The Liverturds! FINAL UPDATE of old Merseyside pictures.

[warren t claim]

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[Station]

These photos are a) great depressing c) proof that scrap metal has risen dramatically in the past 30 years.

[Mr Livered]

Wow! Awesome photos

 

Many many thanks for doing all the work to create this thread Mr Claim. You're making a lot of shiters very happy.

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[cobblers]

Gordon bennet, these are absolute top drawer stuff!!!!!!"

I'm gonna print that picture with the record shop and the s1 rs turbo out tomorrow on works printer at about 10 foot wide and paste it on my living room wall to further alienate any women I manage to fetch home. Shabba!

[DeeJay]

When looking at these does anybody else think "I know where that is" then get straight on google maps.

2nd from last is Smithdown rd by Claremont rd.

Michael t took some photos down there on his spotting thread.

Bit slow posting this.

Referring to the bus stop photo from previous batch.

[warren t claim]

When looking at these does anybody else think "I know where that is" then get straight on google maps.

2nd from last is Smithdown rd by Claremont rd.

Michael t took some photos down there on his spotting thread.

Bit slow posting this.

Referring to the bus stop photo from previous batch.

It looks remarkably the same today apart from the lack of Capri II content.

[Mr Lobster]

Absolutely fantastic, loving these.

[warren t claim]

Gordon bennet, these are absolute top drawer stuff!!!!!!"

I'm gonna print that picture with the record shop and the s1 rs turbo out tomorrow on works printer at about 10 foot wide and paste it on my living room wall to further alienate any women I manage to fetch home. Shabba!

If you were a RETRORIDER you'd be printing the pic of the 240k Skyline a couple of pics above it.

[DeeJay]

If you go up Smithdown towards town a lot of the houses have been pulled down with a lot more scheduled to go.

The hospital is now an Asda. (I don't know if it would have been when the photo was taken)

[cobblers]

I'm going to have to post again because this lot has literally blown my mind! I need to go and look at nobheads on facebook arty photos of 3/8" of snow on their drives to calm me back down. 

[warren t claim]

 

I have to admit that the first picture sums up managed decline in a nutshell.

 

What's the light blue car in the second pic?

 

 

I wonder how long Hinge and Brackets 100a lasted?

[Cavcraft]

Picture 1: Invacar-boot sale?

 

Picture 2: One of those Citroen GS things?

 

Picture 3: PHWOAR! ATCNBE.

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[DeeJay]

Looks like Alex of Alex Burger Bar has been caught short by the back door.

That first photo in Allerton rd had me laughing like a horse. A Conservative shop in Liverpool. No, there's just something about the old dear with her hat and eye patch.

[warren t claim]

You can see why I only do this once a year can't you?

 

 

[DeeJay]

Worth the wait.

[warren t claim]

Here's some more. There's a few "then and now" pics in there that I should imagine will only be of interest to locals and I'm sorry for any reposts!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[londonm]

I'm lost for words, almost. It's the little details I love, like the NEMS van outside the lido. Would that be Brian Epsteins NEMS? Another thing that grabs me is that a entire generation of post war town planners/architects should be held accountable for some of the atrocities they committed to our great cities, pretty much like the Nazis at Nuremberg. Prison, and no pensions, for the outrageous destruction of our heritage and architecture.

[warren t claim]

More then and now.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[DeeJay]

These are great, Mr Claim, you have surpassed yourself.

I'm just wondering do you live local to Allerton?

Apart from the names on the shops Allerton rd has hardly changed.

[warren t claim]

I'm afraid I don't live in Allerton but I do live in Merseyside and have an interest in local history.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Jim Bergerac]

Great stuff! This is exactly the kind of thing I come here for.

[warren t claim]

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After going through the then and now pics I've realised that the lump of cast iron that I shattered the sump of my Mk4 Golf on earlier in the year is probably one of the last remaining remnants of Liverpool's Overhead Railway! Can't say I feel lucky though.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I'll post some more pics soon but I thought I might like to take five minutes out for a quick rant that's probably more relevant on here than in the grumpy thread. 

 

Town planners and safety lobbys have achieved nothing more than destroy the neighbourhoods and areas of our cities. Looking at these then and now pics I see areas blighted by poverty caused by needless pedestrianisation, parking restrictions, one way streets and unnecessary barriers and street furniture that have done nothing whatsoever to improve an area, reduce accidents or ease congestion. We as motorists have endured short-sighted strategy from the people we elect in our town halls. 

 

We need to reclaim the streets for businesses again.