Crosby memories
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Pet Shop
I went to Crosby Road School from 1959 'til 1963 and served at Crosby Fire Station from 1966 'til 1970. I remember getting my very first dog from a pet shop in either Fir Road or Sycamore in 1967 on my way home from a night shift at the Fire Station. Does anyone remember this shop and the name of it??
Crosby - Rosedale Aveune
I was born in my grandparents' home in Rosedale Avenue in July 1947. I remember Crosby well, the cinema at the top of Endbutt Lane, going to church at St Peter and St Paul's RC Church, seeing the Beatles, and here I am in 2010 just back from a visit to my home village! So much has changed, some not for the good, Crown Buildings was knocked down last year, Sainsburys wants to expand and take over most of the village shutting all the little shops, there is another swimming pool on the beach at Mariners Road, (still looks like a space ship) there is also a sewerage plant, although disguised it still looks like an eyesore and as for the Anthony Gormly statues, don't get me started, a danger to all and rust buckets to boot! But I still love Crosby and will always go back to tend the family graves and to see relatives.
Crosby, Myers Road East
That would be Scotts Bakery to the right, surprising us with sliced bread!!! in the 50's and Jump's Dairy to the right foreground; their cows would come in through that gap between the front and the other shops further down. Heigh Ho! I knew and played tennis with Billy Jump at the Brownmoor Club [1955-6] not far off right down Stuart Road, here in the foreground. In the 40's and early 50's, the grocer's on the left corner there used to sell butter from a great lump; "A pound of butter please", would have the gent carving off about that amount and 'patting' -- with butter pats -- it into manageable shape before weighing and wrapping in greaseproof paper. The local post-office is just off camera to the right in Stuart. The L8 and L2 Ribble Bus services both ran past the front of this intersection, turning down Endbutt Lane further off to the right.
I Remember The Bluebells!
Fifty years ago, I was 8 years old and lived in Crosby. Every morning I walked to school (Forefield Lane) along the Northern Road. I used to walk over the roundabout (there wasn't much traffic) and head towards the area where you now see the flats on the right hand side of the photo. I remember when all that area was wooded and in the spring, there was a profusion of gorgeous bluebells which drew me too them. I would stop to pick up a few to take to teacher in school.
Sheila McMahon Vale Road, Waterloo, Crosby
Hi, I am researching some family history and would love to hear from anyone who knew of a Sheila McMahon, who previously lived at 3 Vale Road, Waterloo, Crosby, in the early to mid 60's. Later she married a Joseph Schorah in 1972 and lived at 19 Trawden Way Bootle. Her final address was 48 Little Barn Hey Bootle. Her fathers name was Bernard McMahon, he was a dock worker. Any information or memories greatly appreciated. Many thanks. Patricia. My email address is Directext@aol.com
Lansdowne Nursing Home
I was born in this nursing home and visited the area from Brazil (where I now live) this December on the occasion of my 67th birthday, but couldn't trace it. Was it in Blundell Sands Road? Can anyone help? Paul
Endbutt Lane
I was born in Crosby in 1958 and lived in Endbutt Lane for years, not far from the Endbutt Hotel. I had very mixed memories some happy, a lot sad. St Peter & Paul's school, friends Marie G, Susan C, Jeanette and Pat F, horse riding in Freshfields. Was fairly happy there, and the church. Was unhappy and disturbed at Seafield but remember a few good friends there Clare and Tina, Anne and Sue and 2 teachers who helped me so much and I never thanked them. Loved the many parks with the boating lake in Coronation Park, loved the seashore and riding my bike round and round. Enjoyed the library and walking my dog, Sam a beautiful yellow Labrador. Helping out at Jospice when it first opened with Fr. O'Leary and all there. Also working as a barmaid in the busy church club. Live in Surrey now but still miss Crosby.
Happy Days
I was born in Brighton Road, number 130, in 1930, it is now known as Jubilee Road. I went to St Peter & Paul School 1935 -1944. Itwas agreat place to live in, we used to spend days in Sniggery Woods & go collecting golf-balls on Hall Road golf course, and sell them on. Happy days were spent on the shore, Blundlesands, rolling down the sand dunes. Does anyone remember the big stone being in the middle of road at the Crown Buildings? It got moved to Coronation Park. Pinfold Cottage in Cooks Road and there used to be like an alcove top of Alexandra Road-Cooks Road where the local OAPs used to sit and chat. I remember the Birkey getting built, old Lowes shop used to be there on the corner of Victoria Road, Sablicks cobblers shop next door. Then in Manor Road had Jacksons dairy, well just in Cambridge Avenue, I used to help him bring cows back from fields at bottom of Manor Road. When I left... Read more
Picture Postcards And Photos
Just wondering if there are any photo's with regards to a sweet shop on Bridge Road Blundellsands called "Confectioners" and photographs of Merrilocks Road.I also remember a great design house on Burbo Bank Road called "Ramleigh Park".
This was a fantastic build in its time with stables and clock tower. I have searched over the years for an early photo of Ramleigh. Can anyone help with photos?
Why Did You Let Them do That?
I left Crosby 37 years ago. On returning there a few years ago, I found an ancient cottage - by the name of Pinfold or Penfold Cottage - had vanished only to be replaced by shops. Surely this thatched cottage was a listed building?
Does anybody have photos or memories of this happening?
Old Shops in Great Crosby
Who remembers a shop in Great Crosby with the names Mary Anne Minnie and Charlotte Louise over the door?
Memories of Merseyside
Blundellsands Beach.Prior to 1960
I was thirteen at the time and lived off Riverslea Road, which led down to a walled field on to the beach. My friends Derek Austin, Les Reece, Charlie Kelly, and a few others had built the Biggest Bonfire for miles around. We had travelled as far as Formby to collect all sorts of wood and old gates etc, we even built a trench around the bonfire, and covered the trench with corrugated roofing, and old grass sods, to camouflage it. Three of us stayed overnight to protect it, feeding off lemonade and roast potatoes until the the day the fire was to be lit. On the day I remember it rained nearly all day and we all wondered if we would be able to light the Bommy. Another friend Ray Bett's dad was chief mechanic at the garage at the top of Warrenhouse Road on Bridge Road, we went to see him and he gave us all the old oil from the sumps of the oil changes... Read more
Cavendish Road
My Step-Grandmother, Agnes Buncombe, (known as "Snowie") lived at No 2a Cavendish Road with her husband Sid, and her son Wallace Frank Jones (my StepFather) I loved spending weekends and holidays at Cavendish Road, if anyone remembers the above mentioned names, would love to hear from them.
Coastguard Cottages, Mariner's Road, Blundellsands
As a youngster I lived in one of the Coastguard Cottages at the bottom of Mariner's Road. The complex comprising of six terraced cottages, Wincliff - the former Coastguard's house and a separate Boat-House were demolished around 1966 and sadly no-one appears to remember or to have any photographs of them. Even sadder when you think that they probably stood on the site for over a hundred years and had a long history of their own.
Blundellsands
Memories include, the erosion, sniggery woods, coronation park and the erratic glacier boulder, the boating lake. Fort Crosby, the bike shop at Brighton-le-sands. The swimming pool down on the shore, the big houses down merrilocks and Burbo Bank. The electric train, the BS (now gone I am told), the library (old one,not the new one at Waterloo). Woolies near the train stop at Waterloo. The L23 and L30 buses into town, the list just goes on and on. Left there 45 years ago and have never been back. Maybe I will go for a look, I did have a look on street view recently and it was very interesting.
Waterloo in The 1940s to 1950s
My early memories are of Waterloo where I used to live at Winchester Avenue until 1958. My father died there in 1989. On College Road there were air raid shelters which me and other kids played in after the war until they were demolished, probably late 1940s. One of the concrete pillars collapsed on me and trapped me against a wall for a little while. I wasn't hurt but it scared the living daylights out of me. Still on College Road, a shop I will never forget was Prichard's Cooked Meat Shop. Their Eccles cakes were second to none. The same with their pies. Another time I remember see a German plane circling above us in Waterloo, smoke coming from it. As it started descending I and a couple of others jumped on our bikes and followed it as best we could. It appeared to have crashed landed in Marine Crescent (I think), a park along the sea front near Blucher Street, where my grandmother lived. As we got... Read more
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