Old Photos Of Where You Live

[tommytowne]

Birkenhead market, you could get anything and everything there, until it burned down.

My first Saturday job was in the greengrocers right across the aisle from there. Can almost smell the produce just from looking at that.

 

[Eggs]

….Broad Lane, Kirkby, 1965;

 

[Eggs]

….Grange Lane Store, Gateacre Village 1890s;

 

[Eggs]

….Church St;

 

[Kurt.]

Old market hall, it’s still standing today and recently was refurbished and is now the town library, used to love the market on a Saturday when I was a kid going shopping with my gran.

 

[Eggs]

….Everton Road, a scene I remember very well.

 

[4737carlin]

Floral Clock in Vale Park, council got rid of it in 74

 

[dholliday]

The street hasn't changed much. The Rathaus with that tall clock-tower is still there. On the right, roughly where the lady in the white dress is standing, is a Kaiser-themed Restaurant with excellent traditional grub, at normal prices. It's called Gardestube and purposefully styles itself as a pub/eatery from the time of Kaiser Wilhelm II (1900-ish).

They say it's been around that long too, so it's almost like a time capsule.

 

[summerisle]

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The street hasn't changed much. The Rathaus with that tall clock-tower is still there. On the right, roughly where the lady in the white dress is standing, is a Kaiser-themed Restaurant with excellent traditional grub, at normal prices. It's called Gardestube and purposefully styles itself as a pub/eatery from the time of Kaiser Wilhelm II (1900-ish).

They say it's been around that long too, so it's almost like a time capsule.

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Do they have duelling matches, for that added authenticity ?

 

[4737carlin]

The Rolling Stones at the Tower Ballroom on the 10th of August 1964. Apparently...... Jimmy Saville is one of the photos, I think it's the second one stage right but I'm not certain

 

[Eggs]

….my daily walk to school took me through here, and on Sundays if my Dad wasn’t in one Gregsons Well he’d be in the one opposite.

 

[kev]

Top photo shows Bold colliery with Clock Face colliery in the background. The second photo shows Bold Power Station. All are now gone and barely any sign of them remains.
Most of this land is now reclaimed woodland, meadows and marsh It's beautiful and is where I do much of my walking. It now comprises of Clock Face country park, Bold Moss, Colliers Moss and Sutton Moss.
Clock Face colliery closed in 1966 and Bold colliery and power stations remained in use until the 1980s. It's incredible how quickly nature can recover from heavy industrialisation. ?

 

[kev]

Just realised @Eggs. On the photo of the power station you can also see the old St.Helens Town football ground at Houghton Road.
Did you ever play there? Bert Trautmann famously did of course.

 

[SerenityNigh]

very few interesting pictures from my whereabouts, except these sort.

*the musician pictured below is not from here, but locals like to talk about how he performed here before he "got big"

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

My first Saturday job was in the greengrocers right across the aisle from there. Can almost smell the produce just from looking at that.

When I was still in school I had a job on Birkenhead market and also used to travel to Wrexham on Monday's' Ellesmere Port (Turesdays) and Frodsham (Thursdays) when I was off school. The other three were all 'build your own stall markets, hard work. As a result of knowing all the security guards at Birkenhead market I landed a job as a rat catcher around the produce and butchers aisles there... frightening stories!