The Liverturds! FINAL UPDATE of old Merseyside pictures.

[jonathan_dyane]

Check out 'Project Skelmersdale' for top viewing:

 

 

It looks lovely, maybe we should move there

[Vin]

Fark me!

 

 

TWO Stanzas!!

 

 

Can't see any felines though...

[Parky]

Check out 'Project Skelmersdale' for top viewing:

 

 

It looks lovely, maybe we should move there

Went to Skem once. No desire to return unless I am commissioned to make a series called "WHEN URBAN PLANNING GOES BAD"

[Lankytim]

A 2 door Stanza too! Are they extinct now?

[Parky]

Just been watching some....

 

"Using the pedestrian walkways and underpasses, children can safely walk to school"

 

Through unlit underpasses and alleyways covered by bushes? Whose idea was that??

 

I love the optimism of the whole thing, they had their hearts in the right places and the execution was pretty good by the standards of the time. Just a shame the industry didn't stick around and as a result trap several thousand families miles from anywhere with no prospects.

 

EDIT- around 40 mins and 30 seconds, Dad has the bonnet of the family Datsun up, wife brings him tea, and the camera pans away to reveal the lack of windows in the houses.

 

"Built with people in mind"

[Micrashed]

Wow, I wonder if anyone still uses the "Underground oil distribution system" or whether everyone has switched to gas.

 

I remember oil tankers delivering when I was a kid, then almost overnight everyone switched to gas when the gas board laid pipes in the village.

[jonathan_dyane]

Have they actually got mains gas in Skem?

 

I loved the communal TV aerial, with such lovely architecture last thing you want is tv aerials on your roof lowering the tone.

 

Also striking that in the second vid all the shops in the Connie has a sale on; looked as if they were already squealing when they shot the fim...

[Pete-M]

im not from that area in fact only been to Liverpool once for the flower show in 86 but loving the pics the ones of sky high transit brought back memories one question I do have when I was a kid I used to love watching bread and wondered whereabouts it was filmed and if you have any pics of that area

Cockburn St, L8. I'll grab a pic next time I'm down that way.

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[Parky]

Yep, that's the Skem I saw. I feel for the folk there, I really do. If I were running the place I would be on the phone to Geely Automotive offering some free land for a proposed European production centre.

 

I would send them the original film from the sixties though, maybe update the music a tad, and try and convince them that it is really like that now

[Junkman]

...maybe update the music a tad...

 

No!

[warren t claim]

Got some scans of local car adverts from '71 and '76 that I'll try to upload shortly.

[DS20]

New residents just moved from Liverpool "Sometimes confused by the luxury of a pleasant environment "

 

 

It seems like the middle-class developers thought that it was still the 1950s and that people were uniformly decent sorts who wouldn't litter the place, graffiti-tag everything, and use the pedestrian underpasses for dogging and drugs. Shame.

[warren t claim]

Ok peeps, as promised here's some of my local car adverts from 1971&76. 

 

To start off here's an ad from my local Datsun dealer who unusually put the full registration number of every car for sale on his advert. A virtual pint to anyone who fancies doing a DVLC (as it was then) check to see how long they survived!

 

 

 

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I'll lob some more up later. 

[AnthonyG]

The trouble with Skelmersdale and the other later new towns is that they were finished 5/10 years before the manufacturing based economy they relied on crashed and burned, which turned the dream to a nightmare in a fairly short period. Although Skem would have seemed a great idea when planned in the late 1950s, 20 years later the thought that Merseyside was a boom area that needed swathes of new housing to relieve the main city must have seemed a bad joke.

 

The earlier ones from the 1940s/1950s and the very last ones such as MK (the bulk of which was built in the service economy based 1980s, and in the affluent South to boot) didn't have this problem.

[Vin]

Great Ads Mr WTC.

 

Fiat 128 and 126 have consecutive number plates and the top two Datsun are close...

 

The 64 Fiat 2300S FHC from Chronicle Car Sales for me please...

[Cavcraft]

My dad bought a second hand Renault 4 from Hardings.

[Mr Lobster]

Really liking this. If you managed to find a picture of the petrol station on St Annes St that subsequently became Arnold Clark and my work place I'd be all sorts of pleased!

[warren t claim]

Has anyone else noticed the ad for the Daf van? I never knew they existed.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Has anyone else noticed the ad for the Daf van? I never knew they existed.

An engineering company near to where my grandparents lived had a grey Daf 33 van and a Peugeot 404 pickup.

My Grandad mentioned the 'foreign rubbish ' every time we walked past. As a 10 year old I thought it was pretty exotic- like something out of The Protectors .

[Grundig]

Has anyone else noticed the ad for the Daf van? I never knew they existed.

 

'My Dad had one' Variomatic, one lever forward & reverse - I remember being able to stand up in the back, as the van bit was taller than the front car bit  

[sheffcortinacentre]

think there are only a couple left now.

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[garycox]

Ok peeps, as promised here's some of my local car adverts from 1971&76. 

 

To start off here's an ad from my local Datsun dealer who unusually put the full registration number of every car for sale on his advert. A virtual pint to anyone who fancies doing a DVLC (as it was then) check to see how long they survived!

 

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XMA 692M - '74 100A - September '85

GDH 881N - '74 Avenger - January '83

UFM 601N - '74 Marina - October '83

PMA 720L - '73 Maxi - September '83

HKD 906L - '73 180B - September '83

FKC 348L - '72 Marina - November '85

GBG 169N - '75 Viva - June '84

GBG 174N - '75 Viva - March '87

NLV 12M - '73 Dolomite - April '87

JHF 818J - '71 Mini - May '89

NRR 487K - '72 Karmann Ghia - Still on the road!

OKC 925M - '74 Victor - January '84

 

This seems to be a picture of the KG

 

[Pete-M]

These are all from the dark side of the Mersey. Nothing from Liverpool in the 70s?

[Parky]

I called Hardings about their Renault 12 test drive but they didn't have any in.

 

Probably twigged I was going to strip it for parts for RMX's Dacia pickup!