One pub I never went in in the old days Huyton police station was next door - so as a young 17 year old kept away ......
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….St George’s Hall;
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Great to see the Royal Blue Liver Bird.
Thought for a minute, the curling was taking place there!
A priceless masterpiece, iirc, it's kept under a big wooden(?) cover and only comes out on special occasions.
Back in the late 60s Plesseys Social club hired it for for one of their big Friday Disco evenings.
the full monty - boards off, 100s of drunks dancing on the mosaics, 2 licensed bars, snacks & finger food, people smoking cigarettes and cigars...what could go wrong.
British Heritage would have a fit now.
All us youngsters...and some not so young piled out at 11.30 11.45 and hit the clubs
….Everton as I remember it;
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Just watched this on BBC iPlayer. Very depressing,if it was filmed in 1959 then I'd have been 6 years old and although I remember a few bomb sites nowhere near to the extent shown in the documentary. Have to admit I don't recognise anywhere in the film other than maybe the opening scene that looks like Everton.
Jones sweet shop in Huyton Quarry - half was sweets & the other half was ironmongers - he had a stool & you could purchase a large glass of pop for 1 & 1/2 p - he had a Guy Fawkes firework club a book over 12 months of saving - - he sold cannon Bangers rockets well before Bonfire night his wrip raps were great when you let them off in a full bus queue by the Seel Arms & watched the adults jump knee high from the other side of the road just as the bus was arriving the kids would be laughing like mad .... 
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Great picture!! That was my sweet shop of choice going home from school 1964-1970.Jones sweet shop in Huyton Quarry - half was sweets & the other half was ironmongers - he had a stool & you could purchase a large glass of pop for 1 & 1/2 p - he had a Guy Fawkes firework club a book over 12 months of saving - - he sold cannon Bangers rockets well before Bonfire night his wrip raps were great when you let them off in a full bus queue by the Seel Arms & watched the adults jump knee high from the other side of the road just as the bus was arriving the kids would be laughing like mad ....
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Liverpool Corporation rod flower bed displays on traffic islands - I used to say to my foreman on HUDC is this not a waste of money -when starting - he answered son if it was not done the council would waste the money elsewhere - How correct he was as he showed me how much could be produced for the local authority Trees Shrubs & bedding plants - all at a good VFM of top quality plants all propagated in the council nursery - we run a tree nursery , shrub & bedding plant - pot plant nursery - far better than the council could purchase outside ...
Similar, I used crosvilles H8 to H16 and the corpy 6s. The 89 was also useful if I missed my 81 home from school (in Hunts Cross)
….SFX Salisbury St, a school/church my Dad went to as did many of my mates and a certain Charlie Chaplin when he was a child performer at Henglers Circus;
Missed these on saturday - could have been my dad in the middle picture!
Remember many moons ago have a drink in there before work(those were the days) when 2 lads walk in with pieces of 4x2 timber and a fecking battle started we scrapped sharpish.