Topic: Old photos of and around Liverpool

[So… Howard Philips]

My Mum told me I said my first words in Park Road outside the old chapel by Dingle sheds.

Which was your favourite bomb site then?

[24/7]

Which was your favourite bomb site then?

And did you call it a "bombdy"? Oooh has anyone got any pics of the Cazzy?? Here's another of Park Road by the way......

[24/7]

Reminded me of this book 

Or these even......

(There was a third one of the Lern series - I've lost it somewhere along the way )

[Tesco tearaway]

Or these even......

(There was a third one of the Lern series - I've lost it somewhere along the way )

A little bit off topic but look what I've managed to get a copy of 




It's in mint condition as well 

[24/7]

"mint"

[Medellin]

Bombdy it was aye..you'd fuck around in them til they were flattened & then it was a game of king brick.
A game which would be a salvage yards nightmare..each would pick a brick & the opposition would lay theirs down & you would take turns to break that brick with yours,anything below 3/4 damage & you were out.
King bricks could last a '20' or more wins.
Engineering brick etc not allowed..a few houses of bricks were  reduced to hardcore in days.
Regrets eh..was fun at the time.

[So… Howard Philips]

Bombdy it was aye..you'd fuck around in them til they were flattened & then it was a game of king brick.
A game which would be a salvage yards nightmare..each would pick a brick & the opposition would lay theirs down & you would take turns to break that brick with yours,anything below 3/4 damage & you were out.
King bricks could last a '20' or more wins.
Engineering brick etc not allowed..a few houses of bricks were  reduced to hardcore in days.
Regrets eh..was fun at the time.

Yeah I can remember lots if things being smashed to smithereens but not that game. Sounded fun.
Finding a house with a water supply was a coup. We'd try and carry it out to the debbie and make canals. Never worked we would just end up with mud.

I can remember playing until I'd be called in to watch Sea Hunt or Roger Moore in Lancelot.

I don't think we knew how lucky we were. Freedom, things to smash without hurting ourselves and all the cuts and scrapes building up our immune systems. Once a gulley sucker driver gave us some marbles he retrieved from the drains. They got thrown straight in the bin because I might catch scarlatina.

[The Gulleysucker]

...... They got thrown straight in the bin because I might catch scarlatina.

Don't hear of that much these days.

From what I remember, when I was tiny in the early 60's, it used to be a bit of a frequent conversation topic amongst women waiting at bus stops when you'd sometimes overhear them exchanging their current family woes to each other in a sort of oneupmanship game while waiting for the bus to arrive...Our Frank is off work with lumbago....Well our Marie has got scarlatina...

[So… Howard Philips]

Don't hear of that much these days.

From what I remember, when I was tiny in the early 60's, it used to be a bit of a frequent conversation topic amongst women waiting at bus stops when you'd sometimes overhear them exchanging their current family woes to each other in a sort of oneupmanship game while waiting for the bus to arrive...Our Frank is off work with lumbago....Well our Marie has got scarlatina...

Rees-Mogg has vowed to reintroduce scarlatina and child chimney sweeps when he is PM.

[Tsar Kastik]

And did you call it a "bombdy"? Oooh has anyone got any pics of the Cazzy?? Here's another of Park Road by the way......

Same block in '52

[24/7]

Same block in '52

Haha it never looked that good after. Amazing the difference after just a couple of decades :{

[gazzam1963]

Rees-Mogg has vowed to reintroduce scarlatina and child chimney sweeps when he is PM.

Hurrah hurrah !! Or remember when we used to go to play junior school football the captains had to say
" three cheers for St philomemas " or some other such inner city school

[So… Howard Philips]

Hurrah hurrah !! Or remember when we used to go to play junior school football the captains had to say
" three cheers for St philomemas " or some other such inner city school

Well Reesie is one of those aristocratic old school Catholics, probably related to some of the Gunpowder Plot gang.

[Medellin]

Couple of quite interesting crackers ere..

[24/7]

Couple of quite interesting crackers ere..

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[Lady_brandybuck]

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Hahahaha, the resemblance is uncanny.

[Medellin]

Nice one Jim 

If you notice on the map the path that leads down the centre of Stanley park is actually  called mill lane

[kavah]

Couple of quite interesting crackers ere..

Brilliant - that must be Aldo nearly beating the keeper to the ball

[Tesco tearaway]

Wonder what's been shopped off the wall?

[SamAteTheRedAcid]

Wonder what's been shopped off the wall?

I hadn't noticed that but seems so obviously doctored now its been pointed out!

[Medellin]

Probably grass or some opposition tags.
That was my route to the game for a long time during my early years,Me arl fella & me grandad had ST's in the Kemlyn..later moved to the main stand & i'd visit before & after the game getting the best fish,chips & peas ever.
Fucking hell i don't half miss those early days,they lived on Skerries rd & i'd sit there being quiet as me grandad wrote all the final scores down in the paper. 

[Medellin]

Some crackin fotos here of the old royal..really enjoyed browsing the likes of this.

https://www.livnursesleague.co.uk/memories/

[Medellin]

few more randoms..

[24/7]

2nd one - ah the Odeon opposite St John's! I actually watched The Golden Child in that cinema

"Give me the kniiiiiiiiiife! Pleeeeeaaaaaaase!"

In fact, look at the RAWKite "The Golden Child"'s CT.........

[Medellin]

2nd one - ah the Odeon opposite St John's! I actually watched The Golden Child in that cinema

"Give me the kniiiiiiiiiife! Pleeeeeaaaaaaase!"

In fact, look at the RAWKite "The Golden Child"'s CT.........

The ABC?

Still aint seen the Golden Child to this day! 

[24/7]

The ABC?

Still aint seen the Golden Child to this day! 

Memory plays tricks in this thread. I blame the psychedelics I took in the 80s.....

[redbyrdz]

Somehow that satellite dish ad looks way older than the time I remember.


Should post in the 'getting old' thread

[rob1966]

Memory plays tricks in this thread. I blame the psychedelics I took in the 80s.....

Yeah the Odeon was on London Road - saw all the original Star Wars films in there when it was the one screen. Trying to remember what we watched in the ABC, think I saw Towering Inferno and maybe Close Encounters.

There were two on Renshaw Street wasn't there, one that showed all the X rated films and another next door?

[24/7]

There were two on Renshaw Street wasn't there, one that showed all the X rated films and another next door?

Rialto?

[Tesco tearaway]

Look at this loony! 


Lots more of Kirkby, and other places, on pintrest HERE

[gazzam1963]

Yeah the Odeon was on London Road - saw all the original Star Wars films in there when it was the one screen. Trying to remember what we watched in the ABC, think I saw Towering Inferno and maybe Close Encounters.

There were two on Renshaw Street wasn't there, one that showed all the X rated films and another next door?

Didnt the futurist or the gaumnont on lime street show earthquake in sensurround or something like that , remember always used to see it in the echo

[rob1966]

Rialto?

The Scala and the Futurist is coming up on Google, but says they were on Lime Street. Old age affecting my memory too.

Lime street has changed. Last time I was in town was Sept 2016, got the train into Lime Street then went the museum and then shopping for my lads Liverpool kit. Looking on streetview (2017 image), half of limey past the ABC has been demolished, whats been built there instead?

[24/7]

The Scala and the Futurist is coming up on Google, but says they were on Lime Street. Old age affecting my memory too.

Lime street has changed. Last time I was in town was Sept 2016, got the train into Lime Street then went the museum and then shopping for my lads Liverpool kit. Looking on streetview (2017 image), half of limey past the ABC has been demolished, whats been built there instead?

Kinell yeah La Scala - something of a (rightful) hoo-ha about that being pulled down. Rialto was a furniture store on Upper Parly burned down in the Tockie riots - fuckin shame that.......

[24/7]

whats been built there instead?

Student accommodation. Like most of the area. Um, okay.

[rob1966]

Student accommodation. Like most of the area. Um, okay.

Ripping the City apart for fucking student pads? Disgrace that

[So… Howard Philips]

Kinell yeah La Scala - something of a (rightful) hoo-ha about that being pulled down. Rialto was a furniture store on Upper Parly burned down in the Tockie riots - fuckin shame that.......

When my dad was in his twenties the Rialto was the Cream of the day.

[only6times]

Brilliant - that must be Aldo nearly beating the keeper to the ball

Not Aldo. Our kids mates are on it. There is another he is trying to find that he ( our kid not Aldo) is on.

[Red Beret]

Yeah the Odeon was on London Road - saw all the original Star Wars films in there when it was the one screen. Trying to remember what we watched in the ABC, think I saw Towering Inferno and maybe Close Encounters.

There were two on Renshaw Street wasn't there, one that showed all the X rated films and another next door?

There was an x-rated cinema on Clayton Square that later got converted into a church.  My mum took me in it a couple of times.  I think it moved to Williamson Square as the Blessed Sacrament Shrine.

I deffo saw When the Wind Blows at the ABC, and also Greystoke.  The Star Trek films were also shown there I think.

[24/7]

When my dad was in his twenties the Rialto was the Cream of the day.

Bangin sound system, plentiful recreational substances inc lose proximity, not a bad place to cop off?

[So… Howard Philips]

There was an x-rated cinema on Clayton Square that later got converted into a church.  My mum took me in it a couple of times.  I think it moved to Williamson Square as the Blessed Sacrament Shrine.

I deffo saw When the Wind Blows at the ABC, and also Greystoke.  The Star Trek films were also shown there I think.

Wasn't the sleaze pit called the Jacey? We lied our way in at 15 to see a Swedish film. We were sadly disappointed, we only saw breasts and a fuzzy view of a couple of female backsides.

The statues in the Walker art gallery were more erotic. The Walker was another rite of passage as well. Took my young sister, kids and grandsons there. All spent their time sniggering at firm, sculptured arses when they should have been getting some aesthetic education.