The Oldies Thread

[Eggs]

…went to New Brighton baths plenty but never off the top board.

 

[Methuselah]

(Relatively) Modern history. Thinking about Concorde and Airliners like the Boeing 747. Military fighter jets and the Vulcan bombers mentioned somewhere else. When my grandad was 21 years old there was no such thing as an aeroplane.
Two world wars certainly provided the impetus for invention.

 

[Eggs]

…William Brown Street 1951. If only they had the foresight to keep the trams.

 

[woodsyni]

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…went to New Brighton baths plenty but never off the top board.

That's going to be one hell of a 'belly flop' if he/she doesn't sort it soon!

 

[woodsyni]

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…William Brown Street 1951. If only they had the foresight to keep the trams.

What a great photo that is!

 

[LEONARD]

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…William Brown Street 1951. If only they had the foresight to keep the trams.

Lovely evocative picture.

Still plenty of bomb damage, six years after WW2.

Sad to see some lefty-youngsters, on the CA threads, denigrating and denying our parents and grandparents efforts and resilience.

 

[Eggs]

….I suppose some things are better than they used to be.

 

[bluenotred]

Lovely evocative picture.

Still plenty of bomb damage, six years after WW2.

Sad to see some lefty-youngsters, on the CA threads, denigrating and denying our parents and grandparents efforts and resilience.

Not from Liverpool but born in North Wales in 1949.
I remember my parents taking me to Liverpool when I was around 4 or 5, so close to 10 years after the war and there was still lots of bomb damage. I remember the trams too.

 

[LEONARD]

Not from Liverpool but born in North Wales in 1949.
I remember my parents taking me to Liverpool when I was around 4 or 5, so close to 10 years after the war and there was still lots of bomb damage. I remember the trams too.

I still remember those poor 'down and outs' gathering around fires on the bomb sites in town.

All swigging a purple liquid from bottles, my dad said it was 'juice', but I now realise this was meth's.

 

[bigjonny]

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….I suppose some things are better than they used to be.

According to my mum I used to cry when they got back in the basket at the end of the programme.

 

[summerisle]

Great series this.

 

[davids]

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….I suppose some things are better than they used to be.

Cancel culture would sort that out, throwing her into a basket.?

 

[davids]

I still remember those poor 'down and outs' gathering around fires on the bomb sites in town.

All swigging a purple liquid from bottles, my dad said it was 'juice', but I now realise this was meth's.

Or bottles of milk they'd gassed up.?

 

[tommytowne]

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…went to New Brighton baths plenty but never off the top board.

The one at New Ferry baths wasn't as high as that but still scary. Scary not so much because of the height but because of the fact there were always kids in the water directly below in the water when someone was diving or jumping.

 

[Eggs]

The one at New Ferry baths wasn't as high as that but still scary. Scary not so much because of the height but because of the fact there were always kids in the water directly below in the water when someone was diving or jumping.

….went there plenty back in the day, water was always freezing.