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Liverpool and Merseyside Photographic Memories
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Southport Photographic Memories
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The Wirral Photographic Memories
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Memories of Aintree
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The Old Roan Estate, from the start.
My mum and dad were the first people in the Old Roan estate in 1936, living in 18 Bradfield Ave. The cost of the house? It was a through room, and cost £425! The houses with a front and a rear room cost £450! And if you were very well off, then you might have been able to afford one of... [more]
Shared on 03 March 2009
My nanny & granddad lived in Orrell Park, Westfield Road. I remember very well growing up because I lived in Aintree at that time, visiting them with mum & dad. We would get the number 60 bus up to the corner of their road. On an occasional Saturday evening I would stay with nan & grandad while mum & dad would... [more]
Shared on 11 April 2008
I remember my time in Quarry Green, and the white council 2 storey flats next to what we knew as "Spinney woods", and the bus turnaround, the pub called "The Black Swan", and then there was the primary school opposite Quarry Green, and I recall the "Z cars" programme was also based on a character at the fire station, Bob Steel.... [more]
Shared on 07 May 2008
The year I was born at Walton Hospital. The war was still on and as I was growing up I remember my mum saying to me just after I was born there was a bomb drop on the Maternity Unit at the hospital and all the new mothers & babies had to be transferred to Southport.
Shared on 11 April 2008
Extracts From Aintree & Merseyside books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Aintree, inspired by Frith photos.
Liverpool and Merseyside Photographic Memories
Here we have a general view of Halton and its castle from the west. The castle was built by the new Norman lord of the manor of Halton, Nigel Fitzwilliam, in around 1071. The baronies of Halton and Widnes were combined in about 1200, and were later taken under the Duchy of Lancaster, where they remain today. The castle is owned... [more]
This is an extract from Liverpool and Merseyside Photographic Memories.
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Liverpool and Merseyside Photographic Memories
The top of the High Street was known officially as Devonshire Place, but the locals always called it Devonshire Square, even though it only had three sides. Our photographer is standing on Doctors Bridge over the Bridgewater Canal, and High Street runs left and right from the top of the square. Both the new high-level road bridge and the old transporter... [more]
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Liverpool and Merseyside Photographic Memories
Top Locks was the end of the Bridgewater Canal system - it had come all the way from Manchester and Worsley. Top Locks was named thus because if its location at the top of a large set of locks which opened in about 1780; they brought boats from the River Mersey and Liverpool up to the Bridgewater Canal. In 1800, canal... [more]
This is an extract from Liverpool and Merseyside Photographic Memories.
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