Old Photos Of Where You Live

[Eggs]

….August 1914 on the out step of WW1, Kitchener gave permission to Lord Derby to seek a volunteer regiment from the men of Liverpool. The hope was 1,000 would step forward but within hours over 2,000 had volunteered. By Sept enough had signed at George’s Hall for 3 batalions, by Nov there was 4. In a speech, Lord Derby coined the phrase ‘Liverpool Pals’, more than 2,800 died.

 

[Joey66]

Racking my brain if I can remember the buses going up here, similar to the other photo of it you posted a couple of pages back. When was it pedestrianised do you know?

No the city has lost its character imo

 

[Eggs]

Racking my brain if I can remember the buses going up here, similar to the other photo of it you posted a couple of pages back. When was it pedestrianised do you know?

….as far as I can remember it was a main thoroughfare, so I’d imagine plenty of buses used it going to and from the Pier Hesd.

 

[Shevin Keedy]

Yeah I'm remembering Paradise St bus station and whatever else, the big Argos all flooding back to me now. There was some little hotel round there at one point, we bunked in to the swimming pool one day that was a lark.

 

[Cels]

Edge Lane, 1928


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[Cels]

Old Haymarket buildings which were demolished for the tunnel (1928)


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[Joey66]

Stanley street 1980s & now -

 

[Eggs]

 

[degsy]

No the city has lost its character imo

This.
I mostly 'like' all contributions.
But I find I like the old ones much more than the new ones.

 

[Joey66]

This.
I mostly 'like' all contributions.
But I find I like the old ones much more than the new ones.

They call it progress too - that's the sad thing about it - my older brother on retirement took on a taxi licence & was honest he would let people out of his private cab & tell them to walk the rest of the way say a 1/4 of a mile to their destination by the old John Lewis - as there fair would have been approx £4.50p on the clock if I try & take you to your destination it will go up another £2.00 as the short walk was murder of one way systems etc to get there by car ....
He tried his Taxi job for 2 years, it was hard to make money as binmen were finishing early health workers etc & doing it as a sideline too many taxis & not enough customers - the firm he licenced his cab from made all the profit ..... astronomical charges 2 MOTS per year etc ...
He found Liverpool a nightmare to go to & he knew his way around everywhere ....
Skelmersdale was fun too

 

[Cels]

Unexploded parachute mine, Liverpool - November 1940


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[Eggs]

….St Domingo estate;

 

[Joey66]

Tarbock road Huyton 1960s & now - that 89 bus was like the milk bus it stopped everywhere - I used it once to ST Helens Technical college - it took an age to get me there used the train in the future years -

 

[Joey66]

The old Bluebell inn Liverpool road - it had a kovely Bowling green at the back - & now most pubs have not survived on liverpool road - some famous ones too -

 

[Joey66]

Edge Hill 1950s & now -