Old Photos Of Where You Live

[RufusCat]

….amazingly only finished in the late 1970s, apparently the largest Cathedral in the country and 5th largest in Europe.

One of our school outings was just down the road to Woolton quarry to see the sandstone blocks being cut to size.

 

[Eggs]

 

[Bryan+]

…growing up, I lived directly opposite Grant Gardens which was previously the Necropolis, Liverpools main cemetery. I remember when building the station on the corner of Everton Rd kids running down our street with human skulls on sticks. They reckoned that over the years bodies could move hundreds of yards from their original resting place.

Must be thousands of bodies still there;

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Used to cut through here to get my parents house near to breck road, was a massive green area. I remember that water tower in the background burst and shot water out the top in the late 80s

 

[Eggs]

 

[Eggs]

 

[Joey66]

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My 2nd Uncle was Foreman there - went to India etc he had a great job til he was made redundant ....

 

[Joey66]

Margaret Street Baths Everton just prior to demolition.

Fixed it for you - it looks very much in the style of Woolton baths in its day -

 

[Eggs]

Margaret Street Baths Everton just prior to demolition.

…spent much of my early days in there, it was also where my schools would take us for an hour every week. For some reason, I have a vivid memory of going with a few pals after I’d been invited to trials for Liverpool Schoolboys U11, which was such a big thing in the 1960s.

I can almost still smell the place, as you went through the entrance there was cubicles containing baths because not every house had bathrooms in Everton. The area in the corner on the pic was showers. I’d be quiet certain this was one of two pools, they alternated them.

 

[Joey66]

…growing up, I lived directly opposite Grant Gardens which was previously the Necropolis, Liverpools main cemetery. I remember when building the station on the corner of Everton Rd kids running down our street with human skulls on sticks. They reckoned that over the years bodies could move hundreds of yards from their original resting place.

Must be thousands of bodies still there;

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Liverpool had many unmarked grave yards back in the days of poverty - My late Fathers mother was ran over by a bus with my dad in her arms she flung him to the kerbside to save his life - on the family history indeed she was in a grass mound in an unmarked grave - no names just registered there on a computer - found this out when my wife did our family tree - always new the events never realised finding the graveyard just a notice that som many people were in this grass unmarked grave ....sad ....

 

[davids]

…spent much of my early days in there, it was also where my schools would take us for an hour every week. For some reason, I have a vivid memory of going there with a few pals after I’d been invited to trials for Liverpool Schoolboys U11, which was such a big thing in the 1960s.

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Great memories of the first trials at Penny Lane. Can remember vividly how much Ronnie Goodlass stood out in the crowd.

 

[Bryan+]

…spent much of my early days in there, it was also where my schools would take us for an hour every week. For some reason, I have a vivid memory of going with a few pals after I’d been invited to trials for Liverpool Schoolboys U11, which was such a big thing in the 1960s.

I can almost still smell the place, as you went through the entrance there was cubicles containing baths because not every house had bathrooms in Everton. The area in the corner on the pic was showers. I’d be quiet certain this was one of two pools, they alternated them.

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This seems likely to be the one I went to with school (L7) but I can’t remember the name. Off the top off me head, I’m pretty sure that glass roof made the pool absolutely roasting all the time. And it was constantly full of bleach, I used to come out raw as a fish and my eyes hurt for a week!

 

[rowdy]

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Anyone?

Not sure but it looks a lot like rice lane/queens drive corner before the flyover was built.

 

[tonyhorne]

And it was constantly full of bleach, I used to come out raw as a fish and my eyes hurt for a week!

Apparently it is not the "chlorine" that irritates the eyes but the substance that is formed when the chlorine reacts with urine ...

 

[degsy]

Inside the old St Johns Market, I can still remember the smell of the hot steamy staff canteen up the stairs on the left.

 

[degsy]

Looking across the semi cleared ruins of the old ' mysteriously burnt down' market...funny how plans for redevelopment were quick to materialise