liverpool.. the way I see it.. the photographs of Gerard Fleming.

[Ged]

Brilliant that isn't it Gerard. We used to play a sort of spot game whereby you kicked the ball up the slope and when it was your turn you couldn't let the ball come off it or it was one against you, up to 3 or 5 or whatever and as you say, shooties in the subway tubes themselves. For those that don't know, the famous Johnny Gianelli's chippy was just at the top of those steps, well the rear of it anyway and then it was demolished and the TGWU building built there.

[Gerard Fleming]

Brilliant that isn't it Gerard. We used to play a sort of spot game whereby you kicked the ball up the slope and when it was your turn you couldn't let the ball come off it or it was one against you, up to 3 or 5 or whatever and as you say, shooties in the subway tubes themselves. For those that don't know, the famous Johnny Gianelli's chippy was just at the top of those steps, well the rear of it anyway and then it was demolished and the TGWU building built there.

Use this pic Ged.. if you haven't got it that is..

We did that as well...kicking up that hill and all that...
What about the graveyard behind Giannellis..
right on the site of where this subway was.. maybe a little to the right..

Playing on the old grave stones... remember it like yesterday...
you would have been too young I think to play in there but you probably
will remember it vaguely maybe.

I remember it all getting ripped up.. right where that subway is..sorry..was..!!


All the old earthenware and white clay pipes.. smoking pipes.. little things..
I remember watching the Irish lads digging and removing graves...
You know, as kids.. harrishing them all day...'Hey Mr..whats that for....."
one of them found some old coins... I remember that well..

[Ged]

Thanks Gerard.

Here's a pic in 1958 of what was the graveyard to Christ Church which had long since gone. You can see the walls and railings and gateposts of the entrance to us just behind Gianelli's yard.




Uploaded with ImageShack.us

---------- Post added at 10:45 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:41 PM ----------

I know of course you will have seen this before, it looks like some of the graves are still in situ in 1966.




Uploaded with ImageShack.us

[Gerard Fleming]

Thanks Gerard.

Here's a pic in 1958 of what was the graveyard to Christ Church which had long since gone. You can see the walls and railings and gateposts of the entrance to us just behind Gianelli's yard.




Uploaded with ImageShack.us




The 2nd photo... what was to the left just out of view ?
...3 of them different sizes...sort of building things..

---------- Post added at 10:45 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:41 PM ----------

I know of course you will have seen this before, it looks like some of the graves are still in situ in 1966.




Uploaded with ImageShack.us

Great pics them Ged...

That top photo Ged..?...the info is wrong..
there were gravestones behind Giannellis chippie till around 1967.. maybe later..
I played on them ..lots of them, actual graves and headstones..lots of them..
and I've just asked Kate and Kate did as well.. deffo wrong Ged..I can guarantee that..
Not your fault... probably wrong info on the back of the photo..



The 2nd photo...

what was to the left just out of view ?.. 3 of them..

different sizes.. did the same job..?

[Ged]

Ah so it's not 1958 then, yes that was the info given. I'm trying to remember when it was cleared for the subway, I assume in time for around the time of the building/opening of the flyovers - approx 70ish?

---------- Post added at 11:08 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:05 PM ----------

Another one from the same time - whenever it may have been.




Uploaded with ImageShack.us

---------- Post added at 11:10 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:08 PM ----------

And another, you can probably knit these together.




Uploaded with ImageShack.us

[Gerard Fleming]

One of the gravestones Ged was very long...shaped like a Toblerone.
Triangular.... it sticks out in my mind....a lot of people will remember that...and it was around 1965 or later..

It was what the kids always played on.... and I was about 8 or 10.. I was born in 1957.

[Ged]

And then the school and Springy with the advert on the side wall of Jimmy Romeo's - pronounced Romayo I believe.



Uploaded with ImageShack.us

---------- Post added at 11:16 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:13 PM ----------

I wonder where they reburied those people and what happened to the headstones.

[Gerard Fleming]

See that lamp post in the last pic..on the left..

Thats the lamp post I went flying into running over Springy...
I lost my footing and went flying into that...
I had a coggy on my eye the size of an orange...
Made of Iron them things yer know... ...


That photo brings back some wonderful memories... not all painful.!

I remember a youth club in the old school..
and a big old boxing ring set up inside it.. happy days..


Thanks for showing them Ged...









Do you know what was is in the 2nd pic Ged of Mill Lane/Hunty..
... just out of view. ?.....

Do you give up...?.....

[Ged]

You're welcome, some great memories.

I've a couple of the old library.

Exterior and interior when new in 1928.



Uploaded with ImageShack.us



Uploaded with ImageShack.us

Feel free to use any of these on your site or on the GG facebook site. (LRO City engineers photographs) It's no use us both having to sift through the same LRO folders when we can be getting other ones out.

---------- Post added at 11:35 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:33 PM ----------

Oops - I didn't see that question you asked earlier. No, I wouldn't know. I don't think I was let out until about 1970

[Gerard Fleming]

That Library pic brings back a few memories..
not least a new years eve party my mam had in there one year...
owning The Pontack next door Peggy decided to have a big do in there...
all was going well....people had tickets, until later on I had to go on the door to stop
all the strays getting in after leaving the Warden..or whevever...
Some of the lads still dont talk to me this day...ha haaa..
Well..?...rules are rules...you dont get past me without a ticket...!


Thanks for the offer of the photies Ged...I appreciate that..
same here.. if I get any you dont have from the LRO just use them lad..

---------- Post added at 11:48 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:40 PM ----------

...Oops - I didn't see that question you asked earlier. No, I wouldn't know. I don't think I was let out until about 1970

There were 3 garages there Ged..something else I remember well...
Not from when I lived there on the right of the pic on the top landing as you know...(25d)

But from years before in 25c.. underneath where I later lived..
My Nins...25c.. where my Mam grew up.. and her sister Kathleen was born..
the 1st child born in Gerard Gardens.. in 25c..

I remember as a kid looking out the windows of 25c at them 3 garages...
all different sizes... a big one..medium one.. and a littlle one..
they always baffled me as to why they were different sizes.....I never found out.

[Ged]

Did they belong to the premises on Islington maybe or Hymans or someone?

---------- Post added at 11:57 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:51 PM ----------

Enjoyed this thread and now i'm off t'bed.

Goodnight.

[Gerard Fleming]

Did they belong to the premises on Islington maybe or Hymans or someone?

The 3 garages ?...I dont know Ged...they were very near Gerard Gardens...
too near maybe to be involved with all the Hymans shops...

they were just on the opposite side of Hunty opposite the arch from the gardens..
I have not got a clue who used them.. but I never saw them open or being used..

Edited..
I must of saw them being used...
they were definately garages...

[Gerard Fleming]

Liverpool Echo.. Monday 13th June..

Ringo Starr tickets.. 2 for the price of one..
the people of Liverpool speak.. by staying away..

Oh dear, Richie...!!... are things that bad lad ?
A Beatle cant sell out a small home town venue.. ?
Ohhhhhhhhh my aching sides.. ha haaaaaaaaaaa..


(Loads of tickets left...no rush to get yours..)


3 days to go to the Empire Theatre concert.. ?
I'd hang on.. wait till the day of the show..
his people will be giving them away outside to get people in..


.

[Marty1]

I hear the Billy Fury story is on the Empire Theatre, Wed night !

[Gerard Fleming]

I hear the Billy Fury story is on the Empire Theatre, Wed night !

Correct Marty, Colin Gold is very good I've heard as Billy Fury..
I hope it does well..