When it was high a hell of a lot closed - I remember the day My older brother used to be allowed to go on site with guidence & you had to take the car part off with your own tools etc - H&S stopped all that plus a bit of thieving :D
Because of the world wide parts issue exacerbated by covid, chinese sabre rattling over Taiwan, precious metal scarcity, and tech advancements and supply chain logistic problems, have seen an increase in insurance companies keen to write vehicles...
The William Roberts baths opened in April 1936, just a few months prior to its identical Harold Davies swimming baths opened in Dovecot. It closed in 1993 due to structural issues -
The springboard used to love them ....
The way we used to laugh with these electric driven Milk floats - bottles rattling as the crawled along the roads on the cobbled streets delivering milk - who would have thought some idiot thought electric cars would ever arrive? -
Once they go off your car is a write off on most cars as the crack the dashboard - damaging electrics etc up even smash your windscreen - My son wrote a cracking car off when a person just tapped him head on - scary stuff ..... I tried...
Yes Bonfires we made our own massive & at the base under it we made a den - branches gained form a local wood a few miles away - & every old house in the neighbourhood - asked any old furniture for the bomb fire - we got loads - probably worth a...
….similar in Everton, Sue, except the derilict houses were called ‘bombies’, probably a reference to the Liverpool WW2 blitz. We spend lots of the day in the ‘bombies’, knocking holes through the attic walls to connect them and often just lying...