Old Photos Of Where You Live

[Joey66]

 

[Joey66]

New Brighton Tower -

 

[Joey66]

Otterspool shoreline in Liverpool as it was, and now Otterspool Promenade. Until the mid-19th century, fishermen’s nets and cottages were a common sight - for @COYBL25 & co -

 

[Joey66]

Street and Post Office, Knotty Ash - c 1900s Liverpool Postcard -​

 

[COYBL25]

Otterspool shoreline in Liverpool as it was, and now Otterspool Promenade. Until the mid-19th century, fishermen’s nets and cottages were a common sight - for @COYBL25 & co -

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Parts of Crosby beach, further up towards High Town are the same too Joey.

There`s still remnants of the cottages on the shoreline - footings, bits of walls, piles of bricks etc.

 

[Joey66]

Otterspool construction 1930s -

 

[Joey66]

Parts of Crosby beach, further up towards High Town are the same too Joey.

There`s still remnants of the cottages on the shoreline - footings, bits of walls, piles of bricks etc.

They dug all the gravel off that beach for building construction too -

 

[Joey66]

 

[Eggs]

Street and Post Office, Knotty Ash - c 1900s Liverpool Postcard -​

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….not much has changed at that junction, would start my journey to school from a bust stop there when we moved from Everton to Knotty Ash at the beginning of ‘70s.

 

[Joey66]

….not much has changed at that junction, would start my journey to school from a bust stop there when we moved from Everton to Knotty Ash at the beginning of ‘70s.

The Knotty ash arms pub further down has gone it had two good Bowling greens too.....

 

[Eggs]

The Knotty ash arms pub further down has gone it had two good Bowling greens too.....

…yep, Knotty Ash Hotel, they used it for televised floodlit bowls at one stage. The building is still there, last time I went in it was an Indian Restaurant. The Wheatsheaf and Lord Nelson seem to have picked up since the new Alder Hey opened.

 

[Lao]

Parts of Crosby beach, further up towards High Town are the same too Joey.

There`s still remnants of the cottages on the shoreline - footings, bits of walls, piles of bricks etc.

Isn’t that the ‘Blitz beach’? Houses were demolished after being bombed in Seaforth, and all materials were dumped on the beach, as an anti-erosion plan.

 

[Eggs]

Isn’t that the ‘Blitz beach’? Houses were demolished after being bombed in Seaforth, and all materials were dumped on the beach, as an anti-erosion plan.

….that beach is certainly on that stretch of coast.

I think Otterspool Prom was build using the earth extracted from Mersey Tunnel excavation but I might have that wrong.

 

[COYBL25]

Isn’t that the ‘Blitz beach’? Houses were demolished after being bombed in Seaforth, and all materials were dumped on the beach, as an anti-erosion plan.

It`s much further up the coast mate, more towards the High Town bit, not far from the little Marina on the inlet. ( I know the bit you`re talking about though )

I did a walk along the coastal path with a load of people who knew the history of that bit.

Tbh, unless the remains of the old fishermen`s cottages hadn`t been pointed out, you`d have never given them a second look, as all they really were, was outlines of bricks in the ground and the odd bit of remaining wall. ( the bricks looked like they`d been made out of quite a soft material, as they were really brightly coloured and very very weathered ).

They also pointed out the remains of old fish traps too, which apparently were to catch Salmon !

 

[Joey66]

It`s much further up the coast mate, more towards the High Town bit, not far from the little Marina on the inlet. ( I know the bit you`re talking about though )

I did a walk along the coastal path with a load of people who knew the history of that bit.

Tbh, unless the remains of the old fishermen`s cottages hadn`t been pointed out, you`d have never given them a second look, as all they really were, was outlines of bricks in the ground and the odd bit of remaining wall. ( the bricks looked like they`d been made out of quite a soft material, as they were really brightly coloured and very very weathered ).

They also pointed out the remains of old fish traps too, which apparently were to catch Salmon !

John west tin̈ned salmon is probably in there now ....