….Pitt St, 1941 Blitz. It’s where my mother-in-law lived through the war years;
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….Rushworth & Draper, Whitechapel;
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I remember being told to listen out for it when I was visiting family in the area. Stopped in 1969 apparently ...
The one o'clock gun, fifty years after - Bidston Lighthouse
Liverpool’s One O’Clock Gun was fired for the last time on 18th July 1969. At one second before one o’clock, Sylvia Asquith flicked the switch at Bidston Observatory that caused the cannon to fire down at Morpeth Dock. Fifty years later to the minute, Sylvia was present when the Royal Artillery...
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Typical stigma of a flat cap & a piece of straw in the corner of your mouth p
The Victorian era when the humble gardener had to doff his cap to the owner of such a big estate ....
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….St Anthony’s Church, resting place for more than 2,000 men, women & children from Ireland;
Father in law was christened there in1908
Old postcard -
…close on 30 men in that pic, you walk around that estate today and see nobody attending the grounds.
The Victorian landowners sold up, the Councils took over most head gardeners got jobs taking on most of the staff way back -when the councils had funds to keep the uptake of the Estates or large parks areas - Liverpool parks department was the 2nd best in the UK in the 1960s/70s - I was fortunate to work under two of their best growers who left them to work in Court Hey Park Huyton UDC which was previously owned by Bibby's who had a wide range of Private Gardeners - Huyton UDC were given the land many acres a nursery on a peanut rent lease which sadly expired in the early 1990s - hence that parks demise as Knowsley MBC could not afford the rent ...
Fortunately for me, I had trained & achieved many qualifications, but the gift of working with great growers & supervisors whose motto was attention to detail - led & set me up for my working career moving up to Nursery Superintendent in local government ....