Old Photos Of Where You Live

[Joey66]

1935 Liverpool Liver buildings +Pier Head From the river Mersey -

 

[Joey66]

1960s Liverpool Mardi Gras Club/Old Chapel Mount Pleasant -

 

[BoysPenLad]

Margaret Street Baths Everton just prior to demolition.

 

[degsy]

1960s Liverpool Mardi Gras Club/Old Chapel Mount Pleasant -

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Had many a night in there.

 

[degsy]

Milk before Hansen's and Supermarkets, complete with extra free bonus shopkeepers Apostrophe...

 

[degsy]

LIVERPOOL CRICKET GROUND LANCS USED GARSTON 1909 -

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Allegedly Don Bradman's favourite

 

[Eggs]

Allegedly Don Bradman's favourite

…..legend has it he hit one into the River but I doubt even he could’ve done that.

 

[Eggs]

…growing up, I lived directly opposite Grant Gardens which was previously the Necropolis, Liverpools main cemetery. I remember when building the station on the corner of Everton Rd kids running down our street with human skulls on sticks. They reckoned that over the years bodies could move hundreds of yards from their original resting place.

Must be thousands of bodies still there;

 

[tonyhorne]

…growing up, I lived directly opposite Grant Gardens which was previously the Necropolis, Liverpools main cemetery. I remember when building the station on the corner of Everton Rd kids running down our street with human skulls on sticks.

These days just holding a stick would cause numerous safeguarding and health and safety concerns. Can you imagine what skulls on sticks would lead to ...

 

[degsy]

 

[degsy]

For @Joey66
St Johns Gardens 1965

 

[degsy]

Half built Cathedral surrounded by houses

 

[degsy]

Atmospheric 1950s David Lean / Robert Krasker-esque Black and White view.

 

[degsy]

The Collegiate Shaw St ( vivat haec sodolitas. Decus Esmedunae etc) in 1865...slightly before my time.

 

[Eggs]

Half built Cathedral surrounded by houses
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….amazingly only finished in the late 1970s, apparently the largest Cathedral in the country and 5th largest in Europe.