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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #400 on: June 21, 2017, 08:10:35 pm »

1968...

Yeah, when I look at the picture know it is definitely pre 70s as there isn't a sight of flares, stack heels or maxi skirts.

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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #401 on: June 22, 2017, 12:36:00 pm »
Yeah, when I look at the picture know it is definitely pre 70s as there isn't a sight of flares, stack heels or maxi skirts.

nice to see Count Arthur Strong on his way to Bold St too...
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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #402 on: June 23, 2017, 11:24:48 am »
Swinging Liverpool....Central was such a handsome station...alas its days were numbered following the <shudder> Beeching report...and then demolition, as always, was the preferred option




Girl on the right with long black hair and black handbag could be transposed on to a modern day photo and she wouldn't look out of place even down to the shoes.

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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #403 on: June 23, 2017, 07:07:21 pm »
Girl on the right with long black hair and black handbag could be transposed on to a modern day photo and she wouldn't look out of place even down to the shoes.
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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #404 on: June 23, 2017, 10:57:42 pm »
Central is still British Rail so well before Merseyrail.

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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #405 on: June 27, 2017, 04:24:15 pm »
what is really striking is everyone is actually looking where they are going!!! - today everyone has their eyes down on their bloody smartfone

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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #406 on: June 27, 2017, 06:02:54 pm »
what is really striking is everyone is actually looking where they are going!!! - today everyone has their eyes down on their bloody smartfone

And as a result the people have a good posture, unlike the youth of today who look like, to quote my dad, they are carrying a Charlie on their backs.

No, I don't know what a Charlie was either, I assumed it was a hunch of some type.

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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #407 on: June 27, 2017, 06:35:41 pm »
And as a result the people have a good posture, unlike the youth of today who look like, to quote my dad, they are carrying a Charlie on their backs.

No, I don't know what a Charlie was either, I assumed it was a hunch of some type.

Possibly an indirect reference to Charles Laughton who famously played Quasimodo in the '39 film.
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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #408 on: July 1, 2017, 06:40:15 pm »




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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #409 on: July 2, 2017, 09:49:30 am »





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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #410 on: July 2, 2017, 10:40:45 am »
Possibly an indirect reference to Charles Laughton who famously played Quasimodo in the '39 film.

You're probably right.

When I was after my first proper bike I wanted a racer with five gears. Even second hand it would probably have been too expensive so my dad's excuse to buy me a cheaper sit up and beg type bike was that the stooped posture on the racer would give me a Charlie on my back.

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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #411 on: July 2, 2017, 06:47:50 pm »
A few from Inacity..





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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #412 on: July 2, 2017, 08:32:10 pm »
What is the bottom left one there?
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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #413 on: July 2, 2017, 09:21:49 pm »
What is the bottom left one there?

I think that's Millers Bridge in Bootle.
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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #414 on: July 2, 2017, 11:26:42 pm »
Yep spot on G..Millers bridge & ain't seen that before.
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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #415 on: July 7, 2017, 01:05:51 am »
Yep spot on G..Millers bridge & ain't seen that before.

Its difficult to imagine houses on that bridge now. I just about remember the pub on the corner, I think it was the Old Toll Bar, which must have been demolished when Derby Road was widened around 1983? I know someone who lived behind them houses in William Henry St, who spoke vividly of the rats that accompanied the developments. I may be wrong but I think she said those houses had cellars and the remnants remained after the houses had gone, with the cellars backing into her Road.

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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #416 on: July 8, 2017, 07:32:21 am »
ah memories...
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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #417 on: July 8, 2017, 10:53:09 pm »
ah memories...

Anyone that use to go fishing will remember Duffy's on Smithdown Road and later Grahams on Rose Lane.

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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #418 on: July 16, 2017, 03:20:48 pm »
Anyone that use to go fishing will remember Duffy's on Smithdown Road and later Grahams on Rose Lane.

Bought some maggots from duffys - a week or so later theyd all hatched into bluebottles or whatever and the fucking buzzing noise from the tupperware container they were in was like something out of a horror movie - dared my mate to open the lid but he declined - haha

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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #419 on: July 19, 2017, 06:22:40 pm »
Princes Dock 1990

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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 #421 on: July 25, 2017, 11:17:33 am »


Neither the Atlantic Tower or Royal Insurance built so I'd hazard a guess at 1968?

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« Reply #422 on: July 26, 2017, 01:14:12 pm »


What a brilliant photograph, I work in The Capital Building, amazing to see what the area was like back then.
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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #423 on: August 9, 2017, 04:14:03 pm »
which Asda am I thinking of that use to be called Dales? I was thinking about it this afternoon.

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« Reply #424 on: August 11, 2017, 12:19:14 am »
which Asda am I thinking of that use to be called Dales? I was thinking about it this afternoon.
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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #425 on: August 13, 2017, 11:31:35 am »
Houghton Street as was.....I'd love it to still look like that...love it

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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #426 on: August 13, 2017, 11:34:35 am »
I came in here to get away from the post match doom and gloom thread and the transfer shit fest and someone posts a picture of a time when we were probably languishing in the second division. ;D


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« Reply #427 on: August 13, 2017, 06:57:19 pm »
Houghton Street as was.....I'd love it to still look like that...love it


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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #428 on: August 13, 2017, 08:06:10 pm »


Sayers, Poundland, Wimpy, Cheap DVD shop, Liverpool store, that bar that advertises breakfast that I've not once ever been in.

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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #429 on: August 14, 2017, 08:25:51 am »


Sayers, Poundland, Wimpy, Cheap DVD shop, Liverpool store, that bar that advertises breakfast that I've not once ever been in.

The Shiraz you mean ? Your missing a good Breakfast there one on north John street too
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« Reply #430 on: August 17, 2017, 08:42:36 pm »
The old Brunswick station with the Seven Steps pub just in view on the left




and the same view today..


https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.3876767,-2.9802022,3a,75y,155.27h,94.69t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sNi11PmORp2uT7JeTnPJsSQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
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« Reply #431 on: August 17, 2017, 10:06:21 pm »
The old Brunswick station with the Seven Steps pub just in view on the left




and the same view today..


https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.3876767,-2.9802022,3a,75y,155.27h,94.69t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sNi11PmORp2uT7JeTnPJsSQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

The view today could be any where in the UK whereas the old one could only be in a heavily industrialised area.

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« Reply #432 on: September 6, 2017, 04:32:28 pm »
So much to enjoy in this picture, it's hard to know where to start


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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #433 on: September 6, 2017, 05:36:48 pm »
Funnily enough, I was looking at Tower Buildings in the sunlight, only on Monday.

It looked magnificent.   All of it's intricate moulded freezes and scrolls near the top floor etc.

One thing that did puzzle me though. The building looked all white and gleaming, in the sunlight, as though it had been cleaned. Yet the ground floor stonework is a different colour. It looks shabby and grey in comparison to the rest of the building.

Is the ground floor made of a different stone to the other floors, I wonder?



Edit: That picture certainly doesn't do the building any justice. It looked fantastic the other day, in the gleaming sunlight.
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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #434 on: September 8, 2017, 03:55:32 pm »
Funnily enough, I was looking at Tower Buildings in the sunlight, only on Monday.

It looked magnificent.   All of it's intricate moulded freezes and scrolls near the top floor etc.

One thing that did puzzle me though. The building looked all white and gleaming, in the sunlight, as though it had been cleaned. Yet the ground floor stonework is a different colour. It looks shabby and grey in comparison to the rest of the building.

Is the ground floor made of a different stone to the other floors, I wonder?



Edit: That picture certainly doesn't do the building any justice. It looked fantastic the other day, in the gleaming sunlight.

Aren't Tower Buildings currently being refurbished?

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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #435 on: October 26, 2017, 05:47:37 pm »
1986..




now..




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Re: Older places that have gone/changed in Liverpool
« Reply #436 on: October 26, 2017, 06:49:42 pm »
Right near my old house that, I was just the other side of Park Road/Park Place.
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« Reply #437 on: October 26, 2017, 07:57:36 pm »
It's criminal how these old buildings and pubs get neglected.
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« Reply #438 on: October 26, 2017, 08:03:13 pm »
Surely non better than this collection brilliantly put together by Keith Jones,closing in on 6k photos.
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« Reply #439 on: October 26, 2017, 08:05:56 pm »
Right near my old house that, I was just the other side of Park Road/Park Place.
Yup recognise that.

I was in South Grove. The whole east side of that street was knocked down years ago plus the whole area is unstable due to cave-ins in the old overhead railway Dingle terminus (which is ironically underground......)