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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #40 on: December 7, 2015, 10:58:07 am »





Taken from a cracking amateur set of 1976 Liverpool photos here...

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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #41 on: December 7, 2015, 12:27:33 pm »





Taken from a cracking amateur set of 1976 Liverpool photos here...

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=366588&highlight=old+photos
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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #42 on: December 7, 2015, 12:37:28 pm »
Does anyone remember Flames?
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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #43 on: December 8, 2015, 08:07:10 pm »
The Clarence - top end of Utting Av & Cherry Lane in Anfield/Norris Green.

My Granddad drank in there for years and years.

Used to go with my Dad when he took me game as a lad (im 30 now).

Such a shame that its closed now. Remember when I was a kid and the bowling green outside and everything. Proper pub
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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #44 on: December 8, 2015, 09:17:59 pm »
The Clarence - top end of Utting Av & Cherry Lane in Anfield/Norris Green.

My Granddad drank in there for years and years.

Used to go with my Dad when he took me game as a lad (im 30 now).

Such a shame that its closed now. Remember when I was a kid and the bowling green outside and everything. Proper pub

It's due to be demolished.

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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #45 on: December 8, 2015, 10:46:08 pm »
The Pivvy on lodge lane. Greenbergs bottom of Jamaica St for jeans.
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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #46 on: December 8, 2015, 11:02:26 pm »
The Pivvy on lodge lane. Greenbergs bottom of Jamaica St for jeans.

The pivvy is still there isn't it? I'm sure the owner has that as his number plate as well.

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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #47 on: December 9, 2015, 11:01:23 am »
The pivvy is still there isn't it? I'm sure the owner has that as his number plate as well.
Its not THE Pivvy club though, its a bingo hall or somethin? Had some boss Sunday nights there in 89
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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #48 on: December 9, 2015, 01:59:33 pm »
Its not THE Pivvy club though, its a bingo hall or somethin? Had some boss Sunday nights there in 89


Yeah I went past there the other day. Some 'entertainment' place or other. As you say - maybe Bingo - can't remember off the top of my head.
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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #49 on: December 9, 2015, 02:04:13 pm »
Yeah it is a bingo hall.

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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #50 on: December 9, 2015, 06:51:52 pm »
It's called Pavillion bingo but still has The Pivvy on the front of the building.

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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #51 on: December 10, 2015, 10:43:48 am »
The firehouse in Bootle, went to loads of great gigs there.

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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #52 on: December 10, 2015, 03:41:51 pm »
The firehouse in Bootle, went to loads of great gigs there.

Flames was in Bootle too - same place..?
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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #53 on: December 10, 2015, 04:35:45 pm »
The Liverpool School Of Music Language Art And Pun...building's still there....the clientele has changed a wee bit though


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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #54 on: December 11, 2015, 11:10:55 pm »
Flames was in Bootle too - same place..?
Not sure, I seem to remember flames being a nightclub. The firehouse was a converted fire station, I only went there for the gigs.
It may be the same place but its close to 40 yrs ago now so I can't remember.

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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #55 on: December 12, 2015, 10:44:06 am »
Not sure, I seem to remember flames being a nightclub. The firehouse was a converted fire station, I only went there for the gigs.
It may be the same place but its close to 40 yrs ago now so I can't remember.

Yeah probably the same place - it was a converted fire station too..

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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #58 on: January 7, 2016, 03:35:10 pm »
Couple of these mentioned brought back memories:

The Clarence - used to go to school with a lad (Danny McKay) whose dad owned it and he lived there. Used to see him and his mates round there 'looking after cars' before games

Pleasure Island - Remember being in here one Sunday afternoon with me and my mates all tanked up on half litre bottles of coke filled with whiskey and being hammered when I was about 16. Tried to jump into a ball pool and cracked my head in on a metal beam running across the top and landed horizontally in the ball pool and couldn't see straight for 10 minutes

Few others:

The Paradox in Aintree - used to go here most Saturdays when I was about 18/19. Massive place with one of the worst burger vans ever parked in the car park

Flintlocks - Forget what street it was on, same as the Crazy House as I recall. We used to have about 100 people in my year in sixth form when I was 16 and on a Friday night about 60 of them were in here. There was a particular theme at the time for the girls to have reached an age where they would wear stockings to go out so many a happy evening was spent trying to get our fellow students to give us a flash

Scotts/then became Fridays (part of the Adelphi) - used to go here when I was 17 with my mates and was always a laugh. Remember Robbie Fowler used to go in there with his mates but we never had the balls to talk to him then one night, in the 93/94 season when he was injured, he had his leg up on the sofa in a brace so, as he was a captive audience and we were pissed we kept going over and talking to him which he was good enough about. Place changed after the Buzz got closed by the police and started getting full of dickheads and we had knives pulled on us twice in a few weeks so knocked it on the head!
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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #59 on: January 10, 2016, 09:18:32 am »
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Anyone remember the bars/nightclubs that used to be in St Johns Precinct ?


There was one downstairs in St Johns called Milos I used to go in.

Harris's toy shop on London Road, remember getting Star Wars figures from there in the 70's. The Golden Phoenix chinese restaurant on Hannover Street was a favourite of my Dads, went there quite a lot in the 70's and had a big family meal on new years eve there in 79/80.

Anyone remember the name of the restaurant/Bernie Inn whateer it was that was on the Pier Head overlooking the river? My Dad used to take us there as kids and I cannt recall its name.
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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #60 on: January 10, 2016, 09:34:33 am »
The River Rooms was the Berni Inn at the Pier Head.

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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #61 on: January 10, 2016, 09:38:11 am »
There was one downstairs in St Johns called Milos I used to go in.

Harris's toy shop on London Road, remember getting Star Wars figures from there in the 70's. The Golden Phoenix chinese restaurant on Hannover Street was a favourite of my Dads, went there quite a lot in the 70's and had a big family meal on new years eve there in 79/80.

Anyone remember the name of the restaurant/Bernie Inn whateer it was that was on the Pier Head overlooking the river? My Dad used to take us there as kids and I cannt recall its name.
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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #62 on: January 10, 2016, 10:39:48 am »
The River Rooms was the Berni Inn at the Pier Head.

Nice one, cheers.

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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #63 on: January 10, 2016, 12:16:24 pm »
Did Crown St. used to run right across the uni site?  I've been around there in years past but can't remember anything but its modern look and I know if you follow it there's railway history around there somewhere.
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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #64 on: January 10, 2016, 10:11:54 pm »
Did Crown St. used to run right across the uni site?  I've been around there in years past but can't remember anything but its modern look and I know if you follow it there's railway history around there somewhere.

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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #65 on: January 10, 2016, 10:39:58 pm »






Saw two women having a fight outside The She once....not pulling hair screaming type of thing...more toe-to-toe Marquis on Queensbury rules type , great stuff ....I watched it from other side of the street , just before going down stairs into one of those horrible early eighties chrome and plastic type clubs....to see The Fall!!!

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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #66 on: January 10, 2016, 11:53:49 pm »
Did Crown St. used to run right across the uni site?  I've been around there in years past but can't remember anything but its modern look and I know if you follow it there's railway history around there somewhere.

It did indeed.

I remember when the 'new' University buildings were being constructed, around '61-'63 ish. Sometimes my Dad would drive us along the old Crown Street route. I seem to recall it was largely cobbled back then and with tram lines down it and lots of relatively tall tenement'y type buildings along the road but all slowly being demolished, maybe 3-5 stories high, though I could be mistaken. I distinctly remember in that time of mass demolition around town that the no 12 from Melwood was even temporarily routed for a while along Crown Steet and would then drop into town down Brownlow as I recall observing the Bull slowly being constructed in bas relief in the brickwork at the top ( it's now gone I see with some new building there)...much mirth as a kid as it had a dangling knob...

Anyway, here's a map showing the original route pre-New university buildings, and also showing the old goods depot...

In Streetview today you can see where it has now been broken in two.

Marked as the A5408 at the top, Crown Street stops at the old LUCL building at the corner of Brownlow hill, but it originally continued pretty much in a straight line from there all the way down and along to the Crown Street marked in the lower middle part.
That whole area has changed quite dramatically now, there's little left of the original 50's - early 60's period, or even of the late 70's.

It's weird looking back to those days. I don't consider myself particularly old but the Liverpool I remember and grew up in and remember and that my Mum and Dad and relatives would tell me old stories about is becoming almost unrecognizable these days, Ozymandias.
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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #67 on: January 13, 2016, 02:24:01 am »
The Dandelion (?) on Dale St. - strippers on Friday afternoons
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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #68 on: January 13, 2016, 06:32:39 am »
Anyone remember PENNY LANE RECORDS? Not just the obvious one but they had a shop in town, first in a basement behind m&s somewhere, then at the top end of church street on the first floor? Before moving to bold street ? Great shop for a while in the late 70s.

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« Reply #69 on: January 13, 2016, 09:10:27 am »
The Dandelion (?) on Dale St. - strippers on Friday afternoons

Think that was Daley's Dandelion mate, known usually as just "Daley's".

Where the mighty Groundpig used to play some of their early gigs behind the pool table in the back room.

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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #70 on: January 13, 2016, 12:05:05 pm »
Daley's Dandelion ;D  Good memories.
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« Reply #71 on: January 13, 2016, 12:54:44 pm »
Daley's Dandelion ;D  Good memories.

Indeed mate  :)

Used to drink Snakebites in there, made from Special Brew and Merrydown. That was before I saw fucking sense like, of course.

Hehe - Just noticed that pic of the She club further up the thread. Organised a night in there many moons ago to raise some money for MIND. Developed an ingrown toenail the week before. Fucking agony it was, and I would have swerved the night had I not been the organiser.

Luckily, even then I didn't give a particular shite what people thought of me, so I turned up in a pair of tartan slippers.

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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #72 on: January 13, 2016, 01:05:05 pm »
Bonapartes. Loved it in there
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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #73 on: January 13, 2016, 01:21:48 pm »
Pickwicks - my first experience of a nightclub as a 16 year old. We had a couple of pints for Dutch in the pub that used to be next to the Empire - The Queens Legs? Before walking round to Pickwicks.

 :D I am actually smiling at my desk now at the memory of that night all those years ago. It was an eye opener thats for sure.
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« Reply #74 on: January 13, 2016, 04:13:50 pm »
Pickwicks - my first experience of a nightclub as a 16 year old. We had a couple of pints for Dutch in the pub that used to be next to the Empire - The Queens Legs? Before walking round to Pickwicks.

 :D I am actually smiling at my desk now at the memory of that night all those years ago. It was an eye opener thats for sure.
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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #75 on: January 13, 2016, 04:43:28 pm »
Quiggins . The twats .

Anybody remember the pub called the Cunarda ( I think ) on the corner of St Johns. You could go for a pint there on a saturday afternoon and come back with your shopping .
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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #76 on: January 13, 2016, 05:40:31 pm »
Quiggins . The twats .

Anybody remember the pub called the Cunarda ( I think ) on the corner of St Johns. You could go for a pint there on a saturday afternoon and come back with your shopping .

Certainly do mate. The Cunarder [named after the shipping line] was our preferred meeting place for a few years. We lived in different parts of the city, but we could all get a bus to the Roe St Gyratory.

When one of my mates died far too young a few years ago, the rest of us did a little tour of our old haunts [the ones that were left] by way of a memorial. Cunarder was about where Lloyds bar is now, although the entrance was actually around the corner, just on Williamson Square.

The lads in Lloyds let us drink to our departed mate in the kitchens because that was the nearest we could get to where the old Cunarder bar would have stood.

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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #77 on: January 16, 2016, 10:20:08 am »
The Clarence - top end of Utting Av & Cherry Lane in Anfield/Norris Green.

My Granddad drank in there for years and years.

Used to go with my Dad when he took me game as a lad (im 30 now).

Such a shame that its closed now. Remember when I was a kid and the bowling green outside and everything. Proper pub


I used to live pretty close to the Clarence, my mum worked in the kitchens there for a while too so spent a bit of time in there. Shame the way it turned out in the end. Proper pub, like you said.

There's a real shortage of pubs in that area now, around the Asda/Walton Hall Park. Remember the Setter & Vine? That was petrol bombed a few years ago. Just an empty space now.



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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #78 on: January 16, 2016, 05:35:12 pm »
Just for you boys.  :wave


Back in 2010-2013, I snapped the ligaments in both ankles, so couldn't walk, so couldn't work.

Doctors advice was to do as much walking as possible, to strengthen the ankles, and keep them excersised etc.

With lots of time on my hands, and climbing the walls at home, I had to get out.

Rather than walk aimlessly, I used to set myself projects and goals. One of those projects I set myself was to walk the streets of Liverpool, and photograph every pub in the city.

I had more than a few good pub crawls thrown in as well.  ;)

Now, it's kind of been done before, and there are loads of photo's of the outside of Liverpools pubs, so I used to ask all of the landlords/landladies if I could photograph the insides, purely from the point of view of creating an archive. A snapshot in time, if you will, of how Liverpools pubs look.

Most were very accomodating, when they knew what it was for, even to the point of being invited to see places and things on the premises that your average punter doesn't get to see, like the cellar, or unused rooms etc.

I didn't always get permission, as some were suspicious. One accused me of casing the joint, but many were just guarded, as they thought you were from a rival brewery, or were trying to show them in a poor light etc.

In the end, I didn't get around to doing every pub, and probably missed out on about 30 odd pubs.  What I did get though, was an archive of 13,000+ photo's, of about 1000+ of Liverpools pubs, that were open at the time.

Cince then, a couple of dozen have seased to exist. Either changed decor and name, are now flats or for other usage, or in the worst case, now demolished.



I went past the Clarence earlier today, and it's now shuttered off in the street, which would point to it being demolished in the very near future.

Anyway, here's a quick half dozen photo's for you lads, of the Clarence in better times.  I have a decent archive of 50+ photo's of the Clarence, from every room in the place. All three bars, plus upstairs function room.

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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #79 on: January 16, 2016, 05:57:13 pm »
fuck me Richie, sounds like a hell of a collection!....any chance of posting a few more up?...maybe of the gaffs that are sadly no more?
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