Old Photos Of Where You Live

[Eggs]

….12th July today, in days of old it always meant the Orange Lodge March in Liverpool;

 

[TommyDavo]

Fess up @tommye

Not only old and ginger, recently had to give up a very good job…..

 

[davids]

....no ‘super mole’ boring machine either. I expect many of the lads working on that job were Irish, I know they build many of the railway tunnels on Merseyside.

English company using Irish labour built the Gandia Alcoy railway here in Spain. Have banjo will travel.

Ferrocarril Alcoy Gandia - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Joey66]

….12th July today, in days of old it always meant the Orange Lodge March in Liverpool;

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My late father, a catholic & his brother, used to cause havoc on these marches in a big gang waiting to get at them - the sectarian areas in Liverpool in those days were a problem .... he gave up his Catholicism when he married my mother a devout C of E.....

 

[LEONARD]

My late father, a catholic & his brother, used to cause havoc on these marches in a big gang waiting to get at them - the sectarian areas in Liverpool in those days were a problem ....

Yes thankfully all behind us.

 

[Joey66]

Lord street, 1962 -

 

[Joey66]

George Henry Lee's building in Church Street. October 30, 1989 -

 

[Joey66]

The last day of trading for Woolworths. St Johns, Liverpool in 2009 -

 

[Joey66]

 

[Joey66]

Coopers coffee & food shop, once a Liverpool favourite on the corner of Church Street and Church Lane. February 1972 -

 

[Joey66]

One of Lewisis - that statue -

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

My late father, a catholic & his brother, used to cause havoc on these marches in a big gang waiting to get at them - the sectarian areas in Liverpool in those days were a problem .... he gave up his Catholicism when he married my mother a devout C of E.....

Me ma and da was the reverse.
Mum told me stories of those marches,and anything green would be hung out to wind up the marches.
They lived in Everton.
Belgrave Street iirc.
A mix of religions.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Central Station clock.
Must've been a meeting place

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

James Street overhead