Old Photos Of Where You Live

[davids]

…it wasn’t in town, Joey, it was near the Astoria on Walton Rd.

On the next corner to the Astoria.

 

[davids]

….I think so, although there might also have been one on Walton Hall Ave.

If memory serves the one on Walton Hall Ave was a brick built building.

 

[Joey66]

Did that become the paradox?

A nightclub - my niece met her husband there - There was a good slot about it on The Footage Detectives on TTP - on every Sunday 5pm - great viewing for us oldies lol
It had many clips of the Vernon's girl at work & then the trio of a Vernons group that made the big time - The Vernon's Girls

 

[Eggs]

 

[Eggs]

 

[davids]

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Sefton Park?

 

[Eggs]

Sefton Park?

…yep. It’s still a lovely park, we take the grandkids for a stroll now and then.

 

[davids]

…yep. It’s still a lovely park, we take the grandkids for a stroll now and then.

Remember the bonfire night in the 80s,just arrived to see the fireworks when the boathouse went up in smoke.

 

[Eggs]

…going to New Brighton was a proper day out;

 

[Joey66]

…yep. It’s still a lovely park, we take the grandkids for a stroll now and then.

Liverpool Corporation parks department in its pomp in the 1960s & 19870s - was rated the 2nd best parks department in the UK only Edinburgh ahead of it -The state-of-the-art nursery in Allerton - I visited twice was the main reason plus its wonderful parks - My old Foreman who worked there in his youth claimed the Parks Superintendent way back travelled around his men in all the parks weekly on a push bike even handing wages out in pay-packets ......

The flowerbeds on the roundabouts in town were massive & bedded out beautifully - just tried to google photos - cant find any in the era of the parks department at its best ?

 

[Joey66]

…going to New Brighton was a proper day out;

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I vaguely remember the Tower gardens - it was destroyed by fire, top pop bands played there in the early 1960s including the Beatles - Rolling Stones etc etc My older brother went to these concerts ....

 

[Eggs]

I vaguely remember the Tower gardens - it was destroyed by fire, top pop bands played there in the early 1960s including the Beatles - Rolling Stones etc etc My older brother went to these concerts ....



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…amazing to think that in 1962 the Beatles were warm up for Little Richard at New Brighton;

 

[Joey66]

…going to New Brighton was a proper day out;

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I went in my teens with my mates & paid to go into the battlements' fort on the beach - they were like Dungeons - in those days if you went for a swim on New brighton beach you just went through the motions lol

 

[davids]

I vaguely remember the Tower gardens - it was destroyed by fire, top pop bands played there in the early 1960s including the Beatles - Rolling Stones etc etc My older brother went to these concerts ....



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Wall of Death too.

 

[tommytowne]

…going to New Brighton was a proper day out;

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You can see the timber structure of the roller coaster. The one ride my dad could afford for me and him to ride.
Tears in my eyes now thinking about it. Number 11 or 12 bus from Tranmere absolutely chocker on a sunny Sunday afternoon.