Old Photos Of Where You Live
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….St Saviours Church;
Detested the stuff!
Like all beers back then it varied on each Landlord - The Child of Hale at Hale shore it was nectar - other pubs it was like diesel - Greenhall Whitley was the same - best pint I ever had was in Yorkshire.... Yorkshire Bitter Theakston's
I played league darts in the late 1980s and 1990s in the West Derby, Old Swan & Huyton area. A number of the pubs we played in were Higsons, from memory the Halton Castle and Greyhound stood out as particularly bad. A friend reckoned the pint in the Wheatsheaf was the best you could get - not for me. Greenalls was just a bland pint which was why so many people mixed their beers, golden (lager & bitter), fifty (Guinness & mild) Guinness bitter (my preference at the time) and brown bitter. I agree that theakstons bitter was better than the other 2.Like all beers back then it varied on each Landlord - The Child of Hale at Hale shore it was nectar - other pubs it was like diesel - Greenhall Whitley was the same - best pint I ever had was in Yorkshire.... Yorkshire Bitter Theakston's
….95 High St, Wavertree;
….1938, Shaw St. Can’t say I ever remember a garage there;
The best Higsons pint was from the bar in the brewery.Like all beers back then it varied on each Landlord - The Child of Hale at Hale shore it was nectar - other pubs it was like diesel - Greenhall Whitley was the same - best pint I ever had was in Yorkshire.... Yorkshire Bitter Theakston's
I'm a few years older than you and I don't remember it either.
….1965;
….Lowry’s Liverpool;
Use to work for the Corpy in the 70s and in them days your dinner was usually spent in the pub, in there one dinner time when two fellas walked in told the bar man they’ve come to check out the telly and promptly walked out with it, Liverpool eh.
Long story short, my mrs got married at a very young age (only lasted 8 months
), anyhow one of their wedding gifts was 2 pictures in frames, one of them was called “waiting for the shops to open” and has Lowry’s signature on it. I’m pretty sure it’s just a printed copy but 1% of me has always thought “what if ?” , the reason I say this is the present was off her ex’s grandmother who was born and raised in Manchester and the pictures were gifted to her many years ago, imagine if I was sitting on an original Lowry all these years
That happened in a social club in Huyton where I played darts in the 70s a brand new Colour TV went the same way two guys with typical TV overalls on called the club had only had the new TV in a side room bar - hey lads me & some other lad - TV has to go back its been reported this new TV is playing up they just flashed a fake ID card & in minutes it was gone the club was quiet that night - The steward came to collect empties in our room - hey wheres the new colour TV gone ?
We told him the language I could not type - at the weekend a new TV was chained to the wall - they must have been all over the area in the 70s doing that ... back the large screen colour TVs were very expensive & new out back then .....
Long story short, my mrs got married at a very young age (only lasted 8 months
….don’t want to pee on your cornflakes, Kurt, but it seems like the original sits in Manchester Art Gallery. Saying that, you can get £80 for your print;
