The Liverturds! FINAL UPDATE of old Merseyside pictures.

[Wilko220]

A few more from the Grauniad website...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/gallery/20 ... n-pictures

 

 

 

 

[Wilko220]

 

 

[lancashireclamper]

remember delivering a package to a firm called Bert Houldings, Cold Bath St Preston, terraced houses opposite etc, now its a bloody modern University buliding and I can't for the life of me reconcile how I know it used to look with how it looks now, if that makes any sense

 

THIS is where my dad went to school in 1934, and in 1984 where I went to study Electrical Engineering as it had changed from a school to part of Tuson College:

The bogs were still outside when I went there!

 

 

This is what the site looks like today - bloody hundreds of centrally heated student digs for long haired unwashed layabouts who attend Preston Polly.

 

Bert Houlding had sites all over the town, a works in De-Lacy street, one in Inkerman St, one in Ribble Bank Mill and another in New Hall Lane that I know of. I only know his because Grandfather Ted had a Torreador and used to drink with Norman - they both shared an engineering bent.

 

Thanks FT, the trip to Bert Houlding's was my first ever solo trip out in a company vehicle (3 weeks after passing my test) seem to remember them dealing in carburettors then but they had built and raced motorbikes way way back, the building I remember had once been a school funnily enough,

[eddyramrod]

Mid 70s Rambler Ambassador, deffo; and yes, parts of Liverpool haven't changed. Other parts have though, not always for the better! I trawled every one of those photos looking for any of my old cars, how sad am I?

[Minimad5]

Fantastic thread !

 

In regards to any local police cars "still alive" , i recall Ken Glass saying that a few examples do still exist.

I shall try contact him and find out what examples do still "live"

 

Anyway - Great thread, and hello to the other local members i've never heard of before

[purplebargeken]

Wow, fab cars, fab photo's. Thanks for posting them.

 

I was born in Toxteth (7 Vandyke Street) and remember seeing the fire station in the pics when it was actually still used as a fire station (it's nearly at the beginning of Lodge Lane). They had some lovely engine's there, all with highly polished brass. Beautiful. We're talking late 1960's to the mid 1970's IIRC when we used to drive past. I was only a kiddie then and used to shout 'one in, one out, all in, all out' depending on the engine's in residence. In more recent times it was a tyre fitting place. Such a nice old building. Anyone know of Tiber Street School

[Lord Sterling]

Thanks for putting these up Warren, not from Liverpool myself and have only been there a few times, but again as said in Vin's thread, its great to see how England used to look. I know that many places were pretty grim looking and depressing, but many places (Most of which have been replaced with massive TescoAsdaSainsbury's and housing estates) undoubtedly had some 'character' and identity, something of which is something seriously sadly lacking today.

 

Edit - Didnt Hirst post up a similar thread sometime back?

[purplebargeken]

Had a look on the DVLA database for the following:

 

Ford Sierra (1300 base model) OLG 293Y this lasted until 1996!!

R5 GKX 515N 1974 - lasted until 1984

Vuaxhall Cav RCA 625V 1980 - lasted until 1988

Jaguar WEM 800W 1980 and lasted until 1983

[Cavcraft]

Hey Warren/Pete, got any old pictures of the Littlewoods building in Old Hall Street knocking about please? My dad worked there for about 12 years or so and we used to go and visit him in his office sometimes.

[Pete-M]

I haven't, but there are a fair few sites with great pics of old Liverpool.

 

One of my favourite pics of 1980s Toxteth is this;

 

 

Showed this thread to a cabbie mate of mine tonight. He's identified a few streets which I'll go and take fresh pics of tomorrow if I get time.

[warren t claim]

It's the Welsh Streets. Be quick to get a pic cos they're awaiting demolition.

[maxpower]

i take it by the amount of pics of burnt out cars.. that a coalman was as rare as a yeti in those parts

 

great pics though..

[Father Ted]

Thanks FT, the trip to Bert Houlding's was my first ever solo trip out in a company vehicle (3 weeks after passing my test) seem to remember them dealing in carburettors then but they had built and raced motorbikes way way back, the building I remember had once been a school funnily enough,

 

St Peters I think?

[pompei]

Is the house where Ringo was born in Toxteth? I remember someone was trying to halt the demolition of the area to preserve this house but I don't know what the outcome was.

 

Somewhat off-topic, I was on a flight a few years back that was diverted to Liverpool. We flew in along the Mersey over the chemical works and bang in the middle of a heavy industrial area there was a Victorian church. I'd love to go see it if I knew where it was...

 

More 0/T - went to see a band in The Cavern a couple of years ago - what a dismal place! I know it's not the original but what a let-down.

[Guest]

Dont know the areas but what a great thread - Thanks for the great pic's.

[cort16]

Great pictures. Its a shame some of these old buildings got flattened.

In my home town (Galashiels) they had some fantastic old mill buildings but they let Tesco and Asda build supermarkets right in the centre of town and flattened the lot royally bumming the whole place. Once you've flattened it you can't take it back.

 

During

 

After

 

Kunts

[dollywobbler]

Every little (town ruining fuck up) helps! Tesco are trying to get permission to build a store in the centre of Aberystwyth. I'm well pissed off. For a start, it means kicking out the old folks from their day centre, which'll be flattened to make way for it and secondly, I really like living more than 40 miles away from a Tesco store. You just can't escape the fuckers.

[cort16]

The thing that pisses me off is theres a big new industrial estate about 4 miles out of town with direct links to the two main roads. The could have built it there but no they wanted to plant their great big white superturd right in the centre of town. Locharran mills you see on the left of the first picture was one of the most important mills in the history of the borders and they flattened it for a next and marks and spensors. The local council are just as guilty.

 

The sand stone building in the right of the first picture is the original college of textiles and was listed. The got to knock it down but had to store the stone and rebuild the facia somewhere else in the town. They've managed to stall it long enough the don't have to do it anymore and the buildings going to be sold of for salvage. Turds.

[morris_ital_lover]

Luckily the local tesco direct store in Abingdon hasn't gone through, it's currently standing half finished whilst the locals kick up a massive fuss with the planning laws.. good on 'em. I bleeding hate tescos, its a shame when I'm in Norn Iron that its the only supermarket nearby.

 

Anyways, back to the main topic... thanks for the pictures. England was spectacularly grim back then at least these days if you are going to be mugged by wasters the streets look a wee bit nicer.

[155V6]

Defo an AMC Rambler

 

Edit - here

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/78002012@N ... otostream/

Was thinking about it in bed last night,& that was the conclusion I came to as well

[retrogeezer]

Fantastic photos WTC, cheers for posting them up.

 

Those pics of Galashiels are very sad to see, never been there but looked like a lovely old town in a valley and now completely ruined by those big white sheds. Why not make Tesco et al at least build stores that are in keeping with the surroundings? They have almost finished a new store in Crewe but the planning officers did make them change plans and it does have 'railway' looking arches and stuff so it can be done.

[cort16]

The Gala one is particularly awful as they built a car park under it so it's twice the normal height.

There was a tesco there originally built into a nice big mill building. They could have adapted that but they did this instead.

 

He's some old pics

[Cavcraft]

Galashiels used to be a lovely place, went there on holiday circa 1977. Random I know but still remember seeing a bus with the destination board showing 'Galasheils'.

 

This thread is ace, hats off to Warren, Pete and Cort16.

[Pete-M]

Having nothing to do on NYE other than go and do a few errands I decided it could be fun to try and track down some of the places in the pics.

 

 

Now.

 

 

I think this is the right street. Tate and Lyle was demolished in the early '90s and there's now a housing estate there. Or possibly a BMW service department. There are about 15 very similar streets but this was the one that looked closest. Doesn't help when half buildings have been demolished.

 

 

Now. (Tesco car park)

 

 

I was born in Toxteth (7 Vandyke Street)

 

As seen today. It's the appropriately beige house.

 

[HillmanImp]

I really like living more than 40 miles away from a Tesco store. You just can't escape the fuckers.

 

 

This is a great thread and top marks to Pete for up and above the call of duty photowork there.

[Pete-M]

I really like living more than 40 miles away from a Tesco store. You just can't escape the fuckers.

 

Funny innit. Mate of mine lives near Lampeter and he's always whinging about the 40 mile trip to Tescos...

[cort16]

Galashiels used to be a lovely place, went there on holiday circa 1977. Random I know but still remember seeing a bus with the destination board showing 'Galasheils'.

 

This thread is ace, hats off to Warren, Pete and Cort16.

 

Bloody hell how odd. If you saw a three year old who''d pissed himself it was probably me.

This was the cinema in Gala orginally

 

Much like how they panelled over old wooden doors with plywood in the 70's they did this, which is how I remember it.

Bingo, cinema, dancing. What a night out!

The bar at the bottle became "the biz" in the 80's full of neon, sticky carpets and watered down lager.

 

Later they saw sense and stripped it back off again.

[lancashireclamper]

Thanks FT, the trip to Bert Houlding's was my first ever solo trip out in a company vehicle (3 weeks after passing my test) seem to remember them dealing in carburettors then but they had built and raced motorbikes way way back, the building I remember had once been a school funnily enough,

 

St Peters I think?

 

Thats the place Father Ted, entrance was on the right hand side, now replaced by the "Media Factory" apparently, still could be from a different world as far as I'm concerned,

Thanks again.

[warren t claim]

Here's another load of old Liverpool photos.

 

As Pete M was good enough to scour Merseyside for updated locations I thought I'd start with a pic of a plod RS2000 that he might of owned.

 

This is now the most expensive petrol station in Merseyside!

What's the car in the foreground of this pic?

 

I've got some more old photos if anyone's interested.

[Cavcraft]

Please do Warren, this is ace. Think I recognise one or two places there: the place where you asked what the car in the foreground is looks like somewhere on the dock road?