Topic: Old photos of and around Liverpool

[Tesco tearaway]

That Polo top that the fella has on reminds me of me arl fella for some reason.

Is it coz he was minty? 

[CornerFlag]

The amount of litter

The photographer did it for effect.

[rob1966]

The photographer did it for effect.

Why? To make the people of Birkenhead look like scum?

[So… Howard Philips]

Why? To make the people of Birkenhead look like scum?

Or to sell it to the Scum?

[CornerFlag]

No idea, you can search "Martin Parr" though, they're his images I think.



Ones like that.

[Medellin]

Didn't know Conteh gegged in! 

[So… Howard Philips]

Didn't know Conteh gegged in! 

I've got a photo of me in 1974 with a knot in my tie the same size as Phil Thompson's. I also had a Kevin Keegan perm.

[rob1966]

Didn't know Conteh gegged in! 

Think it was because he had just retained his European lightheavyweight title and was crowned british and commonwealth heavyweight champion on 22nd May.

Even in May 1973 we were doing bigger parades than Man City 

[Red Beret]

Man City actually had something to shout about in the 70s and all.

[Medellin]

1 housepoint for the first to name the location and the year!
No cheating 

[SamAteTheRedAcid]

Aigburth Road opposite the library - what is Home Bargains now?

Late 70s?

[So… Howard Philips]

Location as Sam says - 1968?

[Medellin]

Location as Sam says - 1968?

Close enough..spot on lads & dated '69.

[SamAteTheRedAcid]

I know nothing about cars 

[So… Howard Philips]

I know nothing about cars 

Did you notice three of the women in the picture are wearing hats?

That stopped in 1970.

[Tesco tearaway]

Did you notice three of the women in the picture are wearing hats?

That stopped in 1970.

[kavah]

Did you notice three of the women in the picture are wearing hats?

That stopped in 1970.

Right! My mother never left the house without a headscarf until the 70s 

[So… Howard Philips]

Right! My mother never left the house without a headscarf until the 70s 

In the 60s My Nan who lived off Lodge Lane brought up a large family in a two up, two down as a widow wouldn't leave the house, even to go and buy' a nice piece of fish for dinner', without a hat held in place by a fearsome hat pin. As a kid I wondered how she didn't skewer her head.

Actually when I started working for the Council in the late 60s they'd only just got rid of the requirement for men to wear hats when out in public. My dad was an engineer and would wear a trilby type hat for work and a flat cap out of work.

You just have to look at the pictures of the crowds on the ferry to New Brighton suited and booted, all in hats. I wish I had the bottle to wear a fedora.

[Tesco tearaway]

I wish I had the bottle to wear a fedora.

Summon up your inner Tom Davies and go for it 

[So… Howard Philips]

Summon up your inner Tom Davies and go for it 

Do you remember when players would wear some type of topical fancy dress for a publicity shot? Keegan and Toshack wearing pin stripe suits, big knotted ties and fedoras to tie in with the Godfather.

Or was that the early usual 1970s fashion?

[kavah]

Ray Capone

[Medellin]

I'll raise yer..

[So… Howard Philips]

Ray Capone

And that's the one! Which reminds around he same time we'd sloped off work to a nightclub in the basement of one of the buildings in Water Street (name escapes me at the mo) for the Friday afternoon start to the weekend and there were the whole Liverpool team passing round the ale and eyeing up the talent.

Sadly Ray wasn't wearing his fedora.

[kavah]

^ Tiffanys was just before my time, a disco on a Friday lunch hour, sounds great 
The players were rascals back then, I used to see them in some right shady boozers.


Found it in the other thread

... Tiffanys in India Blds

[moondog]

Anyone on this?

[So… Howard Philips]

Anyone on this?

A mix of punks, skins and casuals.

All that's missing is Kevin Turley, the People's Poet, to compose a paean of praise to the 'Kids'.

And around then I was going to the Conti so you could imagine what I was wearing.

[So… Howard Philips]

^ Tiffanys was just before my time, a disco on a Friday lunch hour, sounds great 
The players were rascals back then, I used to see them in some right shady boozers.


Found it in the other thread

Tiffany's it was. I rarely went there as our Friday lunch haunts were the Pen and Wig or the new pubs in St Johns (not the Penny Farthing which served shite Higsons Ales).

[Lad]

Gone fairly quiet on here since we lost Gulley. Shame as I love the old Liverpool photos. Sadly I don’t have the confidence and technical ability to be uploading pictures and stuff from other sites. Old cuntitis it’s known as.

[John C]

Yep, we'll always miss Gulley. Here's a good one of Aigy Rd. Love this pic.

[BJ]

How do you post pictures?

[BJ]

Worked it out.  This fascinates me, Allerton Road opposite the cinema, US Mustang planes on their way to Speke.  I think  1943/44.

[John C]

Worked it out.  This fascinates me, Allerton Road opposite the cinema, US Mustang planes on their way to Speke.  I think  1943/44.

That's fascinating mate, I'd love to know when that cinema was knocked down. I kind of remember the new one being built, but no way do I remember that old one existing.

[BJ]

That's fascinating mate, I'd love to know when that cinema was knocked down. I kind of remember the new one being built, but no way do I remember that old one existing.

The cinema in the picture is the Plaza, opened in 1928. It became the Gaumont and then the Odeon. It was knocked down in April 1971 and a new shopping centre built including Tesco and an upstairs cinema, the Classic, the one you remember which is still there but shut down in 2009. I think they used the space as a gym for a while. 

[John C]

The cinema in the picture is the Plaza, opened in 1928. It became the Gaumont and then the Odeon. It was knocked down in April 1971 and a new shopping centre built including Tesco and an upstairs cinema, the Classic, the one you remember which is still there but shut down in 2009. I think they used the space as a gym for a while. 

Yeah me mate just sent me that info when I asked a few lads. I was born in '62 and I don't remember that at all

[24/7]

Yeah me mate just sent me that info when I asked a few lads. I was born in '62 and I don't remember that at all

Memory fades with age - and you've done well for someone born in '62............that's 1862 mind........

[24/7]

How do you post pictures?

Option 1 - download some jpgs to your desktop, ensure they're each under 200kb, attach them to your post.

Option 2 - find an image that has a url - start a post - type [ img ] but miss out the spaces, copy and paste the whole url, then close the tags with [ /img ] again without the spaces.

[BJ]

Option 1 - download some jpgs to your desktop, ensure they're each under 200kb, attach them to your post.

Option 2 - find an image that has a url - start a post - type [ img ] but miss out the spaces, copy and paste the whole url, then close the tags with [ /img ] again without the spaces.

Thanks 

[John C]

That Martindales pic is great L12, My mate served his apprenticeship there.

[L12]

more Allerton Road pics, can't get over how clean everything looks and no overflowing litter bins

[BJ]

I always thought Allerton Road was a posh place to shop.  It had little independent children’s boutiques and adult boutiques.  Showing my age here, is there still such a thing as a boutique? Another long forgotten shop as well, the tobacconist.  There were a couple of them on Allerton Road, was one called the Chocolate Box, sold tobacco products and continental type posh chocolate.  I remember a Tesco on the corner of Green Lane, it’s a Chinese restaurant now I think.  Tesco used to be called Irwins.  Gosh I’m old