Originally Posted by Ged
thanks for that photo Ged I lived in 3 houses in that Street
I first lived at no. 3 with my dad, then no. 2 my first flat until I had a serious fire & had to be rescued by neighbours & firemen(I still have the news paper cutting), after the fire I moved into no.9 until 2002 just before they were demolished
Mandy
heres the story from The Daily Post
These flats fronted onto Leeds street and backed onto Worfield Street. Vauxhall Gardens stood behind them.
hey great, lucky there i was gonna post a question about masionettes
these are ones at the bottom of smithdown lane, gone now, or possible theyve had a roof chop
im looking for pics, or of the same type in other areas, particulaly the bottom of them as im building a model of them, http://michael-delamar.fotoblog.co.uk/
need to know what the walkway through them is like if anyone can help
cheers
mike
I can post a pic of the walkway up at the weekend if that's any good. I notice an Oldham Bros wagon there, here's some pics on their webby.
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/...bros/index.htm
The above site comes courtesy of via Dave's great Liverpool Pictorial site.
Mike. I think I have some more Maisonettes to post up where you may see the entrances.
I'm not sure I know the subtle differences between 50s/60s designs...some had round windows, landings, raillings and some didn't. Here's a couple that have since been demolished.
Essex Street Jan. 2005
Lamport Street (rear) Sept. 2004...you can see where the raillings have been bricked-up.
ged that would be brilliant cheers
im just wondering what these are on the outside if anyone knows, arrowed orange??
and the green arrow is that the stairs??
just been having a look through your excellent site by the way ged, lovin your model, and loads of brilliant pics ive never seen before,
off subject sorry, ive just in the middle of finishing a model of myrtle gardens,
http://www.michael-delamar.fotoblog.net/
im doing the corner in brian savilles pic with the goods yard, sadly hes not long passed away
the model will be at Liverool model railway societys exhibiton this may some details here, http://www.lmrs.org.uk/
ive only got them masionettes and a row of the old 2x2 edge hill terraces to do now
sorry for the plug and stealing your post there
mike
That's great that Mike, I'LL deffo get along to that exhibition. I've just posted a film screening and model exhibition at Lee Jones on the Festival and Events thread this thursday if you want to go along. Myrtle Gardens gets a good slot during it, great model that. Those with the orange arrow are the balconies aren't they and yes, that's the central stairway with your green arrow.
Here's a link regarding Myrtle Gardens, yes Brian's photos from Entwistle Heights were fab weren't they. He gave me permission to use them in my third book.
http://www.minstercourt.org.uk/myrtl..._liverpool.htm
he was a real gent,emailed him a few times, he was following my progress and sent me a copy of his pic, i was hoping he would have been able to come to the exhibiton, but sadly not,
i just wish id have known about this excellent forum aswel,
i didnt realise you wrote the in a city living books, my dads just got the first one, and my mate whos helping me build the layout has got all 3, and are really interested in all this history, my dads got loads of liverpool history books
i love it, love the cars, trains, street scenes from the 50s 60s, never got to see all this history, am 23 so thought id do a model of it
mike
just seen the post,im just getting used to this forum theres so much stuff on here, getting my head around it
gutted,
ill be in work i wont me able to make it
sorry
mikr
Mike, it seems to be the in thing at the moment these models. I see the Liverpool model in the library has been extended then there's the model of what the metopolitan cathedral was going to look like in the Walker and my friend Mike Murphy who supplied many of the photos on my site made one years ago of Tate and Lyles which he still has, now yours too.
The Lee Jones screening is based at their headquarters in Limekiln Lane, just off Silvester Street which in turn is just off Scotland Road, near to St. Anthony's church. It starts at 2pm - it's free but you need to book the tickets by ringing Lesley or Joan on 207 1984.
The film lasts one and a half hours, there's usually people there who bring their own pics to show around and Lee Jones will have their own on show. Ron Fromby of the Scottie press www.scottiepress.org will be present (they're based around the corner and set this up really) and there's always a lively debate at the Q&A session afterwards.
Hope you and your dad and whoever else can make it.
Not to worry Mike, it'll be on again somewhere throughout the year, definitely featuring at the St. George's Hall big history festival in September - see my events page on the website. Why don't you contact Marcia Hughes about having your exhibition there too.
yeah ive got a thing for building models, be it cars, buildings, trains
think it started with watching Thunderbirds when i was a kid
reading books like yours and photos that my dad had collected made me want to do it,
i wanted a railway as got an interest in the old steam days (know a few old drivers and firemen who tell great tales )
and wanted a small Liverpool location, and searched all different local locations, and crown street fitted all the requirements especially with myrtle gardens on it, worked out at 20ftx3ft
the same fella whos doing it with me, is helping his mate, do a layout of Lime street!!! as it was in the 40s, its aprox 40ft x 8 ft complete with the hotel on the end and the cutting leading up to it with the tennements above there, its been to our show in part and will be there in the next year or 2
mike
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