Old Photos Of Where You Live

[Eggs]

….The Barracks, West Derby Village 1934. I understand this was situated on the land opposite the Sefton Arms, roughly where the Hare and Hounds is today. One of my pals started life in those houses;

 

[Joey66]

This club is before my era -

 

[Joey66]

My late father told me about kids with no shoes & to stop moaning in what I wore, which were hand-me-downs -

 

[Joey66]

Bunny's Store - corner of Church Street and Whitechapel -

 

[Joey66]

Liver Brewery, Scotland Road -

 

[Joey66]

 

[Joey66]

Sefton park fair. 1900's - they also had a large circus when I was a kid in the 1960s-​

 

[Joey66]

Lewis's -

 

[Eggs]

My late father told me about kids with no shoes & to stop moaning in what I wore, which were hand-me-downs -

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….the jug will be full of ale from the pub, Dads would send kids in those days.

 

[Joey66]

….the jug will be full of ale from the pub, Dads would send kids in those days.

My late father was a coal miner - so he went straight in the pub after his shift on the coal face at Cronton colliery

 

[Eggs]

…..before they were Wetherspoons.

The Richard John Blackler, Gt Charlotte St;

 

[Eggs]

….The Fall Well, Liverpool City Centre, named after a water source that stood on the site;

 

[Eggs]

….The Welkin (old English word for Sky and commemorates astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks who was born in Toxteth) was Philip, Son & Nephew book shop;

 

[Eggs]

….Bill’s Barbers, Rupert Lane;

 

[Joey66]

The 1950s was a time of great change in Britain, ând especially after the immediate post-war austerity years. In Liverpool, massive slum clearance -