The Oldies Thread

Methuselah said:
Don't remember the barbers Leonard. The barbers we used was the one near the railway bridge in Walton Village. I have nightmares about Walton Village. About 100 yards from the barbers there was a butcher's shop. Me and my brother used to have to go there to get a couple of rabbits (rabbits were off ration during the war). The queue used stretch about a dozen yards outside the shop and the butcher used to 'dress' the rabbits one at a time for each customer. It took ages and we used to stand in the rain and freezing cold. Mum used to cook good rabbit stew though, tender like chicken.
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Walters?
Joe was halfway up.
 

Methuselah said:
When we moved to Leeds, one of our local cinema's was the Hyde Park. It is still there and has been used in many TV programs and films. Before I went in the army, in the early 1950's, if there was a film on at the Hyde Park that I wanted to see, I phoned and booked. Otherwise, you were queueing for ages. A week after I was demobbed in 1957 I noticed that there was a film on I wanted to see. I phoned to book and there was silence at the other end. Finally, the bloke said 'you don't have to book'. When I got in, it was half empty. The effect of Television in the two years I had been in Singapore. My parents didn't have a TV before I went in the army but like millions of others, they had one when I came out. Social history that.
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I love posts like this, mate.
 

TommyDavo said:
Do you mean the Astoria on Walton Road? Or was there another one in the area
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Victoria was on Cherry Lane , top of Grandison Road, just behind gates to Anfield Cemetery, so a nice 10 minute walk for me and my dad on match days.

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Probably closed around 1965, we used to go to The Astoria as well, much posher.
 

This happened this afternoon. I was watching an old Auf Weidershen Pet, when they were in Germany, on Youtube. Oz was making a phone call and the picture changed to the guys he was obviously phoning. There was a phone there and it rang and rang, and rang. Then I realised that the phone I could hear ringing was my own phone in the hall. I answered it and it was my sister, phoning from Germany!lol
 
Methuselah said:
This happened this afternoon. I was watching an old Auf Weidershen Pet, when they were in Germany, on Youtube. Oz was making a phone call and the picture changed to the guys he was obviously phoning. There was a phone there and it rang and rang, and rang. Then I realised that the phone I could hear ringing was my own phone in the hall. I answered it and it was my sister, phoning from Germany!lol
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Nooooo.
 
Eggs said:
....nope, they were never amongst the top footy schools in my time although they did have a Liverpool Schoolboy player during that time. I went to John Hamilton which became Breckfield quite a while after I left but no longer exists. De La Salle, Gateacre Comp and the Institute were decent in my years.

De La Salle, Cardinal Heenan and SFX seem to be the best in the modern era.
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I went to SFX College in Woolton. It was always just a football playing college, none of that rugby stuff. We had some decent players. One of the best was a lad in my class called Mark Farrell who became a professional tennis player and played for Britain in the Davis Cup. But he was a huge lad and would have made a brilliant professional footballer, he died last year........
 

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