Bold Street time slips

[tonyhorne]

You'd have to, it doesn't go there.

That's how you know you've managed it ...

 

[Shevin Keedy]

The Merseyrail runs on DC. As far as I know that doesn't radiate an EM field, aside from the moment it turns on.

The comparison to the James Webb is a completely different branch of physics.

Tbh the more I think about it the more crackers this whole thing sounds

Oh no, I wasn't comparing the James Webb to the train circles theory, the trains theory is just some explanation that someone's put out there but doesn't explain anything really.If indeed there is anything to explain

I was more thinking the James Webb is one scientifically plausible way of 'seeing' back in time, therefore it's technically, sort of, possible.

 

[maccavennie]

the echo done a thing about it a few years ago the old waterstones seems to be where it happens most

That's right mate, I was thinking Wade Smith but it was the Waterstones book shop and if people looked into the window some people were transported back in time.

It's in one of Tom Slemen ghost story books as well.

 

[Shevin Keedy]

That's right mate, I was thinking Wade Smith but it was the Waterstones book shop and if people looked into the window some people were transported back in time.

It's in one of Tom Slemen ghost story books as well.

Yeah the account on the TV programme was centred on the Waterstones store; people having been transported to when it was Crips and Sons, which of course, it was once.

 

[Charro]

Need more bars on bold street.

It’s great for something to eat but very limited when you just want to catch a few drinks.

Always just end up in leaf or tabac when I’m round there.

 

[Cels]

There was a programme on BBC the other day about paranormal stuff. I’m not necessarily a sceptic, I take each story on its own merit. However the programme briefly touched on a local legend that I’ve heard numerous accounts of - time slips on Liverpool’’s Bold Street: that is people just going about their daily business when suddenly they find themselves in the same place but in a completely different time zone. Apparently it’s happened to numerous people but it always seems to centre around the part of Bold Street very close to the little side entrance to Liverpool’s Central Station, and also where Bold Street adjoins Hanover Street.

As I say there are numerous accounts - but here’s the one I had heard most recently:

The tale of a young man named Sean, who, while shop-lifting in Liverpool back in 2006, ran away from a Security Guard and headed down Hanover Street. Trying to shake off the Guard, Sean, 19, turned into a dead end street called Brookes Alley. By this time he was out of breath and started to get a tight sensation in his chest. He soon realized that actually it wasn’t a problem with him, but the atmosphere around him.

He waited for the Guard to come around the corner after him, but he never appeared. So, thinking he had given him the slip, he sauntered back out and started to walk down Hanover street again. But he soon realised that something was wrong. The road looked different, and so did the pavement. He noticed cars driving by that looked very old fashioned, and the road works that he knew were there, were now gone. Soon he saw that the people around him were wearing strange clothes. Crossing over to Bold Street, he noticed that there were traffic lights where they weren’t before, and bushes growing around the Lyceum, near a bar that he recognized.

He carried on walking. Soon he began to feel that something was not quite right. Then he began to panic. He realized that somehow he had stepped back in Time. And the time slip was not going away. Then he remembered his mobile phone. Taking it out of his pocket, he tried to get a signal, but of course it didn’t work. Eventually he began to really panic, but soon spotted a kiosk selling newspapers and headed over. Leaning over the Stand, he took a look at the front page of the Daily Post. There in bold lettering was the date: 18th May 1967.

He wondered what to do. What happens if he can’t get back to his own time? What about family and friends? So, speeding up his pace, he reached H. Samuel the Jewelers, and tried his phone once again. This time it worked. Sighing with relief he looked around and realised that he had returned to the present. But the strange thing was, he could still see, down the end of the road, people still walking around in 1967.

By this time Sean had seen enough, and dived onto a bus to go home. When he was interviewed by the local newspaper later, he stated over four times, the exact account. Now, you may think that Sean was making the story up to escape from the guard. But the strange tale didn’t end there. When the Security Guard was interviewed, he stated that when he ran after Sean, and turned down the dead end Alley after him, he said that Sean had completely disappeared! When the newspaper checked out the facts of Sean’s story, they found that everything he said was historically accurate.

There’s plenty of information out there about this phenomenon, and a few weird explanations; one theory being concentric circles that are formed by the varying train tracks below that part of the city causing an electromagnetic field that creates a portal to the past. I personally think there could be something in it. Scientists tell us the James Webb telescope is able to see far back into the reaches of time to when the universe began, so going back a few decades may be plausible somehow.

Anyone else heard of this or have any thoughts on it?

Interesting stuff. Never experienced anything like that on Bold Street myself but have done so whilst walking through the park when I was about 18.

My mum never talked about any such things, but when I was sorting out her stuff after she died I came across a newspaper clipping she had kept in her purse of a story by Tom Slemen about the Bold St. time slip. So maybe she had experienced something similar.

 

[Kurt.]

Went to Birkenhead once… felt like I’d woken up in the 30’s

 

[ClausThomsen]

Interesting stuff. Never experienced anything like that on Bold Street myself but have done so whilst walking through the park when I was about 18.

My mum never talked about any such things, but when I was sorting out her stuff after she died I came across a newspaper clipping she had kept in her purse of a story by Tom Slemen about the Bold St. time slip. So maybe she had experienced something similar.

You can't drop this in and not elaborate.

 

[Shevin Keedy]

Has anyone ever seen an interview with Frank the retired policeman or Sean the Shoplifter?

The girl from policeman Frank's story was interviewed on the BBC programme that I mentioned in the OP.

 

[paultheblue]

My first job was in Bold Street 1970 for Englands Shoes .I use to walk up Bold Street swinging a bag with 2 or 3 days takings (all cash in them days) to take to the bank imagine giving a junior member of staff the takings to bank these days