Old Photos Of Where You Live

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Liverpool Cricket Club, Aigburth, 1900s and 2020 -​

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One of Don Bradmans favourites by all accounts - and why not.

 

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As Gustav Eiffel was putting the finishing touches to his towering marvel of wrought iron for the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris, waxed moustaches began to twitch in the drawing rooms of Britain.…

The Tower didn’t burn down, it was demolished after the First World War because vital maintenance, such as round the clock painting to protect against the constant, damp sea air, had not been carried out while workers were away in the trenches. The building at the foot of the tower finally burned down in 1969.

So why, oh why, did they pull it down...? Yes, of course, I know it was burned to the ground - but why not rebuild it...?

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Not havin a go but why didn't Blackpool tower go the same way?
Same war, same sea
Just sayin like.

Edit; answers own question...
The Tower was not painted properly during its first thirty years and became corroded, leading to discussions about demolishing it. However, it was decided to rebuild it instead, and all the steelwork in the structure was replaced and renewed between 1920 and 1924.[9][13] On 22 December 1894, Norwegian ship Abana was sailing from Liverpool to Savannah, Georgia, but was caught up in a storm, and mistook the recently built Blackpool Tower for a lighthouse. Abana was first seen off North Pier, and later drifted to Little Bispham where she was wrecked, and can still be seen at low tide. The ship's bell still hangs in St Andrews Church in Cleveleys

This place was all the rage in the 1970s - I took my Girlfriend now my wife - many times to this clasy place -

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Me too

 

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….Mill Rd Hospital, staff dining room. One of those nurses might have delivered me;

 

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…Liverpool Carter;

 

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…carter by Overhead Railway;

 

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….the Goree Plazza (the Goree named after a Senegal Island synonymous with slavery);

 

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…Eric Wheeler, the last of the Liverpool Carters;

 

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….1948 Carter;

 

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A photo of children who were part of the sixty fifty party from Louisa Birt, July 1903 -