Old Photos Of Where You Live

[Sarnia Kevin]

New Town House Warrington. Built in 1976 for the Warrington and Runcorn Development Corporation. It says a lot about town planners that this sort of monstrosity is what they choose to build for themselves. Thankfully it has been reduced to a pile of dust ove the last few months.

 

[Sarnia Kevin]

You are basically a manc.

You're welcome.

No need for slanderous comments lol

 

[degsy]

iirc, it was 1958 or 9, I remember being there - we were all told to assemble there at 9.00am to wave to The Queen - and can put names to 4 or 5 faces at the back but I can't see myself.

 

[Dancing Pat]

New Town House Warrington. Built in 1976 for the Warrington and Runcorn Development Corporation. It says a lot about town planners that this sort of monstrosity is what they choose to build for themselves. Thankfully it has been reduced to a pile of dust ove the last few months.

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That’s a true horror of a building.

 

[Eggs]

….St Domingo Grove;

 

[Eggs]

 

[Eggs]

….Liverpool Museum steps;

 

[tommytowne]

….St Domingo Grove;

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Look at all that traffic.

 

[Drumblue]

Ballymurphy, Belfast around 1971/72.

 

[Eggs]

….can’t recall the knife sharpener but definitely the rag man;

 

[TrailerTrash]

From the page of 'Wallasey days gone by' on my myfacespacebook and the twitter.

('The Cliff' are the two blocks towards the right. Used to do all my arseing about on mountain bikes, and finding hedge porn down on that bit!)

"In 1960, when the foundations of the Cliff flats were being dug, the workmen were obliged to examine further tunnels to check for the possibilities of subsidence. Five of these caves, which had been blocked up, were reopened and examined, revealing bottles and pot lids in one and World War Two relics in another. Some of the caves in question appear to have been inhabited in prehistory, during the New Stone Age. A number of flint arrowheads and axes, now in Liverpool Museum, had been discovered in the late nineteenth century.

During the war, the caves in the Red Noses were used by British soldiers encamped nearby, to store supplies and also as air raid shelters, while anti-aircraft guns were sited on the cliffs above the Yellow Noses. The 1960 exploration revealed helmets, gas masks, ammunition boxes, an ammunition trolley and the remains of a small railway, suggesting a small-scale Maginot Line. The caves under the Yellow Noses are referred to as the “Wormhole Complex” and run under a house in Portland Street, but were blocked during World War Two when an enemy bomb was dropped on the cliffs."

 

[Caolam]

Getting the RUC station ready for the troubles.

 

[Ducans elbow]

iirc, it was 1958 or 9, I remember being there - we were all told to assemble there at 9.00am to wave to The Queen - and can put names to 4 or 5 faces at the back but I can't see myself.

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Good old South Liverpool , use to go and watch them on Saturday when we where playing away
I remember Jimmy Case playing for them, I think he worked in Evans medical when I was there

 

[degsy]

Good old South Liverpool , use to go and watch them on Saturday when we where playing away
I remember Jimmy Case playing for them, I think he worked in Evans medical when I was there

I went there off and on when finances allowed...aka, pestering my Gran or Da for 6d to get rid of me.
And latterly when we were away and the funds didn’t run to anfield prices.

The first time I ever went was as a nipper in 1954 on a cold November night to watch a 'Nigerian Select 11' playing in bare feet under Floodlights.
13,000 crammed into that little ground.*

*Possibly one of the first Floodlit games on Merseyside - though Interweb sources differ on this...and, as we know, if it's on the Interweb it  Must be right - right?

The Official record states 1949 and I can find no mention of the 1954 game.

Let's just say that although some recollections may vary, I know where I was and what I saw.

Anybody with better Data Mining skills than me (most people) feel free to knock you selves out.
The Truth is Out There...somewhere...maybe.

Edit; I also was at the Puskas Charity game that some enterprising soul put together - Famous Names galore.
And when South played Ron Yeats's Tranmere in the FA Cup, with local lad 'Yosser' (obvs) Hughes...on that picture...playing for The South.

 

[Eggs]

Good old South Liverpool , use to go and watch them on Saturday when we where playing away
I remember Jimmy Case playing for them, I think he worked in Evans medical when I was there

…old team mate of mine was Jimmy Case, I think he played for Blue Union of a Sunday. Best striker of a football I have ever seen.