Was a girl from Childwall Valley High School murdered and her body was found in Jackson's farm pond? My Dad remembers the anti jewish riots around the triangle area (and other areas) after the King David Hotel bombing and the 'Seargeant's Affair.' Great video, thank you.
What on earth happened? That park used to be beautifully kept. Where are the bowling greens? Why have we regressed so much as a nation? I used to go and watch people playing bowls during lunchtime when I attended Waterloo Grammar in the early sixties. I left Crosby in1973 and it saddens me to see this park so neglected.
Ive traced my Liverpool Hayes/Heyes from Orkney to La Haye du Puit. Then from Normandy with William to England to Mayor of London then Ship Captains in Liverpool down to 19th century poor Court House dwellers. Thanks
OK, so this looks like it's been converted to digital by shooting at a TV screen playing a VHS tape, which has been taken from a cine film. I would suggest you may get better quality by feeding the VHS output into a computer, and converting it to ditigal using OBSstudio or similar. Alternatively, burn to DVD from VHS, and then extract the digital file from the DVD. Better yet, go back to the cine film, and scan each frame (there are services which can do this for you). that way, you'll get a much MUCH better result.
i worked on Beechwood house on the corner of queens drive and mill lane this was in 1971 it was fully renovated and left for the shool next door to decorate. rentokill had treated the house for rot but when we where finished rot was found and the building closed and eventualy knocked down . i was an apprentice joiner for john james askton in admiral st liverpool 8.n sorry about the grammer bi am useing a german keyboard.
Big changes from my day. I remember the lake on the lower level. It was filled in and was used for lots of pick-up football games. I remember the Parkkeeper's hut at the bottom of the stairs. He used to yell at us for riding our bikes down the pram path. Oh I also remember the air raid shelters on the upper level. They were scary places because we were told bad men were in them and they would get you. I remember when they put back the outer railings that had been removed as part of the war effort. It was a great place to be just after the war and into the 50s.
Each person who lived or worked in these houses when they were still standing are heros. A story behind each brick and tile. The sheer horror that each family must of felt coming out of the airraid shelter and finding their home smashed to pieces, devastating. This is a memorial
a young musician once stayed in an apartment opposite 'QUEEN' building shown at beginning. his name was Freddie Mercury...the rest is history. excellent video i used to work in Exchange buildings 1970-71.
Used to be a lovely park now you have idiots in Green Sefton who manage it treat the lads like slaves the amount of sites they have one lad who worked on this park alongside 30 odd sites is a joke the condition of the park is a joke too
Love derby park in bootle blue boy my dog loves it as well lovely park been going there since I was a kid lived on breeze Hill so just around the corner great vid nice one
What's wrong with going to these places with a strimmer a couple of spare batteries & some spare blades & a small spade or small ( narrow ) implament to get into the small or narrow areas to tidy them up & a few bin bags to take their rubbish or clippings away. This just goes to show why city councils are DESPISED!!! so much because they only care about making more money for themselves & not helping it's cities look better. & i really don't care what anyone else says.
So sad that these graves & many , many others are left to ruin & not taken care off even if no relatives to do it. The city council NEED!!! to pull their LAZY!!! fingers out of their BIG FAT LAZY!!! backsides & have respect for those who have sadly passed away & their last resting place looked after. Instead of it looking like no- one cares about them anymore.
That gate's a bastard isn't it. haha Filmed in there with some students from Sheffield Uni last year. :-) Had the same problem getting through there one-handed. :-)
used to play in there when i was little nO COMMENTS?? lots of good friends gone now there is a grave in there that says i am not dead i am only sleeping
Very interesting ... I am from Wellgreen Road on The Childwall Valley Housing Estate, opposite the (now gone Coronation Pub) Now Lidl. Do you have any pictures pre-post 1962 ?
a lot of people on facebook complaining about the mowing saying it has spashed up all the headstones but it doesn't look too bad here. You've not filmed the RC front section only the side of it. I paid to get my nan's grave cleaned about 12mths ago so i'll be fuming if it's full of cuttings again as it's so disrespectful and i'm going tomorrow to have a look.
Hi John, my name is Dave Fletcher, I am a good old friend of 50 years + of Graham Seaman, both of us went to Gateacre comp at the same time as we are both the same age, we also both lived in Childwall heights he was on the third floor and I was on the forth floor. we lost touch in the early 80's when I moved to Bentham drive just up road from the flats, I have recently met up with him on the telephone and had a long chat. The question that I would like to ask yourself is my house is number 40 Bentham drive and I have heard many stories about a large land mine dropped during the war not far from my house destroying some of the adjacent houses and also sadly killing the man who lived in my house at the time, apparently he was an ARP warden and the blast from the mine blew him off the ground and the peak of his helmet got wedged in the brickwork on my house between the front door and the upstairs front window causing him to hang on the strap of the helmet. A very sad story but this is what one of my old lady neighbors told me reluctantly about 20 years ago sadly she has also now passed away so I wondered if you could possibly shed any light on the sad incident because at the time she was quite reluctant to tell me too much in case it upset me as I was living in the house and still do. Regards Dave Fletcher.
Interesting video, thanks. I like Dominic Close. I walk through it sometimes and I remember the entry on the Greenhill side before it was blocked off. It must have been a lovely place to live when your grandparents lived there and it was, I guess, semi rural. I'd love to see either a video or an interactive map showing the exact order that all of the roads in Childwall were built in, as well as the dates/years. I'm also curious about the farmland that was here beforehand, who owned and lived on the land in medieval times and what kinds of lives they lived. Going even further back than that, I wonder when farming started here and what it was like before agriculture...a prehistoric forest? Amazing to think about it.
Great video! I lived at no. 6, Givenchy Close from 1965 to 1967, directly opposite the doctor's practice. Back then, all the houses on Givenchy Close were army quarters. I went to Rudston Road Junior School at the time and would spend considerable amounts of time at the riding stables at Childwall Abbey.
Hi Thank you ,,!, Watching this overview took me back to when I was a child of 6, I lived in Old Swa at the time, to cut to the chase with my mum & aunts Walk via the Rock junction down Rocky Lane through to Childwall Vally Road upto Childwall Abbey church. We then used to go to Jacksons Farm (during various seasons) ! Picking i,e, Potatoes, Carrotts, etc. To earn money for doing so During Hay making time we had lots of fun 😊😊
Excellent, thank you! I really enjoyed this introductory episode. A lot of the geography of what you were talking about was relatively familiar to me, as I was also brought up in Childwall; although a few years earlier than yourself as I was born in 1945, in Inchcape Road, off Chelwood Avenue, Liverpool 16.
I lived just below the hill under the railway bridge on Childwall Valley Road in Childwall Valley Estate, so I knew those places ... I still visit them today on my bike en-rout else where. The 79 bus going up the hill to the five ways, those old dark green City of Liverpool Transport buses, I remember well ... I was 5 in 1970 !.
Happy birthday and best wishes from Canada. My Grandpa was an Englishman born November 17 1918 "James "Jim" Murray Parkins. He passed November 2 2001. Anyhow I hope you have many more years Mam. I'm 52 years old and the more I age the faster time seems to go. I hope I can live to see 100, well done! What's your secret to longevity?
