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The Wirral Photographic Memories
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Merseyside Living Memories
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Liverpool and Merseyside Photographic Memories
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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
Merseyside memories
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
my mum and dad married here in1954
my mum an dad married here in 1954.my mum's name was irene whittaker,she married my dad a Scots man,John Wallace.
they moved to Glasgow sometime in the 50's.mum has just passed away in july and we brought her home she is beside her dear mam &dad in anfield cemetry. still come up and downto liverpool and see our family. they stayed... [more]
Shared on 04 February 2008
Mom & dad married here in 60's ... my wife and I remarried :-) here ... victor was receovering from being mugged .. our cars were broken into during the service .. the church stood during the bombing, it also remaind standing after my wifes request to play country music during our service LOL :-) pics here at http://picasaweb.google.com/gisteacher/Church ... [more]
Shared on 03 January 2008
I came to Bridge Road when I was 6 months old with my mum and dad. Ormes was the corner shop, there was also a grocers next door (I think). On a block the other way I remember Cruickshanks, I remember it was a joy going into his shop. Also next door but one to me was the dentist (Mr Nair).... [more]
Shared on 30 June 2009
My family arrived in Seaforth late in 1939 after we were shipped back from Gibraltar where my father was stationed with the Kings Regiment. Early memories of our house in Holly Grove are vague. My sister Maureen and I, along with hundreds of other kids, were evacuateed to Radnorshire in Wales. There were still air raids when we returned to Seaforth... [more]
Shared on 16 August 2009
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
I was born and raised at 3 Carr Lane in April 1940, and went to St 'Tessies'. Never enough hours in the day, playing football, cricket or kick the can and British bulldog or headers in our side garden. The focal point was the triangle of grass in front of our house forever known as 'the green', which was the scene... [more]
Shared on 14 July 2009
Extracts From Orrell Park & Merseyside books
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Liverpool and Merseyside Photographic Memories
This is the original Adelphi Hotel: it was built in c1840 on the site of Adelphi Gardens by the Midland Railway Company, and was in direct competition with the London North Western Railway Hotel, which was further along Lime Street. The hotel we see here had a glass balcony, and a large portico entrance was added at the turn of the... [more]
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Liverpool and Merseyside Photographic Memories
Started in June 1838 to accommodate the Liverpool Music Festival, which was held every four years and had become a very popular event, St George's Hall is one of the greatest buildings in England. The designer Harvey Longsdale Elmes was only 23 when he won the design competition, firstly for the Music Hall and then for new Law Courts for Liverpool;... [more]
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Liverpool and Merseyside Photographic Memories
It was planned that around St George's Hall there would be unbuilt areas so as to show off the Hall, the grandest of the civic buildings. At the back is St John's Gardens, and in front is the open area of St George's Plateau. At the time of our photograph, it contained the equestrian statues of Prince Albert (1866) and Queen... [more]
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