I think I'm one of the few on here that can legitimately lay claim to having been on the Overhead, although unlike Vic, sadly I have no memory of it as I was just too young.
According to my Mum, my Dad took me on it just before it closed forever in '56.
I don't even think I was one at the time but he thought it might be important some day for me to have known I'd travelled on it.
I do clearly remember a lot more wreckage though after the closure. We used to go to the beach at Waterloo in the summer back in the late 50's and early 60's, seems daft now but it was a big day out for us from West Derby back then.
On a few occasions for some reason we drove back along the dock road into town before heading off back home to L12. I have pretty clear memories of seeing many of the supporting pillars for the OH still being in situ back then, looking like an opened ribcage down the road, though none of the decking was in place by then. I guess it would be around '58 or so. The only reason I remember it so vividly is because as a little child I was fascinated by all aspects of engineering, ships, trains, trams, bridges, cranes, aircraft etc, and I was playing with meccano from almost when I could first talk, and so things like the OH remains were visually rather important to me.
I'm not sure now if they are good memories to have any more, that of the dismantling of so much of what made the Liverpool of my childhood, the OH, the docks, the busy railways everywhere, the hustle and bustle of a city with industries and seemingly with a purpose, so much now gone by the wreckers crane and ball.
