Topic: Old photos of and around Liverpool

[John C]

Garston Old Rd 1888

[John C]

Yours were great btw Medellin.

[24/7]

Still there and runs over the Fairy Glen.

Yup and what a sorry state that Glen is these days Used to love it there. The bridge was our start/finish line for Cross Country competitions at our school.

Making it impossible to drive a full circle around the park at the point is a fucking nuisance though - I forget every time I go there and want to go from Aigburth to Toxteth the scenic way

[Medellin]

These are the type of old photos I love..1960 somewhere in Everton courtesy of Angelcake.



"Frances Pulford, pictured, 72 years old, emptying a bucket of washing-up water down a gutter in the street where she lives. There is no sink in any of the nine houses. There is no sink because there weren't any drains, only 1 cold water tap for each house. 1960 Liverpool"



1965..







1957 Rathbone Street Adventure Playground.

[John C]

1957 Rathbone Street Adventure Playground.

That pic has blew my fucking mind mate. The depredation and dereliction yet someone always thinks those kids need a swing and a roundabout.
Amazing.

[So… Howard Philips]

Chermside Road Aigburth

St Thomas More, now deconsecrated and converted to flats, at the top on Rundle Road.

[Medellin]

Princess Boulevard 1972.



1983.

 

The Large Objects Museum 1983.



1970.



Huyton station 1970.



1956 & 2018



Bold street 1962.



 
https://twitter.com/i/status/1304138121278357504

[So… Howard Philips]

The furrier shown in Bold Street was near to Madame SL Foner specialist in lady's foundation garments

[Tsar Kastik]

Assuming that Bold St pic was taken in December, those kids were at the cusp of any old winter to one they’d never see the likes of again.

[Medellin]

From YO!

Crazy how much has changed..







Kensington.



 





Shiver me timbers 1922.



Crown Street railwaymen unearthing/discovering Stephenson's Rocket tracks of 1830. 1956.



From SOL..The oldest known photograph of Liverpool..



The Liverpool Gymnasium Myrtle Street 1880..



 

[So… Howard Philips]

Assuming that Bold St pic was taken in December, those kids were at the cusp of any old winter to one they’d never see the likes of again.

I remember the winter of 1962/63 well as I was just ten. I still went to school and Liverpool got off relatively lightly to other parts of the country.

And applause to Medellin for unearthing such great photos.

[rob1966]

From YO!

Crazy how much has changed..

Shiver me timbers 1922.

Looks the same to me

I can see my aunties house in that pic.

[CraigDS]

Shiver me timbers 1922.

Not exactly the same angle, and must be slightly old as no big blue cladding job to hide Anfield from jealous eyes, but nearly 100yrs later...

[rob1966]

Not exactly the same angle, and must be slightly old as no big blue cladding job to hide Anfield from jealous eyes, but nearly 100yrs later...

Did the houses just fall down or did the Luftwaffe bomb them? Won't have been bought by Everton because thats Redshite behaviour.

[Medellin]

I remember the winter of 1962/63 well as I was just ten. I still went to school and Liverpool got off relatively lightly to other parts of the country.

And applause to Medellin for unearthing such great photos.

Ta mate..one of the reasons I post photos is for the reaction posts & stories/memories others have from seeing them.
Like this..some reason Birkenhead shouts out where this was taken..



Not so old but memories jump out from this personally..





No idea where..

[So… Howard Philips]

That bottom one is horrendous! Brings back memories of taking the kids out for a swim near Egremont on the 1970s. I went in first and rapidly turned back just before I butted a floating turd.

That large building has Palace on the side - and this is where Gulley would have sailed in, identified the exact year of the cars on the promenade and the date on the can of Foster's floating with all the other detritus floating in, I assume, the Mersey.

[rob1966]

No idea where..

Swear that is New Brighton.

EDIT :- Its this I reckon

[24/7]

Swear that is New Brighton.

EDIT :- Its this I reckon

In the background though, isn't that one of the tunnel ventilation shafts?

[CraigDS]

In the background though, isn't that one of the tunnel ventilation shafts?

Yeah looks like the Birkenhead (Queensway) tunnel vent shaft.

[24/7]

Look at the trash in the water there 

[rob1966]

In the background though, isn't that one of the tunnel ventilation shafts?

Oh aye yes, must be playing in the bloody dock then 

[SamAteTheRedAcid]

Yeah looks like the Birkenhead (Queensway) tunnel vent shaft.

I reckon Rob's right, it is New Brighton. Looks like the Adventureland arcade to me rather than tunnel shaft. I was eating chips in that very shelter a couple of weeks ago, pretty sure.

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4404494,-3.0399591,3a,75y,158.39h,105.81t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s4k_NwSUuZ0TBJw3KWB0zhw!2e0!3e11!7i16384!8i8192

[CraigDS]

I reckon Rob's right, it is New Brighton. Looks like the Adventureland arcade to me rather than tunnel shaft. I was eating chips in that very shelter a couple of weeks ago, pretty sure.

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4404494,-3.0399591,3a,75y,158.39h,105.81t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s4k_NwSUuZ0TBJw3KWB0zhw!2e0!3e11!7i16384!8i8192

Yeah could well be right mate. Looks like it has the same canopy type thing lower down and building continuing to the right.

[So… Howard Philips]

I reckon Rob's right, it is New Brighton. Looks like the Adventureland arcade to me rather than tunnel shaft. I was eating chips in that very shelter a couple of weeks ago, pretty sure.

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4404494,-3.0399591,3a,75y,158.39h,105.81t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s4k_NwSUuZ0TBJw3KWB0zhw!2e0!3e11!7i16384!8i8192

It's definitely not either of the tunnel shafts and I think the New Brighton spot is right.

[Big Red Richie]

The building in the background is not a ventilation shaft, but New Brighton Palace (and later, Adventureland)

[Tesco tearaway]

Shiver me timbers and headbutting a floating turd 

[Big Red Richie]

Mersey goldfish donchknow.        

[CornerFlag]

Definitely New Brighton, I'd say THIS is the closest you'd get to a modern shot.  It's the Marine Lake before they did up all the front, maybe as part of the "New Wallasey Regeneration" stuff I vaguely remember. 

[rob1966]

I thought I was right

[CornerFlag]

As with the Birkenhead shot, I'm sure it's from a series of photos that was trying to make some sort of point, the same person did similar in Liscard too.  Wasn't actually that litter-strewn.

Was a shithole still, like!

Found these, loving the fashion.
https://www.dazeddigital.com/beauty/masculinity/gallery/27840/0/80s-liverpool-lads-by-rob-bremner

[rob1966]

As with the Birkenhead shot, I'm sure it's from a series of photos that was trying to make some sort of point, the same person did similar in Liscard too.  Wasn't actually that litter-strewn.

Was a shithole still, like!



Found these, loving the fashion.
https://www.dazeddigital.com/beauty/masculinity/gallery/27840/0/80s-liverpool-lads-by-rob-bremner

Thought Bez was a Manc? 

[elbow]

Thought Bez was a Manc? 

His arl fella is a scouser!

[Medellin]

Some unseen photos here..use the app.

Unseen photos found under bed capture Liverpool in 1970s and 80s

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/nostalgia/gallery/captivating-unseen-photos-liverpool-1970s-19136640#ICID=Android_EchoNewsApp_AppShare

[kavah]

Some unseen photos here..use the app.

Unseen photos found under bed capture Liverpool in 1970s and 80s

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/nostalgia/gallery/captivating-unseen-photos-liverpool-1970s-19136640#ICID=Android_EchoNewsApp_AppShare

Great photographs of the Welsh streets L8. (The Echo could be so good - if it wasn't for its terrible website amongst other things).

[Medellin]

Great photographs of the Welsh streets L8. (The Echo could be so good - if it wasn't for its terrible website amongst other things).

Aye their website is atrocious, would have jibbed the Echo long ago but for the likes of these articles that pop up every now & then.
The app is much better.

[Tsar Kastik]

Good set of photos there - but it wouldn't be the Echo if there wasn't a mistake; no way that is South Street. i

[Tsar Kastik]

Cooper's Bldg at Church Street and Paradise Street corner 1947

[Terry de Niro]

Ta mate..one of the reasons I post photos is for the reaction posts & stories/memories others have from seeing them.
Like this..some reason Birkenhead shouts out where this was taken..

Milton Precinct now called Milton Pavement. Not far from Birkenhead market.

[Medellin]

Milton Precinct now called Milton Pavement. Not far from Birkenhead market.

Nice one Terry, I used to pop over to Birkenhead now & then to the market in particular when a family member had a stall there..that Polo top that the fella has on reminds me of me arl fella for some reason.

[rob1966]

Ta mate..one of the reasons I post photos is for the reaction posts & stories/memories others have from seeing them.
Like this..some reason Birkenhead shouts out where this was taken..

The amount of litter