Fascinating Liverpool pictures

[Stickman]

 

[Harry's Lad]

Inside the Ribble bus station in Skelhorne St. 

[Total Longo]

1 hour ago, Stickman said:

 

Suitably spooky music. Shame it can't convey that constant stink of stale urine.

[stringvest]

4 hours ago, Harry's Lad said:

Inside the Ribble bus station in Skelhorne St. 

there was even a bar in there

[Harry's Lad]

5 minutes ago, stringvest said:

there was even a bar in there

There was. I got served in there as a 14 year old and was dying for a piss all the way home.

Are you 18?, nineteen.

[TheHowieLama]

26 minutes ago, Harry's Lad said:

Are you 18, nineteen.

Yea, thats the year he was born

[Tony Moanero]

This is still my favourite Liverpool photograph. I’m a little bit in love with the lady in the pink dress.

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

5 hours ago, Harry's Lad said:

Inside the Ribble bus station in Skelhorne St. 

It still fucking stunk of diesel when it was The Buzz.

[Harry's Lad]

33 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

It still fucking stunk of diesel when it was The Buzz.

It was still the bus station last time I went in there. Must have been 1981/82.

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

1 hour ago, Harry's Lad said:

It was still the bus station last time I went in there. Must have been 1981/82.

 

They turned it into a club. I went there once for a Mad Dog 20/20 launch night (which pretty much dates it).

 

[Stickman]

Probably been posted before but how amazing looking was the Overhead Railway 

 

Looks like a scene from 1950's New York

 

 

 

 

 

Here they are being demolished 

 

 

[Vincent Vega]

This is boss, taken from a park near St Helen’s apparently. Anfield with the mountains of Snowdonia in the background. 

[Creator Supreme]

11 minutes ago, Stickman said:

Probably been posted before but how amazing looking was the Overhead Railway 

 

Looks like a scene from 1950's New York

 

 

 

 

 

Here they are being demolished 

 

 

Amazing, as I said earlier in the thread it's a shame it had to go. As we need to be looking towards reducing car use I think a modern version would be ideal in this day and age.

[Vincent Vega]

Also liked these two pics I saw posted by the Liverpool Vista account on Twitter. 

[Creator Supreme]

Just now, Vincent Vega said:

This is boss, taken from a park near St Helen’s apparently. Anfield with the mountains of Snowdonia in the background. 

Is that genuine? Amazing picture.

[Vincent Vega]

1 minute ago, Creator Supreme said:

Is that genuine? Amazing picture.

Apparently so. I saw people casting doubt on it on Twitter, but the lad who posted it said exactly where it was taken and other people backed him up that this view is accurate. It’s taken from a big hill near St Helens (I don’t know St Helens at all so the area he mentioned meant nothing to me).

[Creator Supreme]

7 minutes ago, Vincent Vega said:

Apparently so. I saw people casting doubt on it on Twitter, but the lad who posted it said exactly where it was taken and other people backed him up that this view is accurate. It’s taken from a big hill near St Helens (I don’t know St Helens at all so the area he mentioned meant nothing to me).

I've a vague idea where it might be but like you I don't know St Helens well. I'm thinking it could have been taken close to where that statue The Dream is (big white head).

[redinblack]

On 02/11/2021 at 16:06, stringvest said:

there was even a bar in there

think it was called The Punch & Judy something like that?

 

We would get the L3, L30 or L35 home from Skelhorne Street

[sir roger]

On 02/11/2021 at 11:15, Harry's Lad said:

Inside the Ribble bus station in Skelhorne St. 

One of the most exciting places for my young self as we went there to get the bus to Butlins Pwllheli

 

[Tj hooker]

On 02/11/2021 at 11:15, Harry's Lad said:

Inside the Ribble bus station in Skelhorne St. 

We used to get the X7 back home to North Wales on a Sunday night from the bit above that which was a regular occurrence as me Old Mum used to love a weekend back with the family saying that so did we 

[sir roger]

I vaguely remember as a kid there used to be a rival to Ribble called Crosville with green and white buses.

[easytoslip]

14 minutes ago, sir roger said:

I vaguely remember as a kid there used to be a rival to Ribble called Crosville with green and white buses.

That's right, we used to get them to North Wales as kids. 

[easytoslip]

9 hours ago, redinblack said:

think it was called The Punch & Judy something like that?

 

We would get the L3, L30 or L35 home from Skelhorne Street

That was the cafe on the corner opposite the Crown, though there might of been a bar called that in there but I can't remember one at all. 

[Frank Dacey]

11 hours ago, Vincent Vega said:

Also liked these two pics I saw posted by the Liverpool Vista account on Twitter. 

That top picture is amazing. For years, going to Anfield up from the Astoria through the terraced streets you never saw the ground until it was on top of you. To see it standing so proudly shows how huge the main stand is.

[Frank Dacey]

35 minutes ago, sir roger said:

I vaguely remember as a kid there used to be a rival to Ribble called Crosville with green and white buses.

I had family in Chester and if we visited we'd get the train to Exchange, walk down to the ferry and get the Crossville bus from outside Woodside station.