Old Photos Of Where You Live

[Eggs]

 

[Eggs]

…Black Horse Pub, Old Swan;

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

The Strand ,Bootle.
Used to be a great shopping experience.

 

[RufusCat]

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If I may add one further area to the list:

CHILDWALL - Childwall's history includes its mention in the Domesday Book (1086) as "Cildeuuelle," meaning "a stream where youngsters meet," and its evolution from a rural area to a suburb of Liverpool. The area was initially part of the West Derby Hundred and later an urban district before being annexed by Liverpool in 1913. Significant landmarks include All Saints' Church, the oldest church in Liverpool.

 

[davids]

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Smell of fresh coffee beans was amazing as a kid.

 

[Eggs]

Smell of fresh coffee beans was amazing as a kid.

….yep, remember it well from just walking past.

 

[Eggs]

….the winter of 1963;

 

[Eggs]

…1934, The Barracks, West Derby Village. I understand this was an area of ‘poor housing’ behind where the Hare & Hounds Pub is now;

 

[davids]

….the winter of 1963;


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I was going to Gwladys St then and the groundsmen let a few of us help take the straw off the pitch.

 

[Joey66]

I was going to Gwladys St then and the groundsmen let a few of us help take the straw off the pitch.

That was a really bad winter - I watched a documentary on it - Believe it or not if we had not had coal/coke fired steam trains as we had back then this country would have been in big trouble as all the diesel fuelled trains the fuel froze solid - it was that cold & the snow never seemed to stop - I fel it would have stopped overhead electric powered trains too......

 

[Eggs]

That was a really bad winter - I watched a documentary on it - Believe it or not if we had not had coal/coke fired steam trains as we had back then this country would have been in big trouble as all the diesel fuelled trains the fuel froze solid - it was that cold & the snow never seemed to stop - I fel it would have stopped overhead electric powered trains too......

….but it never stopped us playing footy in the street.

 

[Joey66]

….but it never stopped us playing footy in the street.

It did with us we just made a massive slide of ice - the Tushingham lorry drivers put salt on it - it was that cold we got it going again they struggled to get up the hill outside their Quarry

 

[kev]

I remember walking to school in 1963 through snow drifts that towered over me.
They seem to shut down now at the first sign of frost.

 

[davids]

….but it never stopped us playing footy in the street.

Nothing could.

 

[Eggs]

…Frank Green pic, ‘The demolition of The Hippodrome’. The picture house opposite the top of my old street in Everton, in a former life it was Henglers Circus where a child star called Charlie Chaplin appeared for a season;