Topic: The Kirkby Thread

[TheKid.]

funny thread this. Kirkby is only really wooly when we're talking to our blue mates

[VintageRed74]

Get off our sub-forum.

[LFC on tour]

Smells like cotton in here.

[TheKid.]

lets be honest, i'm not a massive fan of kirkby as a place. But seeing as how most people who live there were probably born in fazak, and probably are more "scouse" than some people in "liverpool", same goes for places like bootle

[Aldridge 8]

lets be honest, i'm not a massive fan of kirkby as a place. But seeing as how most people who live there were probably born in fazak, and probably are more "scouse" than some people in "liverpool", same goes for places like bootle

if a dog is born in a stable does that make it a horse?

[VintageRed74]

lets be honest, i'm not a massive fan of kirkby as a place. But seeing as how most people who live there were probably born in fazak, and probably are more "scouse" than some people in "liverpool", same goes for places like bootle

Its a shithole, pure and simple, been trying to get me ma out of there for years, she wont leave tho as me grandad lives in fazakerley (spelt correctly this time,  ) and he needs looking after and me Nan lives in aigburth, wont stop me from trying tho, couldn't wait to get out of there meself.

[Taylor_LFC]

It's not as bad as people make out.

lets be honest, i'm not a massive fan of kirkby as a place. But seeing as how most people who live there were probably born in fazak, and probably are more "scouse" than some people in "liverpool", same goes for places like bootle

And I agree with this.

I mean you can hardly call Carra a wool.

[VintageRed74]

It's not as bad as people make out.

And I agree with this.

I mean you can hardly call Carra a wool.

It cracks me up the way people get so hung up on this scouse thing and city boundaries chatter, i didnt realise it was such a big thing until i found this forum, so many things to worry about in life and for some this appears to be a priority.

[The dude abides]

forgive my ignorance, as an OOT......but isn't Kirby the place where they used to make cars, and associated hubcaps.

[TheKid.]

for aldridge8, what does make someone scouse if it's not birthplace? By your dog/stable analogy then someone who wasn't born here but lives in liverpool can be classed as scouse?

[VintageRed74]

forgive my ignorance, as an OOT......but isn't Kirby the place where they used to make cars, and associated hubcaps.

Oh look J. R. Hartley is at it again.

[The dude abides]

you're always welcome here Kogsy mate.  It's not every day we have the Chairman of the Singapore Liverpool Supporters Club on rawk.

Know of any cheap property out there.  And do typhoons push up house insurance much?

[VintageRed74]

you're always welcome here Kogsy mate.  It's not every day we have the Chairman of the Singapore Liverpool Supporters Club on rawk.

Know of any cheap property out there.  And do typhoons push up house insurance much?

Thank you, my members and myself are most thankful for your generous hospitality. IMO typhoons in my country tend to just push up the houses full stop.

[The dude abides]

Thank you, my members and myself are most thankful for your generous hospitality. IMO typhoons in my country tend to just push up the houses full stop.

in the caribbean islands, it typically costs 5,000 dollars a year for house insurance.  Of course many do not have insurance. 

Many many people recommend Singapore to me.  But the strong winds, extreme heat and language barriers, concern me.

[VintageRed74]

Ahem, back to topic Hartley, 

Abiding memories of kirkby, St Kevins for me, let me see if i can remember, houses-augustus, aquinas, campion, rigby-rugby-not sure, god thats shite, i should be able to remember more than that, what a school, shit education but what a school. Mr Rooney lifting you up by your sideys and marching you across the playground, Mr Rimmer-what an arsehole, the little ginger haired games teacher-what was his name,  who was obsessed with making sure you didn't have your undies on under your PE shorts because he considered it dirty, used to make us all line up with our backs to him, then he would walk along smacking you on the arse with a bat because he could tell if you had them on by the sound it made    always bothered me that when i think about in later life, very pervy if you ask me. But the weirdest teacher in the world award has to go to the remedial teacher Mr Trollope and his infamous Daisy, which was basically the strap but for some bizarre reason this fruit cake had decided to decorate his with wallpaper with Daisy's on it, he could be heard shouting across the playground, YOU BOY !!!, 'would you like to see my daisy, like i said weirdo.

Inter-school fights with the protestant school scruffwood, still there and still looks as shitty as ever, then they went and did the best thing they could ever do for the poor boys at St Kev's, they amalgamated the two catholic schools and introduced us to the girls of St Greg's, now that was an education,  , funny times that will live long in the memory.

[Aldridge 8]

for aldridge8, what does make someone scouse if it's not birthplace? By your dog/stable analogy then someone who wasn't born here but lives in liverpool can be classed as scouse?

you can be scouse as much as you like but being born in liverpool doesn't make you a person of liverpool , and only a person from liverpool is true scouse , so in your argument if someone was born in fazakerley hosp but lives there whole life in stockport are they scouse ?

[Roberts LFC]

Hey Kogsy,
You can come to Kirkby for your holidays anytime son 

[L12]

Ahem, back to topic Hartley, 

Abiding memories of kirkby, St Kevins for me, let me see if i can remember, houses-augustus, aquinas, campion, rigby-rugby-not sure, god thats shite, i should be able to remember more than that, what a school, shit education but what a school. Mr Rooney lifting you up by your sideys and marching you across the playground, Mr Rimmer-what an arsehole, the little ginger haired games teacher-what was his name,  who was obsessed with making sure you didn't have your undies on under your PE shorts because he considered it dirty, used to make us all line up with our backs to him, then he would walk along smacking you on the arse with a bat because he could tell if you had them on by the sound it made    always bothered me that when i think about in later life, very pervy if you ask me. But the weirdest teacher in the world award has to go to the remedial teacher Mr Trollope and his infamous Daisy, which was basically the strap but for some bizarre reason this fruit cake had decided to decorate his with wallpaper with Daisy's on it, he could be heard shouting across the playground, YOU BOY !!!, 'would you like to see my daisy, like i said weirdo.

Inter-school fights with the protestant school scruffwood, still there and still looks as shitty as ever, then they went and did the best thing they could ever do for the poor boys at St Kev's, they amalgamated the two catholic schools and introduced us to the girls of St Greg's, now that was an education,  , funny times that will live long in the memory.

Was in Fisher House in the 60's, at the time could never understand  how the girls in St Gregorys got out 30 minutes earlier than us.

[VintageRed74]

Hey Kogsy,
You can come to Kirkby for your holidays anytime son 

Thanks for the invitation mate and i do on a regualr basis, at least five or six times a year, 

[VintageRed74]

Was in Fisher House in the 60's, at the time could never understand  how the girls in St Gregorys got out 30 minutes earlier than us.

Fisher ahhhhhhhh, yeh that was one of the houses, thanx mate, will put that one in the old long term memory.

[red20]

I was in Gregory house in the 60’s  and  Mr Trollope was a weirdo then being a TA Officer didn't help.
When did they pull the old place down I haven't  been back for over 30 years

[VintageRed74]

I was in Gregory house in the 60’s  and  Mr Trollope was a weirdo then being a TA Officer didn't help.
When did they pull the old place down I haven't  been back for over 30 years

not quite sure exactly mate, late 90's i think, maybe just a bit later, huge housing estate there now, looks weird and makes me feel a bit sad, was a very old school though so i suppose it had to go, and yeh trollope, what a weirdo, 

[kavah]

The Kirkbys attempted what so few of their peers  ( the mersey beat groups ) did, and went psychedelic. They changed their name  to the much spacier sounding  23rd Turnoff - though its cosmic mystery is simply a reference to junction 23 of the M6, the exit for Liverpool.

Their 1967 release Michelangelo is regarded as a psychedelic classic.

 from Wondrous place - Paul Du Noyer

( can you think of any other Kirkby Bands ?)

[Aldridge 8]

can you think of any other Kirkby Bands ?)

china crisis

[Roberts LFC]

A 20 year old lad was shot yesterday afternoon at 2.30 by James Holt in West Vale, Kirkby.
Probably one of the So Solid Crew Wannabes who did it, the type who get rat arsed of about 1 can of Top Deck.
I just hope its not the start of something major with gun crime, Ive seen a lot of knives in Kirkby but shootings arent really a big thing yet.

[Taylor_LFC]

On the subject of Kirkby is there something in the water in them flats in Southdene?

I heard someone has jumped out the window again.

[Roberts LFC]

On the subject of Kirkby is there something in the water in them flats in Southdene?

I heard someone has jumped out the window again.

Fucking hell AGAIN! Your messing? Gaywood Green I take it, my mate lives in them ones!
Someone hung themselves off the balcony in Quarrygreen flats by ours a few weeks ago as well.

[DowntheLine1981]

Fucking hell AGAIN! Your messing? Gaywood Green I take it, my mate lives in them ones!
Someone hung themselves off the balcony in Quarrygreen flats by ours a few weeks ago as well.

Gaywood Green was indeed a site of another suicide (I live near there).  Supposed people living in urban decay killing themselves isn't news anymore, but I find it sad.  Can't help but feeling that if he was living in an area that was more regenerated he may have not seen suicide as a possible way out from whatever problems he has.  Not to say that Kirkby made him suicidal, but I'm sure living in a ghetto such as this didn't help.

[Fat Tony]

living in an area that was more regenerated he may have not seen suicide as a possible way out from whatever problems he has.  Not to say that Kirkby made him suicidal, but I'm sure living in a ghetto such as this didn't help.

An area more regenerated? Kirkby is getting millions ploughed into it at the moment, I've been on the new schools the last few months, despite the fact that half the kids in Kirkby don't go to school! Try living in Kenny!

[DowntheLine1981]

An area more regenerated? Kirkby is getting millions ploughed into it at the moment, I've been on the new schools the last few months, despite the fact that half the kids in Kirkby don't go to school! Try living in Kenny!

I have mate for two years, and I agree, Kenny is also a shit hole.  So to however is Kirkby, only Kirkby is more isolated than Kenny.  Incidentally, I believe Kirkby is actually shutting down schools (Ruffwood High) in order to sell off the land and are compensating by consolidating the school services into 'sports colleges' (Brookfield High School).  They did the same with the Kirkby Swimming Pool and the Kirkby Stadium.

I might also assert that the millions of pounds of regeneration that Kenny is and will receive mutes your point.

But lets not argue over who's urban ghetto is more of a hell hole - they both are. 

[VintageRed74]

I grew up in kirkby, tower hill to be more specific and fuck me it was desperate, the whole design for tower hill did nothing but encourage crime, it was full of rat runs. The answer they came up with as most Kirkby people will know was to knock half of it down and start again, plus points was watching the top shops getting blown up but then they even fucked that up too by nearly taking the surrounding houses out also.

I took me kids up there last month to see me ma as she still lives in the same house in (Heathfield) and as usual i went to the Towny and had a walk around, still the same old shithole, not one decent shop but loads of off licences, just depressing as fuck really.

But on the point of regeneration, i did see a few changes, the obvious ones are the new stadium and the plan to build a new secondary school is a good idea IMO as Ruffwood just looks awful and St Greg's or All Saints if you like is well past its sell by date.

To make matters worse i went to see me mate who is now living in Prescot (another part of Knowsley as you will know) and was really impressed with the new shopping complex they have built there, big tesco, next, jjb sports etc. This IMO is why i am hoping that the bitters build their stadium there as i feel Kirkby needs it desperately if it is to become a better more prosperous place to live but to my suprise when i talk to old friends or family that still live there, they dont want it to happen    too many cars they say on match days, away fans will cause problems, we wont have any where to park. Unbelievable attitude IMO but then i dont have to live there anymore so what would i know. What i do know though is that if it is built then that god awful excuse for a town centre will be flattened and replaced and me dear old ma might have some decent shops instead of the rubbish that she has to put up with at the moment.

[VAMOS!]

wools

[VintageRed74]

wools

   

Always makes me giggle when Kirkby/Huyton people are called wools, oot's etc.

[Roberts LFC]

wools

How can you call Kirkby people Wools? Its fucking crazy everyone are pure scouser down here.
Back on the topic of Kirkby schools though, even Brookfield was past its sell by date when I was there appearance wise although it was a good school with good teachers and we always got good exam results.
Kirkby really is a land of no opportunity though, we have nothing here.

[Gedo]

How can you call Kirkby people Wools? Its fucking crazy everyone are pure scouser down here.

Cos you haven't got Purple Bins!!!!!!!!

[Gedo]

Ey, am from huyton and I am a fucking scouser ok ;P
I painted my bin from maroon to purple
just to be scouseeeeeeeeeeeee!

On a serious note, Huyton is just as bad of a shithole as any of the other places around knowsley and liverpool, if not worse.

But it just doesn't feel bad to me 'coz I have grown up here all my life, etc, etc

And ye Street signs are in Green

[adopted_scouser]

What they really need is some kind of sports facility, or a football stadium, to keep these kids off the streets...

[CHOPPER]

What they really need is some kind of sports facility, or a football stadium, to keep these kids off the streets...

How about a BMX track, or a dry ski slope.

[Cormack Snr]

The fella who died at Gaywood was an ex workmate of mine and had just recently retired. He was a Big Liverpool fan and Ian St John was his idol, even at the age of sixty he used to talk to me about Liverpool as if he was still a teenager and he had followed the Reds everywhere in the 60's and 70's. He didn't live in Kirkby but had worked in the area for forty three years. Without going into details everything that had mattered to him in his life had been taken from him in the past few months and it is very sad and a great shock to all that knew him. R.I.P Johnny, you will never walk alone.

[Red_in_Holland]

The fella who died at Gaywood was an ex workmate of mine and had just recently retired. He was a Big Liverpool fan and Ian St John was his idol, even at the age of sixty he used to talk to me about Liverpool as if he was still a teenager and he had followed the Reds everywhere in the 60's and 70's. He didn't live in Kirkby but had worked in the area for forty three years. Without going into details everything that had mattered to him in his life had been taken from him in the past few months and it is very sad and a great shock to all that knew him. R.I.P Johnny, you will never walk alone.

Condolences mate.  Its easy to take the piss and make light, when you dont know the people involved.  Sad to hear of a good red ending that way.

RIP Johnny