Old Photos Of Where You Live

[Joey66]

West Derby station in Liverpool opened in 1879 on the Cheshire Lines Railway’s North Liverpool Extension. The brick station spanned Mill Lane with a two-arch bridge built for potential expansion. It featured waiting rooms, ramps to the platforms and a nearby goods yard, and by the 1890s handled frequent services to Liverpool Central, Southport and Manchester, with extra trains for Aintree race days. The station closed to passengers in November 1960 and shut entirely five years later. Freight services continued to run through the site until 1975, and the tracks were removed in early 1979 -

 

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Childwall five ways 1948 - known as The Rocket named after a garage there -

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The rocket is the Motorway entrance isn't it, where the rocket pub is.

 

[Joey66]

The rocket is the Motorway entrance isn't it, where the rocket pub is.

Their used to be a repair garage on it named the Rocket in the 1900s I put a photo up last week ... named after that ....

 

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Their used to be a repair garage on it named the Rocket in the 1900s I put a photo up last week ... named after that ....

Right didn't know that, thanks

 

[No Alla Violenza]

Coconut Grove, Tuebrook -

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First nightclub I ever went to

 

[No Alla Violenza]

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Went once - awful place

 

[Joey66]

Went once - awful place

Same here - wedding anniversary of my sister who died tragically with the big C two years ago - 6 of us wen as couples to see Ron Dixon of Vince Earl & the Attractions - god they were awful actor Vince Earl/ Ron Dixon was the lead singer - no wonder he turned to acting ....

plus the place She club was an expensive dive dump of a night club .....

 

[Eggs]

…St George’s Hill;

 

[blueted]

Childwall five ways 1948 - known as The Rocket named after a garage there -

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Joey, The Rocket and Childwall Five Ways are two different places. The Rocket is at the start of the M62 in Broadgreen, you are right there used to be a Rocket garage there, and Childwall Five Ways is about a mile away along Queens Drive going towards Allerton.

 

[Nobby Nobbs]

Manxman Isle of Man Ferry, Landing Stage, Liverpool (1970's) -

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My then girlfriend now wife had a holiday on the IOM in 1976 we sailed on that 4 hours I think it took us.

 

[Joey66]

My then girlfriend now wife had a holiday on the IOM in 1976 we sailed on that 4 hours I think it took us.

My brother & his wife went there held up because of rough seas - got there had a coffee & it was time to catch the boat back

 

[Joey66]

Model Boating Lake at New Brighton -

 

[No Alla Violenza]

My brother & his wife went there held up because of rough seas - got there had a coffee & it was time to catch the boat back

I bet they didn’t miss much

 

[Joey66]

I bet they didn’t miss much

I had a chance to move there - turned it down & moved elsewhere- then a rep in my works told me I had turned a great job down ....

 

[Eggs]

My then girlfriend now wife had a holiday on the IOM in 1976 we sailed on that 4 hours I think it took us.

….it was 4 hours. i remember being on it in a proper storm as a young child, must’ve been around 1964. My Mum took me up on the top, there was literally rivers of vomit running down the deck. Never felt so ill in my life and have suffered from sea sickness since, even on a fair ground ride

Been back there plenty, even to play football but have always flown. I’ll never do that boat journey again.