Images of Liverpool Past

[Ged]

Gerard. I remember you saying on the pubs thread that your dad was Born in Arley Street, just by the trees facing the Non Pareil. This picture shows those very houses just before the first world war which were built in 1897 to replace slum property. The scene is looking up from Vauxhall Road towards Summerseat. They were known as 'Scotch Houses' and the front doors were in groups, two leading straight into the ground floor house and the other two leading straight upstairs to seperate houses. They were cleared in the 1960s.
Source: Freddy O'Connor's - A pub on every corner Vol 3.

[Gerard]

Gerard. I remember you saying on the pubs thread that your dad was Born in Arley Street, just by the trees facing the Non Pareil. This picture shows those very houses just before the first world war which were built in 1897 to replace slum property. The scene is looking up from Vauxhall Road towards Summerseat. They were known as 'Scotch Houses' and the front doors were in groups, two leading straight into the ground floor house and the other two leading straight upstairs to seperate houses. They were cleared in the 1960s.
Source: Freddy O'Connor's - A pub on every corner Vol 3.

Ta Ged..Me Uncle John who was also born there will be made up with this when I tell him..I might have that book somewhere or will get it for him.

[Ged]

Gerard. I think Vol 3 is out of print but is available in libraries and probably on ebay or wherever but if you're only interested in that picture itself, you can always get a glossy laser copy from the records office, assuming it's one of theirs (I think it is) but you'll have to join the search room with two forms of I.D.

[Gerard]

Gerard. I think Vol 3 is out of print but is available in libraries and probably on ebay or wherever but if you're only interested in that picture itself, you can always get a glossy laser copy from the records office, assuming it's one of theirs (I think it is) but you'll have to join the search room with two forms of I.D.

Cheers Ged,I'll give that a bash
Anyone got any picture's please of Torr Street which ran from Netherfield Road to St Domingo Rd...I'll give that a bash as well Eh in the Library if nobody has any..Cheers. G.

[The Gardens]

There is a good article in tonight's (Saturday) Echo on life in the Gerard Gardens area.

[robbo176]

Anyone got any picture's please of Torr Street which ran from Netherfield Road to St Domingo Rd....

Hi Gerard
did you live in Torr St? I lived there until about 1986 with my Dad & sister, but my uncles Sammy & John also lived there

Mandy

[Liverpolitan]

Got my old scanner working at last, so can scan some of my postcards. I find this one particularly weird looking, it is so completely different from what is there now.



Edit: chipped the corner putting it back in the album after scanning

This is a grubby old card, but looks like the picture was taken around the same time (I assume they hand-coloured the picture before printing them?). Can anyone date it? Late 1890s maybe?

[Liverpolitan]

[Liverpolitan]

A soon to be lost view

[Liverpolitan]

Maybe this size is better...

[A.D.W]

Well scanned, Poli.

[PhilipG]

Very good views.

Most early postcards date from 1902 when it became possible to write the message on the same side as the address.
So, if there is writing on the picture side of the card, and just the address on the other side it will be older.
Queen Victoria died in 1901, and cards with her postage stamps on them are very rare.

Liverpolitan, would you like to join "Old Liverpool" (see below) and post your cards there, as well?
Thank you.

[robbo176]

Hi Gerard
I only lived in Torr St for a couple of years in the 80's after we were burnt out of the Radcliffe estate
there was an Ellis Family who lived in Clare Terrace
Mandy

[ChrisGeorge]

Hi Liverpolitan

Great postcards. Thanks for posting them here. I encourage you to join the "Old Liverpool" group on Flickr as well. Hope to see you there.

Chris

[Ged]

A couple of pics from a new book, Yesterday's Liverpool by Ian Boumphrey.

The first one from 1874 shows St. John's church to the West of St. George's Hall. The second is a 1955 shot of London Road and Jeromes where all the staged family shots from the area were taken.