Old Photos Of Where You Live

[Eggs]

…..Owen’s Fish Shop, Gt Homer St, 1966;

 

[Eggs]

….Old Post Office Place, the little cut through from School Lane to Church St;

 

[Cameron Manning]

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It says Cazneau Street but actually you are looking along Juvenal Street towards Great Homer Street with the Market on the left hand side!

 

[Cameron Manning]

….1946, West Derby Station. The building above the bridge is still there but no track these days;

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No track but you can walk along the way the trains ran for miles and miles, I used to walk my little Yorkshire Terrier along there from just before Broadway to Sainsbury’s in Old Swan.

 

[Cameron Manning]

…..1934 Pets Market (which was apparently near St John’s Market);

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I think you could still buy pets there before it closed down and became part of the Precinct, in fact where Weatherspoons is now there was a shop called City Pets.

 

[Cameron Manning]

…Society of Cruelty to Children, the building still stands on Islington near its junction with Shaw St. I wonder what life had in store for those poor kids

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There was a lodging house in Shaw Street when I lived there in the 1960’s called The Unique and if you looked in the cellar when walking past it you would think you were watching a scene from one of Charles Dickens stories, it was bleedin’ unique alright and yet just fifty yards along Shaw St. was The Spanish Embassy and you would see top class cars with ladies and gents in the finest of clothes getting out of them and strolling into the Embassy, what a contrast from rags to riches!

 

[Cameron Manning]

……Pembroke Place 1900 & 2024. Must be about the time Robert Tressell (The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists) passed away in the Old Royal Hospital on the right;

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Not too long ago there was about five or six pubs in Pembroke Place now there are none with The Bullring closing in the last few months, a few barbers shops have replaced them in Pembroke Place and London Road—-hair today but gone yesterday!

 

[Cameron Manning]

Looked alright London Road back then. Really gone into decline in recent yewhen you walk down there now

 

[Cameron Manning]

Looked alright London Road back then. Really gone into decline in recent years

It feels like you are in Beirut when you walk down there now!

 

[Eggs]

There was a lodging house in Shaw Street when I lived there in the 1960’s called The Unique and if you looked in the cellar when walking past it you would think you were watching a scene from one of Charles Dickens stories, it was bleedin’ unique alright and yet just fifty yards along Shaw St. was The Spanish Embassy and you would see top class cars with ladies and gents in the finest of clothes getting out of them and strolling into the Embassy, what a contrast from rags to riches!

….i’ve certainly posted pictures of a hostel of some description on Shaw St, but as somebody who also grew up in the neighbourhood I can’t remember ‘The Unique’. My Dad went to SFX in Salisbury St (as did Charlie Chaplin for a short period) and I was a regular footballer on the grass in Shaw St Park with the railings and privets next to the road.

Some fine houses/buildings down there, including the Collegiate.

 

[Eggs]

No track but you can walk along the way the trains ran for miles and miles, I used to walk my little Yorkshire Terrier along there from just before Broadway to Sainsbury’s in Old Swan.

….Sainsbury in Knotty Ash, Mrs Eggs and I use that last bit alongside the petrol station when we walk over to Sainsbury’s.

 

[Eggs]

I think you could still buy pets there before it closed down and became part of the Precinct, in fact where Weatherspoons is now there was a shop called City Pets.

….yep, I remember City Pets near the Giratory on the outside of The Precinct.

 

[Eggs]

There was a lodging house in Shaw Street when I lived there in the 1960’s called The Unique and if you looked in the cellar when walking past it you would think you were watching a scene from one of Charles Dickens stories, it was bleedin’ unique alright and yet just fifty yards along Shaw St. was The Spanish Embassy and you would see top class cars with ladies and gents in the finest of clothes getting out of them and strolling into the Embassy, what a contrast from rags to riches!

….weirdly just come across this again. ‘Petrus Community Hostel’ Shaw St, 1974. No idea if it’s the same building as ‘The Unique’;

 

[Cameron Manning]

….weirdly just come across this again. ‘Petrus Community Hostel’ Shaw St, 1974. No idea if it’s the same building as ‘The Unique’;

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Jesus that looks like a five star hotel compared to the gaff I used to look into Eggs!

 

[Cameron Manning]

….i’ve certainly posted pictures of a hostel of some description on Shaw St, but as somebody who also grew up in the neighbourhood I can’t remember ‘The Unique’. My Dad went to SFX in Salisbury St (as did Charlie Chaplin for a short period) and I was a regular footballer on the grass in Shaw St Park with the railings and privets next to the road.

Some fine houses/buildings down there, including the Collegiate.

The Unique, that might have been a nickname, was about thirty or forty yards from the top of Langsdale St, if you turned left, which was where SFX church was.
I used to play football in the Collegiate school yard on a Sunday afternoon after the pubs closed, fifteen to twenty men sides with six pints of brown bitter inside me then play for a couple of hours all out like it was a cup final!