Old Photos Of Where You Live

[wgtwiddle]

….that descriptor certainly applied to Liverpool buses when I was a kid but I’m not sure if Routemaster was model.

Only London I reckon...

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[degsy]

….as somebody from that area, I’m finding it difficult to identify that picture as Everton, Joey. I know it’s 1933, but it looks far too spacial and rural.

Norris Green??

 

[Eggs]

Norris Green??

….i suspect so, Matey.

 

[degsy]

Supplied by the Liverpool echo ?

Who never got a caption wrong in their life? lol

 

[degsy]

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iirc, one of those 3 bare foot lads went on to be a teacher at St Edwards College, taught both my lads in the late 80s early 90s
'Docker' Doyle.

It's not where you start...

 

[Joey66]

We still have an open coal fire which runs 8 Radiators - a bit more modern that this plus smokeless coal & logs .. more economical than gas or Electric ....

 

[Huyton Layne]

….as somebody from that area, I’m finding it difficult to identify that picture as Everton, Joey. I know it’s 1933, but it looks far too spacial and rural.

The echo was wrong mate, it's most likely here, by the end of Princess Drive, Page Moss. Quite a unique shape with the asymmetry of that right hand side and the major road not being straight. Wasn't that hard to find for a person who will happily waste his life

 

[Joey66]

BMD before EFC rebuild -

 

[Joey66]

The Queensway Tunnel - 80 years of the Birkenhead tunnel -​

 

[Joey66]

Floating roadway -​

 

[kev]

Floating roadway -​

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and in 1967

 

[Eggs]

The echo was wrong mate, it's most likely here, by the end of Princess Drive, Page Moss. Quite a unique shape with the asymmetry of that right hand side and the major road not being straight. Wasn't that hard to find for a person who will happily waste his life

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….great work, I’m having that.

 

[peteblue]

….as somebody from that area, I’m finding it difficult to identify that picture as Everton, Joey. I know it’s 1933, but it looks far too spacial and rural.

Correct, the field at the top left is now Jubilee park and that road going straight through is Huyton House Road……

Edit, just seen the reply from Huyton Layne, apologies……

 

[peteblue]

The echo was wrong mate, it's most likely here, by the end of Princess Drive, Page Moss. Quite a unique shape with the asymmetry of that right hand side and the major road not being straight. Wasn't that hard to find for a person who will happily waste his life

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Sorry only just seen this….

 

[Huyton Layne]

Correct, the field at the top left is now Jubilee park and that road going straight through is Huyton House Road……

Edit, just seen the reply from Huyton Layne, apologies……

Good eye Pete. I used google maps and manually scanned for patterns.