Fascinating Liverpool pictures

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1 hour ago, RJ Fan club said:

Not at. No issue here 
 

She doubtlessly did speak against it, but those councillors voting on it are politicians not planners. 

 

The whole system is set up that the planning laws are made by politicians, policies chosen by politicians and then most important or contentious decisions made against that framework by politicians.
 

So it’s kind of annoying to hear that ‘planners’ are to blame. it’s just a lazy trope that suits everyone to blame someone else.

I'm all for a lazy trope.  Still, it's just another piss poor decision made by fuckwit councillors who have never been further than Torremolinos or Blackpool.  The city increasingly is turning into Skegness.  Any new buildings thrown up have no architectural merit, they're generic cheap as chips shite, and the only buildings worth looking at (i.e. those built at least 80 years ago) are being cheapened with pound shops, chav nitespots and titty bars. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

3 hours ago, Creator Supreme said:

Her names at the bottom of the picture mate, I'm not that much of an expert perv (I don't think so anyway)!

I was too busy looking at the bottom in the picture to notice the bottom of the picture.

[Mike D]

Late 1960s.

 

[VladimirIlyich]

On 18/02/2022 at 14:28, Creator Supreme said:

It's only the second photo Emilia Clarke is in, top one is Laura Whitmore.

Two cracking young ladies then.

[easytoslip]

On 17/02/2022 at 22:53, Mike D said:

British Grand Prix FIA Formula One World Championship race, Aintree Circuit, Aintree, Liverpool, England July 21, 1962
75 laps on 3 mile/4.828 km road course. #40 Tony SETTEMBER - Emeryson Cars - Emeryson 1004 61 Climax FPF L4 1.5
Start 19th finished 11th. Coming off Railway straight about to cross the Melling Road.

 

I have a programme of the 1959 Grand Prix at Aintree, won by Jack Brabham, one driver was killed in the next race Von Tripp. 

I remember as a kid in the early 70s you could hear them racing, Motorbikes too,from where i lived in Litherland. 

[sir roger]

16 minutes ago, easytoslip said:

I have a programme of the 1959 Grand Prix at Aintree, won by Jack Brabham, one driver was killed in the next race Von Tripp. 

I remember as a kid in the early 70s you could hear them racing, Motorbikes too,from where i lived in Litherland. 

The wife was brought up in Fazakerley and says the soundtrack to her Sunday mornings was engine noise from Aintree.

[VladimirIlyich]

3 minutes ago, sir roger said:

The wife was brought up in Fazakerley and says the soundtrack to her Sunday mornings was engine noise from Aintree.

Liverpool Lad still never got his car fixed then?

[Creator Supreme]

1 hour ago, sir roger said:

The wife was brought up in Fazakerley and says the soundtrack to her Sunday mornings was engine noise from Aintree.

I lived there until 5 or so years ago, and you still got engine noise most weekend mornings from Aintree, usually bikes these days.

[Harry's Lad]

1 hour ago, easytoslip said:

I have a programme of the 1959 Grand Prix at Aintree, won by Jack Brabham, one driver was killed in the next race Von Tripp. 

I remember as a kid in the early 70s you could hear them racing, Motorbikes too,from where i lived in Litherland. 

Ahh the smell of Cazzy R off the two strokes.

Those were the days.

[Evelyn Tentions]

2 hours ago, Harry's Lad said:

Ahh the smell of Cazzy R off the two strokes.

Those were the days.

And the four strokes. The aroma after a field full of Manx Nortons left the starting grid......ahh indeed.

[easytoslip]

For me, hearing the horses thundering down the track, standing by Bechers Brook, and the noise of them and jockeys as they jump it was quite something. 

[easytoslip]

5 hours ago, sir roger said:

The wife was brought up in Fazakerley and says the soundtrack to her Sunday mornings was engine noise from Aintree.

I lived in Orrell Rd Litherland just by the Ralla, which we walked up to bunk in , in what used to be Fazakerley sidings. 

I can imagine the noise was much louder up that way. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Some cracking Pathé footage of the construction of the Birkenhead tunnel (narrated by Miles Cholmondeley-Warner).

 

 

[Bjornebye]

I was in the Liverpool Museum on the Pier Head last week and some of the images of the Blitz were both terrifying and amazing. Tragic stories next to them, not least the Durning Road direct hit on the shelter. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Tj hooker]

On 21/02/2022 at 15:22, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Some cracking Pathé footage of the construction of the Birkenhead tunnel (narrated by Miles Cholmondeley-Warner).

 

 

When my old fella lived in Litherland and worked at Lairds he would bike it through the tunnel,  one day he was late and he got hold of a wagon as it went through , he just made it into work as in those days once the gates were shut that was it .

[Tj hooker]

On 21/02/2022 at 15:34, Bjornebye said:

I was in the Liverpool Museum on the Pier Head last week and some of the images of the Blitz were both terrifying and amazing. Tragic stories next to them, not least the Durning Road direct hit on the shelter. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Would that be the May blitz pal as me Mum was evacuated soon after it to Gloucestershire 

[Bjornebye]

55 minutes ago, Tj hooker said:

Would that be the May blitz pal as me Mum was evacuated soon after it to Gloucestershire 

I think so mate yeah. Some amazing images and letters etc from that time in there. 

[Tj hooker]

8 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

I think so mate yeah. Some amazing images and letters etc from that time in there. 

The amount of shit thrown at Liverpool at that time  was unreal , She used to tell us about it when we were kids .

[Bjornebye]

16 minutes ago, Tj hooker said:

The amount of shit thrown at Liverpool at that time  was unreal , She used to tell us about it when we were kids .

I knew it was bad but it was eye opening seeing how bad. Imagine living through that! 

[Rushies tash]

17 minutes ago, Tj hooker said:

The amount of shit thrown at Liverpool at that time  was unreal , She used to tell us about it when we were kids .

Plus ça change

[Harry's Lad]

43 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

I think so mate yeah. Some amazing images and letters etc from that time in there. 

I posted this on this thread a while back. There's some very interesting stuff here :-

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/categories/

[AngryOfTuebrook]

1 hour ago, Bjornebye said:

I knew it was bad but it was eye opening seeing how bad. Imagine living through that! 

I heard that 80% of the houses in Bootle were damaged or destroyed. That doesn't bear thinking about.

[easytoslip]

There was an exhibition at Bootle Town Hall some years ago, the photographs were enlarged, showing the carnage of the Blitz. 

It must of been terrifying to be living by the Docks, tbe surrounding areas too. 

[VladimirIlyich]

12 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

I heard that 80% of the houses in Bootle were damaged or destroyed. That doesn't bear thinking about.

Almost every street in the areas around the docks,from the South End to the North,had empty spaces were houses used to be. Very few were actually rebuilt until the 1970s or 80s. Some even more recently.

[easytoslip]

A lot of Prefabs were built in place of some, i was born in one off Marsh Lane, it was half way up the street. 

Right up until the 70s i can remember the empty spaces, they always seemed to be at the end of the terrace, the bombdy?