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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #560 on: December 2, 2010, 05:20:37 pm »
It's 1907

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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #561 on: December 2, 2010, 05:32:58 pm »


quite a handy programme paint shop pro is. at least i can straighten it out a bit to make it look a bit better.  pity it doesn't give an exact date.
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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #562 on: December 2, 2010, 05:39:51 pm »
could be 1908 prior to work on the liver bulding.  pity i can't zoom in without pixelizing. not that i'd know what i'd be looking for. 1907 is a safe assumption too
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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #563 on: December 2, 2010, 08:16:07 pm »
John....
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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #564 on: December 2, 2010, 08:58:25 pm »
It's 1907


Thanks mate and thanks John for posting the photo.

It really looks weird looking at the Liverpool skyline and not seeing the Liver building there.

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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #565 on: December 2, 2010, 09:51:47 pm »
....and by 1910 it looked like this, new Tower buildings as well

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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #566 on: December 2, 2010, 11:14:47 pm »
....and by 1910 it looked like this, new Tower buildings as well


Wow, brilliant..

Any more pictures of the construction period knocking about?

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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #567 on: December 2, 2010, 11:37:24 pm »
most of these are about the site preparations a few years before the build start...




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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #568 on: December 3, 2010, 01:14:16 am »
ah more photos...

i'm up to 477 pics at the moment. cleaned up a few of the older ones. i think it's going to take a bit more than saturday. next job is to try and put them in order of date or approx, which should be fun renaming them all.
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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #569 on: December 3, 2010, 09:50:25 pm »
The lanny

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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #570 on: December 3, 2010, 10:05:28 pm »
The Liver building looking all swanky and new in 1911, before the Cunard building was built.




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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #571 on: December 3, 2010, 10:27:05 pm »
Ha love it, a timeless shot
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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #572 on: December 3, 2010, 10:28:12 pm »
The Liver building looking all swanky and new in 1911, before the Cunard building was built.



I worked in there mate. I used to love walking in there every morning.
You could smell the history......not to mention the bacon butties fron the cafe downstairs (which is sadly no more)

Just noticed a little something missing from there too!
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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #573 on: December 3, 2010, 11:21:52 pm »
The Liver building looking all swanky and new in 1911, before the Cunard building was built.





Liver birds missing :P
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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #574 on: December 3, 2010, 11:41:32 pm »
Liver birds missing :P
Migration period mate.

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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #575 on: December 3, 2010, 11:48:46 pm »
Migration period mate.

:)

Love this thread. So much history (and not just you Terry).

I know it's a cliche to say it but I love the waterfront and Liver Building so much - looking at this thread gives me flasbacks to when I was very little and my Grandad taking me and my brother into town to look around. I was transfixed by the birds on top of the towers and even now, whenever I'm approaching the city centre it's the first thing I look for and it always give me a buzz.

I should probably get out more!

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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #576 on: December 4, 2010, 01:22:45 am »
The Liverpool skyline in 1909, prior to the Liver and Cunard buildings..


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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #577 on: December 4, 2010, 01:26:04 am »
St George’s Hall 1851


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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #578 on: December 4, 2010, 02:32:02 am »
Typical Lime Street that Terry.
Only one fucking cab in sight.

I tell you what though........doesn't that building look even more magnificent without the visual clutter thats there now.


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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #579 on: December 4, 2010, 02:55:44 am »


I tell you what though........doesn't that building look even more magnificent without the visual clutter thats there now.
It was magnificent and majestic then, and it still is now.
But I get your point about the visual clutter as well.
It's the same with the Liverpool skyline for me now.
I might get battered for this, but I hate the new excuses for buildings that are popping up left, right and centre there right now.

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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #580 on: December 4, 2010, 03:04:22 am »
It was magnificent and majestic then, and it still is now.
But I get your point about the visual clutter as well.
It's the same with the Liverpool skyline for me now.
I might get battered for this, but I hate the new excuses for buildings that are popping up left, right and centre there right now.

Thinking that myself the other day when I saw a photo of the 'new' waterfront. Didn't look right somehow with all the new buildings so close to the 3 graces.

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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #581 on: December 4, 2010, 03:05:42 am »
St George’s Hall 1851



Was that really taken in 1851?  :o

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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #582 on: December 4, 2010, 03:06:11 am »
It was magnificent and majestic then, and it still is now.
But I get your point about the visual clutter as well.
It's the same with the Liverpool skyline for me now.
I might get battered for this, but I hate the new excuses for buildings that are popping up left, right and centre there right now.

I agree with you mate.
When you come into town from the south end you can hardly see The Three Graces for glass monstrocities.

By the way.......did you know that St George's Hall was the Worlds 1st Air conditioned building?

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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #583 on: December 4, 2010, 03:11:30 am »
Thinking that myself the other day when I saw a photo of the 'new' waterfront. Didn't look right somehow with all the new buildings so close to the 3 graces.
Legoland mate..
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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #584 on: December 4, 2010, 03:16:41 am »


By the way.......did you know that St George's Hall was the Worlds 1st Air conditioned building?


I didn't mate, but I do now.

So when that Qatar world cup kicks off, they've got us to thank?

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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #585 on: December 4, 2010, 03:19:15 am »
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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #586 on: December 4, 2010, 03:20:52 am »


By the way.......did you know that St George's Hall was the Worlds 1st Air conditioned building?



Been mentioned on RAWK before, but it was also built the wrong way round!

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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #587 on: December 4, 2010, 08:33:33 am »
St. Georges real splendour is on the inside, but it does look great from the front - 'specially when lit up of a night. The back's a bit plain and featureless - mind you the same can mainly be said about most buildings, especially houses, even today.

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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #588 on: December 4, 2010, 08:34:56 am »
another one of the landing stage....

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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #589 on: December 4, 2010, 12:08:09 pm »
Legoland mate..
I'm glad someone agrees.

I agree that there should be a more respectful distance allowed to the 3 old girls, but I like the new museum.
Anyway looks like the alians have got the best view.....click on 'full resolution' and then click the result. I know I've already posted this on the Rawkites photos thread...so what.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Liverpool_Waterfront_by_Night.jpg
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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #590 on: December 4, 2010, 02:04:17 pm »

Anyway looks like the alians have got the best view.....click on 'full resolution' and then click the result.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Liverpool_Waterfront_by_Night.jpg
;D Was expecting an aerial view there, know what you mean now.

Great picture that.



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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #591 on: December 4, 2010, 03:23:35 pm »
that#s another coincidence. i was looking at that 1851 photo of st georges hall in another site - i can't believe that.

coming along slowly.. even though this pic says 1905, i came across this pic at the beginning of the week and i had a bit of difficulty dating it, as the only clue that i could go on is the 'neon' jacobs sign. the flickr site dates it @ 1905 so i'll go along with that. the horse and cart was a giveaway for me but the sign was a bit offputting
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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #592 on: December 5, 2010, 11:21:49 am »
Just noticed a little something missing from there too!

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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #593 on: December 5, 2010, 11:31:17 am »
I worked in there mate. I used to love walking in there every morning.
You could smell the history......not to mention the bacon butties fron the cafe downstairs (which is sadly no more)

Just noticed a little something missing from there too!

I used to go see a customer in the Royal Liver six or seven years ago. I'd meet  colleagues in that Caff and have a bacon sarnie and cup of tea before going up to our meeting. It was the first time i'd been in the building and I was blown away by the architecture and sheer history of the place. It really is an imposing building and for a life long red it was brilliant walking around the place. My meeting was right at the top of the building and my only memory is of looking out of the window at the fantastic views of the Mersey.

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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #594 on: December 5, 2010, 12:59:36 pm »
....... as the only clue that i could go on is the 'neon' jacobs sign.

It's "Jacobs's" . It was owned by Mr Jacobs not by a Mr Jacob so the sign says Jacobs's with two S's, a visually unusual possessive apostrophe rather like Lewis's since it too already ends in an S but in neither case is a plural. You can just about make out the apostrophe neon in the picture immediately below the end window.

.......It was the first time i'd been in the building and I was blown away by the architecture and sheer history of the place. ....
One of my few claims to any sort of fame is my distant ancestors on my Dad's side were the company that plastered the inside of the Liver Building, and apparently also the Isle of Man Parliament building. When I was tiny, my Dad would mention it sometimes when we went down the Pier Head for a ferry ride and my sister since has researched it and seems to have confirmed it.
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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #595 on: December 5, 2010, 05:57:01 pm »
I used to walk through from one side to the other when I worked in town a long time ago - used to do the same with India buildings - not that I had any business in either of them.

Anyway, while I'm here..Central station; opened in 1874, pulled down 99 years later. An inside shot from about 1960, coming down in 1973, what the view was like before it was built.



 
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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #596 on: December 5, 2010, 06:23:00 pm »
i think i made a bit of a hiccup with that pic above. it wasn't 1905 after all, it was 1915. i mixed it up with another similar pic which was from 1905.. ah well.

part one has got 177 pics so far and that's about 15mins, which will take it over the 10 min limit. and no doubt there'd be a few more pics to go in
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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #597 on: December 6, 2010, 05:35:27 pm »
Central station, Lewis's and at the top of the road the old Adelphi getting demolished in 1911.

Then some 1881 shots of the Lime St. station tunnels being dug out.

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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #598 on: December 6, 2010, 06:48:21 pm »
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Re: Old photos of and around Liverpool
« Reply #599 on: December 6, 2010, 10:42:19 pm »
Central station, Lewis's and at the top of the road the old Adelphi getting demolished in 1911.

Then some 1881 shots of the Lime St. station tunnels being dug out.



The health and safety were on the ball in those days.