Topic: Old photos of and around Liverpool

[Red_Mist]

Libpool fans in London for the 1965 Cup final...

You can just feel the excitement in this photo. A great moment to capture.

[gazzam1963]

You can just feel the excitement in this photo. A great moment to capture.

Do we reckon before or after the game ...seem jubilant ...imagine a bit of sound to that

[Pistolero]

Do we reckon before or after the game ...seem jubilant ...imagine a bit of sound to that

taken the morning of the game............another from the same collection....and a (very) early version of  'Here we go gathering cups in May flag'!...

[Tsar Kastik]

American troops boarding a train at Knotty Ash - Aug 1918; from the Imp War Museum,

[the 92A]

American troops boarding a train at Knotty Ash - Aug 1918; from the Imp War Museum,

Where about in Knotty Ash is that?

[only6times]

taken the morning of the game............another from the same collection....and a (very) early version of  'Here we go gathering cups in May flag'!...

I found Wally.

[The Gulleysucker]

Where about in Knotty Ash is that?

That's Knotty Ash station.

Here it is towards the sad end....


The Yanks had a camp near Alder Hey, and also used the same place for a while during the second world war.

https://liverpoolhistorysocietyquestions.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/united-states-rest-camp-at-knotty-ash-springfield-park/

After the war it then became a Maternity Hospital, Springfield....I was born there.

[Tsar Kastik]

The 1960 photo in that link of Knotty Ash is from a very similar perspective.


A link to the IWM picture;  http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search?query=knotty+ash&items_per_page=10

[Pistolero]

Ladies day at Aintree - 1937......one can only imagine the outrage at the Daily Mail at the time.....it's editorials may have even taken time out from worshipping the Nazi party in order to condemn the rise of free spirited Northern women and their furry ankle boots...

[the 92A]

That's Knotty Ash station.

Here it is towards the sad end....


The Yanks had a camp near Alder Hey, and also used the same place for a while during the second world war.

https://liverpoolhistorysocietyquestions.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/united-states-rest-camp-at-knotty-ash-springfield-park/

After the war it then became a Maternity Hospital, Springfield....I was born there.

Thanks  Gulley I can place it now on the loop line on the bridge the other side of Sainsbury's

[Pistolero]

[Big Red Richie]

He's gotta be an LFC man, surely?

He's got that 'leaning at a jaunty angle', down to a tee. 

[eAyeAddio]

Pochettino's arle fella was a Scouser..who knew?   

Ha !    Now that's funny !

[The Gulleysucker]

From a few pages back we had a natter about this location....



Well it looks like the road bridge, the one you can see here in front of the Grand Arch is now going to be replaced.

From the Echo the other day....

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/major-route-liverpool-city-centre-11003793

It's good to see that they are planning to retain the ability to re-instate the line someday and not simply filling in the cutting as some suggest in that article. Some of those comments from a few people make me despair, it seems there's still an element in Liverpool who think nothing of casually destroying our architectural past with no thought of the future.

Here's hoping the road bridge construction company isn't too enthusiastic when it comes to using the jack hammers and 'accidently' destroy the Grand Arch. It wouldn't be the first time something like that has happened.

[The Gulleysucker]

Of possible interest to some.

All railways, including those long dismantled, and at a serious level of detail when you zoom in.

You can choose map/sat background etc from the right hand menu, and other options like legend from the left hand menus.

Point and click on any line for more details, though it sometimes seems to take a few seconds to interrogate the database behind the scenes.

Obviously it's not absolutely spot on simply because track diagrams did change sometimes over the years, for example emergency sidings during the War, but as far as I can make out, the details on the dock lines, Walton Jnct and a few other places seem pretty accurate.

I'll get my anorak....

[redbyrdz]

That is pretty cool.

I didn't know there was a railway running round the festival gardens!

[sonny crockett]

I was walking the dog on the loop line this morning. I should go look up why it closed down.

I'd love to be able to walk up to Walkers and hop the train to town.

[Licky]

I was walking the dog on the loop line this morning. I should go look up why it closed down.

I'd love to be able to walk up to Walkers and hop the train to town.

There's plenty about the loop line on disused-stations.org.uk, some good pics on there

[Fazakerley Red]

I was walking the dog on the loop line this morning. I should go look up why it closed down.

I'd love to be able to walk up to Walkers and hop the train to town.

it got closed by the infamous dr beeching who closed thousands of lines and stations around the country .

[SamAteTheRedAcid]

it got closed by the infamous dr beeching who closed thousands of lines and stations around the country .

He sounds like a bad bellend:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Beeching,_Baron_Beeching

[Licky]

it got closed by the infamous dr beeching who closed thousands of lines and stations around the country .

No doubt beeching did considerable damage to British railways, but looking at the loop line it's hard to understand why the bit from Aintree Central up to Southport was ever built in the first place, it would've only ever served two and a half people and a cow on that route

[Slick_Beef]

Of possible interest to some.

All railways, including those long dismantled, and at a serious level of detail when you zoom in.

You can choose map/sat background etc from the right hand menu, and other options like legend from the left hand menus.

Point and click on any line for more details, though it sometimes seems to take a few seconds to interrogate the database behind the scenes.

Obviously it's not absolutely spot on simply because track diagrams did change sometimes over the years, for example emergency sidings during the War, but as far as I can make out, the details on the dock lines, Walton Jnct and a few other places seem pretty accurate.

I'll get my anorak....

That is great, thanks for sharing. I have walked the wirral way hundreds of times but had no idea that it had a branch to the colliery until I saw that map

[Pistolero]

1970's Knowsley Safari Park ..

[John C]

1970's Knowsley Safari Park ..

Quite brilliant for so may reasons, the spotties on that red Morris are just a bit too central though.

[moondog]

Awesome picture that. Imagine going through the safari park in a reliant, that is one brave mofo.

[Big Red Richie]

It's like a pride of Lions sitting in a sushi restaurant.

All the food goes streaming past in a line.....


"Oooh. Shall I have a red plate, or a yellow plate?"   

[jimbo196843]

Awesome picture that. Imagine going through the safari park in a reliant, that is one brave mofo.

they only ever made 2 cars Reliant: the robin and the scimitar. What a contrast

[kavah]

what are they? Morris Minor, Reliant, the red-one -  Is it a Morris Johan? -  and a sky blue Cortina?

And Moondog, as Bill Bryson recently described the Robin Reliant: ...how wonderfully ill-conceived ...

[goalspaytherent]

1970's Knowsley Safari Park ..

That reminds me of the old joke about the radio news report saying that 5 lions had escaped from Knowsley Safari Park ....they were later found badly mauled in nearby Huyton

[John C]

what are they? Morris Minor, Reliant, the red-one -  Is it a Morris Johan? -  and a sky blue Cortina?

And Moondog, as Bill Bryson recently described the Robin Reliant: ...how wonderfully ill-conceived ...

Beetle, Robin, Morris Minor, Corsair.

[moondog]

what are they? Morris Minor, Reliant, the red-one -  Is it a Morris Johan? -  and a sky blue Cortina?

And Moondog, as Bill Bryson recently described the Robin Reliant: ...how wonderfully ill-conceived ...

Certainly didn't see many of them used as safari vehicles. That's one for Clarkson to try maybe?

[Tsar Kastik]

Not convinced the red one is a Moggy - not a  Minor anyroad.

[only6times]

Hillman Imp?

[The Gulleysucker]

Not convinced the red one is a Moggy - not a  Minor anyroad.

It's an Austin 1300GT ...



and the last one is a Ford Corsair...

[Tsar Kastik]

Persuaded 

[John C]

Nice one Gully, that Austin would have been a bit of a car in its day

[Tsar Kastik]

Gulley, I don't suppose you can approximate the date of this photo from the tops of these cars in the left foreground can you? 

[Tsar Kastik]

Same place probably about 60 odd years later,

from here; http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/37994-liverpool-lime-street-2mm-finescale/page-2

...but originated from Yo!

[The Gulleysucker]

Gulley, I don't suppose you can approximate the date of this photo from the tops of these cars in the left foreground can you? 

 

The main line electrification gantry and catenary system is in place in this photo (being used as a backdrop) in that RMWeb article..



Since electrification was completed by '62, I'm guessing that the other photo you've put up is likely from around after that, probably mid 60's. Not sure what the cars are, that looks suspiciously like the roofline of a Rover P5 at the front though I don't think that will help us much.

As the guy in the article says, it's likely taken shortly before demolition though I can't find anything to say exactly when that was.

I can remember watching engines get turned on that turntable.

[Timeless Melody]

march 29th 1989