Old Photos Of Where You Live

[Joey66]

6A Tram at Bowring Park Terminus Huyton-With-Roby One of the lanes c1957 -

 

[Joey66]

McGoldrick Park, Huyton Huyton-With-Roby c2013 known as Rydal park - I stated here aged 16 years old as a student apprentice Horticulturist -

 

[Cameron Manning]

….Wellington Buildings, Number 4 Court. Slum housing, 1960, Everton;

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Just off Prince Edwin Street my wife’s’ grandparents lived there and those buildings were still there in the 1950’s!

 

[Eggs]

Just off Prince Edwin Street my wife’s’ grandparents lived there and those buildings were still there in the 1950’s!

….that’s exactly the place, CM. The date on that pic was 1960 but I suspected it might be earlier.

 

[Cameron Manning]

….Bessie Braddock MP. There’s a blue plaque on a house near me in Zig Zag Rd commemorating where she lived. The famous exchange with Churchill when she accused him of being drunk and he said ‘he’d be sober tomorrow but she’d still be ugly’. Great woman and formidable fighter who did far more for this area than he ever did;

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Isn’t there a statue of her and Ken Dodd in Lime St. Station, not sure if Ken was a Socialist though, he certainly wasn’t a man to put his hand in his pocket!

 

[Eggs]

Isn’t there a statue of her and Ken Dodd in Lime St. Station, not sure if Ken was a Socialist though, he certainly wasn’t a man to put his hand in his pocket!

….there is, I suspect it’s more to do with their heritage than political belief;

 

[Cameron Manning]

….there is, I suspect it’s more to do with their heritage than political belief;

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….there is, I suspect it’s more to do with their heritage than political belief;

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Thanks Eggs for the photo.

 

[Cameron Manning]

….Bessie Braddock MP. There’s a blue plaque on a house near me in Zig Zag Rd commemorating where she lived. The famous exchange with Churchill when she accused him of being drunk and he said ‘he’d be sober tomorrow but she’d still be ugly’. Great woman and formidable fighter who did far more for this area than he ever did;

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That quote by Churchill has been used with him saying it to a few ladies, if he did say it to Bessie he’d have received a smarter reply in return and maybe a back handler as a follow up! Bessie was a “ Jolly good fella” to those who followed her and voted for her in those days and she was a regular at The Liverpool Stadium a boxing fan especially when Hogan Kid Bassey was on the bill.

 

[degsy]

That quote by Churchill has been used with him saying it to a few ladies, if he did say it to Bessie he’d have received a smarter reply in return and maybe a back handler as a follow up! Bessie was a “ Jolly good fella” to those who followed her and voted for her in those days and she was a regular at The Liverpool Stadium a boxing fan especially when Hogan Kid Bassey was on the bill.

Another was...
Sir, if you were my husband I'd poison you.
Madam, if you were my wife, I'd drink it.

 

[degsy]

 

[degsy]

Beck Rd Wallasey - or so says the caption
I wouldn't know not being of the Wool persuasion

 

[Joey66]

The British Insulated Cable Works and the town Prescot known as BICC all closed now - dominated the area with branches all over the UK - biggest customer was the nationalised UK telephone company at that time -

 

[Joey66]

Prescot Watches Factory opposite was a public house named the Watchmaker - both gone now -

 

[Joey66]

Factory entrance off Stoney Lane Prescot/Whiston The ex Stove's fa c2010 - now closed - My older brothjer worked there twice in 2 different periods - very noisy in the press shop -

 

[Eggs]

…..Tommy Whites;