Fascinating Liverpool pictures

[Anubis]

 

My mum was sent this picture of Cheapside on Twitter, from the 60s.

 

If you zoom in on the left, opposite the Bridewell, you’ll see a sign protruding saying Manny Charles. It was the bookmakers my mum was manageress of during that period.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Macca and the family outside what is now Flannies.

 

[Kepler-186]

Article detailing many of Liverpool’s lost great buildings, including the Custom House and Sailors Home. 
 

https://liverpool1207blog.wordpress.com/long-lost-buildings/

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Mersey Tunnels Police vehicles from a wee while back. 

[sir roger]

I vaguely remember Scotts Bakery.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

13 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Mersey Tunnels Police vehicles from a wee while back. 

Also available as a Dinky car.

[easytoslip]

1 hour ago, sir roger said:

I vaguely remember Scotts Bakery.

Dunning Bridge Rd, my first job and sound it was as my drivers round was Dock canteens. Ships and Dock Rd pubs. 

The smell of Sultana Batches was great, good days. 

[angie]

Seen this photo of my dad in the echo today. Just wanted to share it here as I thought it was cool. That caption underneath…I heard all the stories growing up. How he was a bit of celebrity in Norway because that’s where they were taken when one of their ships went down. He passed away in 2020 and I struggle without him everyday. He was a cool dad.

[Anubis]

That’s ace. Was his nickname The Albatross?

[Harry's Lad]

He could have taught Albert Trotter a thing or two.

Joking aside, sorry about your Dad angie..

[easytoslip]

34 minutes ago, angie said:

Seen this photo of my dad in the echo today. Just wanted to share it here as I thought it was cool. That caption underneath…I heard all the stories growing up. How he was a bit of celebrity in Norway because that’s where they were taken when one of their ships went down. He passed away in 2020 and I struggle without him everyday. He was a cool dad.

I seen that, great picture. 

[angie]

58 minutes ago, Anubis said:

That’s ace. Was his nickname The Albatross?

I don’t know. I wish I could ask him. He had some great stories. 

[angie]

46 minutes ago, Harry's Lad said:

He could have taught Albert Trotter a thing or two.

Joking aside, sorry about your Dad angie..

 Thanks mate, whoever said time is a healer was a lying get.

[angie]

35 minutes ago, easytoslip said:

I seen that, great picture. 

Thanks, it was the first time I’d seen it so I was made up. 

[Bjornebye]

Looks like he lived a great life mate. 

[easytoslip]

8 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Looks like he lived a great life mate. 

Yes, i know a few lads that went to sea, seen the world and all that, one mate had just retired, a few bob in the bank, house paid for and decent pension only to die about 2 months ago at 61, bad news it was but a better life than most i suppose. 

[Harry's Lad]

23 minutes ago, angie said:

 Thanks mate, whoever said time is a healer was a lying get.

You learn to live with it mate. It does get easier.

[easytoslip]

10 minutes ago, Harry's Lad said:

You learn to live with it mate. It does get easier.

You're right there, it becomes less painful after a time even allowing for a little cry now and then when you think of who you've lost. 

[stringvest]

 

not far from the ground there...

[deiseach]

On 11/09/2021 at 08:28, deiseach said:

There's a shop opposite Picton Clock in Wavertree that's been unoccupied for years now. I seem to recall it was some manner of letting agency. Anyway, they've taken off all the frontage to reveal this:

If I saw things in black and white I might have thought I was in Z-Cars.

Another day, another shop front from by Picton Clock that harks back::

[AngryOfTuebrook]

On 10/02/2022 at 17:10, stringvest said:

 

not far from the ground there...

About 6 inches.

[Total Longo]

 

Circa 1987, so i would have spent near enough every lunch time mooching down from school on Church Road to have a browse through (and occasionally buy) the records. What a shop. 

[stringvest]

On 30/12/2021 at 20:06, Anubis said:

 

My mum was sent this picture of Cheapside on Twitter, from the 60s.

 

If you zoom in on the left, opposite the Bridewell, you’ll see a sign protruding saying Manny Charles. It was the bookmakers my mum was manageress of during that period.

spent a night in that Bridewell once for D&D behaviour.  I was 16 or 17 I think.  It's now a hotel.

[johnsusername]

On 25/01/2022 at 12:47, Kepler-186 said:

Article detailing many of Liverpool’s lost great buildings, including the Custom House and Sailors Home. 
 

https://liverpool1207blog.wordpress.com/long-lost-buildings/

 Can't read that, too depressing. Some of the buildings lost is tragic. 

[stringvest]

19 minutes ago, johnsusername said:

 Can't read that, too depressing. Some of the buildings lost is tragic. 

I see they're going to put a Hooters in one of the gorgeous buildings on Water Street.  Someone really needs to shoot this council leadership - they are fucking criminal.