St Nicholas Place 1895, Liverpool
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Growing up in Kirkdale
I was one year old when we moved to Kirkdale, that was 1956, we moved to 82 Brasenose Road from Huyton with Roby so all my childhood memories were about growing up in Kirkdale. We had nothing but we were happy. There was six of us, we all slept in one bed, top and tail, but everyone in our road was the same. We never had a bathroom, just an outside toilet that looked like a shrine becuase we had that many candles in there. Every Saturday night all the mams and dads went out and would come home either fighting or singing. There was one feller who was about 60 and dead skinny and every Saturday night he would come home from the alehouse singing, and everyone called him 'the singing skull'. The feller over the road was the bell puller in St Paul's Church every Sunday, he was called 'Shacky Bob', haha. Every lamp in our road was bent because we were always swinging on them haha.... Read more
Lime Street Station
In 1964 I started teaching at Brookfield School, Kirkby. and stayed "in digs"in Aigburth, Liverpool. For several years Lime Street Station was my arrival and departure point as I travelled between Liverpool and Swansea. Lime Street had changed a lot since 1890 but St George's Hall , with its many pillars, was still there. Around the corner, in Ranelagh Place, was the Adelphi Hotel, where Harold Wilson stayed during the 1964 election campaign. My best memory of Lime Street Station is arriving there on the same day (a Sunday in 1965 I believe) ) as Liverpool FC returning in triumph from their FA cup win against Leeds United the day before. From several miles out there were supporters waving red and white flags from their houses along the train route. "What have I done to deserve this", I thought to myself in a moment of wishful thinking! Outside the station there was a "sea of red and white" as thousands of fans waved their scarves and flags in... Read more
Scottie Road
I lived in Chapel Gardens next to St Anthony's church, there were only 3 houses in our street, the Greggs, Mcartheys and us Hawkins. I went to St Anthony's School and left in 1957 when we moved to Kirkby. I worked in Scotts Bakery in Rose Place and have many fond memories of the people I worked with. I met my first husband Frank Mangan there, we married in 1960. Scottie Road will always be in my heart, there is not another place like it. I think it was the heartbeat of Liverpool, mortally wounded when the city planners had the bright idea to move the population out to Kirkby in the 1950s, great on paper but not in practice. Greaty was a great place to shop, you could get anything there. Who remembers Jacksons the hairdressers, the market, Duffys, and the Italian ice cream parlour? All gone now in the name of progress, but it will always live on in the hearts and minds of the people who lived... Read more
Fitzroy Street, Off Westderby Road. 1950s/60s
Did anyone live around here in the 1950s & 60s? My memories are of being sent to search out the sandstone on the Hollas so that my mum could do the steps. Going to the coal yard off Low Hill with a pushchair to get a hundred weight! John's Chippy on Low Hill. They sold the best chips! Spending hours trying to fish money out of the grids! Swinging on the lampost at the bottom of our street. The Fitzroy Pub, run by the Kinsellers. My dad singing on the street corner after the pub closed. Everyone loved to listen to him. Going to the Locano on a Saterday afternoon. Having my socks measured by them being wrapped around my fist. If the toe and heel met, that was your size. Going up to Brougham Terrace at the top of Baker Street, on Westderby Road, to let in the New Year. Going to the Hippodrome Picture House on a Saterday morning and singing along to the words on the screen. Packenham's scrap... Read more
Cruiseing The Med
I watched this ship as a child at the pier head, many years later I sailed on her on a cruise around the med about 2000/2001. She had been renamed the 'Topaz', it was either the 'Empress Of England' or her sister ship the 'Empress of Scotland'. She was sold on about 5 or 6 years ago and if my information is correct she is to this day operating as an eductional ship somewhere in Japan. A great personal and historic memory.
Xmas Party at St Georges Hall
Around 1949 to1951 ish. I too remember attending a big party for underprivileged children at St Georges Hall. We had to line up to collect a gift on the stage. We could choose from a selection. I always wanted a doll but was so shy I just grabbed the first box I saw, I think it may have been a game, but not the doll I longed for. It was a happy memory.
Blacklers Office
My first job after leaving Our Lady of Mount Carmel school was in the accounts office of the well known Blacklers Department Store. The office only was located in Bold Street during 1953. The office staff relocated to the main store during 1953/54. I worked with a friend called Margaret Langshaw. We both left to work at Littlewoods Pools in Edge Lane. If anyone knows the whereabouts of Margaret I would love to hear from them.
Loudon Grove Liverpool 8
I was brought up in no 3 Loudon Grove. However, on a recent visit I noticed that Nos 1, 3, 5, and 7 along with others have been demolished and only No 7 on that side of the road has been replaced with a new house. The location of 1, 3 and 5 is just grassed over. Does anybody know the reason for this? I remember Ronny Wrichley (Billy Fury) asking my brother to ask me for a date, but I was too shy to accept. I would have been only 14. I was known as Nancy Ward.
Edinburgh Street Liverpool 5
I was born in 101 Edinburgh Street in 1943, my parents were Norman and Ellen Harris, i was christened in St Georges Everton, i have fond memorys of Netherfield Road my My Uncle Alec Harris ran the Protestant Reformers in China Street which moved Location to Rose Vale, the people are the salt of the earth.
University
I have fond memories of living in Liverpool. I lived behind Hope Street and paced the pavement of Bold Street most days. This is a wonderful picture for me.
Empress of England
Hi, I too emigrated to Canada but in about 1954 when I was nearly three. We had to come back the following year as my father was ill, and I think it must have been on the return journey that I remember the rocking horse too! Thanks for reminding me of this and of the portholes in the ship. Those two things stuck in my mind.
Mum's House in Lamb Street
My mum lived in Lamb Street, the bottom half, she lived with her mother Harriet Prescott, sister Gertie and brother Billy. When Mum was born she was given the same name as her mother. They were bombed out of Lamb Street during the war, there do not seem to be any photos in books on the website of Lamb Street. Mum had many happy memories of Lamb Street and remembers Father Winder, although mum was C of E she said he was a very nice man and was well liked by all. Has anyone any photos of Lamb street? We all would love to see them.
Best wishes
Margery Hall.
The Mersey Tunnel
To visit Grandma and Grandad McCann we travelled this way from Ellesmere Port. They lived in Scotland Road and he had a cobbler shop.
To A New Life
My greatgrandfather Patrick Matthews, his second wife Mary Ann (Smith) together with their daughter Rose sailed on the maiden voyage of the Majestic to New York in April 1890. Patrick was from Cootehill, CountyCavan, Ireland. In 2005 I found his descendants living in Florida. My husband and I flew to America for a holiday and met our new cousins.
My Coming to Canada
We sailed across the Atlantic on the Empress of England from Liverpool to Montreal, first arriving in Quebec City on Oct 30, 1958. It makes me wonder if this photo is of that same voyage!! I would love to obtain a passenger list. My parents are now deceased and I would like to have it as a keepsake. Our family name is BOULOUX. My father was sick the whole trip. My favorite memory was in the playroom where they had this rocking horse. I was 5 years old and to me, this horse was huge. I was scared to get on it at first but then I would scream if I had to get off it to give another kid a turn. The horse was made of wood and was white and black. I also remember going up to the stern. The captain was there, dressed in white. We could see 2 whales in the water up ahead. Through this round window, they appeared so bold and beautiful and even... Read more
Part of my Heritage
This is where my great-grandparents Thomas Hugh Roberts and Annie Corcoran married in 1903. I have their marriage certificate which has a drawing of the church on the top. He was sadly killed in an accident at Waterloo Goods Station in 1912. There used to be a cross in the pavement outside HMV commemorating the church. I hope it's put back when the refurbishment of the building is finished.
Ferry Boats
This is not a memory as such- but just information as to the source of my ancestors.
A ferry owner who ran the service from Stackhill to Newland was Ezra Mann, he was born in circa 1858 in Yorkshire and owned a large sized cog-boat which ferried passengers, pigs,hens and bicycles, plus children to Dax Grammer School.
Ezra lost an arm in an accident and for a while worked at McFies Treacle Works in Liverpool where it is believed he met and married Martha Pembleton-Wood
He married Martha Pemberton- Wood; the grandaughter of Sir Nicholas Fazackerly and daughter of Fazackerly's daughter and groomsman - Pembleton-Wood. They had 18 children, 12 survived - 7 sons and 4 daughters.
Ezra Mann was my great- grandfather. My mother was the daughter of Charles, Ezra's son.
My Grandmother
My grandmother emigrated to the United States on the Campania in 1905. She sailed with her brother, Harry. They were sponsored by their uncle Owen Roberts, who lived in Wymore, Nebraska. After arriving at New York they travelled overland by train After a few years my grandmother returned home, to Wales.
SS Majestic 1890
On 25 June 1890 my grandmother, Emma L Hasell, 24 years old, left her life as a household servant and sailed on the Majestic for New York where she joined her fiance, William Henry Pickering, formerly of Silverdale and Tunbridge Wells. She stayed in the YWCA until she found work. They married in November 1891.
The Liver Buildings
This Building and its giant clock was the only way to know the time of day (no watches!) and the tram-car home left the pier-head by this clock and got us home for tea - costing 1d (penny) for a return.
You could see this clock coming in from the New Brighton Ferry, and work out what tram you would be on!!
The Law Courts
I remember Dale Street, on the right was the place where single mothers had to go to collect their benefit from the father of their child/ren, as ruled by the courts order!! Further along Dale Street you could cut up Moorfield to Tithe Barn Street to the Stadium to watch either wrestling on a Thursday night or boxing on a Friday.
When I Was A Child
I can clearly remember pushing my doll's pram up to the shops with my Mother from our home in South Mossley Hill Road. I was always fascinated by the overhead cash delivery system in the Co-op shops.
The very end shop was the Co-op selling haberdashery and shoes, I think that was where my love for shoes was born!
A cake shop called Wallers was next door, another favourite place of mine!
The Co-op food shop was very exciting as we did not frequent this very often with my Father being a shopkeeper himself - buying groceries from there was strictly forbidden. Happy Days!!!!
Receiving My Certificate
I attended a presentation at St George's Hall as a youngster, where I received a beautiful certificate in recognition of an essay I had written. I have no idea what I wrote about but since the RSPCA awarded the certificate, then I assume it must have been about animals.
As a very shy, not-at-all-confident child, I remember nervously waiting and waiting for that moment to come. At last, I climbed the few stairs alongside the stage and as I stepped forward onto the old wooden stage I immediately tripped and went sprawling at the feet of the adults seated there. I lived to tell the tale but didn't think I ever would!
Origins And Holidays 1948 - 1965
I was born in Liverpool (Smithdown Road Hospital that was renamed Sefton General by the time my sister was norn there 19 months after me) and was christened in St Andrew's Church in Clubmoor. We lived for a short time at 147 Harrowby Road. I have no memories of that house that I can be sure of. I was taken to the west London area just before I was 2 (as this was where my father found a job after leaving the army). However, my grandmother and aunt stayed in Liverpool and we had annual trips up for holidays and my memories consist of the times spent in Walton (Clubmoor) every summer. My grandma lived in a prefab in Richard Kelly Drive which backed on the the large playing field (now returned to its former state) with the railway embankment on the far side. I remember the trams that ran down the centre of Townsend Avenue but by the time we stopped our annual... Read more
The Fun we Had
Patsy, we had some fun then, remember the bun loaf Linda threw at the window and we screamed the house down. we thought it was the peeping Tom? And also when we used to tantalise the Davis's dog Sandy and it would run to get us and you would lock the door, ha ha.
Tracing my Mum's Ancestors
My mum was born in Liverpool but I do not know where. She workded at St George's Hall where I think she met my dad, William James from Wales. Her name was Sarah Jane Grey. I know she had a sister called Alice and a brother called Albert. My mum's birth date was March 24th 1909. I'd welcome any information. I look forward to any replies. Thank you.
Help With Family Search
My mum was born March 24th 1909. I've looked up on the 1911 but can find nothing. Her name was Sarah Jane Grey and I know she had a brother called Albert and a sister called Alice. Her married name was James. She lived most of her life in South Wales where my dad was from. She died August 27th 1983. I'd be grateful for any info.
Lost Love of my Life
I was born at 40 Priory Street, Birkenhead in 1947 . I have lost track of all my family. But most important was the memories of a young ladie who was supposed to follow me to Canada in 1966, she was a beautiful Welsh nurse who worked at Alder Hey Children's Hospital. I stillremember our late nights trying to get back into the nurses' residence too late for curfew . I worked in Formby Lighthouse restaurant, a long drive. I loved that drive and the young lady waiting for me. I still love her. John
My Time in Liverpool
My memory of Liverpool was living in number 12 Kensington Rd near the corner of Hall Lane where the post office was. My parents' landlady was Mrs Elizabeth Smith, I think she was Tommy Smith's mother? I remember my father taking me & my sister to St John's Gardens on weekends and to Otterspool until a tragic accident involving a young lady on a pushbike and a car? I remember the New Brighton ferry at the pier head. And I remember my dad taking me in the company (Otis) truck going to Birkenhead through the Mersey Tunnel. Thanks...
