Topic: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool

[the 92A]

And that shunter engine is still on the Dock Road somewhere....... it's now a static display and museum piece... :-)

You mean the one on the corner of Bankhall street and Derby Road by Norton's thats  much smaller, Gulley will probably know what it is https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.4361369,-2.9951284,3a,61.4y,252.38h,92.6t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s5P7sIvFjgTw-fz0gtVC4nw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

[The Gulleysucker]

You mean the one on the corner of Bankhall street and Derby Road by Norton's thats  much smaller, Gulley will probably know what it is https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.4361369,-2.9951284,3a,61.4y,252.38h,92.6t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s5P7sIvFjgTw-fz0gtVC4nw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

...Calling all anoraks...

Yes, it's a Ruston 48DS 0-4-0 Diesel Shunter.

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2860386

(I knew it was a Ruston but had to google for the precise type.)

I'm really not sure any of these were ever on the MD&HB loco list, I can't find any evidence anywhere, and it looks like it's been cosmetically tarted up as those side panels should be louvered, see ones here ... https://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/48ds/page2.

It's possibly been cannibalised for the engine or something like that in the past and left to rot and the original panels then lost, until someone decided to put it on display and quickly put some plain sheet metal over the gaping engine compartment and gave it all a lick of paint.

Unless someone knows different, I just have a sneaky suspicion it might actually have been this one here...
http://mickpope.zenfolio.com/p506284746/h5B23E24A#h5b23e24a , a private contractors engine that perhaps got left there after they finished their job on the North Docks railway works back in the 70's and at a guess, judging by the loaded Walrus waggons it's pictured tugging along in some of those photographs, it likely got well and truly shagged out and was simply left as scrap.

[Pistolero]

New Brighton 1964

[Pistolero]

[So… Howard Philips]

The days when all pubs were Walkers or Higsons, with a few Greenalls in the suburbs.

[Medellin]

The public toilets on Scottie road?

[rob1966]

The public toilets on Scottie road?

One thing looking at old pics shows is how small the cars were, a modern Focus or Astra would be as big as that Commer van

[Medellin]

One thing looking at old pics shows is how small the cars were, a modern Focus or Astra would be as big as that Commer van

The Commer Van yep 
Pretty sure Royal Mail used those too.



Miller's Bridge here 1950's.

[CornerFlag]

Not Liverpool as such but my side of the water.  Back when we had our own league team!

"Well Played, New Brighton!" (1928)

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[rob1966]

The Commer Van yep 
Pretty sure Royal Mail used those too.

They did. They also had a Post Bus in rural areas, which delivered the Mail and doubled up as a bus for the local community

[jackh]

They did. They also had a Post Bus in rural areas, which delivered the Mail and doubled up as a bus for the local community

I'd forgotten all about that service.  They used to run that in the part of mid-Wales where I was brought up.

[The Gulleysucker]

...Miller's Bridge here 1950's.

I remember most of Bootle looking like that when I was little, 3 or 4 story houses, in fact large tracts of town too, but all largely gone now.

I think that photo must have been taken somewhere about here....

[So… Howard Philips]

One thing looking at old pics shows is how small the cars were, a modern Focus or Astra would be as big as that Commer van

The car next to the Commer van looks just like my dad's first car, a Hillman Minx circa 1967.

[Medellin]

I remember most of Bootle looking like that when I was little, 3 or 4 story houses, in fact large tracts of town too, but all largely gone now.

I think that photo must have been taken somewhere about here....

Yep there was a row on Westminster road next to where my arl primary school was,thats some sort of film academy now.
That row was bulldozed & replaced with some shite wimpey/barratt style house..such a shame.

Wezzy road school..when i was there it was like some sort of apartheid, Protestants in their green uniforms on the1st floor & Catholics on the ground floor in grey uniform.
Break times were fun..30 a side teams kicking lumps out of each other & you were lucky to get a few touches before the bell went.

[kesey]

I went past my old school ( West Derby ) yesterday ...   It's a fuckin Aldi. 

Where I was born ( Smithdown ) is a fuckin Asda.

Where I bought my first weed ( Old Swan tennies ) is a fuckin Tesco's.

I feel cheated !

[only6times]

I went past my old school ( West Derby ) yesterday ...   It's a fuckin Aldi. 

Where I was born ( Smithdown ) is a fuckin Asda.

Where I bought my first weed ( Old Swan tennies ) is a fuckin Tesco's.

I feel cheated !

Your memories being replaced Lidl by Lidl, giving Morrison's to be upset.

[Tesco tearaway]

I went past my old school ( West Derby ) yesterday ...   It's a fuckin Aldi. 

Where I was born ( Smithdown ) is a fuckin Asda.

Where I bought my first weed ( Old Swan tennies ) is a fuckin Tesco's.

I feel cheated !

Do you always checkout places from your past?

Your memories being replaced Lidl by Lidl, giving Morrison's to be upset.

Morrison's 

[only6times]

Do you always checkout places from your past?
Morrison's 

Wait(rose) till your father gets home!!!!!

[CornerFlag]

Wait(rose) till your father gets home!!!!!

Yeah, he won't be Budgens an inch on this!

[John C]

Your memories being replaced Lidl by Lidl,

Hahaha I confess to looking at that yesterday thinking there must be a joke in there

[liversaint]

Yeah, he won't be Budgens an inch on this!

Could make a few Kwik savings though..

[The Gulleysucker]

Some people just love to Spar with words...

[Tsar Kastik]

Certainly milking it.  Give it a few more weeks, then have a Maypole on the best/worst effort.

[CornerFlag]

Some Premier puns in here.

[only6times]

We are all Co-operative lads.

[only6times]

Some people just love to Spar with words...

The Beatles did. It was one of Lennons better traits.

[The Gulleysucker]

The Beatles did. It was one of Lennons better traits.

Surely you could have come up with a better, perhaps a more Safeway, to throw that Spaniard in the works?

[So… Howard Philips]

The Beatles did. It was one of Lennons better traits.

I remember when the Lennon's in Garston was the biggest supermarket in town, well at least Liverpool 19.

[only6times]

Surely you could have come up with a better, perhaps a more Safeway, to throw that Spaniard in the works?

I was throwing a spanner through the Gateway. Iberians cause no grief.

[only6times]

I remember when the Lennon's in Garston was the biggest supermarket in town, well at least Liverpool 19.

Indeed it was. Used to sit on the ledge by the massive windows while my mum shopped there.

[exilescouse]

The Josephine Butler House on Myrtle St.

I was proper pissed losing this & the manner in which it went too.

First job I ever earned on as an apprentice ps8nter and decorator was the renovation of the tower, would have been 1983 I think.

[kesey]

Twats !

 

[only6times]

Twats !

 

That reminds me, did you go to Leo's?

[kesey]

That reminds me, did you go to Leo's?

Tee Hee .

Its in a few weeks . I have a lost at the UK Bhakti fest just north of Bourenmouth then its ferry to France. Hopefully hope to get to see him. I have his number written down in an old travel journel from 2010 but the chances of him having the same mobile seven years on are pretty slim I'd say.

[only6times]

Tee Hee .

Its in a few weeks . I have a lost at the UK Bhakti fest just north of Bourenmouth then its ferry to France. Hopefully hope to get to see him. I have his number written down in an old travel journel from 2010 but the chances of him having the same mobile seven years on are pretty slim I'd say.

I meant the one on Park Road but thanks for the extra info.

[So… Howard Philips]

I meant the one on Park Road but thanks for the extra info.

I remember Leo's (over the road from the Pineapple) was the Co-op's venture into large scale supermarket. Don't think it lasted that long.

[Big Red Richie]

Ha Ha. My first ever paying job, was stacking shelves in the Leo's Breck Road on a Saturday. Circa 1986.

Only lasted about six weeks, as the boss noticed I was going awol every second Saturday. 

[John C]

Tee Hee .

Its in a few weeks . I have a lost at the UK Bhakti fest just north of Bourenmouth then its ferry to France. Hopefully hope to get to see him. I have his number written down in an old travel journel from 2010 but the chances of him having the same mobile seven years on are pretty slim I'd say.

I've got his email address from a while back if that helps mate.

[only6times]

Ha Ha. My first ever paying job, was stacking shelves in the Leo's Breck Road on a Saturday. Circa 1986.

Only lasted about six weeks, as the boss noticed I was going awol every second Saturday. 

Tesco on Allerton road circa 1986. Got the job but she made the fatal error of saying "You have to work Saturday's". Needless to say, I swerved that job.

[Medellin]

Whilst we are donning our railway anoraks i'll throw out something i was told (and dismissed) probably abut 25 years ago when i was doing some work on a property in Crown st,Edge Hill.

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4009784,-2.9581316,0a,75y,337.17h,89.91t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sEx7Rg4Keg9iM6465fO_DSA!2e0 Check out Crown St Shared via the #StreetView app

Hope that link works for reference..

There was a clerk of works who stated that this property was built on the first railway turntable & if it was ever demolished it would still be there..fuck knows how true it is but i saw this whilst browsing which jigged the memory on it..it does seem to be close to the location.



There is a branch off Edge Hill to a Crown st location..

Over to you!