Old Photos Of Where You Live

[degsy]

South Parkway 'Before' looking from the Woolton Rd end
around 1969 and it wasn't too flash then.
But I can clearly remember a frosty November night in 1954 a full house of (I found out much later) 13,000 squeezed into that tiny ground towatch a bare foot Nigerian Select team play under floodlights.
Also.
Their big FA Cup run to the 2nd round, to host Ron Yeats and Tranmere.
And the Puskas Exhibition Charity game



'After' about 1991

 

[Eggs]

South Parkway 'Before' looking from the Woolton Rd end
around 1969 and it wasn't too flash then.
But I can clearly remember a frosty November night in 1954 a full house of (I found out much later) 13,000 squeezed into that tiny ground towatch a bare foot Nigerian Select team play under floodlights.
Also.
Their big FA Cup run to the 2nd round, to host Ron Yeats and Tranmere.
And the Puskas Exhibition Charity game

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'After' about 1991
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….only played there once. I got a letter to say I’d been selected for ‘Liverpool Catholic Schoolboys’, I never even knew there was such a representative team and the irony is I’m not even a Catholic. I took the letter to the Headmaster who said I should play as I was representing the school. I played but never scored as it was a 0-0 draw, I have a medal upstairs somewhere.

 

[Eggs]

….Arden House, Salvation Army Hostel, Arden St, Vauxhall. The foundation stone was laid by Thomas Ismay in 1898 (his son survived the Titanic disaster) and opened in 1900. it could house up to 500 who paid 1 penny per night ‘as long as they were sober’. Imagine a building like that now for the homeless;

 

[Eggs]

….the three Hartley Huts at the entrance to Canning Dock. Built in 1844 for the ‘gatemen’ to open/shut the dock gates and allow the ships through;

 

[Joey66]

South Parkway 'Before' looking from the Woolton Rd end
around 1969 and it wasn't too flash then.
But I can clearly remember a frosty November night in 1954 a full house of (I found out much later) 13,000 squeezed into that tiny ground towatch a bare foot Nigerian Select team play under floodlights.
Also.
Their big FA Cup run to the 2nd round, to host Ron Yeats and Tranmere.
And the Puskas Exhibition Charity game

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'After' about 1991
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I almost played there, but they went bust -

 

[Joey66]

Clayton Square -

 

[Joey66]

Pier head station.​

 

[Joey66]

London road. -​

 

[Joey66]

Clayton Square used to look very different before shopping centre -​

 

[April1970]

1969ish saw Pink Floyd totally bomb and walk off the stage after 1 and a half songs...somebody on stage from the group, I forget who, said - "Not working this, is it?" and off they went.

tbf, it was not the right place, it was a Friday night and everybody had come along for 'Sex'...if you got lucky...and 'drugs'...or beer, but mostly 'Rock and Roll' 'heavy' 'All that Friday night dancing round yer handbag stuff'
And they, by then were trailing / perfecting 'Wall' stuff

Was Syd Barrett still with them at that time?

 

[Eggs]

……Everton Valley 1950;

 

[magicjuan]

……Everton Valley 1950;

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Trying to get my bearings with this, looks to be the tram coming down St Domingo road (where I was born) but that would mean the school where the pub is? (Unless the pic is 'reversed'? )

 

[degsy]

Was Syd Barrett still with them at that time?

Haven't a clue mate I was well off me head back then
Edit; google says No - need little britian gif

 

[Eggs]

….i remember New Brighton Tower but i didn’t realise it was the highest in GB at one time, bigger than Blackpool Tower and started getting dismantled after WW1. I’m sure @Joey66 knows more;

 

[Joey66]

….i remember New Brighton Tower but i didn’t realise it was the highest in GB at one time, bigger than Blackpool Tower and started getting dismantled after WW1. I’m sure @Joey66 knows more;

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Based on the Eiffel Tower - I have an old rare plate of it somewhere from my car boot days .....