Fascinating Liverpool pictures

[Kepler-186]

This is a link to stuff done by The Sound Agents about Chinatown and the Liverpool Chinese community. 
 

https://www.cultureliverpool.co.uk/chinatown-by-the-sound-agents/

 

Before my time but the boozer The Nook used to call last orders in Cantonese. Not open anymore. 
 

Of course, there’s the scandal of the Chinese seaman deported after WW2, leaving wives and children to wonder what had happened.
 

There’s a memorial down at the Pier Head about it. 

[Anubis]

 

 

[Anubis]

 

 

[Kepler-186]

Article on the pending closure of Scottie Road’s last boozer, The Throstle’s Nest. 
 

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-63145686.amp

 

 

 

 

[dockers_strike]

Fascinating 1930s film of Liverpool. In some shots, you could almost mistake the setting for New York! There's a look of smog over the city and, no health and safety for the lads working at height on some buildings!

 

 

[halewood pete]

22 minutes ago, dockers_strike said:

Fascinating 1930s film of Liverpool. In some shots, you could almost mistake the setting for New York! There's a look of smog over the city and, no health and safety for the lads working at height on some buildings!

 

 

Very interesting to watch that.

[Frank Dacey]

1 hour ago, dockers_strike said:

Fascinating 1930s film of Liverpool. In some shots, you could almost mistake the setting for New York! There's a look of smog over the city and, no health and safety for the lads working at height on some buildings!

 

 

Very good. I remember the city centre buildings being filthy as a kid and I just assumed they'd been made of black stone. After the Clean Air Act and ater the buildings were cleaned, the difference was astonishing. Remember some of the smogs, too, when you could almost taste the air.

[stringvest]

quickest way from Kirkby to town

[VladimirIlyich]

10 hours ago, stringvest said:

quickest way from Kirkby to town

Look at those cars too. Looks like a Cortina or Granada behind the bus. That's right next to Lime Street that photo.

[Harry's Lad]

35 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Look at those cars too. Looks like a Cortina or Granada behind the bus. That's right next to Lime Street that photo.

I'm pretty sure it's a mk4 Cortina, with what looks like a Morris Marina behind. The beige one behind that is a mk3 Cortina.

[stringvest]

6 hours ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Look at those cars too. Looks like a Cortina or Granada behind the bus. That's right next to Lime Street that photo.

it's on lime street mate.

[Bjornebye]

Darth Vaders put on weight 

[razor]

On 04/11/2022 at 06:55, dockers_strike said:

Fascinating 1930s film of Liverpool. In some shots, you could almost mistake the setting for New York! There's a look of smog over the city and, no health and safety for the lads working at height on some buildings!

 

 

 

Brilliant.  And terrifying.

 

I've had that Liverpool 800: Culture, Character and History by John Belchem for ages but never got to it.  That's definitely made me want to read it.

[sir roger]

9 hours ago, stringvest said:

it's on lime street mate.

 

Commutation Row has changed far more than Lime Street itself.

[VladimirIlyich]

16 hours ago, stringvest said:

it's on lime street mate.

Yep. And the station,which I meant,is directly to the bus's left.

[an tha]

[Bjornebye]

10 minutes ago, an tha said:

 

I wonder if that's where The Express butty shop is now. I used to work by there and often wondered if the girl that used to serve me did any extras. 

[an tha]

33 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

 

I wonder if that's where The Express butty shop is now. I used to work by there and often wondered if the girl that used to serve me did any extras. 

She works in that posh hairdressers down there as well and yeah she does!

[Bjornebye]

3 minutes ago, an tha said:

She works in that posh hairdressers down there as well and yeah she does!

 

Hahahaha 

[Beno]

On 03/11/2022 at 21:34, stringvest said:

quickest way from Kirkby to town

Used to get that on Walton Lane to work of a morning. Hardly stopped before town, happy days.

[Beno]

On 03/11/2022 at 17:55, dockers_strike said:

Fascinating 1930s film of Liverpool. In some shots, you could almost mistake the setting for New York! There's a look of smog over the city and, no health and safety for the lads working at height on some buildings!

 

 

Brilliant watching that. The India Buildings part gives me bad anxiety, not only cos the workers are running round on iron girders with zero safety features, but also the whole building looks like its put together by old fellas with a hammer and spanner. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

 

[sir roger]

Takes me back.

 

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Big job's broke out.

 

[Frank Dacey]

On 10/12/2022 at 21:17, AngryOfTuebrook said:

 

This is the original proposal for the RC Cathedral, which would have been the largest church in Europe after St Petwers in Rome. Definitely an attempt at one-upmanship.