Author Topic: Old photos of and around Liverpool (Read 836362 times)

Tesco tearaway · « **Reply #2880 on:** January 12, 2018, 07:28:30 pm »

If only that lorry in the background had '24/7 deliveries' underneath the Jim's :

Medellin · « **Reply #2881 on:** January 12, 2018, 08:03:31 pm »

Quote from: John C on January 12, 2018, 07:22:50 pm

It looks like 4 for the price of 1 in that pic mate.

Aye 2 bread suppliers going toe to toe,can't make out what is on Jims lorry.?
Any idea TT?

Edit: Jim's Bake Foody Fucks.*

SP · « **Reply #2882 on:** January 13, 2018, 11:57:04 am »

Pictures from the Mersey Ferry. Thought it would be of interest in here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-42637758

Tesco tearaway · « **Reply #2883 on:** January 13, 2018, 02:55:03 pm »

That was a nice little blast from the past!
Thanks for posting the link

Medellin · « **Reply #2884 on:** January 15, 2018, 07:26:04 pm »

Anyone go here?

To the day..

So… Howard Philips · « **Reply #2885 on:** January 15, 2018, 10:30:58 pm »

Quote from: Medellin on January 15, 2018, 07:26:04 pm

Anyone go here?

To the day..

Was the El Toro in Rice Lane?

Never went there but did go to the Pinehurst, above shops in Pinehurst Avenue in 1968. Similar set up, a small club above local shops. It was the first club I went to with ultra violet lights, which clearly showed up the white bits on my black mohair jacket. No dandruff with a close crop.

The photo of the baths? Was it taken under the flyover?

gazzam1963 · « **Reply #2886 on:** January 16, 2018, 12:03:22 am »

Quote from: So... Howard Phillips on January 15, 2018, 10:30:58 pm

Was the El Toro in Rice Lane?

Never went there but did go to the Pinehurst, above shops in Pinehurst Avenue in 1968. Similar set up, a small club above local shops. It was the first club I went to with ultra violet lights, which clearly showed up the white bits on my black mohair jacket. No dandruff with a close crop.

The photo of the baths? Was it taken under the flyover?

Can't recall any shops on pinehurst avenue or ever hearing of a club there , maybe Townsend lane or lower breck road ?

So… Howard Philips · « **Reply #2887 on:** January 16, 2018, 10:00:07 am »

Quote from: gazzam1963 on January 16, 2018, 12:03:22 am

Can't recall any shops on pinehurst avenue or ever hearing of a club there , maybe Townsend lane or lower breck road ?

You're right. It was at the junction of Pinehurst Ave and Townsend Lane.

Mind you it's nearly 50 years so......

Pistolero · « **Reply #2888 on:** January 16, 2018, 11:00:35 am »

Great Homer Street...1974

Medellin · « **Reply #2889 on:** January 16, 2018, 11:30:52 am »

Aye the El Toro rice lane..a bit further up was the Pepper,both places you got free entry the week later if you fell down the stairs!

Great foto that P,i can see me arl school on there.

Pistolero · « **Reply #2890 on:** January 17, 2018, 03:23:35 pm »

spent countless nights on those bench seats...spouting bollocks about anything and everything....legend of a gaff

SamAteTheRedAcid · « **Reply #2891 on:** January 17, 2018, 03:43:38 pm »

Quote from: Pistolero on January 17, 2018, 03:23:35 pm

spent countless nights on those bench seats...spouting bollocks about anything and everything....legend of a gaff

Downstairs at the Everyman?

Spent my student days in there...also talking utter bollocks

Pistolero · « **Reply #2892 on:** January 17, 2018, 03:51:08 pm »

Quote from: SamAteTheRedAcid on January 17, 2018, 03:43:38 pm

Downstairs at the Everyman?

Spent my student days in there...also talking utter bollocks

yep, just one of those places that just seemed to draw out the inner pseudo-wanker in you - and everyone that you were with

....great atmosphere though...my student mates loved Libpool...and there in particular

24/7 · « **Reply #2893 on:** January 17, 2018, 04:11:37 pm »

Quote from: Pistolero on January 17, 2018, 03:51:08 pm

yep, just one of those places that just seemed to draw out the inner pseudo-wanker in you - and everyone that you were with ....great atmosphere though...my student mates loved Libpool...and there in particular

I was upstairs, treading the boards, dah-lings! Oh, my repertory days!

So… Howard Philips · « **Reply #2894 on:** January 17, 2018, 04:43:35 pm »

Quote from: SamAteTheRedAcid on January 17, 2018, 03:43:38 pm

Downstairs at the Everyman?

Spent my student days in there...also talking utter bollocks

Back in the 70s they had an elderly (seemed elderly to us in our cords, distressed tweed jackets and Charles Manson beard and hair combo) uniformed commissionaire who would, for a small consideration, supply you with a takeaway bottle of cheap wine without having the inconvenience of actually going in and having something to eat.

It was the first bohemian venue in the City, as far as we were concerned, until Keith's opened in Lark Lane.

Pistolero · « **Reply #2895 on:** January 22, 2018, 04:26:20 pm »

1970's Libpool winter..

24/7 · « **Reply #2896 on:** January 22, 2018, 04:28:07 pm »

Wow the Cathedral looks boss there - and complete - sure it's not 1980/81? We have some decent snow that year.....

So… Howard Philips · « **Reply #2897 on:** January 22, 2018, 04:33:13 pm »

Quote from: 24/7 on January 22, 2018, 04:28:07 pm

Wow the Cathedral looks boss there - and complete - sure it's not 1980/81? We have some decent snow that year.....

I remember the ice and snow in that winter. In early 1981 I was working in the Park Road area and having to park my car a couple of feet away from the pavement because of the compacted snow and ice.

Pistolero · « **Reply #2898 on:** January 22, 2018, 04:47:30 pm »

Quote from: 24/7 on January 22, 2018, 04:28:07 pm

Wow the Cathedral looks boss there - and complete - sure it's not 1980/81? We have some decent snow that year.....

possibly...pic was captioned as 1970's but could be late 70's / or early 80's......best clue is maybe when that derelict row on Great Georges Street was finally cleared?

this pic is from 1978 and most of it was gone by then....

landscaping/development was obviously necessary...looks so much better with an uninterrupted view though.....

24/7 · « **Reply #2899 on:** January 22, 2018, 04:55:44 pm »

Quote from: Pistolero on January 22, 2018, 04:47:30 pm

landscaping/development was obviously necessary...looks so much better with an uninterrupted view though.....

Agreed. It looked really shit with those flats parked in front of it. Far more imposing without them. But hey, prime real estate and all that shit.....

*edit - once saw a great photo of the cathedral mid-construction during WW2 with the terraced housing in front having taken a bit of a pounding. Very dramatic.

Tesco tearaway · « **Reply #2900 on:** January 23, 2018, 06:10:52 am »

Some great pic's and videos courtesy of the Maritime Museum HERE.

Only Me · « **Reply #2901 on:** January 23, 2018, 07:05:29 pm »

Quote from: SP on January 13, 2018, 11:57:04 am

Pictures from the Mersey Ferry. Thought it would be of interest in here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-42637758

Ha! - went to school with Shailesy [the Rockabilly lad] - he currently owns his own tattoo parlour in New York City.

Quote from: 24/7 on January 22, 2018, 04:28:07 pm

Wow the Cathedral looks boss there - and complete - sure it's not 1980/81? We have some decent snow that year.....

Those co-operative 3 storey houses in front of the old cathedral were completed in 1982 [a load of people from our tennys moved in there when our block was demolished], so its defo a bit earlier than that.

Just off camera there was a scrap yard called Jerry's wrecks - boss laugh flying down the snow covered cathedral hills on an upturned Morris Minor bonnet!

24/7 · « **Reply #2902 on:** January 23, 2018, 07:07:09 pm »

Quote from: Only Me on January 23, 2018, 07:05:29 pm

Those co-operative 3 storey houses in front of the old cathedral were completed in 1982 [a load of people from our tennys moved in there when our block was demolished], so its defo a bit earlier than that.

Were those the tennys down in the Dingle? Wow were they really completed in '82?! memory playing tricks or what!

Only Me · « **Reply #2903 on:** January 24, 2018, 12:48:22 am »

Quote from: 24/7 on January 23, 2018, 07:07:09 pm

Were those the tennys down in the Dingle? Wow were they really completed in '82?! memory playing tricks or what!

Our block was on the corner of Park Lane / Nelson st - literally at the bottom end of Chinatown. We moved out the day the RAF bombed the airport at Port Stanley- 1st May 1982, so the memory kind of sticks!

Still got a few cousins living in those houses by the Cathedral- they moved in later on that year (can’t remember the exact month though mate) but it was defo 1982.

monkeyharris · « **Reply #2904 on:** January 24, 2018, 12:41:31 pm »

Boss this from the Guardian today
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/jan/24/mersey-ferry-tom-wood-pier-head-in-pictures?CMP=twt_gu

kavah · « **Reply #2905 on:** January 24, 2018, 02:29:35 pm »

^ brilliant. I love that one of the 2 scallies, the one in the denim shirt with the Zappa badge and a steering wheel

And the, rarely spotted, tweed-jacketed retro-scall, in the photo booth

Pistolero · « **Reply #2906 on:** January 24, 2018, 08:02:28 pm »

The Heath, Garston...McCartney lived around the corner and had his first pint in there....his house is still there, sadly the art deco beauty of a boozer is long gone..replaced by some shite flats...natch

John C · « **Reply #2907 on:** January 24, 2018, 09:46:18 pm »

^^^
Boss pub in it's day, loved it in there any Thursday, Friday or Saturday. But like many, many boozers they became uneconomical and that was replaced by some fairly decent flats

Medellin · « **Reply #2908 on:** January 25, 2018, 02:42:55 pm »

So… Howard Philips · « **Reply #2909 on:** January 25, 2018, 02:53:00 pm »

Quote from: John C on January 24, 2018, 09:46:18 pm

^^^
Boss pub in it's day, loved it in there any Thursday, Friday or Saturday. But like many, many boozers they became uneconomical and that was replaced by some fairly decent flats

It was always a bit upmarket for us. It may even have had a cocktail bar.

In the mid 70s we went through a phase of semi intoxicated bowls on the immaculate bowling green

So… Howard Philips · « **Reply #2910 on:** January 25, 2018, 02:54:29 pm »

Quote from: Medellin on January 25, 2018, 02:42:55 pm

Noticed that there are two different coloured helmets. I'm assuming another force would be giving mutual support. Lancs, Bootle, Wallasey?

SamAteTheRedAcid · « **Reply #2911 on:** January 25, 2018, 04:59:53 pm »

What street is it on the police baton charge pic?

Red Beret · « **Reply #2912 on:** January 25, 2018, 05:40:08 pm »

Quote from: SamAteTheRedAcid on January 25, 2018, 04:59:53 pm

What street is it on the police baton charge pic?

Looks like SFX church in the background so I'm guessing it's near Shaw Street, up Everton Park way?

SamAteTheRedAcid · « **Reply #2913 on:** January 25, 2018, 07:18:29 pm »

Quote from: Red Berry on January 25, 2018, 05:40:08 pm

Looks like SFX church in the background so I'm guessing it's near Shaw Street, up Everton Park way?

Thanks mate. Certainly looks like that church. Just had a look on google maps and the whole area looks unrecognisable now.

Red Beret · « **Reply #2914 on:** January 25, 2018, 09:22:47 pm »

Quote from: SamAteTheRedAcid on January 25, 2018, 07:18:29 pm

Thanks mate. Certainly looks like that church. Just had a look on google maps and the whole area looks unrecognisable now.

You're welcome!

I've checked google map myself and I'm going to hazard the guess that it's Langsdale Street, looking up towards Shaw Street.

Medellin · « **Reply #2915 on:** January 26, 2018, 09:59:50 am »

The discussion/research after posting pics here is superb,nice one all!
Found some more & is something i knew very little of..

Dock road..

Troops on Tunnel road..

Arrests at unknown location..

Quite a striking placard here..no pun intended.

So… Howard Philips · « **Reply #2916 on:** January 26, 2018, 11:29:22 am »

Quote from: Red Berry on January 25, 2018, 09:22:47 pm

You're welcome! I've checked google map myself and I'm going to hazard the guess that it's Langsdale Street, looking up towards Shaw Street.

Wasn't there a Communist Party club on Shaw Street?

A mate whose dad was a member of the party got us in one night. We had to sit through a lecture on dialectical materialism before we could get to the bar for a couple of under age brown bitters.

Pistolero · « **Reply #2917 on:** January 26, 2018, 02:01:51 pm »

Strike warning poster...

Birmingham coppers drafted in...

John C · « **Reply #2918 on:** January 26, 2018, 05:36:49 pm »

Quote from: So... Howard Phillips on January 26, 2018, 11:29:22 am

Wasn't there a Communist Party club on Shaw Street?

The Red Star. An an apprentice, when working outside of the depot I was taken there to play pool many an afternoon. Fond memories

Medellin · « **Reply #2919 on:** January 28, 2018, 06:18:54 pm »

Where L1 is now..

Sale on London rd..