Old Photos Of Where You Live

[bcblue1878]

I moved to Waterloo this year, saw some interesting ones recently:

- South Road feels like walking through the set of western sometimes so it's funny to see a pic with horse and carriage
- Interesting to see it go right up to the sea before the Marina was made
- The Plaza hasn't changed
- St John's Road looked better a hundred years ago

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Used to regularly go to The Plaza when I was a kid for the Saturday morning show!

 

[Joey66]

Life in Liverpool suburb that went from farmland to mega estate - started in the 1930s from farm land to a mega estate -​

 

[Joey66]

The rise of factories on Speke Estate -A section of the Hayes Engineering plant at Speke, south Liverpool, January 1940.​

 

[Joey66]

Speke 1960 -

 

[Joey66]

I remember this shop lol - itching powder - stink bombs etc -

 

[Eggs]

….West Derby Road 1960s, perhaps we had global warming then;

 

[Eggs]

….Pier Head 1900s;

 

[Eggs]

….Aintree Railway Station 1913;

 

[Eggs]

Unlike where I used to live. This is Tillotson Street which used to be off Hall Lane. We lived about halfway down and the crane at the bottom was when they were building the second version of the Royal Hospital which I remember well. We left when I was seven and judging by what my parents tell me it was like Bash Street. Unsure how we all survived those days. However the Primary School across the road, no longer there was called Rathbone and it was very good. I recall we were learning French from the start of primary education.

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….your old school, Rob. Sadly no more;

 

[Joey66]

….your old school, Rob. Sadly no more;

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I noticed right away the names of the roads had a Lancastrian influence as Liverpool was part of Lancashire back then

 

[Eggs]

I noticed right away the names of the roads had a Lancastrian influence as Liverpool was part of Lancashire back then

…and we tend to still support Lancashire Cricket Team who still play at Aigburth.

 

[Joey66]

…and we tend to still support Lancashire Cricket Team who still play at Aigburth.

Yes even on holiday in Blackpool at Stanley Park if they were playing My brother & I used to go to see Lancashire play there .... The rest of the family had a day in that then massive park .....
Our schools were run by Lancashire county council - Outside Liverpool, Lancashire County Council cut the grass on the major roadways before 1974 local government reorganisation = disaster ....

My Horticultural training was Garstang & Myerscough college - all linked to Preston so back then yes I did feel like a Lancastrian & it carries on today with the Cricket .... as you point out...

Hutton was the police training centre in Lancashire - In the 1970s any trouble with a policeman He had a Lancashire accent, the majority of time any rate in town .....

 

[Joey66]

 

[Eggs]

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…I‘m sure I posted a little history of that place further back in the thread. I think it had connections with Florence Nightingale sending nurses there.

 

[Eggs]

….Allerton 1927;