Old Photos Of Where You Live

[Eggs]

 

[Eggs]

….Owens Boarding House, Shaw St. All very familiar to me;

 

[Joey66]

Fascist meeting on queens drive. Walton -​

 

[Joey66]

Central Station 1968 -

 

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[Eggs]

…..Rupert Lane;

 

[Eggs]

….Brunswick Rd area demolition 1973, my old patch I reckon we moved in 1971;

 

[LEONARD]

Fascist meeting on queens drive. Walton -​

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Oswald Mosley and the BUF. He got hit on the head by a brick at this meeting, and they struggled to gain many members in Liverpool.

Is that Alsop school on the right?

 

[Lao]

Oswald Mosley and the BUF. He got hit on the head by a brick at this meeting, and they struggled to gain many members in Liverpool.

Is that Alsop school on the right?

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Yep, Alsop School, not sure where they are set up, looks like they’re in the middle of Queens Drive!

 

[LEONARD]

Yep, Alsop School, not sure where they are set up, looks like they’re in the middle of Queens Drive!

Here is what happened according to the Glasgow Herald newspaper:

Sir Oswald Mosley was hit on the head by a stone and knocked semi-conscience immediately he stood on the top of a loud-speaker van to address an open-air meeting at Queens Drive, Liverpool, yesterday. As the van was being driven to a piece of waste land, hundreds of missiles were thrown, Sir Oswald, had not had time to utter a word when a large stone hit him on the temple and he fell on his face. Mounted police who were standing by in a neighbouring yard, immediately rushed out and charged the crowd back. A Fascist bodyguard stood by to guard Sir Oswald in spite of showers of bricks from large sections of the crowd.

Mosley was rushed to Walton Hospital, where he was photographed above and discharged a week later.

Liverpool was not the only place in the 1930s where the local working class would not tolerate fascism: Mosley’s fascists were also attacked by workers, anti-fascists, communists and Jews in Devon, Manchester, Newcastle, London, Stockton, and elsewhere.

 

[Eggs]

….Annie Garvey, known as the Pier Head squatter lived in a wooden hut at the Pier Head. She vacated to a tent on waste land when the floating bridge was built and died in 1914 at the age of 107;

 

[Eggs]

….the Weighing Machine on the corner of Everton Rd and Village St. The pub a few doors down is The Queens Head pub, significant in the changing name from St Domingo to Everton FC;

 

[Joey66]

 

[Joey66]

Walton Jail - I bet nothing's changed much -

 

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