Old Photos Of Where You Live
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….Breckfield Rd Nth.
Virtually every day of my secondary school life, I’d go into that chippy. For me and everybody else we had half a tin loaf, we took the middle out leaving the crust and hand it in. It was filled with chips with a ladle of curry. Crazy to think of that as a diet but I suppose we burned it off playing sport;
Virtually every day of my secondary school life, I’d go into that chippy. For me and everybody else we had half a tin loaf, we took the middle out leaving the crust and hand it in. It was filled with chips with a ladle of curry. Crazy to think of that as a diet but I suppose we burned it off playing sport;
What school did you go to eggs ? We use to have the same dinner but it was Cardinal Godfrey on Breckfield Road South.
Not sure if that was the same chippy
….John Hamilton. You were not too far away but that chippy was near the corner of Mere Lane, I don’t recall you lads being down that end.
….RSPCA Mill St, Toxteth, 1924;
…PDSA mobile vet, Liverpool 1925;
…built 1861-65;
tonyhorne
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Apparently the first one they ever opened was in Liverpool. Is that it?
…it was certainly founded in a coffee house on Bold St in 1809, so that Toxteth premises could well be the first.
Two terrific pics, looks like the poor really cared for their pets looking at the 2nd one.
….Victoria Buildings, Liverpool University, Brownlow Hill. Designed by Alfred Waterhouse and completed in 1892, it was the inspiration for the term ‘red brick university’;
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I wondered where that term came from. I spent a happy postgraduate year there that coincided with the 1984-5 League title, but never realised that the Victoria Building was its origin.
….i was aware Liverpool University is officially one of the ‘red brick universities’ but like you, I didn’t know the term originated from that stunning building. My own daughter got her degree in medicine from there.