Old Photos Of Where You Live

[Joey66]

 

[Joey66]

I often went here with my beloved -

 

[Joey66]

Plus here I think there were 3 Berni inns in town back then always full -

 

[Eggs]

I often went here with my beloved -

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…it was a lunch regular for us too, Joey. I remember going with our new baby daughter and an old lady asking if she was too young to be out. She’s now 38, a consultant surgeon expecting her 2nd child so it clearly didn’t do her any harm.

I think the family now run the Orchid Garden on Eaton Rd.

 

[Joey66]

…it was a lunch regular for us too, Joey. I remember going with our new baby daughter and an old lady asking if she was too young to be out. She’s now 38, a consultant surgeon expecting her 2nd child so it clearly didn’t do her any harm.

I think the family now run the Orchid Garden on Eaton Rd

How time flies - I like your old photos thread - a great idea

 

[Eggs]

How time flies - I like your old photos thread - a great idea

….its dominated by city of Liverpool pics but I like it when posters from other parts of the world load old pics of where they live.

 

[degsy]

….Commutation Row from the top of Wellington’s Column;

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iirc, In the early 60s and probably before, that white building 2nd left was a tailor/clothes shop that had the latest in shirts etc
Many the time I had my nosed pressed against the window wondering where I could get £3-19s-6d from for this cool looking shirt.

 

[Littlesue]

Cobbs Engine House at Bumble Hole Dudley. Before and after pic showing how nature claimed back the land once the Mines had gone.

 

[Eggs]

Cobbs Engine House at Bumble Hole Dudley. Before and after pic showing how nature claimed back the land once the Mines had gone.
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….maybe why ‘The Crooked House’ was so crooked. I also recall an earthquake happening in Dudley some years ago.

 

[Littlesue]

….maybe why ‘The Crooked House’ was so crooked. I also recall an earthquake happening in Dudley some years ago.

Yes the Crooked House built on mining are., the earthquake was in 2002, I was living in Dudley Borough but about 5 mile from the epicentre, remember being in bed when it happened ,literally felt the bed shake and not for the right reasons!

 

[Tim's tourettes]

Sayers - they supplied Goodison once with pies etc - sadly gone now bought out by that pie pound shop place ? - Cousins was another fine bakery in Liverpool - they went too - their larger shops had a side café -

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The exotic Runcorn Shopping City still boasts a Sayers.

 

[Ducans elbow]

I often went here with my beloved -

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My dad loved this place , wasn't there a place close by you use to take either your embassy coupons or was it green shield stamps , something like that

 

[Eggs]

My dad loved this place , wasn't there a place close by you use to take either your embassy coupons or was it green shield stamps , something like that

….it was built into the car park on Hanover St, not far from Bold St junction. I think it was originally opposite Central Station.

 

[Eggs]

….High St Wavertree, once known as ‘the smallest house in England’. 1906 & 2023;

 

[Runub]

….High St Wavertree, once known as ‘the smallest house in England’. 1906 & 2023;

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Must have gone past that a thousand times and never knew it was there