Old Photos Of Where You Live

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[Joey66]

New Brighton baths 1935 - the basis of the set-up was there as it developed - the water was salty & Icy cold as I remember... -

 

[Joey66]

A massive employer from afar back then for all trades -

 

[Joey66]

Launch of Ark Royal. 1950 - Cammell Lairds -​

 

[Joey66]

The equivalent of Harley Street in London - for specialist Private consultants - Rodney Street Liverpool - still going -

 

[Eggs]

….1960, Netherfield Gardens;

 

[LEONARD]

The equivalent of Harley Street in London - for specialist Private consultants - Rodney Street Liverpool - still going -

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Interesting family link here. Circa 1916, my maternal grandfather (born in Birmingham) had been badly injured in France.
Shipped back to a hospital in Liverpool, for treatment and recuperation. He goe's for a walk in town, and notices a pretty young woman polishing the steps of a consultants practice. The rest is history as they say.

 

[Eggs]

 

[Eggs]

….Haigh St before its demolition;

 

[Eggs]

….on this day 1939 HMS Thetis sank in Liverpool Bay on sea trials with the loss of 99 lives;

 

[Joey66]

The Glass House, Old Swan, 1930 and 2014 -

 

[Joey66]

I think these store had chains in other areas ? -

 

[Joey66]

A pitch & putt most definitely well gone just on its location in New Brighton -

 

[Joey66]

Sefton park 1928 - every summer in the 1960s a fantastic Circus held there -​

 

[Eggs]

A pitch & putt most definitely well gone just on its location in New Brighton -

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….looks more like Crazy Golf, Joey, although there was always a pitch and put around the corner in Grove Rd (?).