Old Photos Of Where You Live

[Lao]

….1911, Liverpool. I suspect WW1 around the corner for many of these;

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I’d love to know the context of this photo, one of the kids looks like my grandad, who would have been 8 at the time. He went to Liverpool Industrial school for orphans, joined the merchant navy at 13 and was on supply ships to and from Spain during WW1. Maybe this pic was kids from the the school.

 

[Lao]

Brownlow hill then & now -


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I was literally parked there an hour ago, picked my son up from uni!

 

[Eggs]

I’d love to know the context of this photo, one of the kids looks like my grandad, who would have been 8 at the time. He went to Liverpool Industrial school for orphans, joined the merchant navy at 13 and was on supply ships to and from Spain during WW1. Maybe this pic was kids from the the school.

….i just checked and the only providence is Liverpool 1911. There is some writing on the picture but it’s difficult to decipher, you can certainly make out the word Liverpool.

Picture was posted on social media by a group called ‘Scouse Back Kitchen Social Club’.

Looks like Industrial School for Orphans was in Kirkdale.

 

[Lao]

My grandads school was on St Anne’s street, the tall gates in the background look similar to photos of the building that I’ve seen. I’ll do a bit of mooching on facebook, thanks @Eggs

 

[Moonlight dribbler]

…yep, I thought so too. I studied it for quite a while wondering what happened to them all, especially with the war of all wars just a few years away.

Yes, I studied it too. Made me think about the footwear or lack of footwear on show. I heard a long time ago, that people were keen to sign up to join the war.

 

[Eggs]

Yes, I studied it too. Made me think about the footwear or lack of footwear on show. I heard a long time ago, that people were keen to sign up to join the war.

…..yep, a few pics on here not too many pages back (pop ‘Liverpool Pals’ into the search function for this thread at the top of the page).

Lord Kitchener was the face of the famous ‘Your Country Needs You’ posters and Lord Derby led the Liverpool recruitment. They were staggered with how many joined up so they formed 3 (I think) regiments and called them The Liverpool Pals.

Sadly, lots of them perished.

 

[Eggs]

….i spent plenty of time in the Hippodrome as a kid, it was the top of my street. Fascinating that in a previous iteration (when it was called Henglers Circus), Charlie Chaplin performed there as a child and attended SFX school off Shaw St;

 

[Huyton Layne]

Yes, I studied it too. Made me think about the footwear or lack of footwear on show. I heard a long time ago, that people were keen to sign up to join the war.

I just near had a breakdown. Saw this post and "51 minutes ago" and was wondering why I didn't remember writing it. That avatar proper threw me

 

[davids]

…..yep, a few pics on here not too many pages back (pop ‘Liverpool Pals’ into the search function for this thread at the top of the page).

Lord Kitchener was the face of the famous ‘Your Country Needs You’ posters and Lord Derby led the Liverpool recruitment. They were staggered with how many joined up so they formed 3 (I think) regiments and called them The Liverpool Pals.

Sadly, lots of them perished.

Lord Derby also recruited the Liverpool Docks Regiment my grandfather was the RSM after serving in the Scots Guards.


"Derby's solution was the so-called 'Derby Scheme'. This encouraged men to voluntarily register their name on the principle that once registered they would be called up for service only when necessary. As an added incentive married men were advised that they would only be called up once the supply of single men was exhausted.

Announced in a fanfare of publicity the scheme proved unsuccessful however, and was abandoned in December the same year. Excluding men exempted from military service on account of their occupation (e.g. munitions workers) just 350,000 men had volunteered under the Derby Scheme".

 

[Lao]

….i spent plenty of time in the Hippodrome as a kid, it was the top of my street. Fascinating that in a previous iteration (when it was called Henglers Circus), Charlie Chaplin performed there as a child and attended SFX school off Shaw St;

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My bank! Liverpool Savings Bank, which became Trustee Savings Bank. Started work at that branch aged 17. So long ago!

 

[Moonlight dribbler]

I just near had a breakdown. Saw this post and "51 minutes ago" and was wondering why I didn't remember writing it. That avatar proper threw me

Good name mate!!!

 

[Eggs]

…Lord St;

 

[jondel]

….i spent plenty of time in the Hippodrome as a kid, it was the top of my street. Fascinating that in a previous iteration (when it was called Henglers Circus), Charlie Chaplin performed there as a child and attended SFX school off Shaw St;

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My first experience of the cinema as a child. Happy days.

 

[Joey66]

Yes, I studied it too. Made me think about the footwear or lack of footwear on show. I heard a long time ago, that people were keen to sign up to join the war.

My late father, born in Vauxhall road near Scottie road - when I was a young kid if I moaned about anything, & we never had much - He would quote - you don't know how lucky you are the kids I played with had no shoes or socks - his father joined the first war in 1916 /17 lied about his age & hiked to join the Lancashire fusiliers - he made it back OK - My late father was as hard as nails seen him in action a few times in the street or at a front door if I had been clouted .... as a miner fists like babies heads .....

 

[Joey66]

Myrtle street, 1910 & now -