Old Photos Of Where You Live

[davids]

 

[davids]

….Liverpool Sailors Home, Canning Place, opened 1850, closed 1969 and demolished in 1970s. Imagine a building like that now;

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So much amazing architecture ruined then. The old Royal Hospital flattened for the nondescript replacement.

 

[bigjonny]

So much amazing architecture ruined then. The old Royal Hospital flattened for the nondescript replacement.

Do you mean the Royal Infirmary ? It’s now part of the University of Liverpool - The Foresight Centre.

 

[Joey66]

Quarry Road, Old Swan,1897 and 2019 -​

 

[Eggs]

….Everton, I’d have certainly been in one of the houses on the right when this was taken;

 

[Kurt.]

….1960 fire at Henderson’s in Church St in which 11 people lost their lives;

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Bloody typical of your generation @Eggs, people dying and bystanders there taking photos …. You wouldn’t see that these days

 

[Eggs]

….Britains first submarine, the Resurgam built in Birkenhead and launched on 26th Nov 1879;

 

[Joey66]

Derby Street Huyton Quarry - Tushinghams brickwork Lorries drove up that street hence the unadopted road /street I lived there from a baby in 1955 to 1966 - 2 up 2 down a family of five - outside toilet & a tin bath on the wall - a great community of people ... all those houses demolished now bar the posh 3 old Tushinghams houses at the bottom of the street opposite the demolished Brickworks - the only three streets in Huyton at the time - the rest were all roads ....

 

[Eggs]

….i suppose the odd place does improve with time;

 

[LEONARD]

….i suppose the odd place does improve with time;

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Yes the Albert Dock restoration has been magnificent.

Shame so many of our beautiful old buildings were bulldozed instead.

 

[Eggs]

 

[Eggs]

…Princes Park Mansions;

 

[Eggs]

….Mill Lane 1956 (what is now Bill Shankly playing fields on the right);

 

[LEONARD]

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That Jack Russell would be his bezzy mate.

 

[matty1878]

…Princes Park Mansions;

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did you use to sell oil mate?