Fascinating Liverpool pictures

[mattyq]

Not a picture...

 

[Stickman]

Not a picture...

 

 

 

I thought the Fruit Exchange was by The Lisbon?

[dickie mint]

I thought the Fruit Exchange was by The Lisbon?

 

It is.

[Stickman]

No wonder Liverpool had such a low crime rate in the 1950's....

 

The size of the fucker.....

 

[halewood pete]

No wonder Liverpool had such a low crime rate in the 1950's....

 

The size of the fucker.....

 

Swasie turner ?

[Stickman]

Anfield 1967

 

 

 

Cock and Bottle pub Wavertree 1960 with I think England's smallest house next to it.

 

[Stickman]

Brownlow Hill 1955, John Lewis in the background.

 

 

 

Liverpool's overhead railway !955.

 

Typical Liverpool short-sightedness,  just like the original Cavern club , the Trams and the overhead Railway they just knock everything down in the pursuit of "modernisation" . 

 

How fucking brilliant would that overhead railway look today if they had kept it?

 

 

 

[Kloppite]

Brownlow Hill 1955, John Lewis in the background.

 

 

 

Liverpool's overhead railway !955.

 

Typical Liverpool short-sightedness, just like the original Cavern club , the Trams and the overhead Railway they just knock everything down in the pursuit of "modernisation" .

 

How fucking brilliant would that overhead railway look today if they had kept it?

 

 

 

Apparently the reason it got knocked down was because it was in a very bad state of repair. It had a railway line that ran underneath it as well further up and the steam of the trains caused a lot of corrosion to the structure. All this coupled with the decline of the docks meant it wasn't readable to repair.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

A bunch of young scruffs sat on a step in Liverpool, 1966.

 

[Harry Squatter]

That's where the Titanic hotel is now. Bob Dylan filmed his Video the day Everton played Sheffield Wednesday in the FA Cup Final.

[easytoslip]

That's where the Titanic hotel is now. Bob Dylan filmed his Video the day Everton played Sheffield Wednesday in the FA Cup Final.

Wow is that right? So about 67? Great picture, never knew that ,superb.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Wow is that right? So about 67? Great picture, never knew that ,superb.

66

If you know yer 'istory...

[easytoslip]

66

If you know yer 'istory...

Er , oh yeah. No big deal , but great picture though.

[Stickman]

Upper Parliament St 1981 after the riots

 

[rubble-rouser]

Brownlow Hill 1955, John Lewis in the background.

 

 

 

Liverpool's overhead railway !955.

 

Typical Liverpool short-sightedness,  just like the original Cavern club , the Trams and the overhead Railway they just knock everything down in the pursuit of "modernisation" . 

 

How fucking brilliant would that overhead railway look today if they had kept it?

 

 

 

Lewis', not John Lewis

[rubble-rouser]

i used to get taken in there to watch the Christmas shows they'd put on.

 

They did a cheaper grotto than Lewis' IIRC

[Tony Moanero]

[Dougie Do'ins]

A bunch of young scruffs sat on a step in Liverpool, 1966.

 

Did you see the follow up story in the Echo (I think) where they retraced as many of those kids and shot the photo again of them grown up.

[SammyAftershave]

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Did you see the follow up story in the Echo (I think) where they retraced as many of those kids and shot the photo again of them grown up.

http://metro.co.uk/2007/01/11/dylan-waifs-together-again-2-538277/

 

[SammyAftershave]

Out of rep, I'll be back.

[VladimirIlyich]

Has it now got so tough for Ricky Tomlinson that he's back to busking?

[thegreatelephant]

lots of great pictures adding weight to the argument of a certain better way of life as debated in another thread

[Tony Moanero]

Blacklers.

 

[Tony Moanero]