I think its up around the old royal hospital, I remember those prefabs and other brick houses getting cleared out in the mid 60s
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I think some of those prefabs lasted until the early 1970’s.
My mate lived one and they weren’t fit to live in; full of damp and mould, so bad that the family got featured on the BBC Nationwide programme to highlight their plight.
Funnily enough, shortly after the broadcast, they were moved up to a new house on Everton Rd.
Fantastic park in its day - the beautiful Botanic Glasshouses demolished by Degsy Hatton because the orchid growers would not go on a one-day strike - H&S issue he chose to close & destroy the beautiful buildings ..... a travesty imo - he put the skilled staff from there on lawn mowers afterwards & the city council lost the Court case & rewarded them massive compensation ..... Rant over they began to rot was a load of Rollicks by the way -
I loved visiting that Botanic garden - as a budding young horticulturist -
It was originally just off Wavertree road pre war - with a pub on the corner named The Botanic Arms evidently an air raid destroyed it all - It was decided back then after the war to rebuild it in Calderstones park open for a small fee to the public - which was never allowed to increase - I have a coloured brochure hard back you could purchase on your visit there - it was the main attraction of the park .....
Liverpool’s Lost Greenhouses: Calderstones Park - The Reader
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Fantastic park in its day - the beautiful Botanic Glasshouses demolished by Degsy Hatton because the orchid growers would not go on a one-day strike - H&S issue he chose to close & destroy the beautiful buildings ..... a travesty imo - he put the skilled staff from there on lawn mowers afterwards & the city council lost the Court case & rewarded them massive compensation ..... Rant over they began to rot was a load of Rollicks by the way -
I loved visiting that Botanic garden - as a budding young horticulturist -
It was originally just off Wavertree road pre war - with a pub on the corner named The Botanic Arms evidently an air raid destroyed it all - It was decided back then after the war to rebuild it in Calderstones park open for a small fee to the public - which was never allowed to increase - I have a coloured brochure hard back you could purchase on your visit there - it was the main attraction of the park .....
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…lovely background information, Joey. We still visit Calderstones on occasion with the grandkids.
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My library there, art deco building on left. As a kid got my Sexton Blake fix from there.
Broadway in Norris Green, looks between 30s and 50s. Wish we still had trams!
Calderstones Park 1940’s or 50’s
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Haha was somewhat less cultured for me going there in the early 00s I'm afraid,mate.
It was just before most houses had a PC with Internet access so me and my mates would go there and kill time playing online games like Roberto Baggio's magical kicks.
There's loads of trees blocking it these days so it's easy to miss what a surprisingly nice building it is.
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Walton Hall Park 1980
I recall loads of shows etc during the 70s
I recall loads of shows etc during the 70s
Those look like a later poorer cheaper version with a flat roof...and anything with a flat roof Is a leak waiting to happen
The 'originals' were square or rectangular with a peaked roof
They were all over the city, that many that you ever really noticed them - until they went.
I remember loads up in Speke opposite Evans Medical
There were some in Garston alongside the Long Lane side of the park along with loads of Allotments
I'm sure these ones below in Belle Vale were there up to the late 80s and early 90s
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My old school.
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Garston Park swings...when I went there the ground cover around the swings was crushed cinders from the gas works...it drained better than grass / mud apparently and you didnt have to mow it...but it didn't do to fall off on to it.
Garston Park swings...when I went there the ground cover around the swings was crushed cinders from the gas works...it drained better than grass / mud apparently and you didnt have to mow it...but it didn't do to fall off on to it.
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Was in Calderstones Park last night boarding the old bowling clubhouse up.Fantastic park in its day - the beautiful Botanic Glasshouses demolished by Degsy Hatton because the orchid growers would not go on a one-day strike - H&S issue he chose to close & destroy the beautiful buildings ..... a travesty imo - he put the skilled staff from there on lawn mowers afterwards & the city council lost the Court case & rewarded them massive compensation ..... Rant over they began to rot was a load of Rollicks by the way -
I loved visiting that Botanic garden - as a budding young horticulturist -
It was originally just off Wavertree road pre war - with a pub on the corner named The Botanic Arms evidently an air raid destroyed it all - It was decided back then after the war to rebuild it in Calderstones park open for a small fee to the public - which was never allowed to increase - I have a coloured brochure hard back you could purchase on your visit there - it was the main attraction of the park .....
Liverpool’s Lost Greenhouses: Calderstones Park - The Reader
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Kids. Ffs.
Tonight it was the old stables at Clarks Gardens
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This is the only glass house that remains in Calderstones now (a photo I took during lockdown). Presumably it was restored at some point. I didn't remember that there was originally a series of glass houses there.Fantastic park in its day - the beautiful Botanic Glasshouses demolished by Degsy Hatton because the orchid growers would not go on a one-day strike - H&S issue he chose to close & destroy the beautiful buildings ..... a travesty imo - he put the skilled staff from there on lawn mowers afterwards & the city council lost the Court case & rewarded them massive compensation ..... Rant over they began to rot was a load of Rollicks by the way -
I loved visiting that Botanic garden - as a budding young horticulturist -
It was originally just off Wavertree road pre war - with a pub on the corner named The Botanic Arms evidently an air raid destroyed it all - It was decided back then after the war to rebuild it in Calderstones park open for a small fee to the public - which was never allowed to increase - I have a coloured brochure hard back you could purchase on your visit there - it was the main attraction of the park .....
Liverpool’s Lost Greenhouses: Calderstones Park - The Reader
Next in our new series of articles exploring Calderstones' rich history, Heritage Coordinator Holly Gilson tells the story of Liverpool's…
It held famous families of plants collected from the Victorian era - the staff were so educated Horticultural wise every plant group were labled & descriptive it had a small conservortry entrance with lovely colourful displays encouraging you to pay to enter the many glasshouses that fed off left to right in a corridor of glasshouses itbwas also used by the RHS to enable practible exams to be carried out there which indeed I passed my first exam there ....
Horticulturalist from all over were examined to qualify there under glass- it had a massive Orchid collection & Bromillias of every family there ...
Destroyed uneccesarry - the plants were removed to the city's main Allerton nursery under the watchful eye of a grower named Eiric Fulgens who in those days grew bedding plant & floral display plants Eric won the city many trophies worldwide as Liverpool parks were up there with the best in country in that golden era ....
I met him in competition a good few times - he was a great guy - my grower supervisor was better than him imo facility wise he grew better with less facilities as the Liverpool nurseries in Allerton were in those days the state of the art glass houses acres of them .....
They were best of friends but competition wise they always wanted to beat each other for the best in show ....
After ten happy years of growing propagation- I moved away to try & emulate the pair of them with great success til ill health made me retire .....the job was a vocation & very long hours 7 days per week - highlight of my career was to be invited back to the city in conference with the great Gardeners world Geoff Hamilton on peat free growing ....