Old Photos Of Where You Live

[tonyhorne]

I was just thinking the very same thing, especially the pics I am old enough to remember or they hadn't changed that much when I did see them, like London Rd, Islington, W Derby Rd. etc

I agree. However, I think we have to remember which improvements the changes brought about. My mums family lived in something similar in the early sixties. Whilst they did have running water and electricity, the only heating was coal fires. They kept one fire going in the sitting room and kept that door shut. There everybody stayed. The rest of the tenement was freezing. Often literally. I suspect that this was a better arrangement than many in Everton and thereabouts enjoyed at the time ...

 

[Eggs]

I agree. However, I think we have to remember which improvements the changes brought about. My mums family lived in something similar in the early sixties. Whilst they did have running water and electricity, the only heating was coal fires. They kept one fire going in the sitting room and kept that door shut. There everybody stayed. The rest of the tenement was freezing. Often literally. I suspect that this was a better arrangement than many in Everton and thereabouts enjoyed at the time ...

…I think it’s the infrastructure posters highlight.

I too was raised in Everton in the 60s in the type of houses you describe but they were demolished and replaced with estates that quickly became eyesores. They might have had central heating but they were built with passage ways and tunnels that became havens for crime, no sense of community.

Needless to say, it wasn’t long before the new estates had to be demolished.

 

[Eggs]

…Emmanuel Church, West Derby Rd. Now an overspill car park for the Royal Hospital;

 

[degsy]

I agree. However, I think we have to remember which improvements the changes brought about. My mums family lived in something similar in the early sixties. Whilst they did have running water and electricity, the only heating was coal fires. They kept one fire going in the sitting room and kept that door shut. There everybody stayed. The rest of the tenement was freezing. Often literally. I suspect that this was a better arrangement than many in Everton and thereabouts enjoyed at the time ...

Ice on the Inside of the windows when you wake up, lead water pipes, 1 coal fire to heat the water and at one stage 5 adults who all smoked in the house...yet I still survived.
But as you say many were worse off.

 

[summerisle]

 

[Eggs]

…Lime St, 1954;

 

[Eggs]

 

[Eggs]

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Not old ,old,but....

 

[Eggs]

…May 1953, workers on their lunchtime:

 

[Eggs]

….1950, the first of 5 ‘timber and clinker’ traffic islands on the Liverpool side of the Mersey Tunnel;

 

[summerisle]

 

[Eggs]

….1957. Century old footbridge at Canning Dock;

 

[Eggs]

….Pier Head bus station 1957;

 

[Eggs]

….British Grand Prix, Aintree 1957. Won by Stirling Moss. Amazing the years I’ve been in that exact place for the horse racing, yet this Grand Prix was actually in my lifetime;