It's actually mind-blowing and airey seeing Bootle town hall 15:30 120 years from then, we used to sneak under it and play there, pretty sure a part of the building used to be a mental hospital at one time...
00:02:16. I’m the taller of the two lads, the one holding the 📰 newspapers near the hoss ‘n’ cart, slightly right of centre at the bottom of the screen. I had just turned 13 around that time. What should I get my wife for our 114th wedding anniversary? I know … she’s always been a bit of a daredevil, so I’ll book a skydive 🪂 for her.
The siege lasted weeks even though Rupert boasted “it’s a mere crows nest which a parcel of boys could take’. It took weeks and inside spies to capture
I drive thru liverpool city centre every day and it’s amazing to see it being built. It reminds me we’re only here for a short time and we should make the most of our time here because were only here for a short time
These incredible images of Liverpool from the Edwardian era show how brilliant the builders and architects were and how todays public figures should be appreciative of the legacy they have left. And having been born in city in the 50s so much could have been saved in the mass clearances after the war. of so much housing that needed only refurbishment. Today when you see modern buildings around the waterfront you see just how much civic pride those in these images had
What a wonderful collection of images from the Victorian period in Liverpool and the marvellous legacy of buildings you can still walk past today. At 7.38 North Castle Street that ran into South Castle Street to join Canning Place. I walked this route many times when I worked in Liverpool City Centre in the mid 1960s. Sadly many of Liverpool's main thoroughfares like Scotland Road, Great Homer Street, Netherfield Road and Park Road were lost by the 1970s, while there were Court houses that were overcrowded and unhealthy, a lot of large Victorian houses some with gardens were lost. If only a mix could have been included in new developments. in recent years those marketing refer to the 3 major buildings at the waterfront, as the 3 graces. Seldom is it mentioned they were a legacy of the Victorian Society in Liverpool all those years ago. What would those people make of these areas today.? Victoria Street in the 60s 70s, 80s was a thriving place for business commerce restaurants and small business today it seems soulless.
I remember Liverpool from those pre-world war II days, how complacent people were at the time. Unaware of the horrors that were to come within a few years time and change the city forever. Watching the steeplejacks high up on the girders handling their tools in a nonchalant manner, which could have been so easily dropped on some unfortunate person below. The trams and the overhead railway, many is the time I travelled on both. The Bears Paw and Bunneys on the corner of Whitechapel. I have good reason to remember the Steble fountain, I fell into it once. Happy memories of days long gone but not forgotten.
A lot of people are commenting "there was no health and safety", but my grandfather was actually a health inspector during this time. I think they were most pre-occupied by conditions in factories rather than those construction sites. There were 6 cigarette factories just in the part of Liverpool he covered.
Thanks for this sensational footage Lee. My dad was born and lived in Liverpool all his life and is still going strong aged 87, he was born in 1936 so I’ll show him this when I see him next. I was born in 1960 and remember as a kid the good old days growing up in Edge Hill before moving to the suburbs.
I have a photo taken of my old nan in 1896 in Exchange flags where my great grandfather had a printing business. This film has brought it all to life for me thanks. Just as an aside, did you know Derrick Guyler’s family owned Bunny’s?
Amazing little film. Thanks for sharing. I'm currently researching for a screenplay set in 1930s Liverpool and this has helped me with some visualisations of what it was like.
Thankyou to Lee Rymill. I often wander round town just looking up at the glorious buildings We're blessed with, you've given me a whole new appreciation, now that ive seen just how they were built. Buildings of bricks,mortar and stone built by men of steel (and while wearing 3peice suits), many thanks again
They didn’t built anything these buildings was here a long long time before we are led to believe they was erasing the true origin and dates by altering and taking parts of the building off
What is missed by many is that in 1890 many beautiful builder litter the back ground. So who built those.??? I believe have been sold a pup as to how TRUE heritage ...
Everything is fake most of the historic building in the city was here a long time before we was look into the world fairs and the incubator babies and orphan trains we are genetically engineered from dna 🧬 splicing and we was sent round the world to fill populate the cities as the new slave class
