Fascinating Liverpool pictures

[General Dryness]

Officially, Stringy was the first to clock on.

 

He'd retired from the Argonauts, but still had to work. 

 

Luckily Jason gave him a good reference.

[Stickman]

Sefton Park gates

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bX0_ZtuBlM

[Stickman]

LFC homecoming city centre 1965

 

 

Anfield 1903....Can someone help me out here I'm struggling to see the hospitality boxes

 

 

Ball boy crying at Goodison 1973 after the mighty Emlyn had scored two

 

[Stickman]

Another one of Customs house c1890's

 

 

And 1865

 

[Priory Doctor]

LFC homecoming city centre 1965

 

 

Anfield 1903....Can someone help me out here I'm struggling to see the hospitality boxes

 

 

Ball boy crying at Goodison 1973 after the mighty Emlyn had scored two

 

Nah, that's an injured Adrian Heath in the 84/85 season-watching from behind the goal. 

[easytoslip]

Nah, that's an injured Adrian Heath in the 84/85 season-watching from behind the goal.

Great picture.

[Stickman]

Jimmy Savile disguised as a Swan , Sefton Park 1980

 

[mattyq]

It's a toss up who did more damage to Liverpool's great buildings...the Luftwaffe or the Council

[Kidder Bukowski]

The Customs House building though heavily bombed was easily repairable. Buildings in London of far less architectural merit were saved at the tax payers expense yet this beautiful place was razed to the ground along with many others. The council were almost certainly at fault but the government were too.

 

This was a period when Liverpool was truly fucked by said government and has been ever since. They took control of local airports (Speke in Liverpool's case which was then the north's biggest airport and used them for the war effort) after which they allowed Manchester to expand whilst we were held in government control.

 

It actually beggars belief the way successive governments have favoured Manchester over Liverpool. I could go on forever but as an example, when Salford was given the National War Museum, chosen over Birkenhead, when questioned on the decision they said it was to pay tribute to the people of Salford who had suffered so much WW2 bombing.

 

Get on this, Salford was the 43rd most bombed place in Britain during the war and Birkenhead was 3rd after London and Liverpool. No fucking bias there then.  

Did anybody watch that programme/series about the Titanic on the telly presented by that Len fella off the dancing shite? Well he was able to go through a whole fucking thing without mentioning Liverpool. He showed a poor street in Southapton where in  every other house a sailor had been killed. 

Great, except if you look at the bitthplace of those who died they were all Scousers in digs there. When historians (or faux television historians) talk about cities that suffered in the war Liverpool is rarely mentioned due to a couple of facts. Firstly, during the war when Liverpool and region was being bombed so regularly the papers by order of the government only ever reported light damage of a 'Northern town.'

 

There has been ever since the war a deliberate attack on Liverpool by our own governments due I'd imagine to their belief that through our dock system and merchant navy we were a socialist bastion that needed to be brought down. It wasn't just Thatcher's government that were after us, every successive government and MP's flown in by the old right wing labour party were after the same thing.

 

I would regularly question our (non Scouse) MP's regarding such things as the lack of a Liverpool link to HS2 etc only to be told to see the 'national' view. Well fuck the 'national view', we voted you cunts in to represent 'us' not Britain. Manchester 'is' the Northern Powerhouse as the government attempts to pretend they're being fair by giving a little to the North even if the rest of the North is properly starved of investment. In our city we really are fucked with a shit council who lie down before the cunt's down the road.

 

A lad I know works for a huge European company and they were interested in investing in Liverpool but when they approached the NWDA were told to avoid Liverpool and look at Greater Manchester. They decided to locate abroad after that.

 

Seriously, we are fucked as a city without the representation of local socialists. If that's Momentum then fuck yeh!

 

I am pissed but in vino veritas and all that. Is this on the wrong thread thing?

[Kloppite]

The Customs House building though heavily bombed was easily repairable. Buildings in London of far less architectural merit were saved at the tax payers expense yet this beautiful place was razed to the ground along with many others. The council were almost certainly at fault but the government were too.

 

This was a period when Liverpool was truly fucked by said government and has been ever since. They took control of local airports (Speke in Liverpool's case which was then the north's biggest airport and used them for the war effort) after which they allowed Manchester to expand whilst we were held in government control.

 

It actually beggars belief the way successive governments have favoured Manchester over Liverpool. I could go on forever but as an example, when Salford was given the National War Museum, chosen over Birkenhead, when questioned on the decision they said it was to pay tribute to the people of Salford who had suffered so much WW2 bombing.

 

Get on this, Salford was the 43rd most bombed place in Britain during the war and Birkenhead was 3rd after London and Liverpool. No fucking bias there then.

Did anybody watch that programme/series about the Titanic on the telly presented by that Len fella off the dancing shite? Well he was able to go through a whole fucking thing without mentioning Liverpool. He showed a poor street in Southapton where in every other house a sailor had been killed.

Great, except if you look at the bitthplace of those who died they were all Scousers in digs there. When historians (or faux television historians) talk about cities that suffered in the war Liverpool is rarely mentioned due to a couple of facts. Firstly, during the war when Liverpool and region was being bombed so regularly the papers by order of the government only ever reported light damage of a 'Northern town.'

 

There has been ever since the war a deliberate attack on Liverpool by our own governments due I'd imagine to their belief that through our dock system and merchant navy we were a socialist bastion that needed to be brought down. It wasn't just Thatcher's government that were after us, every successive government and MP's flown in by the old right wing labour party were after the same thing.

 

I would regularly question our (non Scouse) MP's regarding such things as the lack of a Liverpool link to HS2 etc only to be told to see the 'national' view. Well fuck the 'national view', we voted you cunts in to represent 'us' not Britain. Manchester 'is' the Northern Powerhouse as the government attempts to pretend they're being fair by giving a little to the North even if the rest of the North is properly starved of investment. In our city we really are fucked with a shit council who lie down before the cunt's down the road.

 

A lad I know works for a huge European company and they were interested in investing in Liverpool but when they approached the NWDA were told to avoid Liverpool and look at Greater Manchester. They decided to locate abroad after that.

 

Seriously, we are fucked as a city without the representation of local socialists. If that's Momentum then fuck yeh!

 

I am pissed but in vino veritas and all that. Is this on the wrong thread thing?

Manchester airport being favoured over spend is a no brainer really. It isn't in the city itself as Manchester is and it is easier accessible to the motorway network as is the war museum. Salford keys was in need of regeneration so I have no problem with it being favoured over birkenhead.

[Fugitive]

To be fair, I'd choose Baghdad over Birkenhead.

[Kidder Bukowski]

Manchester airport being favoured over spend is a no brainer really. It isn't in the city itself as Manchester is and it is easier accessible to the motorway network as is the war museum. Salford keys was in need of regeneration so I have no problem with it being favoured over birkenhead.

WTF? So Birkenhead wasn't in need of improvement. It's difficult to get my head around your grammar but your logic is fucked.

[Kidder Bukowski]

To be fair, I'd choose Baghdad over Birkenhead.

Yeah sound that lad. Do you know that half the cunts that call people from Birkenhed 'wools'  actually live further away from Liverpool than them? I've worked with fella's from Formby who come out with this shite when Birkenhead is only a mile from the city centre unlike themselves!

 

And Birkenhead is no worse a part of the LCR than anywhere else.

[Kloppite]

WTF? So Birkenhead wasn't in need of improvement. It's difficult to get my head around your grammar but your logic is fucked.

Meant Manchester airport not in the city as Liverpool airport is.

 

 

Edit: Birkenhead may have small pockets that need improvement but the whole Salford keys area needed developing much like the Albert dock in the day. There is also the Lowry center so it will get more footfall than it would have done if it was placed in Birkenhead.

[Kloppite]

Yeah sound that lad. Do you know that half the cunts that call people from Birkenhed 'wools' actually live further away from Liverpool than them? I've worked with fella's from Formby who come out with this shite when Birkenhead is only a mile from the city centre unlike themselves!

 

And Birkenhead is no worse a part of the LCR than anywhere else.

I worked with a lad from tower hill who thought he was the dogs bollocks cause he was from Northwood in Kirkby and buzzed of me cause I was from aigburth (right by the dingle) but he thought I was a posh cunts.

 

I pointed out the exact point you made that people from Birkenhead live closer to Liverpool than he did and he was probably closer to skem than he was to town and called him a sock robber as well.

[Kidder Bukowski]

Yeah but it was all arranged in favour of Manchester. There was even an idea proposed for an airport equidistant between the cities but this was rejected by them.

 

We took all the fucking bombing during the war which left them in a position to demand this that and the other. The war museum opened again this week shows how Liverpool was at the centre of Britain's war operations.

 

Pay it a visit as it's an incredible place.

[Kloppite]

Yeah but it was all arranged in favour of Manchester. There was even an idea proposed for an airport equidistant between the cities but this was rejected by them.

 

We took all the fucking bombing during the war which left them in a position to demand this that and the other. The war museum opened again this week shows how Liverpool was at the centre of Britain's war operations.

 

Pay it a visit as it's an incredible place.

I went in about 2003 didn't know it had been shut though why was it closed?

[Kidder Bukowski]

Like everything else, lack of money. It's amazing now though. Sorry if I came across as narky mate but I Know things about Liverpool/LCR and all the shit that's gone on with us over the years that makes me fuckin livid.

 

We've been represented by careerist cunts for years, not just our MP's but councillors too. Just get on the BBC's way of reporting on Liverpool. They only ever show negative reports about us but every other story is how great Manchester is. It's not paranoia, start watching it and it becomes obvious. 

[Moo]

Meant Manchester airport not in the city as Liverpool airport is.

 

 

Edit: Birkenhead may have small pockets that need improvement but the whole Salford keys area needed developing much like the Albert dock in the day. There is also the Lowry center so it will get more footfall than it would have done if it was placed in Birkenhead.

The Lowry Centre was built as part of the regeneration of Salford Quays, similar could have been built in Birkenhead if that was a consideration. As for the point about Salford Quays (a small pocket of Salford by the way) being in need of regeneration much like the Albert Dock, just no. The Albert Dock needed restoring due to it's beauty, no such beauty at Salford Quays so the decision was clear, more investment in Manchester end of.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

The Raz, 1964

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Back to the Birkenhead vibe.

 

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Woodside Ferry Terminal

 

 

 

it's mad now to see all the buses and trams going right up to the Ferry.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Cammell Laird

 

Ark Royal, launched 1937

 

 

 

Workers at Cammell Laird today.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

MV Snowdrop in dry dock at Cammell Laird

 

 

 

 

Note the blocks that the ship is resting on.  These are laid out in a plan to match the hull of the ship, when the dock is empty.  The dock is then filled with water, the gates are opened and the ship sails in.  The gates are then closed and the dock is drained, leaving the ship to settle on the supporting blocks.  The ship has to be lined up perfectly: twelve inches to the left or right, and it could topple, causing shitloads of damage to the dock, the ship and anyone on board.  Getting it to hit the mark so precisely is no mean feat.  And the cutting-edge technology they use to achieve this?  String.

 

(Also, in the last picture, the geezer pointing is Sir Peter Blake.)

[stringvest]

Woodside Ferry Terminal

 

 

 

it's mad now to see all the buses and trams going right up to the Ferry.

 

 

It was like that until the 80s.  When the council owned, maintained and ran the buses, the routes were planned as a whole, and they were part of an integrated transport system.  Progress, eh?